Transformative Encounters: Finding Authority and Joy in Christ
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"Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice. In other words, you can rejoice at all times whatever your feelings are, whatever your moods are, whatever your circumstances are, you can be a rejoicing Christian. How? Well, because your rejoicing is in the Lord. You don't look into yourself, you look at him and if you look at him and realize who he is and what he's done, well then you will be filled if you're a Christian with a spirit of rejoicing." [00:08:56]
"The Christian ultimately of course is a person who realizes the most important thing that has ever happened in this world is the coming of the Son of God into it. Now we by nature, we human beings, we are all interested in history and our history books have tended to be nothing but an account of kings and great generals and captains and so on." [00:10:24]
"The Christian is a man who, while he subscribes to all that, he says the event of events was the birth of The Babe of Bethlehem. If you're interested in people, he says, and in personages and great and glorious people, here is the one who stands alone and is unique. Now this surely is something that ought to be self-evident to us." [00:11:21]
"The world is longing for some authoritative statement, someone to listen to, to follow who seems to know. Now there's nothing wrong in this, this is inevitable because of the fall and our whole estate as the result of the fall. And so this is in us all and we can't find this word that we look for, and when we meet it at once we listen and we are ready to follow." [00:19:44]
"Authority, this is something that everybody is looking for. Authority. We are in a world that is full of problems, full of difficulties and perplexities. We are surrounded by a veritable Babel of voices, all of them telling us that they know the answer. We've only got to listen to them and to follow them and all is going to be well with us." [00:17:36]
"Here is one who can give rest to the mind, brings the questing to an end. Of course, he was always claiming this. I am, he says, the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life. I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me." [00:24:38]
"The Christian is a man who knows that he finds peace of conscience in one place only, and that is in one person only, this same blessed person that had been speaking to the woman of Samaria. Here is the only one who can say, come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." [00:31:56]
"This woman was beyond any question aware of new life within herself, and forgiveness alone is not enough. We need new life. Look at her, look at the kind of life she'd been living that had produced the misery and the unhappiness, the social ostracism probably, and many other things. But having met this person, she not only knows that she's forgiven, she's aware of a new kind of life within her." [00:36:06]
"The true realization of these things must lead to happiness, must inevitably lead to joy. And this woman had got it in spite of what she was until but the last few minutes everything is transformed and changed and she rushes to invite these people. You can feel the joy and the happiness and the enthusiasm that was in this woman." [00:42:20]
"The moment one really understands these things, there is this dynamic, dynamo element in it. The man who is truly Christian is a man who must rejoice, and if he does, he wants everybody to rejoice with him. That's what happened to this woman." [00:44:41]
"As the Lord Jesus Christ made you rejoice, as he filled you with a spirit of rejoicing and of praise? You can be a great theologian but without joy, you can be very religious but no joy, you can be very moral but is there joy? This is the big mark of the Christian: rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice." [00:45:37]
"There is no better test of our knowledge of him himself and of what we claim he has done for us than the measure and the extent of our joy and our rejoicing in him and what he has done for our souls." [00:46:40]
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"The Christian ultimately of course is a person who realizes the most important thing that has ever happened in this world is the coming of the Son of God into it. Now we by nature, we human beings, we are all interested in history and our history books have tended to be nothing but an account of kings and great generals and captains and so on." [00:10:24]
"The Christian is a man who, while he subscribes to all that, he says the event of events was the birth of The Babe of Bethlehem. If you're interested in people, he says, and in personages and great and glorious people, here is the one who stands alone and is unique. Now this surely is something that ought to be self-evident to us." [00:11:21]
"The world is longing for some authoritative statement, someone to listen to, to follow who seems to know. Now there's nothing wrong in this, this is inevitable because of the fall and our whole estate as the result of the fall. And so this is in us all and we can't find this word that we look for, and when we meet it at once we listen and we are ready to follow." [00:19:44]
"Authority, this is something that everybody is looking for. Authority. We are in a world that is full of problems, full of difficulties and perplexities. We are surrounded by a veritable Babel of voices, all of them telling us that they know the answer. We've only got to listen to them and to follow them and all is going to be well with us." [00:17:36]
"Here is one who can give rest to the mind, brings the questing to an end. Of course, he was always claiming this. I am, he says, the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life. I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me." [00:24:38]
"The Christian is a man who knows that he finds peace of conscience in one place only, and that is in one person only, this same blessed person that had been speaking to the woman of Samaria. Here is the only one who can say, come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." [00:31:56]
"This woman was beyond any question aware of new life within herself, and forgiveness alone is not enough. We need new life. Look at her, look at the kind of life she'd been living that had produced the misery and the unhappiness, the social ostracism probably, and many other things. But having met this person, she not only knows that she's forgiven, she's aware of a new kind of life within her." [00:36:06]
"The true realization of these things must lead to happiness, must inevitably lead to joy. And this woman had got it in spite of what she was until but the last few minutes everything is transformed and changed and she rushes to invite these people. You can feel the joy and the happiness and the enthusiasm that was in this woman." [00:42:20]
"The moment one really understands these things, there is this dynamic, dynamo element in it. The man who is truly Christian is a man who must rejoice, and if he does, he wants everybody to rejoice with him. That's what happened to this woman." [00:44:41]
"As the Lord Jesus Christ made you rejoice, as he filled you with a spirit of rejoicing and of praise? You can be a great theologian but without joy, you can be very religious but no joy, you can be very moral but is there joy? This is the big mark of the Christian: rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice." [00:45:37]
"There is no better test of our knowledge of him himself and of what we claim he has done for us than the measure and the extent of our joy and our rejoicing in him and what he has done for our souls." [00:46:40]
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