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Hall of Faith Classics, Volume 4:Absolute Surrender:and Other Addressesby Andrew MurrayISBN-13: 978-1515340553ISBN-10: 1515340554Library of Congress Catalog Number:2015949753All scriptures are taken from the King James Version of the Bible,unless otherwise indicated.Scriptures marked “RV” are taken from the RevisedVersion of the (King James) Bible, 1881-1885.Scriptures marked “ASV” are taken from the AmericanEdition of the Revised Version.Originally Published in 1897Fleming H. Revell CompanyHALL OF FAITH CLASSICSwww.HallofFaithClassics.comHall of Faith ClassicsThe Hall of Faith Classics is a collection oftreasured Christian literature by Bible teachers,preachers, evangelist and authors from past historicalperiods.Hall of Faith Classics focus on the primacy ofGod, His awesomeness and His Glory. These anointedauthors encourage the Body of Christ to surrender,humility, obedience, submission and dependence onGod for lives of holiness. Hall of Faith Classics expoundon the infallible Word of God helping to bring us to faithand an understanding of the Power of the Holy Spirit.At the core of Hall of Faith Classics is theimportance of the Cross and Jesus Christ crucified,risen, ascended and enthroned.Hall of Faith Classicsare available free of charge atwww.HallofFaithClassics.comG.I.L. PUBLICATIONS.comP.O. Box 80275Brooklyn, NY 11208www.GILpublications.comG.I.L. PUBLICATIONS.com
Other Books ByAndrew MurrayHumility: The Beauty of HolinessThe Power of the Blood of ChristAbide In ChristHoliest of AllPower for Your LifeDaily in His PresenceExperiencing the Holy SpiritWaiting on GodBeliever’s Secret of the Abiding PresenceJesus HimselfDivine HealingLord, Teach Us to PrayThe Master’s IndwellingA Life of ObedienceMoneyThe Spirit of ChristThe Ministry of Intercessory PrayerRaising Your Children for ChristHow To Strengthen Your FaithTable of ContentsChapter One:Absolute Surrender .7Chapter Two:The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Love.20Chapter Three:Separated Unto The Holy Ghost.37Chapter Four:Peter’s Repentance .50Chapter Five:Impossible With Man, Possible With God .59Chapter Six:O Wretched Man That I Am! .70Chapter Seven:Having Begun In The Spirit .80Chapter Eight:Kept By The Power Of God.93Chapter Nine:Ye Are The Branches .110And many, many more -v-
Chapter One:Absolute SurrenderAnd Ben-hadad the king of Syria gatheredall his host together: and there were thirty andtwo kings with him, and horses, and chariots:and he went up and besieged Samaria, andwarred against it. And he sent messengers toAhab king of Israel into the city, and said untohim, Thus saith Ben-hadad, Thy silver and thygold is mine; thy wives also and thy children,even the goodliest, are mine. And the king ofIsrael answered and said, My lord, 0 king,according to thy saying, I am thine and all that Ihave. 1 Kings 20:1-4.WhatBen-hadadaskedwasabsolutesurrender; and what Ahab gave was what was askedof him—absolute surrender. I want to use thesewords: My lord, 0 king, according to thy saying, Iam thine, and all that I have, as the words ofabsolute surrender with which every child of Godought to yield himself to his Father. We have heard itbefore, but we need to hear it very definitely--thecondition of God’s blessing is absolute surrender ofall into His hands. Praise God! If our hearts arewilling for that, there is no end to what God will dofor us, and to the blessing God will bestow.-7-
Absolute SurrenderAbsolute SurrenderAbsolute surrender—let me tell you where I gotthose words. I used them myself often, and you haveheard them numberless times. But in Scotland onceI was in a company where we were talking about thecondition of Christ’s Church, and what the great needof the Church and of believers is; and there was inour company a godly worker who has much to do intraining workers, and I asked him what he would saywas the great need of the Church, and the messagethat ought to be preached. He answered very quietlyand simply and determinedly:“Absolute surrender to God is the one thing.”The words struck me as never before. And thatman began to tell how, in the workers with whom hehad to deal, he finds that if they are sound on thatpoint, even though they be backward, they are willingto be taught and helped, and they always improve;whereas others who are not sound there very often goback and leave the work. The condition for obtainingGod’s full blessing is absolute surrender to Him.And now, I desire by God’s grace to give to youthis message—that your God in heaven answers theprayers which you have offered for blessing onyourselves and for blessing on those around you bythis one demand: Are you willing to surrenderyourselves absolutely into His hands? What is ouranswer to be? God knows there are hundreds ofhearts who have said it, and there are hundreds morewho long to say it but hardly dare to do so. And thereare hearts who have said it, but who have yetmiserably failed, and who feel themselves condemnedbecause they did not find the secret of the power tolive that life. May God have a word for all!