Presented By Sister Margaret, recorded at the Gazeley Bible Fellowship meeting, England.
[00:00:00] Alright, we'll continue on with Step Number 5. As soon as Christ is able to cleanse you from sin, at that moment he can enter the life. Then he's not knocking outside the door, he is in you. I have been crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live yet not.
[00:00:27] I Christ live in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.
[00:00:40] And so when we are true Christians we live by faith, the life of Christ, working His will in us. In Romans 1, 16 and 17 we read, I am not ashamed of the gospel. It is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith.
[00:01:08] He who through faith is righteous shall live. Who shall live eternally? He who through faith is righteous. In ourselves we are incapable of doing any good thing but that which we cannot do will be wrought by the power of God in every submissive and believing soul.
[00:01:36] It was through faith that the child of promise was given. It is through faith that spiritual life is begotten and we are enabled to do the works of righteousness. These are wages 98 and 826 says, the gospel is to be presented not as a lifeless theory.
[00:02:05] But as a living force to change the life. How is the gospel to be presented? As a living force to change the life. And if people will take hold of the real living Christ their lives will be changed.
[00:02:29] John 12 tells us as many as received Him to them gave He power to become the sons of God. Is this power ours? No, it is God. It tells us right here in Christ's object lessons commenting on that text. This power is not in the human agent.
[00:03:07] It is the power of God. When a soul receives Christ he receives power to live the life of Christ. Think of the vine in the branch again as soon as the little branch is connected with the vine,
[00:03:24] the power of the Holy Spirit flows into the little branch and he has power to live the life of Christ. But the power is not the branches, power is it? It is the vines power. It is the Holy Spirit coming from Christ.
[00:03:44] Christ connects fallen man in his weakness and helplessness with the source of infinite power, what kind of power infinite. Steps to Christ 20. Now I want you to watch carefully as I read the next few rotations because I am going to be reading something about imputed righteousness.
[00:04:20] And I want you to see what imputed righteousness is. Too long we have said Christ imputes to us as righteousness meaning there is his perfect life put to your account.
[00:04:33] Even though you haven't lived it, even though you are not made righteous, you believe in him and his righteous life has put to your account. And that's your title to heaven. Doesn't say that anywhere.
[00:04:47] When you accept Christ and he can't see you from sin, Christ comes into your life. And then what is your title to heaven? Christ in you, the hope of glory. That's your title to heaven. Then the fruit coming out of that relationship is your fitness.
[00:05:13] But Christ in you is the hope of glory. Let's read about imputed righteousness. Seven Bible commentary nine to nine. Remember we just read he gives us power to become the sons of God. His imputed grace and power he gives to all who receive him by faith.
[00:05:41] What is the grace and the power that he gives us? It's imputed. It's imputed righteousness. Through faith in his name, he imputes onto us his righteousness. And it becomes the living principle within the life. What is the imputed righteousness? The living principle within the life.
[00:06:09] What is the living principle in the little branch? The Holy Spirit is the living principle within the life. And that's imputed to us. That's not imputed. It's imputed. Another one that I might know him 302, Six Bible commentary 1098, by receiving his imputed righteousness
[00:06:45] through the transforming power of the Holy Spirit, we become like him. So you receive his imputed righteousness, and then the Spirit works in you to become like him. The fruit of the Spirit. Do you see? But receiving him is the imputed righteousness.
[00:07:07] Now let me read a few more. Christ abiding in the soul, and exerts a transforming power. And the outward aspect bears witness to the peace and grace, and joy that reign within. What is within? Peace and joy through Christ abiding in the soul,
[00:07:44] and what is the outward aspect? The outward aspect bears witness that you have this peace within your soul, and Christ within your soul. Jesus said by there, fruits you shall know them. What people see coming out of you, the outward aspect shows that Christ is within.
[00:08:12] We drink in the love of Christ. Think of the little vine in the branch again. This is a little branch, do it drinks in the love of Christ. As the branch draws nourishment from the vine, if we are grafted in Christ, if fiber by fiber,
[00:08:34] we have been united with the living vine. We shall give evidence of the fact by bearing rich clusters of living fruit. One selected message is 337. Now, we come to a very important statement that pulls it all together, where talks about justification and sanctification, imputed and imparted.
[00:09:05] And this is an area where we have tremendous problems among us as a church. Because we have not a clear enough understanding of imputed and imparted righteousness. Righteousness within is testified to by righteousness without, again look at the little branch. What is the righteousness within the little branch?
