Perfect Liberty!

“Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.” Romans 8:21

THEY are already in possession of a liberty most costly and precious. 

Is it no true liberty to stand before God accepted in the Beloved?

Is it no liberty to draw near to Him with all the confidence of a child reposing in the boundless affection of a loving father?  

Is it no liberty to travel day by day to Jesus, always finding Him an open door of sympathy the most exquisite, of love the most tender, and of grace the most overflowing?

 Is it, in a word, no real liberty to be able to lay faith’s hand upon the everlasting covenant, and exclaim, “There is now no condemnation”?

12. Test all things

12. Take no truths upon trust, but all upon trial. Bring all to the balance of the sanctuary. (1 Thessalonians 5:21; Acts 17:11.) It was the glory of that church that they would not trust Paul himself.

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11.Exercise

11. Be most in the spiritual exercises of religion, meditation, self-examination, etc. Bodily exercises without these will profit nothing.

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10. Labor for a healing spirit. Away with all discriminating names that may hinder the applying of balm to heal our wounds. Discord and division befit no Christian. For wolves to worry the lambs is no wonder — but for one lamb to worry another is unnatural and monstrous.

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Accountability

9. Let not a day pass without calling the whole man to an exact account. Hands — What have you done for God to day? Tongue — What have you spoke? ...