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We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.

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Good is not always God’s will, but God’s will is always good.
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Always God Good Will
Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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Advancement Faithful Measure Obedience Spiritual
It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.
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Arrangement Circumstance Discipline God Holy Important Recieve Spirit
Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.
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Consecration First Holiness Revelation Second Step The To
With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
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Depth God Guidance Inner Must Prayer Rely Trembling Upon With
Often Satan injects pride into the believer’s spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God’s work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
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Attitude Believer Connect Evoke Importance Often Pride Satan Self Spirit
Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
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Alon Cut Delilah Fall Hair History Man Regrait Samson Still Today
True revelation of the fact of the Spirit’s indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.
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Christian Fact Indwelling Life Revelation Revolution Spirit True
We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.
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Attention Before Lord Must Open Pay Rather Read Should Study
Everyone could smell it. Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone through things for the Lord, willing to be imprisoned by the Lord.
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Been Everybody Imprisoned Limited Lord Meat Really Smell Someone Suffer Thing
Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
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Drunker Gain Life Lost Measure Not Purple Score
Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
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Baptism Expression Faith Inward Outward
God not only wants to break the outer man…He wants our spirit and our soul…our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.
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Break Each Other God Inner Man Not Only Outer Soul Spearte Spirit Want
The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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Diametrically Different Faith Feel From Life Only Opposite Totally
Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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Lord Not Place Servant Take Until
Take this as the secret of Christ’s life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.
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We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.

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We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.

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