[00:09:39] The Holy Spirit? What is the righteousness without the little branch? The fruit of the Spirit? The result of the working of the Holy Spirit. He who is righteous within is not hard-hearted, there is your fruit and unsympathetic. But day by day he grows into the image of Christ,
[00:10:04] going on from strength to strength. He who is being sanctified by the truth will be self-controlled and will follow in the footsteps of Christ until grace is lost in glory. The righteousness by which we are justified is imputed, the righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted.
[00:10:29] The first is our title to heaven, the second is our fitness for heaven. Which is the first righteousness? Imputed? Fitness, title, justification. Righteousness by which we are justified is imputed and it is the first righteousness. The righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted.
[00:11:07] The first is the title, the second is the fitness and remember right at the beginning of that paragraph, it said righteousness within is testified to by righteousness without. And the righteousness without the little branches, the fruit, the righteousness within the little branches, the Holy Spirit.
[00:11:34] And the first righteousness is your justification. The second righteousness is your sanctification. Receiving Christ and everything that is involved in receiving Christ is what justifies you. And your receive is imputed power that makes you a son of God. That's your justification.
[00:12:05] And that includes everything that God must do to bring you into our right relationship with Christ so Christ can be within you. That's your justification. Then living what Christ works within you is your sanctification, your fitness for heaven. How could you separate the two? Utterly impossible.
[00:12:38] And that's why Ellen White says you can't separate them. But if you believe that your justification is outside of you in heaven by Christ's life put to your account, then you can have sin here and have Christ there and still be justified. Do you see what I'm saying?
[00:13:00] And that's what we are being taught among us. That your title remains secure even when you have sin here. But the moment that you have sin coming out of you, do you still have Christ in you? No. You see?
[00:13:24] And so sin would separate you from God just like the Bible says. But with this kind of imputed righteousness entitled to heaven, sin does not separate you from God. There's no living experience of separation. Through the work of the Holy Spirit, the sanctification of the truth,
[00:13:54] the believer becomes fitted for the courts of heaven. For Christ works within us and His righteousness is upon us. Without this, no soul will be entitled to heaven. We would not enjoy heaven unless qualified for its holy atmosphere
[00:14:15] by the influence of the Spirit and the righteousness of Christ. And so that's what the imputed righteousness is all about. It's a living experience with Christ that then when you receive Christ, you partake of Him and outcomes the fruit. Because that's imparded righteousness.
[00:14:41] By you partaking of what God works in. Any question in this area? Yes. The false doctrine is one saved always saved. See, and the false doctrine would leave you in this kind of condition where imputed righteousness is just up there in heaven, put to your account.
[00:15:13] And here you get better and better and better. But even when you sin always you have a perfect standing before God. Because the imputed righteousness goes right down into the valley of sin with you. The less imparded righteousness you have according to this chart,
[00:15:33] the more imputed righteousness you have. That's a lie. That's a lie. There's no such thing. You cannot have Christ's perfect righteousness put to your account when you have sin in your heart. You cannot. It says sin and Jesus are never together. Sin separates from God.
[00:15:56] If you say you have fellowship with God while you walk in darkness, you lie. If you say you know God while you disobey his commandments, you lie. The Bible says in 1 John 2. You see? And there is no such thing.
[00:16:10] The Bible says, if you deny me before men, I will do what before my father and heaven. I will deny you before my father and heaven. You are not counted righteous in heaven when you're denying him by living a false life.
[00:16:25] And that's why Ellen White said, David was not justified in his sins. And she says he became for the time the agent of Satan when he was sinning. No title to heaven while he was in sin.
[00:16:49] And in order to bring him to a deep repentance, God he repentance. God allowed that little baby to die in front of his eyes. So that David's heart could be broke. Otherwise he might not have come to Godly repentance.
[00:17:12] You mentioned the above being of the gospel, suppose we preach to the secret. It's as we fall to a shouting, the same as because you become only a bit wrong and always be with him. To repent and see that we have a whole shouting. No, no, no. No.
[00:17:41] You just speak loud enough so they can hear you but not getting all. No. When we live by faith on the Son of God, the fruits of the Spirit will be seen in our life. Not one will be missing.
[00:18:08] The life of Christ in you produces the same fruit as it produced in him. Living in Christ, adhering to Christ, there's a little vine and branch again, supported by Christ, drawing nourishment from Christ. You bear fruit after the semilitude of Christ. These are Vages 6, 7, 6.
[00:18:40] Are you in a position where you do not possess these graces? Just as soon as anyone crosses you or offends you, does there rise in your heart a feeling of bitterness, a spirit of rebellion?
