'We see clearly . . . that we may be saved, yet all our works burned up. I may have a wretched, miserable voyage through life, with no victory, and no reward at the end: saved, yet so as by fire, or as Job puts it, "with the skin of my teeth." I believe that a great many people will barely get to heaven as Lot go out of Sodom, burned out, nothing left, works and everything else destroyed. It is like this: when a man enters the army, he is a member of the army the moment he enlists; he is just as much a member as a man who has been in the army ten or twenty years. But enlisting is one thing and participating in a battle another. Young converts are like those enlisted. It is folly for any man to attempt to fight in his own strength. The world, the flesh, and the devil are too much for any person. But if we are linked to Christ by faith, and He is formed in us the hope of glory, then we shall get the victory over every enemy (because He has gotton the victory over every enemy, and we are in Him). It is believers who are overcomers. "Thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ." D. L. Moody

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