It may be
that you never were taught it; that you never saw it in God's Word;
that you never believed it. But there it is; the truth of God remains
unchangeable. Jesus Christ can give us the victory over sin, and can keep
us from actual transgression. I am not telling you that the root of sin
will be eradicated, and that you will have no longer any natural tendency
to sin; but when the Holy Spirit comes not only with His power for service
as a gift, but when He comes in Divine grace to fill the heart, there is
victory over sin; power not to fulfill the lusts of the flesh. And you see
a mark of the carnal state not only in unlovingness, self-consciousness
and bitterness, but in so many other sins. How much worldliness, how much
ambition among men, how much seeking for the honor that comes from man--all
the fruit of the carnal life--to be found in the midst of Christian
activity! Let us remember that the carnal state is a state of continual
sinning and failure, and God wants us not only to make confession of
individual sins, but to come to the acknowledgment that they are the sign
that we are not living a healthy life,--we are yet carnal.
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