[00:18:57] If this is the Spirit you have, there in mind, you have not the spirit of Christ. Review and Harold December 21, 1886. And that's why Jesus said in Matthew 7, 16, by their fruits. She shall know them, by their fruits. Test yourselves.
[00:19:27] All right, now as we're living in the vine and we are bearing the fruit of the Spirit, is it still possible to fall? Yes. Only if you take your eyes off Christ. Only if you stop abiding. But you can stop abiding anytime.
[00:19:49] And Ellen White says that when you stop abiding, you are again choosing the other master and you are committing adultery. That's how she counts it. When you stop abiding in the vine, because you have taken Christ as your husband so to speak,
[00:20:15] and then when you go back to the other one, you are committing adultery. Now as you are tempted, we must remember we will not be tempted beyond our strength, right? First Corinthians 13. No temptation is overtaken you that it's not common to man.
[00:20:43] God is faithful, he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength. So we have no excuse if we fall. We will not be tempted beyond our strength. And you say, well I have not found that true. I can't help falling.
[00:21:03] Then somehow you have not found how to keep from falling. Or you have not found Christ one or the other. Because it says here in our high calling 323, our Heavenly Father measures and ways if free trial before he permits it to come upon the believer.
[00:21:29] The believer will not have temptations that are too hard to bear. The cold will, the lukewarm will. Because the carnimine cannot obey the law of God, and they will always have temptations that are too hard to bear. They do not have the power of Christ within them.
[00:21:52] He's outside the door knocking. He cannot give them the power that they need to present the fruit of the spirit instead of anger and be strived jealousy in hatred. He cannot. They are just living by human love, and human love easily gets irritated, doesn't it?
[00:22:12] It easily becomes resentful. Human love can hate this person and love this person all at the same time. Not God's love. And so only the believer will not be tempted beyond his strength. And what will God do when a temptation comes? With the temptation he will do what?
[00:22:43] Provide the way of a state that you may be able to endure it or bear it. Love and do are so much. All things. What is the way of a state? God has made one way of a state for us. One way.
[00:23:08] And most of us thought we had found it by thinking when temptation comes, resist the devil and he will flee from you. But that's not what it says. James 4, 7 and 8 says something else. When you are tempted, James 4, 7 and 8 says what? Submit yourselves, therefore, to God.
[00:23:35] Then resist the devil and he will flee from you. Why? Because then all the power of God is available to you and the angels immediately get into action and chase away the devil. That's why that's the way of a scape.
[00:23:55] Whenever the Israelites forgot to take the way of a scape and they went to fight the enemy without first submitting to God. What happened to them? Men, Necassalties. Men, Necassalties. But every time they wholeheartedly submitted themselves to God and then went into the battle, what happened? Total victory.
[00:24:24] They could send out the choir and as the choir sang, the enemy destroyed themselves. And it said God wants to do that for us too. Can you fight Satan? No, you can't fight Satan. But you know we forget that we're fighting Satan.
[00:24:47] We think we're just fighting human beings. And so we get into our argument and we get into a fight. And we resent them and all of this thing thinking, we are just fighting human beings. But the Bible says you are not.
[00:25:06] You are fighting the principalities of the powers of the darkness of this world. And when we give up the right to fight human beings and fight the battle where it really is, we need the power of God. We cannot do it alone.
[00:25:26] And Satan knows every time that you've submitted to God because when you submit to God, the good angels go into action for you and it says they cannot do that if you don't ask them to. They cannot do it. It says they cannot give their blessings unsolicited.
[00:25:48] And that's why the Bible says ask and you shall receive. Ask and you shall receive. We cannot save ourselves from the tempters power. He has conquered humanity. And when we try to stand in our own strength, we shall become a prey to his devices.
[00:26:15] But the name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous runeth into it and is safe. Satan trembles and flees before the weakest soul who finds refuge in that mighty name. These are Vages 131. Second Peter 2-9, the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial.
[00:26:44] And then it says in Psalm 32-8-9, I will instruct you. I will teach you the way you should go. Be not like a horse or a mule that must be without understanding that must be curved with bit and bridle. Will Jesus thank you to be obedient? No.
[00:27:08] Will he whip you to be obedient? No. He just speaks in your conscience in a still small voice. And the spirit of prophecy says, Your eye is your conscience. Not talking about these eyes, It's talking about the inner light of the mind.
