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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>2011-10-24
- “THINKING” - From “Disciples Indeed” - Oswald Chambers,
p.408</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT">“<b>For
who among men knows the things of a man, save the spirit of the man,
which is in him?” </b><span style="">A man
discovers intellectual things for himself, but he cannot discover God
by his intellect. </span><b>“ ... even so the things of God none
knows, save the Spirit of God” (1 Corinthians 2:11 RV).</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b> </b><span style="">Think
of the labor and patience of men in the domain of science, and then
think of our lack of patience in endeavoring to appreciate the
Atonement; and you see the need there is for us to be conscientious
in our thinking, basing everything on the reality of the Atonement.
We prefer to be average Christians; we don't mind it having broken
God's heart to save us; but we do object to having a sleepless night
while we learn to say “Thank you” to God, so that the angels can
hear us. We need to be staggered out of our shocking indolence.</span></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b>We
have no business to limit God's revelations</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"> <i><b>to
the bias of the human mind.</b></i></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
“I can't alter my thinking.” You can. It is actually possible to
identify your mind with the highest point of view, and to habituate
yourself by degrees to the thinking and the living in accordance with
it.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b>A
man's mental belief will show sooner or later</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"> <i><b>in
his practical living.</b></i></p>
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If I make my life in my intellect, I will certainly delude myself
that I am as good as I think I am. “As [a man] thinks <i>in his
heart” - </i>that means “me,” as I express my thinking in
actual life; <i>“so is he.”</i></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
I can think out a whole system of life, reason it all out well; but
it does not necessarily make any difference to my actual life; I may
think like an angel and live like a tadpole.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b>Note
the things your thinking does not account for.</b></i></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
Truth is discerned by moral obedience. There are points in our
thinking which remain obscure until a crisis arises in personal life
where we ought to obey; immediately we obey, the intellectual
difficulty alters. Whenever we have to obey, it is always in
something immensely practical.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
Obedience is the basis of Christ thinking. Never be surprised if
there are whole areas of thinking that are not clear; they never will
be until you obey.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
Every new domain into which your personal life is introduced,
necessitates a new form of responsible intelligence.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b>Watch
what you say you don't understand -</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b>you
understand only too clearly!</b></i></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
Learn to be glad when you feel yourself a chaos, that makes you
bitterly disappointed with yourself; because from that moment you
will begin to understand, that God alone can make your “order”
and “beauty.”</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b>Young
life must be in chaos</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b>or
there is no development possible.</b></i></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
Until you get an answer that satisfies your best moods only, don't
stop thinking; keep on querying God. The answers that satisfy you go
all over you, like health, or fresh air.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
Don't shut up any avenue of your nature; let God come into every
avenue, every relationship; and you will find the nightmare curse of
“secular and sacred” will go.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
Intellectual obstinacy produces the sealed mind - <b>“Jesus said
unto them, If you were blind, you would have no sin: but now you say,
We see: your sin remains” (John 9:41 RV).</b></p>
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<b> </b>There is no jump into thinking; it is only done by a steady
determined facing of the facts brought by the engineering of
circumstances. God always insists that I think <i>where I am</i>.
