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The ‘flesh’ is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.

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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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Christ Christian exchange God Like Offer Substitute Think
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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Christ Dwell Innermost Life Secret Spirit Take You
By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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Average By Christian Everybody Fever Get Normal Temperature The Think Time
We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us.
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Christ Conduct Consider Emotion Life Live Lord Out Outward Reality Realize Strong Us
All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
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All Divine Inward Outside Outward Person Satanic
With complete consecration comes perfect peace.
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Come Complete Consecration Peace Perfect With
The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord’s work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.
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Act Approach Bets Book Our Work
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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Confuse Dangerous Extremely Guidance Holy How Independence Intellect Often Spirit True Without
Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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Affair Ask Deliver External Fragmentary Him Let Many May Touch
The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.
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Cross Everything God Greatest Himself Negative Not Out Universe Was Wipe
How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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Atmosphere Clear Easily How Life Make Think Through Way
I have received new life; because the Lord Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the Father, I have received the outpoured Spirit. All is because of Him; nothing is because of me.
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All Exhale Father Hand Life Lord New Outpour Receive Right Spirit
Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
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After Itself Man Mind Set Walk Whatever
The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
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Are Blood Cross Deal Have Done We What
May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
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Always Consciousness May Not Our Own Possess We
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

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