[00:27:30] And it says he will guide us through the eye. Speaking to our conscience, Psalm 32-21, Your ears shall hear a word behind you saying, This is the way. Walk in it. When you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.
[00:27:53] After I gave up my right to resent my husband, when I surrendered to God, when I was 45, and I had resented him for many years. Why? Not because he was a great sinner, no. Just because he didn't handle the children the way I thought he should.
[00:28:20] And especially his son. And he told you that I don't know if it was here or some other place, that he did have problems with his son. And he didn't have a good fellowship with him. And I resented that because he was selfish with the children.
[00:28:44] And so when I came to the Lord, I said, Lord, I give up my right to resent my husband, no matter what. And I surrendered about three days before he did. And as I came to the Lord and I laid my sin on the altar,
[00:29:02] and I said, Lord, I give up my right. And it cleans me from all unrighteousness immediately. The resentment evaporated. And in its place was a sweet spirit toward my husband, an understanding spirit, a forgiving spirit. And I said, Lord, that's how you do it.
[00:29:27] That's how you can take away my sin. Thank you so much. And then I rose to walk in the newness of life. And then the next day I was tempted. The next evening. And I had not yet learned the way of escape.
[00:29:53] And as I was tempted, and I'll tell you what the temptation was, it was very simple. I was reading a worship. And as I was reading from a book on prayer, all of a sudden my husband corrected a sentence structure in the book.
[00:30:16] And this had happened a good number of times before. And every time I had resented it. And I had remarked about it. And worship had been spoiled. It's very easy to spoil worship. Have you sensed that? Yes. Just a little bit from any member of the family.
[00:30:43] And you can spoil the sweet spirit of worship. It says that the angels cannot stay when there is resentment or impatience or irritation. And if we gather our children with irritation to have worship, the angels don't even come there. We've got to do it in love. All right?
[00:31:14] So this evening, as I was doing this, all of a sudden my husband corrected this sentence. And I sensed the temptation. And I didn't know what to do. And before I knew what was happening, I resented it. I mentioned it and worship was spoiled.
[00:31:38] But that moment, the Holy Spirit reminded me. You gave up your right to resent your husband. No, he convicted me I had sinned. Where before I would have blamed my husband, now the Holy Spirit convicted me very strongly. I had sinned. Not my husband.
[00:32:00] My husband is an editor. He correct sentences all day long. It was the most natural thing for him to correct the sentence. And I should never have gotten upset at such a foolish thing. It was my sin, but I had always blamed him.
[00:32:21] And this evening, the Lord convicted me of sin, and I said, family, I have sinned. And I went to the Lord, and I pleaded for forgiveness. He convicted me, I acknowledged my guilt. He gave me sorrow for it. I confessed. He cleansed me. I believed he could.
[00:32:52] And again, he took away the wrong spirit and gave me a sweet spirit. And then I said, Lord, please show me how do I keep from falling. I don't want to fall. I don't want resentment anymore. Please show me how to keep from falling.
[00:33:14] I had not yet discovered it. In the next evening, as we were having worship, and I was reading from the same book, it was sort of a poorly constructed book. And all of a sudden, my husband corrected a sentence structure.
[00:33:39] And all of a sudden, I felt the temptation, the tug. It says, the Christian will feel the prompting to sin. The prompting. The moment I felt the prompting, the Holy Spirit, I heard a voice behind me saying, this is the way you gave up your right
[00:34:07] to resent your husband. Don't you remember? I said, yes, Lord, I remember and I meant it. I was not double-minded. I immediately agreed with the Holy Spirit. And immediately, the temptation lost its power and I had total forgiveness for my husband before I had to resent him.
[00:34:32] I said, Lord, you've showed me the way of escape out of temptation. And I have discovered that every time when I am tempted and the Lord alerts me, and it says, you will hear word behind you saying,
[00:34:53] this is the way of walking it when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. It is temptation that makes you turn. And then the Lord alerts you. Every time that I have taken his way of escape
[00:35:07] and submitted holy to God at that moment, I have had total victory every time. Sometimes I have neglected to take the way of escape. And then I have fallen, but to see the Lord wants us to learn how to so settle in that we will never fall
[00:35:35] that we will know the science of how to keep from falling. And we will so settle into Christ intellectually and spiritually, we will know what is involved here. And that's the ceiling, settling into Christ intellectually and spiritually, so nothing can move you.
