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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 130 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=200gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of t… More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 130 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=200gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. PRAYER IN CHRIST S NAME. John xvi. 23, 24. " Verily I Bay unto you, whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, He will give it you. Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." Those words express one of the last great gifts of blessing that Christ gave to His disciples before He left them, and a gift it was the deep meaning of which could only be understood by the experience of years; for, in promising that whatsoever they asked in His name they should receive, He gave them a refuge in every danger, a light for all darkness, a heavenly love and power for each infirmity and sorrow. But the great question which these words suggest to us is, Are they to be understood in their broadest sense or not ? Is that term " whatsoever" to be limited to a certain class o blessings, or to be explained as only true in a particular sense; or are we to take it in its widest meaning, and assert boldly that Christ meant to say that everythingasked for through Him should be bestowed ? 'We shall get some light on this question by looking for a moment at the circumstances under which the promise was uttered. Christ had just told the disciples that He must leave them; that while the world would rejoice as over a conquered foe, they would lament a lost friend; but that the hour of His departure would be the hour when deliverance for humanity should be born through the anguish of His death. They might not then have fully understood the meaning of that mysterious announcement, but it filled their hearts with sorrow. Christ's presence had become to them a necessity of life, and their grief sprang from the fact that soon they should see Him no more, and no longer be able to express to Him their doubts, no longer be able to ask Him to ...<