If there is some sin that is getting the mastery over you,
you certainly cannot be useful. You certainly
cannot bring forth fruit to the honor and glory of God
until you get self-control. *'He that ruleth his spirit
is better than he that taketh a city." If we haven't
got victory over jealousy, over envy, over self-seeking
and covetousness and worldly amusements and worldly
pleasure, if we are not delivered from all these things,
we are not going to have power with God or with men,
and we are not going to be as useful as we might be if
we got deliverance from every evil.
- D.L. Moody
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