Overcoming Sin, Transformation &
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Overcoming temptation, and achieving victory should be the birthright of every Christian, not a birth defect! but few experience victory and the more abundant life that God intends? Why? Because few understand the challenges faced in overcoming sin and fighting temptation, most have a limited understanding of the divine provisions provided for that overcoming, and few understand the process whereby God brings about transformation. Just using the word transformation makes many people uncomfortable. The same is true of Peter's call to believers to be holy. But God desire His children to experience more abundant, overcoming lives, and His provision for their transformation is without question. You will learn about overcoming sin and understanding temptation in the information and links found on this page. Also look for help in the practical Christianity section.

Authors:

Dan Augsburger      Daniel Bourdeau     S L Brengle     S D Gordon     F. J. Huegel     Mead MacGuire     J. Gregory Mantle   Walter Marshall     James McConkey     F B Meyer     Andrew Murray     Ruth Paxson     Frank Phillips     J. C. Ryle     Hudson Taylor      Gerhard Tersteegen     Major Ian Thomas     Charles Trumbull     Unknown Christian     Henry Venn     Thomas Watson     Octavius Winslow

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Sin    Maintaining the Life     Faith    Indwelling Christ    Salvation    Surrender    Temptation    Spiritual Growth    Overcoming Sin & Victory    Dying to Self    Unpardonable Sin   Sanctification / Christian Perfection    Dangers of Victorious Life  

Overcoming Temptation & Experiencing Victory

Are you interested in experiencing God's transforming power? Be encouraged, you have neither the wisdom or the strength to overcome—you are utterly unable; But Jesus has both! He said, "Without Me ye can do nothing," but with Him you can do ALL things.

The following materials will help you in that quest.

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Sin

J. C. Ryle: "Sin" (Taken from his book Holiness)

This is the first chapter of his book and is foundational everything appearing in later chapters. I have assigned this book as reading to the students in my classes because of the clear scriptural teaching provided on the subject on sin. I don't agree with everything he says, so read with discernment. He lived in the 1800s. Holiness was a reaction to what he viewed as very passive and inadequate understandings of victory being promoted by the holiness movements of his time.
 

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Maintaining the Life

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Faith

F B Meyer: "Fact, Faith, Feeling"
F B Meyer: The Blessed Life of Trust
J. C. Ryle: "Thirst Relieved"
Henry Venn: "Thoughts on a Weak Faith"

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Salvation

J. C. Ryle

J. C. Ryle: Assurance (From Holiness)

"None are so likely to maintain a watchful guard over hearts and lives as those who know the comfort of living in near communion with God. They feel their privilege, and will fear losing it. They will dread falling from their high estate, and marring their own comforts, by bringing clouds between themselves and Christ. He that goes on a journey with little money about him takes little thought of danger, and cares little how late he travels. He, on the contrary, that carries gold and jewels will be a cautious traveller. He will look well to his roads, his house, and his company, and run no risks. The fixed stars are those that tremble most. The man that most fully enjoys the light of God’s reconciled countenance, will be a man tremblingly afraid of losing its blessed consolations, and jealously fearful of doing anything to grieve the Holy Ghost." (Read Ryle's Assurance)

Farai Mangengwa

Farai Mangengwa | The Prodigal Son

Brother Farai shared this wonderful sermon at the Adventist Student Association of New Zealand Convention in Wellington, NZ on June 6, 2008. The sound is a bit distorted but you will forget about the sound quality as you come face to face with yourself in this sermon.

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Surrender

Rosalind Goforth: Surrenders Her Children

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Overcoming Temptation

Dan Augsburger: Overcoming Temptation

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Spiritual Growth

Mead MacGuire: Laws of Growth and Sanctification

"When a man receives Christ by faith, he is “as a child born unto the kingdom of God.” In the Scriptures he is spoken of as a “babe in Christ.” Means have been provided by which he is to grow up into the full stature of manhood in Christ. This does not mean that he is growing into holiness, but rather in holiness. “The believer does not get disentangled from the sin gradually. He breaks with it in Christ once for all; he is placed by a decisive act of the will in the sphere of perfect holiness; and it is within it that the gradual renewing of the personal life goes forward. This second gospel paradox, sanctiï¬ï¿½cation by faith, rests on the ï¬ï¿½rst, justiï¬ï¿½cation by faith.” - The Way of Deliverance, page 10. As we seek to appropriate day by day the blessings that are in Christ for us, there is a constant growth and expansion of the spiritual powers. The capacity to see and feel and understand the things of God is constantly increased...." Read more of Mead MacGuire's Law of Growth

J. C. Ryle: Spiritual Growth (From Holiness)

"When I speak of “growth in grace” I only mean increase in the degree, size, strength, vigour, and power of the graces which the Holy Spirit plants in a believer’s heart. I hold that every one of those graces admits of growth, progress, and increase. I hold that repentance, faith, hope, love, humility, zeal, courage, and the like, may be little or great, strong or weak, vigorous or feeble, and may vary greatly in the same man at different periods of his life. When I speak of a man “growing in grace,” I mean simply this—that1 his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, his spiritual-mindedness more marked. He feels more of the power of godliness in his own heart. He manifests more of it in his life. He is going on from strength to strength, from faith to faith, and from grace to grace. I leave it to others to describe such a man’s condition by any words they please. For myself I think the truest and best account of him is this—he is “growing in grace.” Read More

J. C. Ryle: Christ is All

Harriet Beecher Stowe: How To Live On Christ

" How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on action, on temptation, and on dangers? No, there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to him; a constant looking to him for grace. Christians in whom these dispositions are once firmly fixed, go on calmly as the sleeping infant borne in the arms of its mother. Christ reminds them of every duty in its time and place—reproves them for every error—counsels them in every difficulty, excites them to every needful activity. In spiritual, as in temporal matters, they take no thought for the morrow—for they know that Christ will be as accessible tomorrow as to-day, and that time imposes no barrier on his love. ..." Read more of Stowe's How To Live On Christ...