-8-1.Let me say, first of all, GOD CLAIMS IT FROMUS.God cannot do otherwise. Who is God? He isthe Fountain of life, the only Source of existence andpower and goodness, and throughout the universethere is nothing good but what God works. God hascreated the sun, and the moon, and the stars, andthe flowers, and the trees, and the grass; and are theynot all absolutely surrendered to God? Do they notallow God to work in them just what He pleases?When God clothes the lily with its beauty, is it notyielded up, surrendered, given over to God as Heworks in it its beauty? And God’s redeemed children,oh, can you think that God can work His work ifthere is only half or a part of them surrendered? Godcannot do it. God is life, and love, and blessing, andpower, and infinite beauty, and God delights tocommunicate Himself to every child who is preparedto receive Him; but ah! This one want of absolutesurrender is just the thing that hinders God. Andnow He comes, and as God He claims it.You know in daily life what absolute surrenderis. You know that everything has to be given up to itsspecial, definite object and service. I have a pen inmy pocket, and that pen is absolutely surrendered tothe one work of writing, and that pen must beabsolutely surrendered to my hand if I am to writeproperly with it. If another holds it partly, I cannotwrite properly. This coat is absolutely given up to meto cover my body. This building is entirely given upto religious services. And now, do you expect that inyour immortal being, in the divine nature that youhave received by regeneration, God can work Hiswork, every day and every hour, unless you areentirely given up to Him? God cannot. The temple of-9-
Absolute SurrenderAbsolute SurrenderSolomon was absolutely surrendered to God when itwas dedicated to Him. And every one of us is atemple of God, in which God will dwell and workmightily on one condition—absolute surrender toHim. God claims it, God is worthy of it, and withoutit God cannot work His blessed work in us.2.But secondly, God not only claims it, but GODWILL WORK IT HIMSELF.I am sure there is many a heart that says: “Ah,but that absolute surrender implies so much!Someone says: “Oh, I have passed through so muchtrial and suffering, and there is so much of the senilestill remaining, and I dare not face the entire giving ofit up, because I know it will cause so much troubleand agony.”Alas! alas! That God’s children have suchthoughts of Him, such cruel thoughts. Oh, I come toyou with a message, fearful and anxious one. Goddoes not ask you to give the perfect surrender in yourstrength, or by the power of your will; God is willingto work it in you. Do we not read: It is God thatworketh in us, both to will and to do of His goodpleasure? And that is what we should seek for—togo on our faces before God, until our hearts learn tobelieve that the everlasting God Himself will come into turn out what is wrong, to conquer what is evil,and to work what is well-pleasing in His blessedsight. God Himself will work it in you.Look at the men in the Old Testament, likeAbraham. Do you think it was by accident that Godfound that man, the father of the Faithful and theFriend of God, and that it was Abraham himself,apart from God, who had such faith and suchobedience and such devotion? You know it is not so,- 10 -God raised him up and prepared him as aninstrument for His glory.Did not God say to Pharaoh: For this causehave I raised thee up, for to show in thee mypower?And if God said that of him, will not God say itfar more of every child of His?Oh, I want to encourage you, and I want you tocast away every fear. Come with that feeble desire;and if there is the fear which says: “Oh, my desire isnot strong enough, I am not willing for everythingthat may come, I do not feel bold enough to say I canconquer everything.” I pray you, learn to know andtrust your God now. Say: “My God, I am willing thatThou shouldst make me willing.” If there is anythingholding you back, or any sacrifice you are afraid ofmaking, come to God now, and prove how graciousyour God is, and be not afraid that He will commandfrom you what He will not bestow.God comes and offers to work this absolute surrender in you. All these searchings and hungeringsand longings that are in your heart, I tell you they arethe drawings of the divine magnet, Christ Jesus. Helived a life of absolute surrender, He has gotpossession of you, He is living in your heart by HisHoly Spirit. You have hindered and hindered Himterribly, but He desires to help you to get hold of Himentirely. And He comes and draws you now by Hismessage and words. Will you not come and trust Godto work in you that absolute surrender to Himself?Yes, blessed be God, He can do it and He will do it.- 11 -
