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SIMSThe SPIRIT has no
limitations concerning the understanding of GOD.
The more you grow in the Truth, the more intolerant you become of a lie.
There is not a word of consolation to anybody who doesn’t believe.
It is not possible to have a strong faith and be overcome by the world.
Faith can rise only to the degree you see Christ.
Seeing that it is GOD that works in you is the burden of working out your own
salvation.
If you can get people alive, they will quit sinning.
Salvation is a commentary upon GOD; it is also the apprehension of a blessing.
Sinners had a grave within.
The Old Covenant emphasized human conduct but did not change men.
GOD speaks to affect people; He is not just communicating information.
It is not enough that Christ should go back to glory; He had to make a way that
those who follow Him may also enter.
GOD is transcendent and must be known by revelation. [para]
Joy assists us in working out our salvation.
The love that moves Christ to keep us now is the same love that compelled Him to
the cross.
Death was an unnatural thing to Jesus.
I am the bread of life. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a
man may eat thereof and not die. — An important thing to see for a race that is
mortal.
Jesus must be able to give and sustain life after that He has delivered from
death.
When it comes to life, here is what you can do — believe.
Any point at which you are drawn away or apart from the will of the Father, you
begin to die.
The new man always sides with heavenly things.
You cannot build the house of faith on the shifting sands of life on earth.
People who continue in a perpetual state of ignorance will go to hell.
Your are in Christ to the degree you have faith in Him.
The Spirit will not empower who He cannot lead.
If men don’t preach, they just don’t receive power.
If Christ ever recedes to the background in our preaching, our preaching becomes
powerless and vain.
The gospel does not shed light on human duty, but on what GOD has done.
We have confidence in what He is going to do based on what He has already done.
Philosophy is groping in the dark after something not understood.
You are not going to be blessed until GOD is.
When Christ appears and we are not charged with sin, it will be a wonderful
testimony of the power of His cross [para]
You are not going to heaven if you love the world in which you presently live.
A godly man does not inventory himself to find strength; he believes GOD [para]
The accuser will seek to exploit our heightened sensitivity to sin. Part of the
blessedness of forgiveness is freedom from this exploitation.
What Jesus contributes to our salvations cannot be obtained in any other source.
People are empty because they are entertaining personal interests against the
will of GOD.
You don’t want to do anything secretly of which you are ashamed, because
eventually all things will be brought to light.
Jesus is great enough to enable you to finish the race.
Christ’s glorification is tied to the glorification of men.
In salvation GOD is elevating men to a glorified state.
Jesus is not done saving us until He comes.
Make war on any kind of inclination that makes you withdraw from this great
salvation.
We must make more of Christ’s role in our salvation than of our response to it.
GOD’s judgments proceed from His love of righteousness.
Spiritual stability will correspond with your perception of the greatness of
salvation.
Jesus is still a man and is working salvation in the earth.
Christ is saving us in view of what we will be in glory.
When you expose your mind to the Word of GOD there is a heightened sensitivity
to the LORD.
After Jesus was raised from the dead, He did not set up shop upon earth.
The quest for heaven demands that you stay alive all the way.
The ungodly are those who did not make a whole-hearted quest for heaven.
You would not be able to grow in knowledge if it weren’t for grace.
Where men cannot see GOD and what He is doing there is darkness; that is where
the devil is working.
The troubles in the church today have to do with the obscuring of the end.
From the top side, a faithful steward is one in whom GOD can freely work.
What works we contribute are technically the work of Christ.
Christ’s working in us hinges upon our affinity with Christ.
There are high stakes in salvation.
Jesus casts our attention on something He is offering.
As we focus on the Gospel, there is less vulnerability to the allurements of the
world.
Men could not get to heaven until what Jesus came to do was done; He came to
die.