This is from pages 14 and 15 of The Way of Victory, A Booklet For New Converts by David F. Gray, printed by Revival Tabernacle Press. no copyright date
Aim At Perfection
Jesus said, “Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Matt. 5:48. Perfection, therefore, ought to be the goal to which all Christians seek to come. Be not discouraged if you do not arrive at perfection all at once. To be come perfect in the sense of coming “into the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ” (
Eph. 4:13) requires time, testing, temptation and trust. your heart may be perfect from the moment you are saved in that you love God supremely and wish to live only for Him. It is development in perfection that requires years and years of yielding and learning from the Lord. This includes many lessons, trials and experiences, during which you must learn always to say “not my will but thine be done.” When you are first filled with the Spirit you are but an infant in the family of God.
1 Peter 2:2. From this, you grow into childhood, then youth, and finally into ripened experience.
1 John 2:12-14
Paul sought perfection
Phil 3:12
Perfection of heart is perfection of love
Col 3:14
Perfect Christlikeness is perfection of development
Eph 4:12, 13
Patience leads to perfection
James 1:4
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