Absolute Surrender3.Absolute SurrenderThe third thought. God not only claims it andworks it, but GOD ACCEPTS IT WHEN WEBEING IT TO HIM,God works it in the secret of our heart, Godurges us by the hidden power of His Holy Spirit tocome and speak it out, and we have to bring and toyield to Him that absolute surrender. But remember,when you come and bring God that absolutesurrender, it may, as far as your feelings or yourconsciousness go, be a thing of great imperfection,and you may doubt and hesitate and say:“Is it absolute?”But, oh, remember there was once a man towhom Christ had said:If thou canst believe, all things are possibleto him that believeth.And his heart was afraid, and he cried out:Lord, I believe, help Thou mine unbelief.That was a faith that triumphed over the devil,and the evil spirit was cast out. And if you come andsay: “Lord, I yield myself in absolute surrender to myGod,” even though it be with a trembling heart andwith the consciousness: “I do not feel the power, I donot feel the determination, I do not feel theassurance,” it will succeed. Be not afraid, but comejust as you are, and even in the midst of yourtrembling the power of the Holy Ghost will work.Have you never yet learned the lesson that theHoly Ghost works with mighty power while on thehuman side everything appears feeble? Look at theLord Jesus Christ in Gethsemane. We read that He,through the Eternal Spirit, offered Himself asacrifice unto God. The Almighty Spirit of God wasenabling Him to do it. And yet what agony and fearand exceeding sorrow came over Him, and how He- 12 -prayed! Externally you can see no sign of the mightypower of the Spirit, but the Spirit of God was there.And even so, while you are feeble and fighting andtrembling, in faith in the hidden work of God’s Spiritdo not fear, but yield yourself.And when you do yield yourself in absolute surrender, let it be in the faith that God does now acceptof it. That is the great point, and that is what we sooften miss: —that believers should be thus occupiedwith God in this matter of surrender. I pray you, beoccupied with God. We want to get help, every one ofus, so that in our daily life God shall be clearer to us,God shall have the right place, and be “all in all.”And if we are to have that through life, let us beginnow and look away from ourselves, and look up toGod. Let each believe,—while I, a poor worm on earthand a trembling child of God, full of failure and sinand fear, bow here, and no one knows what passesthrough my heart, and while I in simplicity say, 0God, I accept Thy terms; I have pleaded for blessingon myself and others, I have accepted Thy terms ofabsolute surrender—while your heart says that indeep silence, remember there is a God present thattakes note of it, and writes it down in His book, andthere is a God present who at that very moment takespossession of you. You may not feel it, you may notrealize it, but God takes possession if you will trustHim.4.A fourth thought. God not only claims it, andworks it, and accepts it when I bring it, butGOD MAINTAINS IT.That is the great difficulty with many. Peoplesay: “I have often been stirred at a meeting, or at aconvention, and I have consecrated myself to God,- 13 -
Absolute SurrenderAbsolute Surrenderbut it has passed away. I know it may last for a weekor for a month, but away it fades, and after a time itis all gone.”But listen! It is because you do not believewhat I am now going to tell you and remind you of.When God has begun the work of absolute surrenderin you, and when God has accepted your surrender,then God holds Himself bound to care for it and tokeep it. Will you believe that?In this matter of surrender there are two, Godand I — I a worm, God the everlasting andomnipotent Jehovah. Worm, will you be afraid totrust yourself to this mighty God now? God is willing.Do you not believe that He can keep you continually,day by day, and moment by moment?Moment by moment I’m kept in His love;Moment by moment I’ve life from above.If God allows the sun to shine upon youmoment by moment, without intermission, will notGod let His life shine upon you every moment? Andwhy have you not experienced it? Because you havenot trusted God for it, and you do not surrenderyourself absolutely to God in that trust.A life of absolute surrender has its difficulties. Ido not deny that. Yea, it has something far morethan difficulties; it is a life that with men is absolutelyimpossible. But by the grace of God, by the power ofGod, by the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in us, itis a life to which we are destined, and a life that ispossible for us, praise God! Let us believe that Godwill maintain it.Some of you read recently the words of thataged saint who, on his ninetieth birthday, told of allGod’s goodness to him—I mean George Mueller.What did he say he believed to be the secret of hishappiness, and of all the blessing with which Godhad visited him? He said he believed there