And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. (Romans 16:20)

Today the Christian Church, at least a part of the Church, has been justified by the blood of the Lamb, has been born of God and has been anointed with the Holy Spirit of God.

Now a still smaller part of the Church is being called on to view rebellion and sin with an iron hostility—not the sin of others but our own sin. We are to call on the Lord until we receive the determination and strength to drive from our personality all that is not pleasing to the Lord. This we shall do with God's help.

Also we must consecrate ourselves to total, stern obedience to the Father. Apart from such stern obedience we cannot march in the army of the Lord, the army that will return with Christ and drive sin from the creation.

We must overcome the accuser through the legal authority of the blood of the Lamb. We must overcome the accuser by the word of our testimony that God and His Word are unfailingly faithful and true. We must overcome the accuser by consecrating ourselves to the point of death in order that we might continue to do the perfect will of the Father. We can do these things and we must. The heavens and the earth await our decision.

Let us lift up our heart in faith and grasp the concept of everlasting righteousness, the hope of a new world in which all is righteousness, all is praise to God through Christ.

Read God's Word until you are satisfied that God has determined to put an eternal end to all rebellion and sin. Then lay hold on the blood of the Lamb, resolve to bear a true testimony of God at whatever cost, and seal your resolve that such will be your stance until the moment of your death.

If you will do this God will give you a place to stand before Him forever.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by. (Zechariah 3:7)

These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks [lampstands] standing before the God of the earth. (Revelation 11:4)

A billion years from now, if time continues to operate in the new world of righteousness, you will have the incomparable satisfaction of knowing that God was able to depend on your faithfulness—actually His faithfulness created in you as you prayed and then obeyed His commandments.

Christ was exalted above His fellows because He loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Let us follow in His steps.

He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. (I John 2:6) (from The Second Goat)