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By:

A.B. Simpson

Celebrate PUBLISHING

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INTRODUCTION
by Peter Youngren This message by A.B. Simpson, though written in a different era, has great relevance in our day. Sadly, many continually chase elu-

sive blessings. Just when it seems they have received what they looked for, it disappears. This treadmill of seeking ever new blessings and anointings often leads nowhere.

The only one interested in seeing that we get nowhere is the devil. How does the enemy our minds away from the simplicity that is in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. 11:3). The message of our soul accomplish this? By corrupting

of Himself, brings us back to the profound reality of Christ, and His finished work on Calvary.

I have known the doctrine of Christ-in-me since I was first saved, but it is one thing to


know a doctrine, and a whole other matter to enjoy the vibrant reality of that truth. In presenting this booklet, my desire is that every reader will discover the Jesus-life as naturally as breathing. My personal testimony

is that Jesus has never been more real on a Being saved is more fun than ever. Life in becomes an adventure.

moment-by-moment basis than He is today. continual awareness of the indwelling Christ

Just like in A.B. Simpsons day many today be healing, a miracle, the glory, the anointing, or a blessing. There is no glory or miracle outside of Jesus Christ. Someone

look for it. The it they cry out for could

said to me recently, I know I have Christ you look for the glory you could become deceived, but if you have HIM - JESUS

but I need to have the glory. My friend, if

CHRIST, you will have all His glory. There



is no limit in Jesus. His fullness can never tain, your all in everything.

be exhausted. Discover Him as your foun-

The Christ in you reality is available to all. Believe in Him! Let Jesus live ever greater through you, because Christ is

all in all (Col. 3:11). He is our unlimited

supply and resource for every situation and circumstance. That way there is no boastindwelling Christ. ing in ourselves, but all boasting goes to the

Himself
Jesus only. I often hear people say, I wish I could get hold of Divine Healing, but I canask them, What have you got? the answer I wish to speak to you about Jesus, and

not. Sometimes they say, I have got it. If I is sometimes, I have got the blessing, some-

times it is, I have got the theory; sometimes it is, I have got the healing; sometimes, I have got the sanctification. But I thank God

we have been taught that it is not the blessing, it is not the healing, it is not the sanctification, it is not the thing, it is not the it that you want, is Himself. How often that comes out in His Word - Himself took our infirmities and bore

but it is something better. It is the Christ; it

our sicknesses, Himself bore our sins in his Christ we want.

own body on the tree! It is the person of Jesus

anything out of it. They get it into their head, and into their conscience, and into their will; and spirit, because they have only that which spiritual reality. but somehow they do not get Him into their life is the outward expression and symbol of the

Plenty of people get the idea and do not get

...it is not the it that you want, but it is something better. It is the Christ
of the United States, very skillfully engraved in copper plate, so that when you looked at it closely it was nothing more than a piece of writing, but when you looked at it at a distance, it was the face of George Washington. The I once saw a picture of the Constitution

face shone out in the shading of the letters at a little distance, and I saw the person, not the words, nor the ideas. I thought, That is the


way to look at the Scriptures and understand the thoughts of God, to see in them the face of love, shining through and through; not ideas,

nor doctrines, but Jesus Himself as the Life life.

and Source and sustaining Presence of all our

SANCTIFICATION IN HIMSELF I prayed a long time to get sanctified, and

sometimes I thought I had it. On one occasion I felt something, and I held on with a desperate grip for fear I should lose it, and kept awake course, it went with the next sensation and the

the whole night fearing it would go, and, of next mood. Of course, I lost it because I did water from the reservoir, when I might have all the time received from Him fullness through the open channels.

not hold on to Him. I had been taking a little

I went to meetings and heard people speak



of joy. I even thought I had the joy, but I did not

keep it because I had not Himself as my joy.

At last He said to me - oh so tenderly - My constant supply of all this, Myself. And when

child, just take Me, and let Me be in you the at last I got my eyes off my sanctification, and my experience of it, and just placed them on the Christ in me, I found, instead of an experience, the Christ larger than the moments need;

the Christ that had all that I should ever need. This Christ was given to me at once, and for rest; it was all right, and right for ever. For I had not only what I could hold that little hour, but also in Him, all that I should need the next ever, and when I thus saw Him, it was such

and the next and so on, until sometimes I get

a glimpse of what it will be a million years sun in the kingdom of our Father (Matt. 13: 43), and have all the fullness of God.

afterwards, when we shall shine forth as the

HEALING IN HIMSELF And so I thought the healing would be an

it too, that the Lord would take me like the old run-down clock, wind me up, and set me going like a machine. It is not thus at all. I found it was Himself coming in instead and giving me what I needed at the moment. I wanted to have a great stock, so that I could feel rich; a great store laid up for many years, so that I would not be dependent upon Him the next day; but

He never gave me such a store. I never had more holiness or healing at one time than I needed for that hour. He said: My child, you must come to Me for the next breath because I love you so dearly I want you to come all the time. If I gave you a great supply, you would do without Me and would not come to Me so often; now you have to come to Me every second, and lie on My breast every moment.