were tworeasons. The one was that he had been enabled bygrace to maintain a good conscience before God dayby day; the other was, that he was a lover of God’sWord.Ah, yes, a good conscience in unfeignedobedience to God day by day, and fellowship with Godevery day in His Word, and prayer—that is a life ofabsolute surrender.Such a life has two sides—on the one side,absolute surrender to work what God wants you todo; on the other side, to let God work what He wantsto do.First, to do what God wants you to do.Give up yourselves absolutely to the will of God.You know something of that will; not enough, far fromall. But say absolutely to the Lord God: “By Thygrace I desire to do Thy will in everything, everymoment of every day.” Say: “Lord God, not a wordupon my tongue but for Thy glory, not a movement ofmy temper but for Thy glory, not an affection of loveor hate in my heart but for Thy glory, and accordingto Thy blessed will.”Someone says: “Do you think that possible?”I ask, What has God promised you, and whatcan God do to fill a vessel absolutely surrendered toHim? Oh, God wants to bless you in a way beyondwhat you expect. From the beginning ear hath notheard, neither hath the eye seen, what God hathprepared for them that wait for Him.God hasprepared unheard-of things you never can think of;blessings much more wonderful than you canimagine, more mighty than you can conceive. Theyare divine blessings. Oh, say now:- 14 -- 15 -
Absolute SurrenderAbsolute Surrender“I give myself absolutely to God, to His will, todo only what God wants.”It is God who will enable you to carry out thesurrender.And, on the other side, come and say: “I givemyself absolutely to God, to let Him work in me towill and to do of His good pleasure, as He haspromised to do.”Yes, the living God wants to work in Hischildren in a way that we cannot understand, butthat God’s Word has revealed, and He wants to workin us every moment of the day. God is willing tomaintain our life. Only let our absolute surrender beone of simple, childlike, and unbounded trust.5.The last thought. This absolute surrender toGod WILL WONDERFULLY BLESS US.What Ahab said to his enemy, King Benhadad,—My lord, 0 king, according to thy word Iam thine, and all that I have—shall we not say toour God and loving Father? If we do say it, God’sblessing will come upon us. God wants us to beseparate from the world; we are called to come outfrom the world that hates God. Come out for God,and say: “Lord, anything for Thee.” If you say thatwith prayer, and speak that into God’s ear, He willaccept it, and He will teach you what it means.I say again, God will bless you. You have beenpraying for blessing. But do remember, there mustbe absolute surrender. At every tea-table you see it.Why is tea poured into that cup? Because it isempty, and given up for the tea. But put ink, orvinegar, or wine into it, and will they pour the tea intothe vessel? And can God fill you, can God bless you ifyou are not absolutely surrendered to Him? He- 16 -cannot. Let us believe God has wonderful blessingsfor us, if we will but stand up for God, and say, be itwith a trembling will, yet with a believing heart:“0 God, I accept Thy demands, I am thine andall that I have. Absolute surrender is what my soulyields to Thee by divine grace.”You may not have such strong and clearfeelings of deliverance as you would desire to have,but humble yourselves in His sight, and acknowledgethat you have grieved the Holy Spirit by your self-will,self-confidence, and self-effort. Bow humbly beforeHim in the confession of that, and ask him to breakthe heart and to bring you into the dust before Him.Then, as you bow before Him, just accept God’steaching that in your flesh there dwelleth no goodthing, and that nothing will help you except anotherlife which must come in. You must deny self once forall. Denying self must every moment be the power ofyour life, and then Christ will come in and takepossession of you.When was Peter delivered?When was thechange accomplished? The change began with Peterweeping, and the Holy Ghost came down and filledhis heart.God the Father loves to give us the power of theSpirit. We have the Spirit of God dwelling within us.We come to God confessing that, and praising God forit; and yet confessing how we have grieved the Spirit.And then we bow our knees to the Father to ask thatHe would strengthen us with all might by the Spirit inthe inner man, and that He would fill us with Hismighty power. And as the Spirit reveals Christ to us,Christ comes to live in our hearts forever, and theself-life is cast out.- 17 -
