Notes from Norman

James

By Norman P. Grubb

They gave us

a magnificent headquarters, in England, for our mission. Quite center

for fellowship and so on. I was there when it was opened, and I said,

"Does the Holy Spirit come out of it?" That is a good question to ask of

any edifice, that contains God's people. Does the Holy Spirit come out

of it? If not, the place is not of God.

We have to watch that. What's Union Life? Nothing!!!! What's a magazine? Nothing!!!!Unless it is Christ coming through. You have got to watch against "Union Lifers" and stuff like that, sects or something. That moment they become death. The point is does: life come out?

Don't judge. Leave the person to God, if we think they have made a

mistake. Let God take them the mistaken way. Certainly people would have

thought Abraham was a fool. He probably didn't tell Sarah until it was

all over. Jesus was in the eyes of the world a fool. He died a criminal

according to world standards. Jesus died a failure. He didn't leave one

success behind Him on earth. His success was only in another dimension,

in the resurrection. So the lesson to us is, "Don't judge!"

So James is saying (his whole letter does) faith is something which

produces. We know that now, we do not take condemnation. We are

producers. If we are not, the Holy Spirit better get showing us. So

faith is production. Faith is a new life lived, which is the inner

background. This is not the same "as trembling as the devils”, but is

not followed through by the devoured life.

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