AB Simpson - Himself

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Celebrate PUBLISHING

By:

A.B. Simpson

Himself

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Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from

the New King James Version of the Bible. Copyright 1979, 1980,

1982 by Thomas Nelson Publishers.

Copyright 2007 by Celebrate Jesus International

Printed in United States. All rights reserved.

ISBN 1-895-868-14-1

Text also available in other languages

Published by: Celebrate Publishing


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INTRODUCTIONby Peter Youngren

This message by A.B. Simpson, though writ-

ten 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 bless-

ings and anointings often leads nowhere.

The only one interested in seeing that we get

nowhere is the devil. How does the enemy

of our soul accomplish this? By corrupting

our minds away from the simplicity that is

in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. 11:3). The message

of Himself, brings us back to the profound

reality of Christ, and His nished work on

Calvary.

I have known the doctrine of Christ-in-mesince I was rst saved, but it is one thing to


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know a doctrine, and a whole other matter to

enjoy the vibrant reality of that truth. In pre-

senting this booklet, my desire is that every

reader will discover the Jesus-life as natu-

rally as breathing. My personal testimony

is that Jesus has never been more real on amoment-by-moment basis than He is today.

Being saved is more fun than ever. Life in

continual awareness of the indwelling Christ

becomes an adventure.

Just like in A.B. Simpsons day many today

look for it. The it they cry out for could

be healing, a miracle, the glory, the anoint-

ing, or a blessing. There is no glory or

miracle outside of Jesus Christ. Someone

said to me recently, I know I have Christ

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

you look for the glory you could become

deceived, but if you have HIM - JESUS

CHRIST, you will have all His glory. There


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is no limit in Jesus. His fullness can never

be exhausted. Discover Him as your foun-

tain, your all in everything.

The Christ in you reality is available to

all. Believe in Him! Let Jesus live evergreater 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 boast-

ing in ourselves, but all boasting goes to the

indwelling Christ.


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HimselfI wish to speak to you about Jesus, and

Jesus only. I often hear people say, I wish I

could get hold of Divine Healing, but I can-

not. Sometimes they say, I have got it. If I

ask them, What have you got? the answer

is sometimes, I have got the blessing, some-

times it is, I have got the theory; sometimesit is, I have got the healing; sometimes, I

have got the sanctication. But I thank God

we have been taught that it is not the blessing,

it is not the healing, it is not the sanctication,

it is not the thing, it is not the itthat you want,

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

is Himself. How often that comes out in His

Word - Himself took our inrmities and bore

our sicknesses, Himself bore our sins in his

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

Christ we want.


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Plenty of people get the idea and do not get

anything out of it. They get it into their head,

and into their conscience, and into their will;

but somehow they do not get Him into their life

and spirit, because they have only that which

is the outward expression and symbol of thespiritual reality.

I once saw a picture of the Constitution

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

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

...it is not the itthat you want, but

it is something better.It is the Christ


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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

and Source and sustaining Presence of all our

life.

SANCTIFICATION IN HIMSELF

I prayed a long time to get sanctied, 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

the whole night fearing it would go, and, of

course, it went with the next sensation and the

next mood. Of course, I lost it because I did

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

water from the reservoir, when I might have all

the time received from Him fullness through

the open channels.

I went to meetings and heard people speak


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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

child, just take Me, and let Me be in you the

constant supply of all this, Myself. And when

at last I got my eyes off my sanctication, andmy experience of it, and just placed them on

the Christ in me, I found, instead of an experi-

ence, 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

ever, and when I thus saw Him, it was such

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

and the next and so on, until sometimes I get

a glimpse of what it will be a million years

afterwards, when we shall shine forth as the

sun in the kingdom of our Father (Matt. 13:

43), and have all the fullness of God.


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HEALING IN HIMSELF

And so I thought the healing would be an

ittoo, 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 wouldnot 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 sec-

ond, and lie on My breast every moment.

He gave me a great fortune, placed thou-


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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

it, and so it brought more glory to Him, keptHis name before the heavenly world and God

was gloried in His Son.

LIFE IN HIMSELF

I had to learn to take from Him my

spiritual life every second, to breathe Him-

self 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

bondage, to be always on the strain? What,

on the strain with one you love, your dear-

est Friend? Oh, no! It comes so naturally, so

spontaneously, so like a fountain, without

consciousness, without effort, for true life is


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always easy, and overowing.

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 the sea is in the bottle; so I am in Christ,

and Christ is in me. But, besides that bottlefulin the sea, there is a whole ocean beyond; the

difference is, that the bottle has to be lled over

again, every day, evermore. Now the question

for each of us is not, What think you of a

ministry, or what think you of divine healing?

but, What think you of Christ?

FAITH IN HIMSELF

There came a time when there was a little

thing between me and Christ. I express it by

a little conversation with a friend who said,


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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 Ithought I had it; that if I put my whole weight

upon it, it would hold. I said, when I thought

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

because of something in me, not because of

something in Him. So the Lord allowed the

devil to try my faith, and the devil devoured it

like a roaring lion, and I found myself so bro-

ken 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

I am the Blessing, too. I am all within and

all without, and all for ever. It is just having

Faith in God (Mark 11: 22). And the life

I now live in the esh, I live, not by faith in

the Son of God, but by the faith of the Sonof God (Gal. 2 20).

