JAMES 4:8, C. H. Cayce “Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.” James is not talking to unregenerate sinners; he is talking to the brethren, to children of God, those to whom the Lord has given a heart of flesh. In the 11th verse he says, “Speak not evil one of another, brethren.” He uses the term “brethren” all along in different places, so it has no application whatever to the unregenerate. Some brother, then, might ask, “How are they to purify their hearts?” Peter tells us how. 1 Pet. 1:22-23: “Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently; being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.” They purified their souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit. To obey the truth through the Spirit, one must first be in possession of the Spirit, or must have the Spirit before they obey. Then they do not purify their souls unto eternal life, but unto the unfeigned love of the brethren. They are in possession of the Spirit before the obedience is rendered; and the Lord promised to put a new Spirit within them, and when the Lord puts that Spirit within them they are “born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.” All the Lord’s dear children, to whom the Lord has given a heart of flesh, should endeavor to “purify their souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren.