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For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. In Philippians 3:12–14, Paul also says quite plainly that he has not attained perfection, but is still pressing on toward it: Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. So then if you are actively pursuing sinless perfection in your life, and someone comes to you and says, “Why are you striving so hard to reach a goal you can never attain?” you can say “I’m just following what the Apostle Paul did.” But, besides that you can also add, “What difference should it make if I cannot be sinlessly perfect now? As long as I know that this is what God wants me to be, then I must want to be what He wants me to be, and with His help I will not give up trying to come as close as I can to sinless perfection, awaiting that wonderful day when I will be promoted to glory either by death or by the Rapture, at which time I will be totally like Christ, perfect in every way.” One young lady, by the name of Martha Snell Nicholson, longed so much for this goal of total perfection that she wrote a little poem to express her desire: It goes like this: 72 A Consecrated Life
To Be Like Him What can it mean to be like Him? I, to be like my dear Lord? I could not believe it, had I not The promise of His precious Word. I, with my follies and failures, I with my weakness and sin, To be like the Lord in His beauty, Perfect without and within? He, whom the angels, adoring Veil from His glory, their eyes; He, who one glad day will take me To dwell in His home in the skies? Oh, I am weary with waiting, Sick of this old self of mine. Come quickly, Lord Jesus, come quickly And give me an image like Thine! A Transformed Life 73
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Contents Foreword..................
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Foreword A Consecrated Life—Roman
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Chapter 1 A Consecrated Life Text:
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God rather than our bodies? After a
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elong to him. He has to bear the lo
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from now on. It means living only t
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are afraid of embarrassment, and of
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Chapter 2 The Motivation for Consec
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people, but being mocked, insulted
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Page 45 and 46: life. It was not a static faith or
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