Chapter 5 of 14

Section 5

Section 5

eager to work. It was in 1933 that I first stopped pushing this button. I found it difficult, however, to keep from pushing it, for I had been pushing it all my life. Although I know better than to push this button, I must confess that sometimes I push it even now. Probably you have pushed this but­ ton already today. Maybe we shall not stop this completely until we are raptured or until we are in the New Jerusalem.

Perhaps you have read Romans 7 again and again without seeing this fifth law. In addition to the four laws, there is the law that operates when­ ever we will to do good. We need to ask the Lord to keep us from pushing this button, for when­ ever we push it, evil is present. If we try to be patient, we push the button, and we are angry instead. If we try to be humble, we push the button again, and we are proud. Christians have often prayed that the Lord would help them to do good, to do such things as love their wives or submit to their husbands. But we need to pray that the Lord would keep us from trying to do these things. Regarding this, we need a revelation, a vision, that will keep us from pushing the button that causes evil to be present with us.

THREE PERSONS AND THREE LIVES

Now we need to consider the law of good in our mind, the law of sin in our members, and

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