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Oswald Chambers was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1874, the youngest son of a Baptist minister. He spent his boyhood years in Perth; then his family moved to London when Oswald was fifteen. Shortly after the move to London, Oswald made his public profession of faith in Christ and became a member of Rye Lane Baptist Church. This marked a period of rapid spiritual growth, along with an intense struggle to find God’s will and way for his life. Oswald Chambers was not famous during his lifetime. At the time of his death in 1917 at the age of forty-three, only three books bearing his name had been published. Among a relatively small circle of Christians in Britain and the U.S., Chambers was much appreciated as a teacher of rare insight and expression, but he was not widely known.

Have You Seen Jesus?

"After that, He appeared in another form to two of them . . ." (Mark 16:12)  You should always recognize the difference between what you see Jesus to be...
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His Resurrection Destiny

"Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?" (Luke 24:26)  Christ’s resurrection destiny . . . was to bring “many sons to...
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Why We Lack Understanding

"He commanded them that they should tell no one the things they had seen, till the Son of Man had risen from the dead." (Mark 9:9)  Our Lord doesn’t...
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The Collision of God and Sin

"…who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree…" (1 Peter 2:24)  The Cross of Christ is the revealed truth of God’s judgment on sin. He...
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His Agony and Our Access

"Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples . . . ’Stay here and watch with Me.’" (Matthew 26:36, 38)  The agony in...
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The Way to Permanent Faith

"Indeed the hour is coming . . . that you will be scattered . . ." (John 16:32)  “. . . you . . . will leave Me alone.”...
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If You Had Known!

"If you had known . . . in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes." (Luke 19:42)  What...
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The Glory That’s Unsurpassed

". . . the Lord Jesus . . . has sent me that you may receive your sight . . ." (Acts 9:17)  The lasting characteristic of a spiritual...
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Helpful or Heartless Toward Others?

"It is Christ . . . who also makes intercession for us. . . . the Spirit . . . makes intercession for the saints . . ." (Romans...
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Heedfulness or Hypocrisy in Ourselves?

"If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not...
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Holiness or Hardness Toward God?

"He . . . wondered that there was no intercessor . . ." (Isaiah 59:16)  The reason many of us stop praying and become hard toward God is that...
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Our Lord’s Surprise Visits

"You also be ready . . ." (Luke 12:40)  Jesus rarely comes where we expect Him; He appears where we least expect Him, and always in the most illogical...
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Isn’t There Some Misunderstanding?

"’Let us go to Judea again.’ The disciples said to Him, ’. . . are You going there again?’" (John 11:7-8)  Just because I don’t understand what Jesus Christ...
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Spiritual Vision Through Personal Character

"Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place . . ." (Revelation 4:1)  A higher state of mind and spiritual vision can only be...
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