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“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the
ways of death.” Prov. 14:12
“By nature the heart is evil, and ‘who can bring a clean thing out of an
unclean? Not one.’ Job 14:4. No human invention can find a remedy for the
sinning soul. ‘The carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the
law of God, neither indeed can be.’ Rom. 8:7. ‘Out of the heart proceed evil
thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.’

Math. 15:19. The fountain of the heart must be purified before the streams
can become pure. He who is trying to reach heaven by his own works in keeping
the law is attempting an impossibility. There is no safety for one who has merely a
legal religion, a form of godliness. The Christian’s life is not a modification or
improvement of the old, but a transformation of nature. There is a death to
self and sin, and a new life altogether. This change can be brought about only by

the effectual working of the Holy Spirit.” DA 172
I also had not known the need of a death to self and sin and the need of the
Holy Spirit to regenerate the heart.
“The new birth is a rare experience in this age of the world. This is the
reason why there are so many perplexities in the churches. Many, so many, who
assume the name of Christ are unsanctified and unholy. They have been baptized,
but they are buried alive. Self did not die, and therefore they did not rise to

newness of life in Christ.” 6BC 1075
How sad! There are so many problems in churches and homes because people
don’t know how to die to self and be born again. They do not know how to let
God’s love control them.
Think a moment; were you taught, before your baptism, to leave the sins of the
world? Smoking, drinking, adultery, stealing, and so on?

When I ask this question in our churches, usually almost every hand goes up.
But when I ask: How many of you, before your baptism, were taught how to die
to self and give up the right to all the heart sins - hatred, anger, bitterness,
resentment, impatience, irritation, jealousy, and selfishness? few, if any, hands go
up. This is our problem! So few have understood how to surrender the heart with
all the heart sins.
I was not taught these things either, and as long as I did not commit exterior

sins, I thought I was a good Christian. I made excuses for my defects of character;
resentment, impatience, and irritation. But when I surrendered my whole heart to
God, then He could cleanse me from all my heart sins.
“The blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7

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