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  • We need help

    We need help
    2025/06/13
    Paul found out in the seventh of Romans that there are two things: There’s no good in the old nature. And the second thing was there’s no power in the new nature. You’ve got to have help. I don’t care who you are. You can’t live the Christian life yourself. You must have help. It’s only the Spirit of God working in you that can do that. Therefore, he wants you to produce fruit, and that’s the reason the Lord Jesus said, “I am the genuine vine, you are the branches.” Now He says, “I’m going to prune you.” And I pruned that tree above, and it bears better fruit when it’s pruned. And He prunes us to get good fruit. But sometimes down there in that old nature it will bear fruit, too, and it’s called the works of the flesh.
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  • We have His nature

    We have His nature
    2025/06/12
    “Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not.” Now, we’re dealing with something that’s very important. Now, what does he mean by that? Well, the believer who abides in Christ does not practice sin. He doesn’t live in it. The sinner lives in it all the time. The child of God’s got a new nature. He cannot live a sinful life. Again, I must say it. Pigs live in pigpens. Prodigal sons come home. Oh, they can get in the pigpen, but they’re not going to stay there, and while they’re there, they’re miserable—always, if they’re God’s child. Now, if you can be happy in sin, then, my friend, you’re not God’s child. Because God’s children, they have the nature of their Father.
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  • He died so we could live

    He died so we could live
    2025/06/11
    “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believed in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Now, He died for the sin of the world. He is the propitiation for our sins; not ours only, but for the sins of the whole world. He died a redemptive death, to pay the penalty of our sin. But He also died for our sins that He might deliver us right here and now from the power of sin. And He wants us to live for Him. He was without spot and without blemish, and He offered Himself for yours and mine and that you and I might live for Him today.
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  • Holy living

    Holy living
    2025/06/10
    “Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.” Now, we’re going to be like Christ; not identical, but like Him. And because of that, it’s an incentive for holy living right here and now. There’s nothing that should encourage holy living like the study of prophecy, for instance. And today when you see all this careless, slipshod living and this great emphasis now on prophecy that we hear. And people say, “Oh, I’m waiting for the Lord to come.” Well, brother, how are you living down here?” And how you’re living down here determines whether you’re really looking for the Lord to come.
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  • He’s not done with us

    He’s not done with us
    2025/06/09
    And we’re told here, that “…when he shall appear, we shall be like him.” Well, that is a wonderful prospect, you see, and He sees in you and me what He can make out of us. I’m thankful that God’s not through with me. If I thought He was through with me now, well, I’d be very much discouraged. But He’s yet to perform a work. Now God says, “It doth not yet appear what we shall be.” He sees what He’s going to make out of us someday, and what a glorious prospect that’s going to be for us.
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  • He confirms and conforms us

    He confirms and conforms us
    2025/06/06
    “Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” Now, the world won’t understand us. Because it didn’t understand Him, and it takes a spiritual insight. The Spirit of God is the thing that can make this real to us, and only the Spirit of God can do that, friends. And until He confirms it to your heart, why, of course, you have to say, “Well, I don’t know whether I am saved.” But the Spirit of God can confirm that and conform it to your heart.
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  • We are the children of God

    We are the children of God
    2025/06/05
    “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God.” Now the important thing to note here is that the child of God can say empathically, “I am a child of God through faith in Jesus Christ.” We are. We don’t hope to be, we don’t expect to be, but the thrilling fact is that every believer can exalt and rejoice and constantly thank Him. If you are a born again child of God, you’re going to exhibit a life that conforms to the Father, and that a child of God need not be in the false position of saying, “Am I His or am I not?” Now are we the children of God.
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  • Incentive for holy living

    Incentive for holy living
    2025/06/04
    “Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.” Now, if you believe that Jesus is coming and someday you’re going to be like Him, that’s going to cause you to live a pure life down here. You’re not going to be identical to Him someday, but you’re going to be like Him, and that’s going to be wonderful. I know of nothing that is such a great incentive for holy living than this particular thing here. In other words, may I say to you, we’re not wonderful now, but we shall be wonderful someday. And we are going to be able to accomplish our goal.
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