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Chapter 41


Counsels of Caution–
Master Or Be Mastered



      We must conquer in the name of Jesus, or be conquered. Armed with the mind of Christ, we shall be more than overcomers. 4ST 293

      “The wages of sin is death.” Sin, however small it may be esteemed, can be persisted in only at the cost of eternal life. What is not overcome will overcome us, and work out our destruction. 2RH 197

      We should never be slow in breaking up a sinful habit. Unless evil habits are conquered, they will conquer us, and destroy our happiness. 4T 654

      Unless heed is given to these warnings, and defects of character are overcome, these defects will overcome those who posssess them, and they will fall into error, apostasy, and open sin. 5T 537

      Those who do not advance will retrograde, even on the very borders of the heavenly Canaan. 5T 534

      If we do not go forward from victory to victory, the soul will draw back to perdition. 2RH 403

      We shall either overcome our evil traits of character and become like Christ, or we shall cherish our defects, and fail of the divine standard. 2RH 471

      God will prove us again and again, until we overcome our besetments or are wholly given over to our rebellion and stubbornness. 2RH 311

      We must be sanctified through the truth; every defect of character must be overcome, or it will overcome us, and become a controlling power for evil. 1RH 431

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      It is only through divine grace that we can overcome the defects in our character; but unless we make continued efforts to subdue them, they will become stronger, as in the case of Judas. Every indulgence in sin prepares the way for renewed and excessive indulgence, until at last the tempter has full control of the mind. 1ST 437

      The Lord brings His erring children over the same ground again and again; but if they continually fail to heed the admonitions of His Spirit, if they fail to reform on every point where they have erred, He will finally leave them to their own weakness. 9T 182

      We shall find ourselves beset with countless temptations; and we must find strength in Christ to overcome them, or be overcome by them and lose our souls. 3T 453

      Every defect in the character, unless it is overcome by the help of God’s Spirit, will become a sure means of destruction. 5T 573

      Either God or Satan controls the mind; and the life shows so clearly that none need mistake to which power you yield allegiance. 1RH 455

      If permitted, the lower passions will obtain the mastery over the whole being. Christ would have these passions subject to the higher powers of the mind. 4ST 24

      The natural faults of character, if not determinedly overcome for Christ’s sake, will completely master the human soul. 3ST 494

      Every sinful desire must be repressed, every wrong trait overcome, or they will prove our ruin. 1ST 209

      You are to overcome the faults which wrestle for the victory, and which, unless overcome, will separate you from God. 5RH 143-4

      On every side we are beset by invisible foes, and we either conquer through the grace given us by God or we are conquered. 6RH 435

      Men will have great opportunities and privileges, and great light, and they will either go forward unto perfection of Christ’s character, or they will follow their own peculiar traits of character. 3RH 572

      He gives ear to our inward groanings, and reveals to us the plague spots in our characters, that we may overcome defects, instead of being overcome by them. 2RH 225

      We must conquer in the name of Jesus or be conquered. Armed with the mind of Christ we shall be more than overcomers. 1ST 123



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