If any will come and say: "I
have struggled, I have prayed, I have wept, and it has not helped me," then
you must do one other thing. You must see that the living Christ is God's
provision for your holy, spiritual life. You must believe that that Christ
who accepted you once, at conversion, in His wonderful love is now waiting
to say to you that you may become a spiritual man, entirely given up to
God. If you will believe that, your fear will vanish and you will say: "It
can be done; if Christ will accept and take charge, it shall be done."
Then, my last mark. A man must take that step, a solemn but blessed
step. It cost some of you five or ten years before you took the step of
conversion. You wept and prayed for years, and could not find peace until
you took that step. So, in the spiritual life, you may go to teacher after
teacher, and say, "Tell me about the spiritual life, the baptism of the
Spirit, and holiness," and yet you may remain just where you were. Many of
us would love to have sin taken away. Who loves to have a hasty temper? Who
loves to have a proud disposition? Who loves to have a worldly heart? No
one.
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