Absolute SurrenderAbsolute SurrenderLet us bow before God in humiliation, and inthat humiliation confess before Him the state of thewhole Church. No words can tell the sad state of theChurch of Christ on earth. I wish I had words tospeak what I sometimes feel about it. Just think ofthe Christians around you. I do not speak of nominalChristians, or of professing Christians, but I speak ofhundreds and thousands of honest, earnestChristians who are not living a life in the power ofGod or to His glory. So little power, so little devotionor consecration to God, so little conception of thetruth that a Christian is a man utterly surrendered toGod’s will! Oh, we want to confess the sins of God’speople around us, and to humble ourselves. We aremembers of that sickly body, and the sickliness of thebody will hinder us, and break us down, unless wecome to God, and in confession separate ourselvesfrom partnership with worldliness, with coldnesstowards each other, unless we give up ourselves to beentirely and wholly for God.How much Christian work is being done in thespirit of the flesh, and in the power of self! Howmuch work, day by day, in which human energy—ourwill and our thoughts about the work—is continuallymanifested, and in which there is but little of waitingupon God, and upon the power of the Holy Ghost!Let us make confession. But as we confess the stateof the Church and the feebleness and sinfulness ofwork for God among us, let us come back toourselves.Who is there who truly longs to bedelivered from the power of the self-life, who trulyacknowledges that it is the power of self and theflesh, and who is willing to cast all at the feet ofChrist? There is deliverance.I heard of one who had been an earnestChristian, and who spoke about the cruel thought ofseparation and death. But you do not think that, doyou? What are we to think of separation and death?This:—Death was the path to glory for Christ. For thejoy set before Him He endured the cross. The crosswas the birthplace of His everlasting glory. Do youlove Christ? Do you long to be in Christ, and likeHim? Let death be to you the most desirable thing onearth; death to self, and fellowship with Christ.Separation—do you think it a hard thing to be calledto be entirely free from the world, and by thatseparation to be united to God and His love, byseparation to become prepared for living and walkingwith God every day? Surely one ought to say:“Anything to bring me to separation, to death,for a life of full fellowship with God and Christ.”Oh! Come and cast this self-life and flesh-life atthe feet of Jesus. Then trust Him. Do not worryyourselves with trying to understand all about it, butcome in the living faith that Christ will come into youwith the power of His death and the power of His life;and then the Holy Spirit will bring the whole Christ—Christ crucified and Christ risen and living in glory—into your heart.- 18 -- 19 -
The Fruit of The Spirit Is LoveI want to look at the fact of a life filled with theHoly Spirit more from the practical side, and to showhow this life will show itself in our daily walk andconduct.Under the Old Testament you know the HolySpirit often came upon men as a Divine Spirit ofrevelation, to reveal the mysteries of God, or for powerto do the work of God. But He did not then dwell inthem. Now, many just want the Old Testament gift ofpower for work, but know very little of the NewTestament gift of the indwelling Spirit, animating andrenewing the whole life. When God gives the HolySpirit, His great object is the formation of a holycharacter. It is a gift of a holy mind and spiritualdisposition, and what we need above everything else,is to say:“I must have the Holy Spirit sanctifying mywhole inner life if I am really to live for God’s glory.”You might say that when Christ promised theSpirit to the disciples He did so that they might havepower to be witnesses. True, but then they receivedthe Holy Ghost in such heavenly power and realitythat He took possession of their whole being at onceand so fitted them as holy men for doing the workwith power as they had to do it. Christ spoke ofpower to the disciples, but it was the Spirit fillingtheir whole being that worked the power.I wish now to dwell upon the passage found inGalatians 5:22: The fruit of the Spirit is love.We read that Love is the fulfilling of the law,and my desire is to speak on love as a fruit of theSpirit with a twofold object. One is that this wordmay be a searchlight in our hearts, and give us a testby which to try all our thoughts about the Holy Spiritand all our experience of the holy life. Let us tryourselves by this word. Has this been our daily habit,to seek the being filled with the Holy Spirit as theSpirit of love? The fruit of the Spirit is love. Has itbeen our experience that the more we have of theHoly Spirit the more loving we become? In claimingthe Holy Spirit we should make this the first object ofour expectation. The Holy Spirit comes as a Spirit oflove.Oh, if this were true in the church of Christhow different her state would be! May God help us toget hold of this simple heavenly truth, that the fruit ofthe Spirit is a love which appears in the life, and thatjust as the Holy Spirit gets real possession of the life,the heart will be filled with real, divine, universal love.One of the great causes why God cannot blessHis Church is the want of love. When the body isdivided, there cannot be strength. In the time of theirgreat religious wars, when Holland stood out so noblyagainst Spain, one of their mottoes was: “Unity givesstrength.” It is only when God’s people stand as onebody, one before God in the fellowship of love, onetowards another in deep affection, one before theworld in a love that the world can see—it is only thenthat they will have power to secure the blessing which- 20 -- 21 -Chapter Two:The Fruit of The Spirit Is Love
