Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith.

The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.

God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.

In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what our attitude towards His will is. If we honestly seek and wholeheartedly obey His desires, our fellowship remains unbroken, even though there should be many unknown sins in us. Should fellowship be determined by the holiness of God, who among all the most holy saints in the past and the present would be qualified to hold a moment's perfect communion with Him?

So we can say, reverently, that God never gave us the Law to keep: he gave us the Law to break! He well knew that we could not keep it.

If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.

Since this life is God's and cannot die, it follows that everyone born anew into possessing this life is said to have eternal life.