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Freedom of Spirit - Part 7
Norman Grubb

Norman Percy Grubb (1895–1993). Born on August 2, 1895, in Hampstead, England, to an Anglican vicar, Norman Grubb became a missionary, evangelist, and author. Educated at Marlborough College, he served as a lieutenant in World War I, earning the Military Cross, though wounded in the leg. At Trinity College, Cambridge, he helped found what became InterVarsity Christian Fellowship but left in 1920 to join his fiancée, Pauline Studd, daughter of missionary C.T. Studd, in the Belgian Congo. There, for ten years, he evangelized and translated the New Testament into Bangala. After Studd’s death in 1931, Grubb led the Worldwide Evangelization Crusade (WEC) as general secretary until 1965, growing it from 35 to 2,700 missionaries, and co-founded the Christian Literature Crusade. He authored books like C.T. Studd: Cricketer & Pioneer, Rees Howells, Intercessor, and Yes, I Am, focusing on faith and Christ’s indwelling presence. Retiring to Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, he traveled, preaching “Christ in you” until his death on December 15, 1993. Grubb said, “Good is only the other side of evil, but God is good and has no opposite.”
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This sermon emphasizes the concept of God dwelling within us through love, highlighting the idea that our loving actions are a reflection of God's love. It delves into the understanding of humanity as a vessel to contain deity, with the importance of recognizing the spirit within us as the knower. The sermon discusses the transformation that occurs when we come to know Jesus as our Savior, leading to a new understanding of our identity and purpose. It concludes with the idea of walking in God's ways as a joyful and fulfilling experience, guided by the presence of God within us.
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How do you see it? Listen. If we love one another, God is dwelling in us, and He's not the perfect in us. So our loving is God loving. Isn't that so? Don't look up there. It's hard. If you are loving one another, that is God dwelling in you, and it's not the perfect in you. So you see, humans are God re-expressed. God re-expressed. What's wrong with me? Therefore, because that's what humans are made for, to contain deity, and remember, human is consciousness. Humanity is consciousness. Your flesh is beautiful as an agent. My soul, my reasons are beautiful. My motion is beautiful. My body activity is beautiful. Oh God, come down. They are my agencies. I am spirit within. He fathered my spirit. He created my soul and body. He fathered my spirit at the age of twelve. He fathered my spirit, like His Spirit. So, spirit is knowing. And when you know, you always live by knowing. You never did a thing which doesn't come from inside. Everything you ever did came because you know something, you desire it and choose it. I told you that last week. You came here this evening because you know you can come. You desire to come. Aren't you? That's inside you. Outside you, your car, your feet bring you here, your body is here, but it's bringing you here. The in you, the real you is you. So, you is a knower. Paul makes that quite plain. He says, what man knows the things of a man, says the spirit of man which is in him. Even so, the spirit of God knows the things of God. Spirit is knower. So, you're only competent when you know. I told you that this morning. I keep, perhaps, repeating to you many things. In your profession, you're competent when you know it. It may take you five years to be trained in this or trained in that or trained in the other. The time comes and it gets you. And you know it. Now you live not by being trained. Oh, I know that. It's inside me now. I operate what I know. I operate what has God told me. I operate it. I teach my lesson, my subject. I do my nursing. I do my engineering. I do whatever it is. So, you live by knowing. And that's why a competent person is happy. He likes to do his stuff. He knows it. So, knowing is life is competent. It's a happy competence when you know a thing. Now, we're in the new knowing. And the new knowing, of course, as I said before, I take it like you say, you're born again. If you, Jesus said, you're only born again to see the kingdoms. Except you may be born in the spirit, you can't see it. So, it can't be these either. Oh, we can see these kingdoms. It's, of course, these kingdoms. So, I mean, you come to a knowing. What's your knowing? By your faith, this time it's the use of the substance of the spirit. The old faith produces, by faith you take the fruit of experience or this and that. By lifting the faith up to the spirit level, by faith you're the risen Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit comes back and says, yes, yes, here he is. And he's your savior. So, you know. So, the real person is the Lord Jesus Christ. The real person is the Heavenly Father. The real person is the Holy Spirit. And the company of heaven, half our dear ones have gone there already and the angels. This is real. And this fades out and the other becomes real. And Paul says, well, we look not at the things we have seen, but at the things we have not seen. Things we have seen, look at the science, so and so, a bunch of atoms shouting and rushing about. They change shape every now and then. That's all matter is. Changing shape. That's all. It comes and goes and matter. We're not seeing. We're not seeing. We belong to the things we have not seen. The things we have not seen eternally, we're part of that. And now, my point is, you come at home to the new knowing. And you're knowing somehow. I don't know how you know it. You're a new one. Jesus is the Savior. I don't know how I know. I do know. And he's my Lord. He loves me. I love him. And God's my Father. And heaven's my home. And I've got the source of God. You're in the fun of a new knowing. The comfort of a new knowing. You start your life with a fear of the Lord. You end it by the fun of the Lord. It's much less than the fear of the Lord. You're enjoying the Lord. Now, as I say, that's, but now, that has, it's difficult, because it hasn't worked too well. It has worked, but there's so many, the past is out. You're seeing. The future's a short, your present's much more uncertain. And you