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Jesus endured all the tribulations for our salvation. If He had given up on the cross, the hope of salvation would have been lost forever, and the pleasure of God would have been destroyed. God has been speaking through the prophets, but now He is speaking through His Son (Heb. 1:1-2)

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We must walk in the light as He is in the light (1 John 1:7). Light is presence and without presence, sin cannot be dealt with because sin was a commodity of presence. Satan was in presence, so he knows how to deceive men by disguising sin. It will only take presence to illuminate sin.

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Without learning Christ, we cannot really love God. We have to be introduced to the ministry of reconciliation before we can really love God and do His will because ordinarily, our desires war against the will of God. It is through Christ that God was reconciling the world (men) to Himself

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This world is what is making souls not look for God. Until sin is dealt with, the Church will not look for Him. The world has to be dealt with inside us because that is what makes us not to look for God. This is why, even when light came into the world, men still loved darkness (John 3:19). Their deeds were evil because of the life they were living and the conversation that they are engaging in.

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A natural man, if left alone, can end up in the lake of fire. To tilt such from the path of destruction, the power of the gospel is needed. We were all dead, and that death is once. This is the first requirement and we have met it. We have all fulfilled the appointment to die once; we fulfilled it by birth (Heb. 9:27). The next appointment is the second death.

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There are subtle reasons why we are not hungry for God. One of those things is what God has done through us and for us. It takes the glorious power to forget things that are behind. As long as we take glory in what the Lord has done through us, it becomes difficult for us to respond from the midst of our souls. As long as you have a hunger and a thirst for everything else outside righteousness, you cannot generate the required hunger to call the Lord

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The captivity of the enemy is not about restraining us from having natural wealth. The house of the captivity of Satan is the house of thoughts and imagination. When we take his thoughts, we become enslaved by them. The true deliverance is for God to send us His own thoughts, which are not evil, but good (Jer. 29:11); they are thoughts of heights.

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The soul of Jesus has the right form and measurements, and that is why an angel was given a measuring reed to take the measurement of the temple (Rev. 11:1). When the soul of a saint achieves a certain measure that is necessary to accommodate God, the Lord will come (Mal. 3:1). To this end, we are continually being built. A certain standard of God comes to measure us and expose the length, breadth, depth and height (of His love) for us to achieve what it takes to accommodate the fullness of God in the flesh (Eph. 3:18-19).

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Every man has a hope which is a function of his nature. The resurrection of Jesus Christ offered another hope for us – the lively hope (1 Cor. 15:20-22). Christ risen from the dead has become the first fruit; there would be other fruits that would rise. ‘Rising’ here indicates a rising into another life containing a living hope, where we can escape the hope of this life.

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