In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:
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… verse 4 ye have not yet resisted under blood striving against sin. He said, you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. In fact, you may be praying for things that you're not willing to pay for. and then talking charging God foolishly as if he didn't answer a request that you didn't strive hard enough to be able to get and you cannot have a bloody savior who told you to take up your cross and follow him and you think the cross is decoration take it off your neck and put it on your back and bleed a little bit. My God, my God, my God, my God, my God, you got it all for decoration, ectus on the back of your car, but no power in the back of your soul. Endure some things striving against sin. We don't teach that kind of stuff anymore, so we don't get revival. you can't get revival without repentance you can have church you can raise an offering you can have a good time but if you want real revival it comes after repentance when people are laying on the altar with tears running down their face saying I'd rather have Jesus than houses of land or silver or gold and my soul cries out I'm sick of myself I'm sick of myself I'm sick of my ways I'm sick of my mouth I'm sick of my temper I'm sick of my hand to God O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death …
… Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, that's Jesus, so that you may not grow weary or faint-hearted in your struggle against sin. You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood, but almost. We know that because of chapter 10. This is chapter 10 verse 32. You endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. You had compassion on those who were in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you had a better possession and an abiding one? It has come to that. Not blood, but your property has been wrecked because you're a Christian. Get out of the neighborhood, Christian! Smattered on your walls. It has come to that, and I want to help you. He is not dealing with Melchizedek because he finds it intriguing. You know, there are not many words that make me angry in theological discussion. That one makes me angry. I find it intriguing. I find the Bible intriguing. …
The first is, beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, this—let us each one endeavor by faith to realize our nearness with Christ. He has entered within the veil, but He has entered as our Forerunner. Remember that although you are imperfect, feeble, sorrowing, yet you are one with Jesus Christ! You believe that as a Doctrine, but I want you to realize it now as a fact. If you had a rich friend who had given you an equal share with himself of all that he possessed, even if you had not entered upon the possession of it, you would think, "I have not to depend upon charity for my daily bread, for my rich friend has made me as rich as he is, himself." Now, whatever joy that might give you, it ought to give you far more to think that you are one with Christ and that Christ is one with you! When you suffer, Christ is suffering in one of the members of His mystical body. And when He rejoices, it is His desire that His joy may be in you, that your joy may be full. He has married you and He means you to take His riches as well as Himself and to reckon that all He is and all He has is yours. If the Holy Spirit would cause you to realize this, it would make your soul leap within you and bless the Lord and magnify His holy name! "I am my Beloved's and my Beloved is mine." No, more, I am a member of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. Our interests are one, for we are one and Christ up there, in the heavenlies, is but myself there, for I am in Him and I shall soon be actually and literally where He is, as I now am in the Person of Him who is there as my Representative and Forerunner. …
In the matter of witnesses, there are great differences between one and another. Two witnesses may speak the truth, but you would far sooner believe one than the other because of the previous character of the witness. Good lawyers do not count heads—they weigh them—and if they have one man of known position and honesty, and he will assert such a thing, they scarcely need to support his evidence, whereas, half-a-dozen witnesses of rather a shady description will scarcely be able to prove a fact. In witnessing for God, the holier your character, the better. It does not do to say one thing with your mouth and another thing with your hand. Your witness for Jesus Christ in the school will be spoiled if at home there is no piety, if in business there is a lack of honesty. If your character is doubtful, you will rather damage than help the good cause. The devil once wanted to be a witness for Christ and some of us would have thought it would be a fine stroke of policy to put the devil into the box and make him speak the truth—but the Lord Jesus Christ would not have it. He said, "Hold your peace and come out of him." The Truth of God did not need any assistance from the Father of Lies! I do not invite the ungodly man to be a witness for Jesus Christ. Unto the wicked, God says, "What have you to do to declare My statutes?" Still, if you are a child of God, the weight of your evidence will be considerably lessened if your character is not pure. For your Lord's sake, then, I beseech you, watch your lives and walk according to His commands. Oh, never let it is said that Christ was wounded by us—by us for whom He died—by us who have leaned our heads upon His bosom! God grant that from first to last we may be mighty witnesses because our character is known and read of all men. May the Holy Spirit, who sanctifies us, help us in this matter! …