Absolute SurrenderThe Fruit of The Spirit Is Lovethey ask of God. Remember that if a vessel thatought to be one whole is cracked into many pieces, itcannot be filled. You can take a potsherd, one part ofa vessel, and dip out a little water into that, but if youwant the vessel full, the vessel must be whole. Thatis literally true of Christ’s Church, and if there is onething we must pray for still, it is this: Lord melt ustogether into one by the power of the Holy Spirit; letthe Holy Spirit, who at Pentecost made them all ofone heart and one soul, do His blessed work amongus. Praise God, we can love each other in a divinelove, for the fruit of the Spirit is love, Giveyourselves up to love, and the Holy Spirit will come;receive the Spirit, and He will teach you to love more.1.Now, why is it that the fruit of the Spirit islove? Because God is Love.And what does that mean?It is the very nature and being of God to delightin communicating Himself. God has no selfishness,God keeps nothing to Himself. God’s nature is to bealways giving. In the sun and the moon and thestars, in every flower you see it, in every bird in theair, in every fish in the sea. God communicates life toHis creatures. And the angels around His throne, theseraphim and cherubim who are flames of fire—whence have they their glory? It is because God islove, and He imparts to them of His brightness andHis blessedness. And we, His redeemed children—God delights to pour His love into us. And why?Because, as I said, God keeps nothing forHimself. From eternity God had His only begottenSon, and the Father gave Him all things, and nothingthat God had was kept back. God is love.- 22 -One of the old Church fathers said that wecannot better understand the Trinity than as arevelation of divine love—the Father the loving One,the Fountain of love; the Son the beloved one, theReservoir of love, in whom the love was poured out;and the Spirit the living love that united both andthen overflowed into this world.The Spirit ofPentecost, the Spirit of the Father, and the Spirit ofthe Son is love. And when the Holy Spirit comes tous and to other men, will He be less a Spirit of lovethan He is in God? It cannot be; He cannot changeHis nature. The Spirit of God is love, and the fruit ofthe Spirit is love.2.Why is that so?That was the one great need of mankind, thatwas the thing which Christ’s redemption came toaccomplish: to restore love to this world.When man sinned, why was it that he sinned?Selfishness triumphed — he sought self instead ofGod. And just look! Adam at once begins to accusethe woman of having led him astray. Love to God hadgone, love to man was lost. Look again: of the firsttwo children of Adam, the one becomes a murderer ofhis brother.Does not that teach us that sin had robbed theworld of love? Ah! What a proof the history of theworld has been of love having been lost! There mayhave been beautiful examples of love even among theheathen, but only as a little remnant of what waslost. One of the worst things sin did for man was tomake him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.The Lord Jesus Christ came down from heavenas the Son of God’s love. God so loved the worldthat He gave His only begotten Son. God’s Son- 23 -
Absolute SurrenderThe Fruit of The Spirit Is Lovecame to show what love is, and He lived a life of lovehere upon earth in fellowship with His disciples, incompassion over the poor and miserable, in love evento His enemies, and He died the death of love. Andwhen He went to heaven, whom did He send down?The Spirit of love, to come and banish selfishness andenvy and pride, and bring the love of God into thehearts of men. The fruit of the Spirit is love.And what was the preparation for the promiseof the Holy Spirit? You know that promise as foundin the fourteenth chapter of John’s gospel. Butremember what precedes, in the thirteenth chapter.Before Christ promised the Holy Spirit He gave a newcommandment, and about that new commandmentHe said wonderful things. One thing was: Even as Ihave loved you, so love ye one another. To themHis dying love was to be the only law of their conductand intercourse with each other. What a message tothose fishermen, to those men full of pride andselfishness! Learn to love each other, said Christ,as I have loved you.
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