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At one of the evening conferences, [[Apostle Andrew|Andrew]] asked Jesus: "Master, are we to [[practice]] self-denial as [[John the Baptist|John]] taught us, or are we to strive for the self-control of your teaching? Wherein does your teaching differ from that of John?" Jesus answered: "John indeed taught you the way of [[righteousness]] in accordance with the [[light]] and [[law]]s of his fathers, and that was the [[religion]] of self-examination and self-denial. But I come with a new message of self-forgetfulness and self-control. I show to you the way of life as revealed to me by my Father in heaven.

At one of the evening conferences, [[Apostle Andrew|Andrew]] asked Jesus: "Master, are we to [[practice]] self-denial as [[John the Baptist|John]] taught us, or are we to strive for the self-control of your teaching? Wherein does your teaching differ from that of John?" Jesus answered: "John indeed taught you the way of [[righteousness]] in accordance with the [[light]] and [[law]]s of his fathers, and that was the [[religion]] of self-examination and self-denial. But I come with a new message of self-forgetfulness and self-control. I show to you the way of life as revealed to me by my Father in heaven.

 

"Verily, verily, I say to you, he who rules his own self is greater than he who captures a city. Self-mastery is the measure of man's [[moral]] [[nature]] and the indicator of his [[spirituality|spiritual development]]. In the old order you fasted and prayed; as the new creature of the rebirth of the [[spirit]], you are taught to believe and rejoice. In the Father's kingdom you are to become new [[creatures]]; old things are to pass away; behold I show you how all [[things]] are to become new. And by your [[love]] for one another you are to convince the world that you have passed from bondage to liberty, from death into life everlasting.

"Verily, verily, I say to you, he who rules his own self is greater than he who captures a city. Self-mastery is the measure of man's [[moral]] [[nature]] and the indicator of his [[spirituality|spiritual development]]. In the old order you fasted and prayed; as the new creature of the rebirth of the [[spirit]], you are taught to believe and rejoice. In the Father's kingdom you are to become new [[creatures]]; old things are to pass away; behold I show you how all [[things]] are to become new. And by your [[love]] for one another you are to convince the world that you have passed from bondage to liberty, from death into life everlasting.

"If, then, my children, you are born of the spirit, you are forever delivered from the self-conscious bondage of a life of self-denial and watchcare over the [[desire]]s of the flesh, and you are translated into the joyous kingdom of the spirit, whence you spontaneously show forth the fruits of the spirit in your daily lives; and the [[fruits of the spirit]] are the [[essence]] of the highest type of enjoyable and ennobling self-control, even the heights of terrestrial mortal attainment--true self-mastery."[http://www.nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_11_-_Going_Through_Samaria#Lesson_on_Self-Mastery]

"If, then, my children, you are born of the spirit, you are forever delivered from the self-conscious bondage of a life of self-denial and watchcare over the [[desire]]s of the flesh, and you are translated into the joyous kingdom of the spirit, whence you spontaneously show forth the fruits of the spirit in your daily lives; and the [[fruits of the spirit]] are the [[essence]] of the highest type of enjoyable and ennobling self-control, even the heights of terrestrial mortal attainment--true self-mastery."[http://www.nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_11_-_Going_Through_Samaria#Lesson_on_Self-Mastery]

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