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No Substitutes
At the moment of conversion, God’s Holy
Spirit takes up residence within a person’s
soul and begins to work in that person’s life
to “will and to do of [God’s] good pleasure”
(Phil. 2:13). Primarily, God’s “good pleasure”
is that He be glorified through His children
by our conversation and conduct as we grow
in sanctification and become conformed to
the likeness of Christ. First Thessalonians
4:3 says, “For this is the will of God, even
your sanctification.”
Second Timothy 3:12 tells us that “all that
will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution,” but it seems that most
professing Christians will do anything but
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