Beware of that abortion of Providence - “If I were you ...”</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
With regard to other men's minds, take all you can get, whether
those minds are in flesh-and-blood editions or in books; but
remember: the best you get from another mind is not that mind's
verdict, but its standpoint. Note the writers who provoke you to do
your best mentally.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b>Never
cease to think, until you think things home</b></i></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b>and
they become character.</b></i></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<b> </b><span style="">Very few of us are real as
God is real; we are only real in spots - awake morally and
spiritually and dead intellectually, or </span><i><span style="">vice
versa</span></i><span style="">; awake
intellectually and dead morally and spiritually. It takes the shaking
of God's Providence to awaken us up as whole beings; and when we are
awakened we get growing pains in moral senses, in spiritual muscles
we have never used. It is not the devil; it is </span><u><span style="">God</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
trying to make us appreciative sons and daughters of His.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style=""> Our
thinking is often allowed to be anti-Christian, while our feelings
are Christian. The way I think will color my attitude towards my
fellow-men.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style=""> Always
make it a practice of provoking your mind to think about what it
easily accepts. A position is not yours until you make it yours
through suffering.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style=""> If
you have ever done any thinking, you don't feel very complacent after
it; you get your first touch of pessimism; if you don't, you have
never thought clearly and truly.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style=""> An
appalling thing is that men who ignore Jesus Christ have their eyes
open, in a way many a preacher of The Gospel has not. Ibsen, for
instance, saw things clearly: he saw the inexorable results of sin,
but without any deliverance or forgiveness, because he saw things
apart from the Atonement.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style=""> The
first thing that goes when you begin to think, is your theology. If
you stick too long to a theological point of view, you become
stagnant, without vitality.</span></span></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Never
try to pillory Incarnate Reason</span></b></i></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">by
your own petty intelligence</span></b></i></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>“I
have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now”
(John 16:12 RV).</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"> These
words are true in our mental life as well as in our spiritual life.</span></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Doubt
is not always a sign that a man is wrong;</span></b></i></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">it
may be a sign that he is thinking.</span></b></i></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<span style="text-decoration: none;"> Keep the powers of your mind
going full pace, always maintaining the secret life right with God.</span></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">If
you teach anything out of an idle intellect,</span></b></i></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">you
will have to answer to God for it.</span></b></i></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<span style="text-decoration: none;"> Never be distressed at the
immediate result of thinking on the deep truths of religion, because
it will take of profound familiarity with such truths, before you
gain an expression sufficient to satisfy you.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">God
never simply gives us an answer; He puts us on a line where it is
possible for Truth to break more and more as we go on.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> Before
the mind has begun to grapple with problems, it is easy to talk; when
the mind has begun to grapple with problems, it is a humiliating
thing to talk.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><i><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Unless
you think,</span></font></b></i></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><i><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">you
will be untouched, unbroken, by the truths you utter.</span></font></b></i></font></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> A
logical position is satisfying to the intellect, but it can never be
true to life. Logic is simply the method man's intellect follows in
making things definable to himself; but you can't define what is
greater than yourself.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> We
command what we can explain; and if we bring our explanation into the
spiritual domain, we are in danger of explaining Jesus away - </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>“and
every spirit which annuls Jesus is not of God” (1 John 4:3 RV mg).
</b></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">We
have to be intelligently more than intelligent, intellectually more
than intellectual; that is, we have to use all our wits in order not
to worship our wits, but be humble enough to worship God.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> Don't
run away with the idea that everything that runs contrary to your
complacent scheme of things is of the devil.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> As
you go on with God, He will give you thoughts that are a bit too big
for you. God will never leave a servant of His with ideas he can
easily express; He will always express through him more than he can
grasp.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><i><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;">It
takes a long time to get rid of atheism in thinking.</span></font></b></i></p>
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<u><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">NOTE</font></b></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
</b></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">What
is </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">your</span></font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
“take” on the above?</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Mine
is that I am reading the 32</span></span></font><sup><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">nd</span></span></font></sup><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
chapter of Proverbs! It is like the book of Acts, which was </span></span></font><u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">not</span></font></u><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
finished at the 28</span></span></font><sup><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">th</span></span></font></sup><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
chapter, but has continued being added unto.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Oswald
Chambers wife after her husband's death at 43, chose 21 of his short
addresses to Missionary Bible College Students in London, England
from 1911-15, before they preached in front of one another in
homiletic class. No visitors were permitted because of the sensitive
nature of such a class.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">The
short, pungent addresses given by the Principal at this time - had a
disturbing effect in the short run on the students - but in the long
run - deeply endeared him to their hearts.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">The
best way to enhance one's understanding of the author of this address
is to read his biography - “Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God”,
1993, by David McCasland. J.A.Watt</span></span></font></p>
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