It is much easier to confront a person with his sins than it is to confront him with his sin, for as will be fully demonstrated in later chapters of this book, sin is an attitude that affects a man’s fundamental relationship to God. It has to do with what a man is, whereas sins have to do with what a man does—and we all have a happy knack of being ...
On this basis a person may be called upon a hundred times to face the lesser issues of what he has done without once being confronted with the greater issue of what he is.
Moses reduced his people to tears again and again—but it left them in the wilderness. They still had no heart for Canaan! There was no lack of response to Moses’ preaching, but the people of Israel would not do business with God. They said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die” (Exod. 20:19).
True commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ gives the Lord right of way and releases His life through a believer in all the freshness and power of divine action so that, according to His gracious promise, out of his innermost being, “springs and rivers of living water” (John 7:38, AMP) may flow continuously. And no one has to push a river! It cuts its...
The basis of His commitment to the Father is the basis upon which the Lord Jesus Christ claims your commitment to Him: that you are committed to Him for all that to which He is committed in you—exclusively! You are not committed to a church or to a denomination or to an organization; as a missionary you are not committed to a mission board nor even...
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