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man on the cross so that he may now believe into possessing such
triumph. And he who possessed not because he sought not will
discover through such battle that all the truth he had was merely
mental and consequently ineffectual. This will stir him to desire to
experience the truth he only mentally had known.
This strife increases as the days go by. If believers will proceed
faithfully without giving in to despair, they will incur fiercer conflict
until such time as they are delivered.