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Extract: Within

From: Young Christian: Volume 35, 1945

Narrator: Chris Genthree

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(Luke 11:5-9⁵And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; ⁶For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him? ⁷And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. ⁸I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. ⁹And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. (Luke 11:5‑9)). Christ speaks of a man going to a friend at midnight, and asking for three loaves, “And he from within shall answer”; these are pregnant words, are you within? It is a dangerous condition in this world. What I mean by that, is, losing your sympathies with the joy and sorrows around you.

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