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Every use of the means of grace is a nurturing towards love to Christ.
Every means we have we shoudl use to nurture that love.
By prayer, the sacraments, the preching of the word, the reading of the word, etc., it is stregnthened. (1 Peter 2:2; Acts 20:32; Rom. 1:16-17; Matt. 28:19; see Acts 2:38; 1 Cor. 10:16; 11:23-29; Luke 17:5; Phil. 4:6-7)
But, we must remember, it is wholly by the grace of Christ that such love overflows and errupts. WCF 14:1, "is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts." WCF 16:3, "Their ability to do good works is not at all of themselves, but wholly from the Spirit of Christ."
John 15:4-6; Rom. 8:4-14; Ezek. 36:26-27
John 15:4-6 "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
Ezekiel 36:26-27 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
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