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  TOWARD CHRIST AND AWAY FROM SIN
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: We must strive for holiness and victory over sin, not just
trying to avoid it.

Topics: "Victory Over Sin", "Christian Sanctification"
Scripture References: Matthew 5:5, John 13:23, Romans 8:37, Philippians 3:14

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the concept of being more than
conquerors through Christ's love, urging believers to seek full,
glorious victory in the Holy War against sin. She encourages not just
abstaining from sin but actively pursuing the opposite virtues by
stretching forward to Christ and His holiness. Tileston highlights the
importance of striving for absolute conquest over sin early on to avoid
prolonged and difficult battles, emphasizing the need to keep
irritability under control to prevent a more significant struggle with
passion.

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Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that
loved us.

ROMANS 8:37

LORD, in this awful fight with Sin

I would not just prevail;

Against each lust so strong within

I would not almost fail.

Full, gladsome, glorious victory

Should crown the Holy War;

Lord! I would triumph well--would be--

A more than conqueror.

THOMAS H. GILL

DO not try only to abstain from sin, but strive, by God's grace, to gain
the opposite grace. If thou wouldest not slip back into sin, thou must
stretch forward to Christ and His holiness. It is a dull, heavy, dreary,
toilsome way, just to avoid sin. Thou wouldest not simply not be
impatient; thou wouldest long to be like thy Lord, who was meek and
lowly of heart. Thou wouldest not only not openly murmur; thou wouldest
surely long, like the beloved Apostle, to rest on Jesus' breast, and
will what He wills.

EDWARD B. PUSEY

THE only real relief is in absolute conquest; and the earlier the battle
begins, the easier and the shorter it will be. If one can keep
irritability under, one may escape a struggle to the death with passion.

JULIANA H. EWING

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/toward-christ-and-away-from-sin/
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