[00:36:06] No temptation can move you away from your submission to Christ. That is the way of escape out of temptation. How are you tempted? How are you tempted? James, no not James. Yes, James. James 115. Each person is tempted when he is Lord or drawn away of his own
[00:36:51] desire or lust, desires a better word because in the King James Bible time, lust meant desire. But today lust means sexual lust. And so desire is a better word. The revised standard version has desire. You are lured and tempted by any kind of desire.
[00:37:17] Not just lust, you can be tempted to get angry. A desire to defend yourself and self-defense can take place many ways. You can get angry, you can be impatient, you can be irritated all of these things are self-defense. So what they are? Even lust can be self-defense
[00:37:43] because you want to have fulfillment in a wrong way. So you are tempted when you are lured and enticed by your own desire. The moment you sense a desire have you already seen? No. No. It says desire when it has conceived brings forth sin.
[00:38:12] So the moment you tempted and you sense the temptation, you have not yet seen. That is the moment that you must take the way of escape. Submit to God at that moment. And the Holy Spirit will try to alert you. He will always alert you,
[00:38:35] but you may not always be listening for his alert and so you might miss it. He will speak in a still small voice. Trying to warn you like it did me. There are thoughts and feelings suggested and aroused by Satan that annoy even the best of men.
[00:39:11] But if they are not cherished, if they are repulsed as hateful, the soul is not contaminated with guilt. Review and Harold March 27, 1888. And this one in four testimonies 623 when impure thoughts are cherished, they need not be expressed by word or action
[00:39:42] to consummate the sin and bring the soul into condemnation. If we would not commit sin, we must shun its very beginnings. Every emotion and desire must be held in subjection to reason and conscience. Every unholy thought must be instantly repelled. 5 testimonies 177. One of my brothers,
[00:40:19] after hearing this for a while, was really wrestling with temptation and we couldn't understand what the problem was until he heard me give this talk. And I was talking about Jesus being tempted in all points like as we are, but temptation is not sin.
[00:40:39] And Satan whispered in Jesus, mind too, didn't he? He whispered all kinds of things trying to get him to sin, trying to get him to be discouraged, trying to get him to give up the plan of salvation and who knows what else he whispered. Defend yourself, you know,
[00:41:00] all of these things just like he whispered to us. Never by a thought, did Jesus yield. So it may be with us, it says in these are of ages 3, 1, 2, 3. So it may be with us. We don't have to yield either. And I was sharing that with my brother
[00:41:25] and he said, oh, Margaret! Here I thought that if a thought came into my mind I was already sinning and I have found other people who have felt the same. Can you imagine the trauma they must be in?
[00:41:38] There is no way that you can keep all thoughts out of your mind. But when a thought comes into your mind, suggested by Satan, what can you do with it? Turn from it, expel it. You don't have to accept it as your own. Our high calling 85,
[00:42:10] do not for a moment, acknowledge Satan's temptations as being in harmony with your own mind. No matter what the temptation, do not for a moment, acknowledge his suggestions as being in harmony with your own mind. Turn from them like you would from the tender himself.
[00:42:39] Then you will have it to me, overall thoughts. And remember your thoughts and feelings are your moral character. Your thoughts and your feelings come by and moral perfection is required of all. And if your thoughts are surrendered to Christ, your feelings will be right
[00:43:02] because you cannot have wrong feelings without first having wrong thoughts. When you turn in your thoughts, you have to submit to God's first. Yes. Yes. Yes. You have to submit to God and put your mind on Godly things. Now, if you have submitted to the temptation,
[00:43:25] when you knew good and well you shouldn't, Satan has greater power over you and then it will be harder to come back. But if at the first suggestion of wrong thoughts, you submit to God. It will not be so hard. Now, let's say you're reading something
[00:43:47] and all of a sudden you realize this is wrong. I must not read this. And God is warning you, but you keep right on reading it or you're watching a television program in your sense. This is wrong. I must not watch it.
[00:44:03] But you keep right on watching it. You will have a lot of temptation in that area where you deliberately walked on Satan's ground and he will bring it back to you again and again and again to make you think about what you saw.
[00:44:23] He will, because you deliberately did it. And we have to be very careful that we do not the moment the Holy Spirit warns us, leave that alone, that we do not keep doing it. That's why so many people's minds are filled
[00:44:50] with all kinds of corrupt things that they have seen and read and heard. Because they have willingly to let the planet and they have to really repent. That they just obey God knowingly. Yes? Oh, the cry on the night there is crying in the dark.
[00:45:25] I have not seen it and I haven't read the story yet. And so, I don't know about the film. I have heard that there are swear words in it. I don't know. Now, how was Christ tempted? He was tempted in all points. Light? We are tempted.
