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Purchase of Christ’s Blood, February 4
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible
things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by
tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ,
as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
1 Peter 1:18, 19
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You must consider that you are not at your own disposal to do that
which you please for your own self. You are the Lord’s property. Christ
has purchased you with the price of His own blood. Your body is to be
sanctified unto the Lord as a vessel unto honor. It is Christ’s purchased
possession. Then preserve every power, every organ, as an instrument
unto righteousness. Satan desires to have your brain power, and your will,
but they belong to Jesus. Consider always, “I am not my own. I must
carefully and holily cherish every part of Christ’s purchased possession”....
Satan may try to bind you to his car [chariot] as a helpless soul. But
shout in victory that Christ has made you a free man. Do not dishonor God
by one expression of inefficiency and inability to overcome fully, entirely,
and gloriously through Jesus Christ, who has died to redeem you, and
make you a free man. Conquer, yes, conquer. Put your will every moment
on the side of God’s will. Think hopefully and courageously. In faith cry
out against Satan, and looking unto Jesus who is the author and finisher
of your faith, say, “Jesus, my Redeemer, I am weak. I cannot do anything
without Thy special help. I hang my helpless soul on Thee.” Then let your
imagination dwell on the thought that you are in the presence of Jesus,
walking with God, your life hid with Christ in God.... Then you will not
glorify Satan by imagining yourself weak and helpless. You will keep
yourself uplifted into a pure and holy atmosphere. You will receive the
Holy Spirit as a comforter, as a sanctifier.... You will have a calm, restful
spirit in God. You will say, “Jesus lives, and because He lives I will live
also. He has conquered Satan in my behalf, and I will not be conquered by
the devil once. I will not disgrace my Lord and Leader; but I will triumph
in His holy name, and come off more than conqueror.”
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