The Devil Doesn't Stay Where There Is

Our Office...subjects Us To Great Burdens And Labors, Dangers And Temptations, With Little Reward Or Gratitude From The World. But Christ Himself Will Be Our Reward If We Labor Faithfully.

Reason Should Be Destroyed In All Christians.

Does It Follow From: 'turn Ye' That Therefore You Can Turn? Does It Follow From "'love The Lord Thy God With All Thy Heart' (deut 6.5) That Therefore You Can Love With All Your Heart? What Do Arguments Of This Kind Prove, But The 'free-will' Does Not Need The Grace Of God, But Can Do All Things By Its Own Power....but It Does Not Follow From This That Man Is Converted By His Own Power, Nor Do The Words Say So; They Simply Say: "if Thou Wilt Turn,telling Man What He Should Do. When He Knows It, And Sees That He Cannot Do It, He Will Ask Whence He May Find Ability To Do It..." 164

O, This Faith Is A Living, Busy, Active, Powerful Thing! It Is Impossible That It Should Not Be Ceaselessly Doing That Which Is Good. It Does Not Even Ask Whether Good Works Should Be Done; But Before The Question Can Be Asked, It Has Done Them, And It Is Constantly Engaged In Doing Them. But He Who Does Not Do Such Works, Is A Man Without Faith. He Gropes And Casts About Him To Find Faith And Good Works, Not Knowing What Either Of Them Is, And Yet Prattles And Idly Multiplies Words About Faith And Good Works.

We Cannot Attain To The Understanding Of Scripture Either By Study Or By The Intellect. Your First Duty Is To Begin By Prayer. Entreat The Lord To Grant You, Of His Great Mercy, The True Understanding Of His Word. There Is No Other Interpreter Of The Word Of God Than The Author Of This Word, As He Himself Has Said, "they Shall Be All Taught Of God" (john 6:45). Hope For Nothing From Your Own Labors, From Your Own Understanding: Trust Solely In God, And In The Influence Of His Spirit. Believe This On The Word Of A Man Who Has Experience.