A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Refuse to be average.

The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?

The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.

So, it becomes the devil's business to keep the Christian's spirit imprisoned. He knows that the believing and justified Christian has been raised up out of the grave of his sins. From that point on, Satan works that much harder to keep us bound and gagged, in our own grave clothes. He knows that if we continue in this kind of bondage...we are not much better off than when we were spiritually dead.