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Character
"The express image of His person." Heb. 1:3. We
do not have the word "character" in the King
James' Version of the Bible, but had we got a direct
rendering of the above text, it would have been
"character" instead of "image." Christ
was in the express character of the Father. Man can not
serve two masters, but the fact is, he is serving one of
two. There is none good but One; neither is there any that
doeth good. All good that man does is done by the power of
God. There is a spirit that works in the children of
disobedience to the doing of wrong. Man is not free to do
what he wills. He may will to do good and find he is not
able to do it. He may sometimes will to do evil and find
himself hindered. The only freedom man has is the power to
choose which power shall work in him—the power of
Christ, or the power of Satan. If man will yield his life
to Christ, He will come in, dethroning the power of sin,
and be the power in man to the doing of good. Character is
not what we are by reason of what we do, but what we are
by reason of what power is working in us. We do not build
a Christian character by our own doing, but by accepting
Christ and letting Him work in and through us to His own
pleasure.
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