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Your word so that we can know the Lord.  Help us to see the union
        of grace and gazing.  Help us to keep our eyes on Christ.  Thank You
        for the day when everything dishonoring will be burned up and for
        forever we’ll be like Jesus.  We pray in Jesus’ name.  Amen

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                UNION WITH CHRIST





          WHAT I LONG TO COMMUNICATE IN MY UNION WITH
                              CHRIST MESSAGE

        I desire to present our union with Jesus, by stressing three important
        principles.  There can be no union apart from the Lordship of Christ;
        there can be no union apart from the continual flow of His life; and
        there can be no union with Christ apart from spiritual romance.  His
        Lordship I will illustrate by His union with His mother, Mary; the
        flow of His life I will illustrate by the relationship of the head with
        the body.  Finally, I will use the intimacies of the marriage bond to
        illustrate union with Christ.


                           The Indispensable Principle

        As we come to study God’s word, there’s an indispensable principle,
        and that is total reliance on the Holy Spirit.  Don’t ever take that
        principle for granted.  We need to trust the Lord when we study the
        Bible.  Only God can reveal God.  I used to take that for granted.
        So, I went through my Bible and now on every page in my Bible I’ve
        written  an  arrow  pointing  up  to  God.    When  I  open  my  Bible  I
        remember the indispensable principle.
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