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... feel how really poor , and miserable , and blind , and naked they are , and that they can only receive that which God is pleased to give , He is about to interfere and raise them up . The sin of the Church has brought it into desolation ...
... feel how really poor , and miserable , and blind , and naked they are , and that they can only receive that which God is pleased to give , He is about to interfere and raise them up . The sin of the Church has brought it into desolation ...
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... feel your impoverishment ; but the real cause of your impoverishmnent is this , you have sinned against me . ' They had none to blame but themselves . with the churches in the Apocalypse . And , therefore , the word to them , " Repent ...
... feel your impoverishment ; but the real cause of your impoverishmnent is this , you have sinned against me . ' They had none to blame but themselves . with the churches in the Apocalypse . And , therefore , the word to them , " Repent ...
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... and shown His heart to be towards him . There is no limit to His might . But does Gideon feel himself to be a strong man ? No ! never before had he so known his own weakness and 16 GIDEON , GOD'S MIGHTY MAN OF VALOUR .
... and shown His heart to be towards him . There is no limit to His might . But does Gideon feel himself to be a strong man ? No ! never before had he so known his own weakness and 16 GIDEON , GOD'S MIGHTY MAN OF VALOUR .
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... feel that I am strong . ' What we need is , to feel that we are weak ; that brings in Omnipotence . We shall have a life of feeling by - and - by , in the glory , now we are called upon to lead a life of faith . What saint but knows ...
... feel that I am strong . ' What we need is , to feel that we are weak ; that brings in Omnipotence . We shall have a life of feeling by - and - by , in the glory , now we are called upon to lead a life of faith . What saint but knows ...
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... feel that ( in himself ) he is but as a " cake of barley bread . " And is there not instruction for ourselves in this ? Were Christians stripped of their worldliness , more really like the " cake of barley bread " ( the most homely ...
... feel that ( in himself ) he is but as a " cake of barley bread . " And is there not instruction for ourselves in this ? Were Christians stripped of their worldliness , more really like the " cake of barley bread " ( the most homely ...
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Page 192 - I more: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Page 214 - Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities : for we know not what we should pray for as we ought : but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Page 115 - Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean : from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you : and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And i will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Page 274 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 316 - For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God ; but that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Page 131 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 26 - So he brought down the people unto the water: and the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself ; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
Page 158 - Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
Page 256 - Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church...
Page 190 - And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters ; for I know their sorrows. And I am come down to deliver them...