I don't say that you will triumph in this life over every known sin.

Perfectly you won't.

I do say you must fight.

Resolve to fight every known sin.

All sin comes from perceiving something as more delightful, precious,

beautiful, attractive than Christ. All sin comes from that.

Therefore, when you're in a sin, doing a sin, you're in darkness.

And in darkness, you can't see the beauty of Christ as clearly.

So, sin comes from blindness and keeps you in blindness and therefore do whatever you can to go on the warfare against all known sinning.

If you have a little pocket of sin in your life, this little thing you know is wrong and you cherish it.

And over here you just want to be happy in Jesus. Oh please make me happy in Jesus and

it's not working. There's a reason. There's a reason. God is saying, kill that, fight that. I help you fight that.

And as you fight it, more light will go on in your sight of my glory.

I'm gonna add number seven here

from a conversation with my dad

who I'll get to see this afternoon.

My dad is over at Shepherds Care at 2,100 Pleasantburg Drive in Greenville.

And I'll just tell you the reason I wanted to have this conference is so I could see my dad.

So we'll take him out to dinner tonight.

And I asked my dad, I said, I'm writing a book, this couple of years ago, I'm writing the book on fighting for joy. My dad's 86 and he's

been an evangelist all his life and now his memory is not good enough. I'd have him sitting here

if he could hear and if he could remember but he wouldn't.

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