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Success and the Christian: The Cost and Criteria of Spiritual Maturity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Tozer reminds us that authentic spiritual success cuts across much of contemporary thought. It is foremost to magnify God, then to mortify or crucify the flesh, and lastly to simplify your life. These, for Tozer, are the paths to a dynamic spiritual life. The chapters of this book were originally preached as sermons at Southside Alliance Church in Chicago. In Chapter 3 Tozer laments that “this is...

true: If you’re going to go on now, and know God and get up and stir yourself, and lift your heart to God and put away things and desire for property and things and seek Himself alone, and let Him work in you without any rivals, “all the fiends [of hell] will be furious when thou doest this. And they will try to defeat thee in all that they can do.” You won’t get up to the corner but what some fiend will be after you. So if you want security, don’t seek God. If you want security, the devil will give
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