He gave me a great fortune, placed thou10

sands and millions at credit, but He gave a cheque-book with this one condition, You never can draw more than you need at the

time. Every time a cheque was wanted, however, there was the name of Jesus upon His name before the heavenly world and God was glorified in His Son. it, and so it brought more glory to Him, kept

LIFE IN HIMSELF I had to learn to take from Him my

spiritual life every second, to breathe Himself in as I breathed, and breathe myself out. So, moment by moment for the spirit, and moment by moment for the body, we must receive. You say, Is not that a terrible on the strain with one you love, your dearspontaneously, so like a fountain, without
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bondage, to be always on the strain? What, est Friend? Oh, no! It comes so naturally, so consciousness, without effort, for true life is

always easy, and overflowing. And now, thank God, I have Him, not only

what I have room for, but that which I have not room for, but for which I shall have room,

moment by moment, as I go on into the eternity before me. I am like the little bottle in the sea, as full as it will hold. The bottle is in the sea, and Christ is in me. But, besides that bottleful difference is, that the bottle has to be filled over and the sea is in the bottle; so I am in Christ, in the sea, there is a whole ocean beyond; the again, every day, evermore. Now the question for each of us is not, What think you of a but, What think you of Christ? ministry, or what think you of divine healing?

FAITH IN HIMSELF There came a time when there was a little

thing between me and Christ. I express it by

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a little conversation with a friend who said,

You were healed by faith. Oh, no, I said, I

was healed by Christ. What is the difference?

There is a great difference. There came a time when even faith seemed to come between me and Jesus. I thought I should have to work up the faith, so I labored to get the faith. At last I upon it, it would hold. I said, when I thought

thought I had it; that if I put my whole weight I had got the faith, Heal me. I was trusting in myself, in my own heart, in my own faith. I was asking the Lord to do something for me something in Him. So the Lord allowed the

because of something in me, not because of devil to try my faith, and the devil devoured it like a roaring lion, and I found myself so broken down that I did not think I had any faith. God allowed it to be taken away until I felt I had none. And then God seemed to speak to me so sweetly, saying, Never mind, my child,

you have nothing. But I am perfect Power, I am perfect Love, I am Faith, I am your Life, I
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am the preparation for the blessing, and then all without, and all for ever. It is just having

I am the Blessing, too. I am all within and Faith in God (Mark 11: 22). And the life

I now live in the flesh, I live, not by faith in of God (Gal. 2 20).

the Son of God, but by the faith of the Son

Take His faith and say, I live by the faith of the Son of God.
That is it. It is not your faith. You have no

faith in you, any more than you have life or

anything else in you. You have nothing but emptiness and vacuity, and you must be just openness and readiness to take Him to do all. You have to take His faith as well as His life and healing, and have simply to say, I live by the faith of the Son of God. My faith is not worth anything. If I had to pray for anyone,
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I would not depend upon my faith at all. I

would say, Here, Lord, am I. If you want me breathe into me all that I need. It is simply Christ, Christ alone.

to be the channel of blessing to this one just

TAKE HIM Now, is your body yielded to Christ for

Him thus to dwell and work in you? The Lord His body is perfect; it is the body, not of a man,

Jesus Christ has a body as well as you, only but of the Son of man. Have you considered why He is called the Son of man? The Son of man means that Jesus Christ is the one typical,

comprehensive, universal, all-inclusive Man. Jesus is the one man that contains in Himself all that man ought to be, all that man needs

to have. It is all in Christ. All the fullness of the Godhead and the fullness of a perfect manhood has been embodied in Christ, and
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He stands now as the summing-up of all that

man needs. His spirit is all that your spirit needs, and

He just gives us Himself. His body possesses ing with the strength that your heart needs.

all that your body needs. He has a heart beatHe has organs and functions abundant with life, not for Himself, but for humanity. He does not need strength for Himself. The energy which enabled Him to rise and ascend was not for Himself. That marvellous body from the tomb, above all the forces of nature, belongs to your body. You are a member of His heart all that it needs. Your physical life has a right to draw from His physical life its it is just the precious life of the Son of God.

His body. Your heart has a right to draw from

support and strength, and so it is not you, but Will you take Him thus today, and then you

will not be merely healed, but you will have

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a new life for all you need, a flood of life that

will sweep disease away, and then remain a fountain of life for all your future needs. Oh, take Him in His fullness.

