Experiencing the Fullness of Christ in Faith
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"Now there is the great controlling statement John is able to say and of his fullness have all we received and Grace upon Grace my suggestion is that that is the definition of a Christian that is what makes us Christian that is what Christians should be enjoying we all ought to be able to say this morning without any hesitation yes that's perfectly true I have received of his fullness I am receiving of his fullness and as I go on I am receiving of his fullness Grace upon Grace Grace added to Grace." [00:02:40]
"John in a sense writes his gospel in order again to remind these early Christians as to how they can obtain this fullness this is how we are meant to be and he proceeds to instruct us as to how we can receive of this fullness more and more and that is the very thing that we are examining now it seems to me that here in this particular section the Apostle John immediately brings us face to face with certain absolute Essentials in this whole matter of receiving of his fullness." [00:04:16]
"If there is any doubt about that we shall never know his fullness it's impossible it is essential that we should be able to say with John the Baptist this is the Son of God that we're quite clear about it that we've long since got out of that state and condition in which we just think of him as a great man a great religious genius a political agitator a pacifist or any one of these other things which men tend to ascribe to him and in terms of which they alone regard him." [00:05:06]
"John is contrasting himself with the Lord puts it like this he says I am not the Christ he says I am merely the one who prepares the way for him he says what I've got to give you and what you get from me is not this great thing that God is offering his people this is only Preparatory this is introductory you're not in the building yet you're only in the Vue now that's John's first way of putting it it is this one whom they don't know who stands amongst them he is going to be the source of the blessing not John the Baptist." [00:09:24]
"John prepares us for Christ and the fullness that he has come to give the is baptism with the spirit what is it that is essential for us on the road to that what must we be clear about John helps us to get rid of the major difficulties the major hindrances to this great and glorious blessing the first thing he tells us is this that a traditional religion is not enough and that what we are concerned about is not merely a traditional religion." [00:19:14]
"There are still people who think that being a Christian is primarily a matter of birth and of nationality we be Abraham SE we are the children of Abraham we have Abraham to our father this was the whole trouble with the Jews as you know at the time of our Lord here on Earth the great fight he had to fight with the Pharisees and scribes and Sadducees and the Apostle Paul and the other Apostles had to fight exactly the same fight they were up against this whole question of the Jewish Reliance upon birth and nationality physical descent from Abraham." [00:28:09]
"It is the terrible danger of having what we may call a secondhand faith of course it isn't really Faith at all but it simulates faith and so we are entitled to call it a secondhand Faith what do I mean by a secondhand Faith well I mean this it means a kind of mechanical reception of what other people believe and what other people have taught and said now it's never come vitally to us ourselves we've just taken it on this is the thing to say this is the thing to do and we take it up now I said that second hand because it isn't based upon anything experimental." [00:31:25]
"If you've never been forced to face yourself and to examine yourself deeply you are not a Christian I don't hesitate to say that if you've never really been up against this word which has challenged you searched you examined you made you look at yourself made made you think in a way you've never thought before my dear friend you cannot be a Christian you can be a church member you can be religious you can be highly moral you can do a great deal of good but that doesn't make you Christian." [00:39:37]
"John puts it before us very plainly and very clearly in his preaching John says I'm the introduction I'm the herald I'm the one preparing the way he says don't think you've arrived as you listen to me and are baptized by me now then I'm suggesting that so many think that they have arrived at that position when they're rarely only in the position of John's baptism and John's teaching some perhaps are even further back in the condition of the Jews and we have to realize the difference the essential difference before we can ever hope to receive a his fullness and Grace upon Grace." [00:37:06]
"Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance you see this is another very common fallacy it's the fallacy of assuming that as long as we submit to something or something is done to us that that automatically and inevitably puts us right here it was a question of being baptized physically in Water by John the Baptist that's all we need to do this as long as we've had he seems to be saying as long as you're baptized by me everything's all right and John says no it isn't that at all." [00:44:56]
"It is only when we are so convinced and convicted of these by these things that we turn away from sin and turn unreservedly to God that we have come near to fulfilling the conditions that are implied in the introduction to receiving of his fullness you've got to repent says John it's got to be thorough you got to bring forth fruits worthy of repentance you must repent but my dear friend even when you've repented you still haven't got the fullness the repentance is an essential preliminary and if we haven't fulfilled the conditions of the preliminary the introduction it is impossible that we should receive the thing itself." [00:49:05]
"May God give us Grace to examine ourselves in the light of these things have you received of his fullness and Grace for grace are you rejoicing in Christ Jesus this morning do you know that the life of God is in your soul if you don't I wonder whether it is because you've never rarely listened to the preaching of John the Baptist the Forerunner the mere voice crying in the wilderness the man who says I am not the Christ I indeed baptize you with water but there cometh one after me mightier than I the let you to who shoes I am unworthy to un lose he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with power." [00:49:05]
