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William MacDonald

"God has shone in…for the shining forth." Here we learn that we are not meant to be the terminals of God's blessings but only the channels. The expression "God has shone in" refers to our conversion. Whereas in the original creation He commanded light to shine, in the new creation He Himself has shone in our hearts.

But He did not do it in order that we might selfishly hoard the floodtide of His blessings. Rather He did it so that the knowledge of His glory in the face of Jesus Christ...

Bible Verses: 2 Corinthians 4:6Galatians 1:16

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William MacDonald

After Saul of Tarsus was converted, the churches of Judea heard that this arch-persecutor of the Christian faith had become an ardent preacher and defender of the faith. It was a remarkable reversal.

In more recent times, there have been spectacular incidents where men have done a similar about-face.

Lord Littleton and Gilbert West decided jointly that they would overthrow the faith of those who defended the Bible. Littleton would disprove the records of the conversion of Saul,...

Bible Verses: Galatians 1:23

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T. Austin-Sparks


God… was pleased to reveal His Son in me.
(Galatians 1:15,16 NIV)


Spiritual discernment, perception,
understanding and intelligence are all too rare. The causes are many. The
engrossment with the work and its multifarious concerns; the rush and hurry of
life; the restless spirit of the age; these, with an exhaustive provision of
external religious...

Bible Verses: Galatians 1:15Galatians 1:16

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T. Austin-Sparks

It pleased God… to reveal His Son in me. (Galatians 1:15,16)

If Christ, the Son of God’s love, is central and supreme in the heart of the believer so much else goes down, it must go down. Controversies with God will divide, but those artificial things, those things resultant from man’s activity and his projecting of himself, insinuating of himself into the interests of God, those things cannot abide where...

Bible Verses: Galatians 1:15Galatians 1:16

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T. Austin-Sparks


God... has
shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus Christ. (2 Corinthians 4:6)


The Letter to
the Galatians really can be summed up in this way: a Christian is not one who
does this and that and another thing which is prescribed to be done; a
Christian is not one who refrains from doing this...

Bible Verses: 2 Corinthians 4:6Galatians 1:15

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T. Austin-Sparks

When He... was pleased to reveal His Son to me... I did not immediately consult with anyone. (Galatians 1:15,16 ESV)












I do not know what the apostles might have
said if Paul had gone to see them, but seeing that they had not had the
revelation that he had had and they had not the call that he had (theirs was not an

Bible Verses: Galatians 1:15Galatians 1:16

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T. Austin-Sparks

It pleased God... to reveal
His Son in me, that I might preach Him. (Galatians 1:15,16)



Since Paul’s day so very much
of Christian activity has been the furthering of a movement, the propagating of
a teaching, and the furthering of the interests of an institution. It is not a
movement, nor to establish a movement in the Earth and to get followers,
adherents,...

Bible Verses: Galatians 1:15Galatians 1:16

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T. Austin-Sparks


God, who… made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. (2 Corinthians 4:6 NIV)



We stand by revelation, "God
who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus Christ." "God... called me through grace to reveal His Son
in me." - Gal. 1:16. How...

Bible Verses: 2 Corinthians 4:6Galatians 1:162 Corinthians 4:11Psalms 4:1

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T. Austin-Sparks


I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you. (Ephesians 1:18 NIV)




It is a seeing of the immense significance of Jesus in the eternal and universal order. With the Apostles that seeing was subsequent to the days of physical association. During the forty days after His resurrection it was like the dawning of...

Bible Verses: Ephesians 1:18Galatians 1:16

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T. Austin-Sparks

It pleased God... to reveal His Son in me.
(Galatians 1:15,16)



It is always futile and dangerous to advise people to leave one thing until they have a revelation of the fuller, and only such a revelation will accomplish the true emancipation.... It may not be applicable to many of us, but the principle is what I want you to recognize. You may not need to be emancipated from anything...

Bible Verses: Galatians 1:15Galatians 1:16

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