THE GREATEST SECRET It seems to me as if I might just bring you a

little talisman today, as if God had given me a

little secret for every one here and said to me, be a talisman of power wherever they go, and

Go and tell them, if they will take it, it will it will carry them through difficulty, danger,

fear, life, death, eternity. If I could stand on heaven a secret of wealth and success which God will give freely, through my hand, to

this platform and say, I have received from

everybody who will take it, I am sure you would need a larger hall for the people who would come. But, dear friends, I show you in Apostle Paul tells us that there is a secret, a
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His Word a truth which is more precious. The great secret which was hidden from ages and

from generations (Col. 1: 26), which the world

was seeking after in vain, which wise men from the East hoped they might find, and God says it is now made manifest to his saints.

Paul traveled the world just to tell it to those secret is just this: Christ in you the hope of glory.

that were able to receive it; and that simple

is the great secret. And I tell you today, nay, not from me - I can give you a secret which has been to me, oh, so wonderful! Years ago

The word mystery means secret; this

I can give you, if you will take it from Him,

I came to Him burdened with guilt and fear; I tried that simple secret, and it took away all my fear and sin. Years passed on, and I found sin overcoming me and my temptations too strong for me. I came to Him a second time, I had victory, rest and blessing.
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and He whispered to me, Christ in you, and

of way. I had always worked hard, and from

Then the body broke away in every sort

the age of fourteen I studied and labored and congregation at the age of twenty-one; I broke down utterly half a dozen times and at last

spared no strength. I took charge of a large

my constitution was worn out. Many times I not ascend any height without a sense of sufexhausted nervous system.

feared I should drop dead in my pulpit. I could focation, because of a broken-down heart and

gled against it. I was afraid of it. I had been of the supernatural was past, and I could not go back from my early training. My head was in my way, but at last when I was brought to

I heard of the Lords healing, but I strug-

taught in theological seminaries that the age

attend the funeral of my dogmatics, the Lord whispered to me the little secret, Christ in you; and from that hour I received Him
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for my body as I had done for my soul. I was

made so strong and well that work has been a perfect delight. For years I have spent my summer holiday in the hot city of New York, preaching and working amongst the masses, as I never did before; besides the work of our

church and College, an immense mass of li-

brary work and much besides. But the Lord did than simple healing. He so gave me Himself that I lost the painful consciousness of physical organs. That is the best of the health He

not merely remove my sufferings. It was more

gives. I thank the Lord that He keeps me from

all morbid, physical consciousness and a body a simple life that is a delight and a service for the Master, a life of rest and joy.

that is the object of anxious care, and gives me

WISDOM IN HIMSELF Then, again, I had a poor sort of a mind,

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heavy and cumbrous, that did not think or

work quickly. I wanted to write and speak for

Christ and to have a ready memory, so as to have the little knowledge I had gained always asked if He had anything for me in this way. you Wisdom. I was always making mistakes, under command. I went to Christ about it, and He replied, Yes, my child, I am made unto which I regretted, and then thinking I would

not make them again. When He said that He would be my wisdom, that we may have the mind of Christ, that He could cast down imagi-

nations and bring into captivity every thought

to the obedience of Christ, that He could make the brain and head right, then I took Him for all that. And since then I have been kept free rest. I used to write two sermons a week, and

from this mental disability, and work has been it took me three days to complete one. But now, in connection with my literary work, I have numberless pages of matter to write constantly besides the conduct of very many
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meetings a week, and all is delightfully easy I know He is the Saviour of our mind as well as our spirit.

to me. The Lord has helped me mentally, and

HIS WILL - MY WILL Well, then, I had an irresolute will. I asked,

Cannot you be a will to me? He said, Yes, and to do. Then He made me to learn how and

my child, it is God who worketh in you to will when to be firm, and how and when to yield. Many people have a decided will, but they do not know how to hold on just at the proper His work and all the resources for His service, and He has not failed me.

moment. So, too, I came to Him for power for

secret of Christ in you, will help you, you may have it. May you make better use of it than I! I feel I have only begun to learn how
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And so I would say, if this precious little

well it works. Take it and go on working it grace for grace, from strength to strength, from for evermore.

out, through time and eternity - Christ for all, glory to glory, from this time forth and even

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HIMSELF
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Once it was the blessing, Once it was the feeling, Once His gifts I wanted, Once I sought for healing, Now Himself alone. Now the Giver own; Now it is His Word. Now it is the Lord;

Once twas painful trying, Now tis perfect trust; Once a half salvation, Now the uttermost.

Once twas ceaseless holding, Once twas constant drifting, Now my anchors cast. Now He holds me fast;

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Once twas busy planning, Once twas anxious caring, Once twas what I wanted, Once twas constant asking, Now tis ceaseless praise. Once it was my working, Once I tried to use Him, Once the power I wanted, Once for self I labored, Now for Him alone. Now the Mighty One; Now He uses me. His it hence shall be; Now what Jesus says; Now He has the care. Now tis trustful prayer;

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Once my lamps were dying, Now they brightly shine. Once for death I waited, Now His coming hail; Safe within the veil. Now I know Hes mine; Once I hoped in Jesus,

And my hopes are anchored,

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