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Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets his

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
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Aiberdeen
Gets
Touches
Different
Rights
Insist
Heart
Ability
Resentment
Thing
Freedom
Touched
Left
Independence
Human
Whenever
Clean
Blasted
Humans
Sin
Awakens
Must

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