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<p>&quot;Take heed unto <strong>yourselves!</strong>&quot; Acts 20:28<br />
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  There are few Christians who have not ever found <br />
  SELF to be their <strong>greatest enemy</strong>. The pride, unbelief, <br />
  hardness, and impenitence of a man's own heart; the <br />
  deceitfulness, hypocrisy, and wickedness of his own <br />
  fallen nature; the lusts and passions, filth and folly of <br />
  his own carnal mind; will not only ever be his <strong>greatest <br />
    burden</strong>, but will ever prove his<strong> most dreaded foe! </strong><br />
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  Enemies we shall have from outside, and we may <br />
  at times keenly feel their bitter speeches and cruel <br />
  words and actions. <strong>But no enemy can injure us like <br />
    ourselves! </strong>In five minutes a man may do himself <br />
  more real harm, than all his enemies united could <br />
  do to injure him in fifty years! <br />
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  To yourself you can be <strong>the most insidious <br />
    enemy </strong>and<strong> the greatest foe!</strong><br />
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  In all its forms, SELF in its inmost<br />
  spirit is still a . . .<br />
  <strong>deceitful,<br />
    subtle,<br />
    restless,<br />
    proud, and<br />
    impatient <br />
    creature</strong>; masking its real character in a <br />
  thousand ways, and concealing its destructive <br />
  designs by countless devices.<br />
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  <strong>We have but to look on the professing church to find . . .</strong><br />
  the highest <strong>pride </strong>under the lowest humility,<br />
  the greatest <strong>ignorance </strong>under the vainest self-conceit,<br />
  the basest <strong>treachery </strong>under the warmest profession,<br />
  the vilest <strong>sensuality </strong>under the most heavenly piety,<br />
  and <strong>the foulest filth under the cleanest cloak</strong>.<br />
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  &quot;Take heed unto <strong>yourselves!</strong>&quot; Acts 20:28
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