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only through much prayer and constant watchfulness, and this he tried
to instill into their minds. But he knew also that in Christ crucified they
were offered power sufficient to convert the soul and divinely adapted
to enable them to resist all temptations to evil. With faith in God as
their armor, and with His word as their weapon of warfare, they would
be supplied with an inner power that would enable them to turn aside
the attacks of the enemy.
The Corinthian believers needed a deeper experience in the things
of God. They did not know fully what it meant to behold His glory and
to be changed from character to character. They had seen but the first
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rays of the early dawn of that glory. Paul’s desire for them was that
they might be filled with all the fullness of God, following on to know
Him whose going forth is prepared as the morning, and continuing to
learn of Him until they should come into the full noontide of a perfect
gospel faith.
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