aren't so consistent in the present as you were in the past and the future. But you find this to be an equally consistent. And that's, that's why, that's what we're talking about now. How we find this consistency equally. Now, the consistency is when you know, your knowing isn't a relationship, but a union. A relationship isn't a union. So you start in your, actually you read it today in those three levels. Little children, young men, and fathers. We're talking today the young man stage, when you come strong. Maybe tomorrow we'll talk about prayer of faith, but in effect, if we get so far, we'll be on the father stage. The young man stage, you come strong. You're worthy one in my opinion. This is the union one. The babyhood one, you know the father outside. You trust like a baby. You trust Jesus died to you. You trust your sins with God. You don't know him inside. A little bit, but it doesn't, it's a relationship. But you don't in large ways. It's more your relationship outside. Relationship isn't union. Oh, I know inside. Union, well, yes, I am I. But I'm not really I. There's a bigger I inside me now. I am I. That's a detail. I'm a little I. There's a big I. There's a living God. There's God himself to us. Isn't that something? Dwelling is permanent residence. Jesus Christ dwells in you. Jesus Christ and the spirit who makes the will dwells in you. We've got some permanent residence, haven't we? Oh dear. But that's no good you don't know it. There's no good you say, I hope it is, or it might be today. It isn't tomorrow. Dwelling is permanency. Dwelling is the visiting. Oh, that's a, that's a, whatever. If I'm in hell, that makes no difference. That's it. He's me now. The real he is the real me. I'm a me, but I'm a very minor me. Yes, I operate. I operate. I'm a real person. I operate. I work. I do it. But although I do, the real, that doing isn't the real. The real person is the doer inside of cause. I've always liked that statement of Ezekiel's. When they say, isn't it dangerous just to be, to walk free because God wants you? I said, Ezekiel who knew a thing or two said this. He said, I'll cause you to walk in my ways. I don't know why, I just have to walk it for me. He causes me to walk because I find walk fun. I don't try to walk, I can't help it for me. Wiggle and squeal and run away every now and then, but I still walk it. You're caused to walk it. And you were caused to walk for Satan, all right. You were very good at self-loving self. I assure you. You were expert at self-loving self. Satan caused you to walk for self-loving self. You're pretty good at it. So was I. Now, you're pretty good than the other one now. Don't say you're not. Be positive. Walking is work. But now, what I mean is, you walk by your familiarity. You practice carpentry because you know carpentry. You practice medicine because you know medicine. You practice Christ because you know it. And you operate what you know. It's part of you. Now, you practice Christ when you know him. Now, you know him as a saviour. That is good, you've got to practice it. You practice, you feel forgiven, and he's your saviour, and you are a changed person, you're a new creature. But you've never practiced fully because you've had this inner problem of, what about my weaknesses and failures? And you haven't come to know that not only are you rigid, you really, you're he. The real he is you. He, he's, you're there, but the real he, that's how you know it. Now, that's this new one. Now, we spent our afternoon saying, to get that right, you've got to get your humanity out of its, out of its misconceptions. See, our humanity is simply the agency of a God. It isn't a nature. Humanity is a magnificent capacity, something like a, like something like a computer, any more so, magnificent capacities, mental, emotional, psychological, magnificent. Look what produces the mind, the attitude of the man. But your nature is, it's a quality. What type of person, what, is it pacific? What's it for? Why do you do these things? Not what you do, why do you do them? That's not you. That's not you. And isn't you? And we can see that, I've therefore told you how the Bible explains us, and we use all those symbols, that we're always a container. You're a vessel. A vessel isn't the coffee in it. You don't say, what's the nature of the vessel? You say, what's the nature of the liquid? Is it bad liquid or good liquid? Is it the depth of rock? And that's the mercy. Is it bad liquid like rock? Is it good liquid like Jesus? And that's mercy, Jesus. That'll not matter. You're a branch. It doesn't matter about the branch. It's which tree's coming through it. Is it a branch of the vine, spreading vine? Is it the true vine or the false vine? It's a temple. As I say, we proud people think too much of the temple. It doesn't matter what the building's like. It's who comes out of it. Is God mixed with there? Or is it the temple of Satan they have today? Which is it? So, don't get a tittle of this. This is as beautiful as an agency. It isn't it. It's in the self. We're more than a temple. We're more than a branch. We're a person. That makes it difficult. We operate as a body.
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Norman Percy Grubb (1895–1993). Born on August 2, 1895, in Hampstead, England, to an Anglican vicar, Norman Grubb became a missionary, evangelist, and author. Educated at Marlborough College, he served as a lieutenant in World War I, earning the Military Cross, though wounded in the leg. At Trinity College, Cambridge, he helped found what became InterVarsity Christian Fellowship but left in 1920 to join his fiancée, Pauline Studd, daughter of missionary C.T. Studd, in the Belgian Congo. There, for ten years, he evangelized and translated the New Testament into Bangala. After Studd’s death in 1931, Grubb led the Worldwide Evangelization Crusade (WEC) as general secretary until 1965, growing it from 35 to 2,700 missionaries, and co-founded the Christian Literature Crusade. He authored books like C.T. Studd: Cricketer & Pioneer, Rees Howells, Intercessor, and Yes, I Am, focusing on faith and Christ’s indwelling presence. Retiring to Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, he traveled, preaching “Christ in you” until his death on December 15, 1993. Grubb said, “Good is only the other side of evil, but God is good and has no opposite.”