I love to think of your becoming God-inside-minded, knowing that “greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4). Read that first sentence: “Ye are of God.” Whisper it over in your heart, “I am of God; I am a master. I am a conqueror. I have been feeding on the Bread of Heaven. I have the vitamins of God. How they have strengthened my faith and built me up in Christ.” “If a man love me, he will keep my words and my Father and I will love him and I will manifest myself unto him” (John 14:21). “He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me.” Jesus never said a greater thing as far as your daily walk is concerned. If you love Him, the Father will love you. In the next verse we read that Jesus and the Father will make their home in you. The Father and Jesus will live with you. That will insure your rent and your taxes, your food and raiment; for they will never make their home with you without bearing the heavy end of the burden. That means that no disease can come into your home and find a lodging there. You have the very Life and Nature of God in you, and He is with you. “And I will love him and will manifest myself unto him.” How will Jesus manifest Himself to you? In His Word, in what we call Providence. You will find blessing strewn all along the road, blessing that you never dreamed existed. He will manifest Himself as the Shepherd of your life, as your Bread Provider, as your Keeper, as the One Who loves you and gave Himself for you. He will come and make His home with you. You see, His Love Nature will dominate you. His Love Character will become part of you. He will build Himself into you. After a while men will see Jesus in you, and they will call you the Jesus-man, the Jesus- woman. “And I will come and make my home with you, and I will manifest myself unto you” (John 14:23). A man said the other day, “That is the work of the Master. I found a beautiful thing had taken place. Only Jesus could have brought that to pass.” Let Him have His way with you. Let Him govern you. Dont be afraid of Him. No one loves you as He loves you. He is the strength of your life. “The Father and I are one; he that hath seen me hath seen the Father. How sayest thou unto me, Philip, show us the Father? Have I been so long a time with you and dost thou not know me, Philip?” (John 14:9). Jesus dared to say that He and the Father were one! “Why, if the Father is like Jesus, I am perfectly content,” you say. What a joy it will be to live with Him eternally. But I want you to see another phase of this. Jesus said, “That they may be one even as we are one: I in them and thou in me” (John 17:21). Now we are coming to the heart of it. You and Jesus are utterly one . . . identified. “I am the vine and ye are the branches” (John 15:5). How that truth grows into us. You are the fruit-bearing part of Jesus. If you are a branch, then you and Jesus are one. You remember 1 Corinthians 12:12, “For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.” Here the body is called Christ. He is the head of the body. You are a member of His body. 1 Corinthians 6:15. My hand is a part of me, and you are a part of Christ. You are a Christ-one. You and Christ are identified. You are the branch part of Him that bears the fruit of love. You are the part that says all the sweet, beautiful things, that does the kind deeds. You are the part of Him that sacrifices to give part of your money. You are the part of Him that bears the love fruit. You and He are one. (John 15:5-8.) “Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit: so shall ye be my disciples.” A disciple is not only a convert, a new Creation child of God, but he is a student. Then He said, “Go into all the world and make disciples of all the nations, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you” (Matthew 28:19-20). Now you are going to be a disciple of this Man Who said all these wonderful things about Himself. The branch is going to be a light that will show men the way unto Christ. The branch is going to be a disciple that will bear fruit just like the Master, and will learn to know the Word so he can bless men with it. I want every one of you who is studying this course to get to know Him so well, and to know His Word so well, that you can bear the Jesus-kind of fruit. Nearly all these references are from the Gospel of John. I wish you would look them up. I want the Word to live in you. I want the Spirit to build it into you. He can do it only as you practice it. You can talk it, and learn it, and give it by heart, but until you practice it, until you live it, it will not mean much to you. Dont learn it to prove a doctrine, but learn it to live. Your doctrines are largely governed by the senses. You want to be governed by the Spirit through the Word.
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