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Skriven 2006-02-27 12:29:36 av Bob Hoffman (8:8/2)
Ärende: Set Apart
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Faith's Checkbook

February 25

Set Apart

"Ye shall be named the priests of the LORD" (Isaiah 61:6).

This literal promise to Israel belongs spiritually to the seed after the
Spirit, namely, to all believers. If we live up to our privileges, we shall
live unto God so clearly and distinctly that men shall see that we are set
apart for holy service and shall name us the priests of the LORD. We may work
or trade as others do, and yet we may be solely and wholly the ministering
servants of God. Our one occupation shall be to present the perpetual sacrifice
of prayer, and praise, and testimony, and self consecration to the living God
by Jesus Christ.

This being our one aim, we may leave distracting concerns to those who have no
higher calling. "Let the dead bury their dead." It is written, "Strangers shall
stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and
your vine dressers." They may manage politics, puzzle out financial problems,
discuss science, and settle the last new quibbles of criticism; but we will
give ourselves unto such service as becomes those who, like the LORD Jesus, are
ordained to a perpetual priesthood.

Accepting this honorable promise as involving a sacred duty, let us put on the
vestments of holiness and minister before the LORD all day long.

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Experimental knowledge

(J. C. Philpot, "Letters & Memoirs" 1840)

"Now this is eternal life: that they may know
 You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ,
 whom You have sent." John 17:3

An experimental knowledge of Christ in the soul, is the only relief for sin's .
. .
  poverty,
  guilt,
  leprosy,
  bankruptcy,
  and damnation.

This is the true way of preaching Christ crucified; not the mere doctrine of
the Cross, but a crucified Jesus experimentally known to the soul.

I am deeply conscious of my own . . .
  baseness,
  ignorance,
  blindness
  and folly.
But my malady is too deeply rooted to be healed by dry doctrines and
speculative theological opinions.

The blood of the Lamb, spiritually and supernaturally sprinkled and applied, is
the only healing balm for a sin-sick soul.

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