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How to Maintain Your Integrity!, March 29
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but
alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore
reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Romans 6:11, 12
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Some regard sin as altogether so light a matter that they have no
defense against its indulgence or its consequence....
If you suppose for a moment that God will treat sin lightly, or make
provisions or exemptions so that you can go on in committing sin, and the
soul suffer no penalty from so doing, you are under a terrible delusion of
Satan. Any willful violation of the righteous law of Jehovah exposes your
soul to the full assaults of Satan.
When you lose your conscious integrity, your soul becomes a bat-
tlefield for Satan; you have doubts and fears enough to paralyze your
energies and drive you to discouragement....
Remember that temptation is not sin. Remember that however trying
the circumstances in which a man may be placed, nothing can really
weaken his soul so long as he does not yield to temptation but maintains
his own integrity. The interests most vital to you individually are in your
own keeping. No one can damage them without your consent. All the
satanic legions cannot injure you unless you open your soul to the arts and
arrows of Satan. Your ruin can never take place until your will consents.
If there is not pollution of mind in yourself, all the surrounding pollution
cannot taint or defile you.
Eternal life is worth everything to us or it is worth nothing. Those
only who put forth persevering effort and untiring zeal with intense desire
proportionate to the value of the object they are in pursuit of, will gain
that life which measures with the life of God....
We have the example of Adam and Eve before us, and the result of
their transgression should lead every soul of us to avoid sin, to abhor sin
as the hateful thing it is, and to feel, in view of the sufferings which sin
is sure to inflict, that it is better to suffer loss of all things than to depart
from the least of God’s commandments.
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