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CHILDREN OF GOD

AND

UNION WITH CHRIST

PART II.

UNION WITH CHRIST.

Abide in me and I in you,” “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit; for apart from me ye can do "That they all may

nothing."-John xv: 1-10.

be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in

thee, that they also may be one in us,"

"I in them, and thou in me."

John xvii: 11, 21, 23, 26.

INDEX.-PART II.

The most important of all knowledge is to

know the Lord Jesus Christ.....

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125

The Lord Jesus Christ. His name-Lord. 137
The Lord Jesus Christ.-His name-Jesus. 144
The Lord Jesus Christ. His name—Christ. 147
Christ our Anointed Prophet.

Christ our Anointed Priest....

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Union of believers, with Christ, in his death,

burial and resurrection....

Christ our Anointed King..

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159

164

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182

Union with Christ-Christ our Life......
Union with Christ-Christ our Food .... 187
Union with Christ-Father, Brother, Friend 202
Union with Christ-Husband and Wife..... 207
Christ corner-stone, believers living stones
built on him....
Christ and Believers-Shepherd and Sheep. 218
Christ the Head, and believers in Him,
members of His body....

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Christ the Vine, believers in Him the

branches..

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234

Union of believers with Christ and the

Holy Spirit, and the Father, one in
God......

242

THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL KNOWLEDGE IS TO KNOW THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

PAUL, writing to the saints in Rome, says: "I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation, to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek" (Rom. 1: 16). Writing to the saints in Christ Jesus, at Philippi, he says, “I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: that I may know Him" (Phil. 3: 8). In his prayer for his disciples, Jesus said, "This is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent (John 17:3). "Jesus saith unto Thomas, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him" (John 14: 6). In the first chapter of First Corinthians, Paul orings the

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