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,

Take His faith and say, I live

by the faith of the Son of God.


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I would not depend upon my faith at all. I

would say, Here, Lord, am I. If you want me

to be the channel of blessing to this one just

breathe into me all that I need. It is simply

Christ, Christ alone.

TAKE HIM

Now, is your body yielded to Christ for

Him thus to dwell and work in you? The Lord

Jesus Christ has a body as well as you, only

His body is perfect; it is the body, not of a man,

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

He stands now as the summing-up of all that


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man needs.

His spirit is all that your spirit needs, and

He just gives us Himself. His body possesses

all that your body needs. He has a heart beat-

ing with the strength that your heart needs.

He has organs and functions abundant with

life, not for Himself, but for humanity. He

does not need strength for Himself. The en-

ergy which enabled Him to rise and ascend

from the tomb, above all the forces of nature,

was not for Himself. That marvellous body

belongs to your body. You are a member ofHis body. Your heart has a right to draw from

His heart all that it needs. Your physical life

has a right to draw from His physical life its

support and strength, and so it is not you, but

it is just the precious life of the Son of God.

Will you take Him thus today, and then you

will not be merely healed, but you will have

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


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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,

Go and tell them, if they will take it, it will

be a talisman of power wherever they go, and

it will carry them through difculty, danger,

fear, life, death, eternity. If I could stand on

this platform and say, I have received from

heaven a secret of wealth and success which

God will give freely, through my hand, to

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

His Word a truth which is more precious. The

Apostle Paul tells us that there is a secret, a

great secret which was hidden from ages and


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

was seeking after in vain, which wise men

from the East hoped they might nd, and God

says it is now made manifest to his saints.

Paul traveled the world just to tell it to those

that were able to receive it; and that simplesecret is just this: Christ in you the hope of

glory.

The word mystery means secret; thisis the great secret. And I tell you today, nay,

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

not from me - I can give you a secret which

has been to me, oh, so wonderful! Years ago

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,

and He whispered to me, Christ in you, and

I had victory, rest and blessing.


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Then the body broke away in every sort

of way. I had always worked hard, and from

the age of fourteen I studied and labored and

spared no strength. I took charge of a large

congregation at the age of twenty-one; I broke

down utterly half a dozen times and at lastmy constitution was worn out. Many times I

feared I should drop dead in my pulpit. I could

not ascend any height without a sense of suf-

focation, because of a broken-down heart and

exhausted nervous system.

I heard of the Lords healing, but I strug-

gled against it. I was afraid of it. I had been

taught in theological seminaries that the age

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

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 ourchurch and College, an immense mass of li-

brary work and much besides. But the Lord did

not merely remove my sufferings. It was more

than simple healing. He so gave me Himself

that I lost the painful consciousness of physi-

cal organs. That is the best of the health He

gives. I thank the Lord that He keeps me from

all morbid, physical consciousness and a body

that is the object of anxious care, and gives me

a simple life that is a delight and a service for

the Master, a life of rest and joy.

WISDOM IN HIMSELF

Then, again, I had a poor sort of a mind,

heavy and cumbrous, that did not think or


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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

under command. I went to Christ about it, and

asked if He had anything for me in this way.

He replied, Yes, my child, I am made untoyou Wisdom. I was always making mistakes,

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

from this mental disability, and work has been

rest. I used to write two sermons a week, and

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

to me. The Lord has helped me mentally, and

I know He is the Saviour of our mind as well

as our spirit.

HIS WILL - MY WILL

Well, then, I had an irresolute will. I asked,

Cannot you be a will to me? He said, Yes,

my child, it is God who worketh in you to will

and to do. Then He made me to learn how and

when to be rm, 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

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

His work and all the resources for His service,

and He has not failed me.

And so I would say, if this precious little

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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well it works. Take it and go on working it

out, through time and eternity - Christ for all,

grace for grace, from strength to strength, from

glory to glory, from this time forth and even

for evermore.

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HIMSELF

by A. B. Simpson

LOnce it was the blessing,

Now it is the Lord;

Once it was the feeling,

Now it is His Word.

Once His gifts I wanted,

Now the Giver own;

Once I sought for healing,

Now Himself alone.

Once twas painful trying,

Now tis perfect trust;

Once a half salvation,

Now the uttermost.

Once twas ceaseless holding,

Now He holds me fast;

Once twas constant drifting,

Now my anchors cast.


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LOnce twas busy planning,Now tis trustful prayer;

Once twas anxious caring,

Now He has the care.

Once twas what I wanted,

Now what Jesus says;

Once twas constant asking,

Now tis ceaseless praise.

Once it was my working,

His it hence shall be;

Once I tried to use Him,

Now He uses me.

Once the power I wanted,

Now the Mighty One;

Once for self I labored,

Now for Him alone.


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Once I hoped in Jesus,

Now I know Hes mine;

Once my lamps were dying,

Now they brightly shine.

Once for death I waited,

Now His coming hail;

And my hopes are anchored,

Safe within the veil.


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