There is nothing worth living for unless it is worth dying for.

My grandmother lived a life devoted to Jesus, and today her talks have been made available

in their original form.

So you too can be built up through the insights and mysteries God revealed to her throughout

her ministry.

Now without further ado, here is Elizabeth Elliott.

We've been talking about confidence in God, and tonight I would like to talk about the

enemies of that confidence.

It is, if the foundation of confidence is God Himself, which I've tried my best to emphasize

as clearly as I can, then what is the enemy?

Of that kind of confidence.

The foundation of confidence is God, what is the enemy of our confidence in God?

Well I think that the source goes back to the Garden of Eden when the first sin that was

committed by Adam and Eve revealed the deepest root of malignancy within ourselves, which

is a five letter word pride.

That is the enemy of our confidence in God.

The exaltation of self.

It began in the Garden of Eden, all of us have carried it on and are guilty.

And in Romans 8, 5 to 9, we read this.

Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires.

But those who live in accordance with the spirit have their minds set on what the spirit desires.

The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the spirit is life and peace.

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