From: ssam@blueyonder.co.uk   
      
   How The Redeemed Soul Is Saved From The Penalties That Sin   
   And Error Has Brought Upon It   
   (...) When the soul is in a condition of sin and error it is not responsive   
   to the inflowing of the Holy Spirit, and in order to get into a condition of   
   receptivity to these influences it must have an awakening as to its actual   
   condition of enslavement by these things; and until such an awakening comes   
   to it there is no possibility of its receiving the Love of God into it, and   
   of turning its thoughts to the truths of God and to the practices of life   
   that will help it in its progress towards a condition of freedom.   
      
   I would not have mankind believe that any soul is compelled to stay in this   
   condition of slavery to sin until the Holy Spirit comes to it with the   
   Father's love to bestow it in all abundance, for the mission of the Holy   
   Spirit is not to awaken man's soul to a realization of sin and death, but   
   merely to bring to that soul this Love when it, the soul, is ready to   
   receive it.   
      
   The awakening must come from other causes that influence the mind as well as   
   the soul, and cause them to realize that the life man lives is not the   
   correct life or one in accord with the demands of the laws of God, or with   
   the real longings of their own hearts and souls.   
      
   Until this awakening comes the soul is really dead so far as its having a   
   consciousness of the existence of the truths of its redemption is concerned,   
   and such death means a continuance in such thoughts of sin and evil, and in   
   the life which leads only to condemnation and death for long long years, it   
   may be.   
      
   But to come nearer to my point of discourse.   
      
   The soul that is existing in sin and error will have, sooner or later, to   
   pay the penalties for such sin and error, and there is no escape from the   
   payment of these penalties except in the redemption that the Father has   
   provided by the New Birth. These penalties are only the natural results of   
   the operation of God's laws and they must be endured until the full penalty   
   is paid. Even though a man may progress to higher condition of soul   
   excellence and have much happiness, yet he must pay the last farthing and   
   thus release himself from these penalties. (...)   
      
   Excerpt from the book "True Gospel Revealel Anew by Jesus", Vol. I, page 113   
      
   http://www.divinelove.org/volume1/v1-49.htm   
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)