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The  Milk  of  the  Word.
always  to  believe  that  the  Spirit  has  been  given  me
with  the  word.     Amen.
1.  What  texts  do  you  consider  the  best  for  proving  that  the
Scriptures  teach  us  that  we  must  know  we  are  children  of  God  ?

2.  What  are  the  three  points  in  which  the  sucking  child  is  to
us  a  type  of  the  young  child  in  Christ  in  his  dealing  with  the
word?

3.  What  must  a  young  Christian  do  when  he  has  little  bless-
ing in  the  reading  of  God's  word  ?  He  must  set  himself  through
faith  in  fellowship  with  Jesus  Himself:  he  must  reckon  that
Jesus  will  teach  him  through  the  Spirit,  and  so  trustfully  con-
tinue in  the  reading.
4.  One  verse  chosen  to  meet  our  needs,  read  ten  times  and
and  then  laid  up  in  the  heart,  is  better  than  ten  verses  read
once.  Only  so  much  of  the  word  as  I  actually  receive  and  in-
wardly appropriate  for  myself,  is  food  for  my  soul.
5.  Choose  out  for  yourselves  what  you  consider  one  of  the
most  glorious  promises  about  making  progress  and  becoming
strong  ;  learn  it  by  heart,  and  repeat  it  continually  as  the  lan-
guage of  your  positive  expectation.
6.  Have  you  learned  well  to  understand  what  the  great  means
for  growth  in  grace  is  ?

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III.
GOD'S  WORD  IN  OUR  HEART.
"  Therefore  shall  ye  lay  up  these  My  words  in  your  heart  and
in  your  soul."— Deut.  xi.  i8.
"  Son  of  man,  all  My  words  that  I  shall  speak  unto  thee,
receive  in  thine  heart."— Ezek.  iii.  lo.
"  Thy  word  have  I  laid  up  iu  mine  heart,  that  I  might  not  sin
against  Thee."— Ps.  cxix.  ii.
LONG  for  the  milk  that  ye  may  grow  thereby.
