May I remind you of something I heard that old revivalist, Leonard Ravenhill, say in one of the first sermons I ever heard him preach way back in the 1970s when I was living out on the west coast? ‘The reason we do not have revival is we are content to live without it.’ I urge you to join me in obeying the admonition given by our Lord to the church of Ephesus: ‘Therefore remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; . . .’ (Revelation 2:5a)”–Lonnie Wascom.

“It is wonderful that in His Word [God] uses expressions such as: ‘As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us’ (Ps. 103:12). He caused them to disappear like a cloud. Isn’t that great? God throws our sins into the depths of the sea. I like to think that He puts a ‘No Fishing Allowed’ sign there. And this is necessary because the devil loves to fish up forgiven sins; he accuses us day and night”–Corrie ten Boom, Not I, but Christ, 44-45.

“In order to bring us into His new kingdom, God must do something new in us. He must make us new creatures. Unless we are created anew we can never fit into the new realm. . . . However educated, however cultured, however improved it be flesh is still flesh. Our fitness for the new kingdom is determined by the creation to which we belong”–Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life, 242.

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