T. Austin-Sparks

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81.) God’s Means of Achieving His Purpose
       By what means does God reach His end in His people? What is God's means of achieving His purpose? It is by the Spirit of sonship through the Cross. There is no hope of reaching God's end, or of even taking the first step in that direction, without the Spirit as the Spirit of sonship. First there must be the infant cry, "Father"! There mus ...read more

82.) Golden Snuffers
       Reading: Exodus 37:17-24. "And he made the lamps thereof, seven, and the snuffers thereof, and the snuff-dishes thereof, of pure gold." We have here the great vessel of light and testimony in the candlestick, which quite clearly is Christ in corporate expression, but Christ pre-eminently; and we have the oil for the light, which is the Hol ...read more

83.) Government by the Holy Spirit
       We are considering the deeper and fuller meaning of what came in on the day of Pentecost, the nature and order of an entirely new day in this world's history, that nature and order being essentially spiritual. A new order and character introduced by the advent of the Holy Spirit to constitute everything immediately spiritual, not indirectly and u ...read more

84.) Have We Fettered & Imprisoned the Spirit of Revival?
      From the latter days of the Apostles till now, the history of Christianity is a history of prisons. This history is not of literal or material prisons, though there have been not a few of these. It is a history of prisons, which are the result of man's long established habit of bringing the Spirit into bondage. How many times has the Spirit broken ...read more

85.) Heart-Revelation of ''The Mystery'' (Ephesians 1:9)
       ".......making known unto our; the mystery of His will....'' (Eph. 1:9) ''.......how that by revelation was made known unto me the mystery of Christ... to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God." (Eph. 3:3,4,9) ''This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and the Church" (Eph ...read more

86.) Hindrances to Fullness of Life
       While it is true that every spiritual blessing is a gift of grace and not something to be merited, it is equally true that no blessing is entered into without a real challenge, demanding a genuine and honest proof that we mean business with God. The history of Israel's entering into the inheritance of the land covenanted to them is a great illust ...read more

87.) In the Train of His Triumph (2 Corinthians 2:14-16)
       "...and by me sends forth the knowledge of Him, a stream of fragrant incense, throughout the world. For Christ's is the fragrance which I offer up to God, whether among those in the way of salvation, or among those in the way of perdition; but to these it is an odour of death, to those of life." (II Corinthians 2:14-16, Conybeare's translation). ...read more

88.) Leadership and Ministry (Judges 5:2)
       "For that the leaders took the lead... bless the Lord" (Judges 5:2). While there are few things fraught with more difficulties, perils, and involvements than leadership, there are few things more vital and necessary. The fact of leadership needs no argument. It is in the very nature of things. Every situation that arises of a serious and crit ...read more

89.) Let the House be Builded - Part 1
      Chapter 1 - The Eternal Conception and Decision Reading: Ezra 6. Christianity has many aspects and Christian people are occupied with those various aspects; such as evangelism, teaching, building up of believers, or contending for the faith. There are movements entirely devoted to the study of prophetical matters related to the coming ag ...read more

90.) Let the House be Builded - Part 2
      Chapter 2 - The Continuous Controversy and Conflict It is a matter of very simple evidence and observation that the first three chapters of the Bible have not been passed before all the elements of conflict and controversy are met with. And from then onward, right through the Bible, those elements of conflict and controversy are rarely abse ...read more

91.) Let the House be Builded - Part 3
      Chapter 3 - The Ultimate Criterion When, as we read at the beginning of the Bible, conditions were such as to make it possible for God to pass the verdict, "It is very good", then God was found present in communion and fellowship with man. We are not told very much about how He was present: we are told that He walked in the garden in the co ...read more

92.) Let Us Run (Hebrews 12:3)
       "Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith" (Hebrews 12:3). "Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run, that ye may attain" (1 Corinthians 9:24). "Ye were running well; who did hinder you...?" (Galatians 5:7). "Let us ...read more

93.) Life in the Spirit
       "And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway from the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon Him; and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, 'This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased'" (Matt. 3:16). "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wil ...read more

94.) Man’s Way vs. God’s Way (Isaiah 55:8,9)
       "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8,9). There are two kinds of starting points - man and God's. Man usually starts with big frameworks, with a big plant, machin ...read more

95.) Mentality of the Spiritual Warrior (2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
       "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds); casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ." ...read more

96.) More Pioneers of the Heavenly Way
       Genesis 45:5,7 "God did send me before you to preserve life" "God sent me before you to preserve... a remnant" It is clear from this double statement - "God sent me before..." - that Joseph was one of God's pioneers of the heavenly way. His history holds some very helpful things in relation to the goings of God. Let us repeat what we have sa ...read more

97.) On Knowing the Lord (Philippians 3:10)
       "That I may know....." - Phil. 3:10. "Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know Me." - John 14:9; (A.S.V.). Phil. 1:10; Heb. 8:11; I John 2:20, 27. It is of the greatest importance for the Lord's children to recognize fully that, above all other things, His object is that they should know Him. This is the all-governing end o ...read more

98.) Our Ministry
       My word to you is one of reminding you of the ministry which we have felt to be committed to us by God. It is but one among many given to His people, but it is one which is fulfilled with an ever increasing sense of its necessity. May I say again, in the first place, what it is not. We claim no new revelation. We aim at no new ''movement". W ...read more

99.) Overcomers
       You see, the Remnant and Overcomers have as their function to be God's vantage ground in a day of widespread spiritual declension and failure, to be vantage points, that upon which God can act and say. Here is my thought positively expressed; here is the thing that I am after! 'That is the function of Overcomers to be to God like that. ‘Here is t ...read more