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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed 
he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach release to the captives [of sin],
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to deliver [free] those who are oppressed
[in slavery to sin],
Luke 4:18-

Without the power of God working in you, there is no victory, there is no overcoming. There are three sources to the power of God being released to purify you: 1) power in thetrue hope and gospel, 2) power in the inward cross of self denial, and 3) the power in the name of Jesus. This power of God works in us, and keeps us through faith to salvation, which is to be delivered from sin. Christendom is without the cross of Christ,and without the true hope; and so without the power of God, left only as a form (hollow shell) of the original Christianity, without the new life of the new creature, withoutholiness, wallowing in sin, boasting of their imperfection, perishing, whose end is destruction. For without the power of God released to change a man, his heart remains full of sin and unacceptable to God, whateverhis lips may say in the form of worship. Thepower of God, the inward cross of self-denial,begins by waiting on the Lord. The true hope is detailed in John 14 and John 17 with commentary and footnotes. This writing is to show you how to carry the inward cross of self-denial with obedience to his spoken and heard words, with the name of Jesus in mind: the combination of all, to access the changing, infinite power of God to work in you, cleansing you, purifying you, delivering you from all sin, and bringing you into union with God into his kingdom, while on earth and then forever. 

Long before Jesus died on the cross, he told us we must take up our cross daily, deny ourselves, and lose our life to save it. Thenhe died on the cross in obedience to the Father, which he himself wished to avoid in some way, but submitted to a horrible death as the example for us to follow. If we fail to daily take up our inward cross of self-denial, we are showing contempt for the death and blood of Christ. Only by repentance through the cross of loving obedience to God's commands, do we experience salvation, which is to be delivered and freed from the slavery to sin.