However deep the mystery, however many the paradoxes involved, it is still true that men become saints not at their own whim but by sovereign calling.1
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Occasionally one’s heart is cheered by the discovery of some insatiable saint who is willing to sacrifice everything for the sheer joy of experiencing God in increasing intimacy. To such we offer this word of exhortation: Pray on, fight on, sing on. Do not underrate anything God may have done for you heretofore. Thank God for everything up to this point, but do not stop here. Press on into the deep things of God. Insist upon tasting the profounder mysteries of redemption. Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.2
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The average so-called Bible Christian in our times is but a wretched parody on true sainthood.3
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We must insist on new Testament sainthood for our converts, nothing less; and we must lead them into a state of heart purity, fiery love, separation from the world and poured-out devotion to the Person of Christ.4
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There is a sense in which God makes no difference between the saint and the sinner. He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. It is strange that we rarely notice the other side of this truth: that God also visits His children with the usual problems common to all the sons of men. The Christian will feel the heat on a sweltering day; the cold will bite into his skin as certainly as into that of his unsaved neighbor; he will be affected by war and peace, booms and depressions, without regard to his spiritual state. To believe otherwise is to go beyond the Scriptures and to falsify the experience of the saints in every age.5