E. White: Growing Up Into Christ

"The plants and flowers grow not by their own care or anxiety or effort, but by receiving that which God has furnished to minister to their life. The child cannot, by any anxiety or power of its own, add to its stature. No more can you, by anxiety or effort of yourself, secure spiritual growth. The plant, the child, grows by receiving from its surroundings that which ministers to its life --air, sunshine, and food. What these gifts of nature are to animal and plant, such is Christ to those who trust in Him. He is their "everlasting light," "a sun and shield." Isaiah 60:19; Psalm 84:11...." Read More

E. White: Spiritual Growth In Grace

"Before the believer is held out the wonderful possibility of being like Christ, obedient to all the principles of the law. But of himself man is utterly unable to reach this condition. The holiness that God’s word declares he must have before he can be saved is the result of the working of divine grace as he bows in submission to the discipline and restraining influences of the Spirit of truth. Man’s obedience can be made perfect only by the incense of Christ’s righteousness, which ï¬ï¿½lls with divine fragrance every act of obedience. The part of the Christian is to persevere in overcoming every fault. Constantly he is to pray to the Saviour to heal the disorders of his sin-sick soul. He has not the wisdom or the strength to overcome; these belong to the Lord, and He bestows them on those who in humiliation and contrition seek Him for help...." Read More

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Overcoming Sin and Victory

Dan Augsburger: The More Abundant Life (Sermon Series)

Dan Augsburger: Overcoming Sin and Fighting Temptation

Dan Augsburger: Jacob's Transformation MP3

Dan Augsburger: Leah-Hope For Needy Hearts MP3

Dan Augsburger: Lot-Understanding the Wandering Heart MP3
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S L Brengle: How To Keep Holiness

S D Gordon: Quiet Talks on Power

F J Huegel: Christ's Victory Our Victory

J. Gregory Mantle: Beyond Humiliation: The Way of the Cross

Walter Marshall: Gospel Mystery of Sanctification (Ch. 12, "Holiness Through Faith")

James McConkey: The Ministry of Suffering

Andrew Murray: That God May Be All In All

Frank Phillips: His Robe Or Mine (Book)

Frank Phillips: Justified Walk (9 Sermon WOP Series)

Frank Phillips: Righteousness By Faith

Frank Phillips: The Branch and the Vine

Hudson Taylor: Exchanged Life

Gerhard Tersteegen: The Believer, The Temple of the Holy Ghost

Gerhard Tersteegen: True Godliness

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Sanctification & Christian Perfection

I have in my possession a book that reviews five different understandings of sanctification, including the Wesley, Reformed, Pentecostal, Keswick and Augustinian-Dispensational Perspective. Needless to say numerous books have been written on the subject, the most famous, perhaps being Wesley's Plain Account of Christian Perfection. Where lies the truth on this subject? What is meant by perfection? Is such a thing even possible? I believe God can bring about a sanctifying work of perfection through His power, and I will add articles and chapters on the subject from time to time.

What Is Christian Perfection

Counterfeit Sanctification

Daniel Bourdeau: Holiness

Dangers of the Victorious Life

Many dangers come with this life. As a result several writers included chapters on the dangers and how to meet them. Here are four such chapters compiled on one page.

Unknown Christian & Charles Trumbull: Dangers of the Victorious Life
 

Unpardonable Sin (Sinning Against the Holy Spirit)

Is there such a thing as a sin that cannot be pardoned? What does it mean to sin against the Holy Spirit? This question is often raised by new believers who fear they have too greviously sinned against God to be pardoned. If a person worries about committing such a sin, it is obvious such a sin was not committed. As the following suggests, the unpardonable sin is the sin against the Holy Spirit, whcih occurs when one willfully chooses to go against the clear, convicting promptings of God's Spirit, until the Spirit no longer seeks to communicate.

E. White: The Unpardonable Sin

"It is not God that blinds the eyes of men or hardens their hearts. He sends them light to correct their errors, and to lead them in safe paths; it is by the rejection of this light that the eyes are blinded and the heart hardened. Often the process is gradual, and almost imperceptible. Light comes to the soul through God’s word, through His servants, or by the direct agency of His Spirit; but when one ray of light is disregarded, there is a partial benumbing of the spiritual perceptions, and the second revealing of light is less clearly discerned. So the darkness increases, until it is night in the soul. Thus it had been with these Jewish leaders. They were convinced that a divine power attended Christ, but in order to resist the truth, they attributed the work of the Holy Spirit to Satan. In doing this they deliberately chose deception; they yielded themselves to Satan, and henceforth they were controlled by his power." Read more about the unpardonable sin...

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