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.
WATCHMAN NEENumerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord’s use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires.
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God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.
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Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God’s view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life.
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The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
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We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.
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How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.
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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead,
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An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust.
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Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?
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Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
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Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.
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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
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It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things,
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The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
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