Dear Reader,
I am privileged to bring the first Victory Life Publisher’s edition of A.B. Simpson’s great work on Christ Himself. This is one of the most influential articles I have ever had the opportunity to read. My first knowledge of this work was during a campmeeting where we went to her the late Rev. B.H. Clendennen talking about God used this to change his life. I couldn’t wait to find a copy and read it for myself.
The first time I read this I will never forget the way that it ministered to my heart as the power of this great truth flooded my heart. What I found is a treasure beyond words. This may not be a long writing but I believe contains some of the most valuable principles concerning your walk with God that you can find. It is truly life changing and deserves to be read and re-read by each and every person who names the Name of Christ. I took it to my wife and read it to her and we both wept together as the truths of this book ministered to our heart. In this book, Brother Simpson opens his own heart in this article and speaks of the intimate way that the Holy Spirit dealt with his heart concerning the Life of God within the believer.
The secret of a victorious life within the believer in the pattern that God has provided – His Son. Christ is the Tabernacle – Christ is the Temple – Christ is the Light – Christ is the Way – Christ is the Lamb – Christ is All in All. We pray that you too will be able with us to say… “Now it is the Lord.” Our earnest desire for this edition is for you to see that in Christ are hid all the mysteries of God. We endeavored to keep the wording in this book as close to the original as possible while updating only grammar and some spelling differences. May God richly bless you is our prayer.
A.B. Simpson (1843 - 1919)
Simpson is the founder of the Christian Missionary Alliance Movement that began in Canada with a desire to promote missions and global evangelism. He was used powerfully of the Lord to unify many brothers and sisters in a common purpose of fulfilling the great commission.A.W. Tozer joined with the Missionary Alliance denomination because of the teachings of A.B. Simpson and specific his writings on holiness: "A Larger Christian Life." He wrote many hymns and added a great emphasis on the person of Jesus Christ in church-life.
FOUNDER OF THE Christian and Missionary Alliance, Albert Benjamin Simpson was born in Canada of Scottish parents. He became a Presbyterian minister and pastored several churches in Ontario. Later, he accepted the call to serve as pastor of the Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky. It was there that his life and ministry were completely changed in that, during a revival meeting, he experienced the fullness of the Spirit.He continued in the Presbyterian Church until 1881, when he founded an independent Gospel Tabernacle in New York. There he published the Alliance Weekly and wrote 70 books on Christian living. He organized two missionary societies which later merged to become the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
Albert Benjamin Simpson was a Canadian preacher, theologian, author, and founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), an evangelical protestant denomination with an emphasis on global evangelism.
In December 1873, at age 30, Simpson left Canada and assumed the pulpit of the largest Presbyterian church in Louisville, Kentucky, the Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church. It was in Louisville that he first conceived of preaching the gospel to the common man by building a simple tabernacle structure for that purpose. Despite his success at the Chestnut Street Church, Simpson was frustrated by their reluctance to embrace this burden for wider evangelistic endeavor.
Simpson’s heart for evangelism was to become the driving force behind the creation of the C&MA. Initially, the Christian and Missionary Alliance was not founded as a denomination, but as an organized movement of world evangelism. Today, the C&MA denomination plays a leadership role in global evangelism.
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