I

Whatever your circumstances may be, as long as you are bound, controlled,

and dominated by Satan’s corrupt disposition,

everything you live out, everything you reveal, and everything you display—

or your feelings, your thoughts and views,

and your ways and means of doing things—are all satanic.

All of these things violate the truth,

all of these things violate the truth;

they are hostile to the words of God, and they are hostile to the truth.

The further removed you are from the word of God and the truth,

the more controlled and ensnared you are by the net of Satan.

II

If instead, you can break free from the fetters and control

of your corrupt dispositions,

and rebel against them, come before God,

and rebel against them, come before God, and act and resolve problems

with the methods and principles of which God’s words tell you,

then you will gradually break free from the net of Satan.

After breaking free,

what you then live out is no longer the same old likeness

of a satanic person who is controlled by their corrupt dispositions,

but that of a new person who takes God’s words as their life.

Your whole way of living changes. Your whole way of living changes.

from The Word, Vol. 6. On the Pursuit of the Truth I. What It Means to Pursue the Truth (8)