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SPIRITUAL LIVING

tabernacle of God is to be with men. Although clouds and darkness are round about Him, the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ reigns. He is to come in the clouds (not literally, but spiritually), and reveal the glory of His wisdom and His love. All power is His in heaven and on earth.[1]

At times it is only possible for us to be true to the outer or literal law; that is, to compel ourselves in seasons of temptation to follow the rules of action revealed to us in earlier years, as right, as Divine. Obeyed thus, even self-compulsion leads on to spirituality.

Then there are seasons of cultivation of the inner or spiritual life directly;

  1. Matt. xxviii, 18.

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