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  YE SHALL LIVE
  by A.B. Simpson
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Summary: The Holy Spirit's work is to kill and keep us dead, allowing us
to be filled with His resurrection life, and we must surrender to this
process.

Topics: "Surrender", "The Work of the Holy Spirit"
Scripture References: John 16:13, Romans 6:6, Romans 8:11, 1 Corinthians 15:22, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 2:20, Ephesians 2:5-6, Philippians 3:10, Colossians 3:3-4, 1 Peter 2:24

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DESCRIPTION
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A.B. Simpson emphasizes that the Holy Spirit is essential for true
spiritual death and resurrection, as many Christians struggle to achieve
this on their own, leading to a cycle of ineffective self-crucifixion.
He illustrates that while yielding to the Holy Spirit may seem painful,
it can be a delightful process when we surrender fully, allowing the
Spirit to execute God's will in our lives. Simpson encourages believers
to stop living in a state of perpetual struggle and instead trust the
Holy Spirit to slay anything that opposes God's purpose, enabling them
to live in the fullness of His resurrection life.

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CONTENT
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The Holy Spirit is the only one who can kill us and keep us dead. Many
Christians try to do this disagreeable work themselves, and they are
going through a continual crucifixion but can never accomplish the work
permanently. This is the work of the Holy Spirit, and when we really
yield ourselves to the death, it is delightful to find how sweetly He
can execute the sentence. They tell us that by the touch of the electric
spark life is extinguished almost without a quiver of pain. However this
may be in natural things, we know the Holy Spirit can touch with
celestial fire the surrendered thing, after it is really yielded up to
the sentence of death, and slay it in a moment.

The yielding is our business, and it is God's business to execute the
sentence and to keep it constantly operative.

May we not live in the pain of perpetual and ineffective suicide, but
reckoning ourselves dead indeed, let us leave ourselves in the hands of
the blessed Holy Spirit. He will slay whatever rises in opposition to
His will and keep us true to our heavenly reckoning and filled with His
resurrection life.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/ab-simpson/ye-shall-live/
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