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Matthew: From Tax Collector to Apostle
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your nakedness from being seen.”
Revelation 3:17, 18
, RSV. Faith
and love are the gold. But with many, the gold has become dim, the
rich treasure lost. The righteousness of Christ is a robe unworn, a
fountain untouched.
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“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite
heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.”
Psalm 51:17
. When self is
renounced, then the Lord can make man a new creature. New bottles
can contain new wine. The love of Christ will animate the believer
with new life. In him the character of Christ will be manifest.
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