[00:46:02] How are we tempted? Through the senses and through desires, right? Okay. Christ was tempted by desires? When Christ was a little child and the children made fun of him and they called him names and his brothers teased him,
[00:46:22] do you think he was tempted by a desire to defend himself? That's a desire, isn't it? And do you realize that almost all our wrong feelings come as a result of self-defense? Christ was also tempted to defend himself. He was a little human child. Do you see?
[00:46:45] And it says he had to fight the battle like every child has to fight it. Do you think when Christ was in the wilderness that he felt the tug of the cells of his body for food? It says he felt the strength of indulged appetite
[00:47:14] and unholy passion which deluged the world, which controlled the world. He felt the temptations like we feel that yet he never submitted. He never sent it. He never yielded to any suggestions of Satan. He always submitted to God.
[00:47:39] And it says we may have all the power that he had to resist temptation. When you are born again, is your lower nature, fleshly, lower nature changed? No. It is the higher powers of the mind that are changed. The Bible says, put off your old nature which is
[00:48:18] corrupt through deceit for us and be renewed in the spirit of your mind and put on the new nature created in true righteousness and holiness. And what is created a new when you have a new heart? Your mind, your desires, your motives are created a new.
[00:48:39] But not your flesh and the flesh will still lust against the spirit. The spirit will strive against the flesh. Galatians 5, 16 and 17. Here is where you need Christ. And as long as we are in this life, we will have the lower, carnal, fleshly nature,
[00:49:01] but not the carnal mind if we are Christians. Because Christians are renewed in the spirit of the mind created in true righteousness and holiness, but not holy flesh. And so expect to get temptations through your lower nature, expect it. You will get them.
[00:49:27] Plus through your eyes and all your other senses. But it says here, those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh. With its passions and desires. How shall we crucify the flesh? We are told that the lower passions are seated in the body
[00:49:56] and work through the body. Now remember Jesus had a body too. What kind of body? Sinful body. Sinful fleshly nature. The lower passions have their seat in the body and work through the body. The words flesh or fleshly or carnal lusts embrace the lower, corrupt nature.
[00:50:25] The flesh of itself cannot act contrary to the will of God. Now you think of it for a moment. Here's your thoughts and your feelings. That's your moral character. Here's your fleshly nature. If your thoughts and feelings evaporated, what would you be? Could your flesh sin? No.
[00:50:48] Your flesh only sins as a result of your mind giving direction. You see? He's in the mind where sin takes place. And then the mind directs the flesh to do whatever to steal, to commit adultery or whatever. But the lower nature no matter how the craving is,
[00:51:14] it cannot sin without your mind giving permission. We are commanded to crucify the flesh with the affections and lusts. How shall we do it? Shall we inflict pain on the body? That's what Luther did for a while. Remember? No. Put to death the temptation to sin.
[00:51:41] Give up your right to sin. Die to sin. The corrupt thought is to be expelled. Every thought is to be brought into subjection to God. All animal propensities, the animal propensities are your appetites and passions. All animal propensities are to be subjected to the
[00:52:10] higher powers of the mind. Then you can have victory. Adventist home, 127, 128. A closing text Romans 8, 12 through 14. So then brethren, we are debtors. Not to the flesh to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die.
[00:52:41] But if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the spirit of God, our sons of God, by whom are you led? The flesh or the spirit? You see? The flesh or the spirit?
[00:53:02] And you can tell every time who's direction you're taking, the flesh or the spirit? You can tell by their fruits. You shall know them. To whom you yield your salvation, and to whom you will be saved. You shall be saved. You shall be saved.
[00:53:25] To whom you yield your self-serven's to obey. His servants you are. To whom you obey. Romans 6, 16. Ellen White says that that was the only text that we had. We would be without excuse. To whom you yield, his servants you are. Either Satan or Christ controlled your mind.
[00:53:54] Either or never, both. Never, both. May the Lord help each one of us that we may let the Holy Spirit control our minds. And let's so live that we can so represent Christ that He can finish His work in this earth. May the Lord bless you.
[00:54:28] That's have prayer. Shall we? Have a me father. We are so thankful that you have called us to be your children. And as we walk with you day by day, help us to take hold of the way of escape.
[00:54:57] Every hour, every day, for you have promised to keep us from falling. And father, if we should happen to fall, help us to reach our hand like Jesus did. Like Peter did and let you lift us up immediately out of the water.
[00:55:13] Both father, bless each one of us here. Keep us faithful. Help us to be holy dying, we pray in Jesus name.