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153* And if your physical will does not want it and rebels against it, compel it yourself, deny yourself. You yourself must rebel against your unwilling will and follow reason. Cling to God through grace, fulfill His good will by emptying your own ill will, for the love of God your Lord! No one can be a follower of Lord Jesus unless he becomes one by his own volition. If one is filled by unwillingness, let him break it and resist it. If he does not break his ill will and tame his will, who else shall do it for him? Does not God say, "Under thee shall be thy desire and thou shalt rule over it"?

Christ's dominion is perfect and therefore it never uses compulsion The virtue, which he expects from every (Christian) springs from a good and free will; originating in freedom, it has (the responsibility) of choice, to choose either the best good or the worst evil. Both the se choices stand before man. The Lord Jesus calls us to the best good, the devil and the world calls us to the worst evil. Therefore, choose joy or hell. The choice for either of these (ways) is in thy hands. Gen. 4:7.