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"John in a sense writes his gospel in order again to remind these early Christians as to how they can obtain this fullness this is how we are meant to be and he proceeds to instruct us as to how we can receive of this fullness more and more and that is the very thing that we are examining now it seems to me that here in this particular section the Apostle John immediately brings us face to face with certain absolute Essentials in this whole matter of receiving of his fullness." [00:04:16]
"If there is any doubt about that we shall never know his fullness it's impossible it is essential that we should be able to say with John the Baptist this is the Son of God that we're quite clear about it that we've long since got out of that state and condition in which we just think of him as a great man a great religious genius a political agitator a pacifist or any one of these other things which men tend to ascribe to him and in terms of which they alone regard him." [00:05:06]
"John is contrasting himself with the Lord puts it like this he says I am not the Christ he says I am merely the one who prepares the way for him he says what I've got to give you and what you get from me is not this great thing that God is offering his people this is only Preparatory this is introductory you're not in the building yet you're only in the Vue now that's John's first way of putting it it is this one whom they don't know who stands amongst them he is going to be the source of the blessing not John the Baptist." [00:09:24]
"John prepares us for Christ and the fullness that he has come to give the is baptism with the spirit what is it that is essential for us on the road to that what must we be clear about John helps us to get rid of the major difficulties the major hindrances to this great and glorious blessing the first thing he tells us is this that a traditional religion is not enough and that what we are concerned about is not merely a traditional religion." [00:19:14]
"There are still people who think that being a Christian is primarily a matter of birth and of nationality we be Abraham SE we are the children of Abraham we have Abraham to our father this was the whole trouble with the Jews as you know at the time of our Lord here on Earth the great fight he had to fight with the Pharisees and scribes and Sadducees and the Apostle Paul and the other Apostles had to fight exactly the same fight they were up against this whole question of the Jewish Reliance upon birth and nationality physical descent from Abraham." [00:28:09]
"It is the terrible danger of having what we may call a secondhand faith of course it isn't really Faith at all but it simulates faith and so we are entitled to call it a secondhand Faith what do I mean by a secondhand Faith well I mean this it means a kind of mechanical reception of what other people believe and what other people have taught and said now it's never come vitally to us ourselves we've just taken it on this is the thing to say this is the thing to do and we take it up now I said that second hand because it isn't based upon anything experimental." [00:31:25]
"If you've never been forced to face yourself and to examine yourself deeply you are not a Christian I don't hesitate to say that if you've never really been up against this word which has challenged you searched you examined you made you look at yourself made made you think in a way you've never thought before my dear friend you cannot be a Christian you can be a church member you can be religious you can be highly moral you can do a great deal of good but that doesn't make you Christian." [00:39:37]
"John puts it before us very plainly and very clearly in his preaching John says I'm the introduction I'm the herald I'm the one preparing the way he says don't think you've arrived as you listen to me and are baptized by me now then I'm suggesting that so many think that they have arrived at that position when they're rarely only in the position of John's baptism and John's teaching some perhaps are even further back in the condition of the Jews and we have to realize the difference the essential difference before we can ever hope to receive a his fullness and Grace upon Grace." [00:37:06]
"Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance you see this is another very common fallacy it's the fallacy of assuming that as long as we submit to something or something is done to us that that automatically and inevitably puts us right here it was a question of being baptized physically in Water by John the Baptist that's all we need to do this as long as we've had he seems to be saying as long as you're baptized by me everything's all right and John says no it isn't that at all." [00:44:56]
"It is only when we are so convinced and convicted of these by these things that we turn away from sin and turn unreservedly to God that we have come near to fulfilling the conditions that are implied in the introduction to receiving of his fullness you've got to repent says John it's got to be thorough you got to bring forth fruits worthy of repentance you must repent but my dear friend even when you've repented you still haven't got the fullness the repentance is an essential preliminary and if we haven't fulfilled the conditions of the preliminary the introduction it is impossible that we should receive the thing itself." [00:49:05]
"May God give us Grace to examine ourselves in the light of these things have you received of his fullness and Grace for grace are you rejoicing in Christ Jesus this morning do you know that the life of God is in your soul if you don't I wonder whether it is because you've never rarely listened to the preaching of John the Baptist the Forerunner the mere voice crying in the wilderness the man who says I am not the Christ I indeed baptize you with water but there cometh one after me mightier than I the let you to who shoes I am unworthy to un lose he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with power." [00:49:05]
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