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We Trample The Blood Of The Son Of God Underfoot If We Think We Are Forgiven Because We Are Sorry For Our Sins. The Only Reason For The Forgiveness Of Our Sins By God, And The Infinite Depth Of His Promise To Forget Them, Is The Death Of Jesus Christ...no Matter Who Or What We Are, God Restores Us To Right Standing With Himself Only By Means Of The Death Of Jesus Christ...to Identify With The Death Of Jesus Christ Means That We Must Die To Everything That Was Never A Part Of Him.

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We Trample The Blood

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We Trample The Blood Of The Son Of God Underfoot If We Think We Are Forgiven Because We Are Sorry For Our Sins. The Only Reason For The Forgiveness Of Our Sins By God, And The Infinite Depth Of His Promise To Forget Them, Is The Death Of Jesus Christ...no Matter Who Or What We Are, God Restores Us To Right Standing With Himself Only By Means Of The Death Of Jesus Christ...to Identify With The Death Of Jesus Christ Means That We Must Die To Everything That Was Never A Part Of Him.

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The Characteristic Of A Disciple Is Not That He Does Good Things, But That He Is Good In His Motives, Having Been Made Good By The Supernatural Grace Of God.

Be Relentless And Hard On Yourself If You Are In The Habit Of Talking About The Experiences You Have Had. Faith Based On Experience Is Not Faith; Faith Based On God’s Revealed Truth Is The Only Faith There Is.

Wait On God And He Will Work, But Don't Wait In Spiritual Sulks Because You Cannot See An Inch In Front Of You! Are We Detached Enough From Our Spiritual Hysterics To Wait On God? To Wait Is Not To Sit With Folded Hands, But To Learn To Do What We Are Told.

If We Believe In Jesus, It Is Not What We Gain But What He Pours Through Us That Really Counts. God’s Purpose Is Not Simply To Make Us Beautiful, Plump Grapes, But To Make Us Grapes So That He May Squeeze The Sweetness Out Of Us.

We Actually Slander And Dishonor God By Our Very Eagerness To Serve Him Without Knowing Him.

We Tend To Use Prayer As A Last Resort, But God Wants It To Be Our First Line Of Defense.

The Entrance Into The Kingdom Is Through The Panging Pains Of Repentance Crashing Into A Man's Respectable Goodness; Then The Holy Ghost, Who Produces These Agonies Begins The Formation Of The Son God In The Life.

The Measure Of The Worth Of Our Public Activity For God Is The Private Profound Communion We Have With Him.

If A Man Cannot Prove His Religion In The Valley, It Is Not Worth Anything.

It Is Perilously Easy To Have Amazing Sympathy With God's Truth And Remain In Sin.

We Will Suffer A Sharp Painful Disullisionment Before We Fully Surrender. When People Really See Themselves As The Lord Sees Them, It Is Not The Terribly Offensive Sins Of The Fleshthat Shock Them, But The Awful Nature Of The Pride Of Their Own Hearts Opposing Jesus Christ. When They See Themselves In The Light Of The Lord, The Shame, The Horror, And Desperate Conviction Hit Home For Them.

Satan Does Not Tempt Us Just To Make Us Do Wrong Things- He Tempts Us To Make Us Lose What God Has Put Into Us Through Regeneration, Namely, The Possibility Of Being Of Value To God.

We Do Not Pray At All Until We Are At Our Wits' End.

God's Training Ground, Where The Missionary Weapons Are Found, Is The Hidden, Personal, Worshiping Life Of The Saint.

When We No Longer Seek God For His Blessings, We Have Time To Seek Him For Himself.

Never Consider Whether You Are Of Use; But Ever Consider That You Are Not Your Own But His.

Some Of The Qualities Of #‎ God Must Be Merged Into Us Before Our #‎ Prayers Can Be Fit For His Acceptance.

When We Are Consciously Aware Of Being Used As Broken Bread And Poured Out Wine, We Have Yet Another Level To Reach - A Level Where All Awareness Of Ourselves And What God Is Doing Through Us Is Completely Eliminated. A Saint Is Never Consciously A Saint - A Saint Is Consciously Dependent On God.

You Do Not Know What You Are Going To Do,the Only Thing You Know Is That God Knows What He Is Doing.......it Is This Attitude That Keeps You In Perpetual Wonder-you Do Not Know What God Is Going To Do Next.

Obedience To The Call Of Christ Nearly Always Costs Everything To Two People- The One Who Is Called, And The One Who Loves That One.

Confidence In The Natural World Is Self-reliance; In The Spiritual World, It Is God-reliance.

Begin To Know Him Now, And Finish Never

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