" When a man understands what that means, and accepts it in the
faith of what Christ can do, then one step can bring him from carnal to
spiritual. One simple act of faith in the power of Christ's death, one act
of surrender to the fellowship of Christ's death as the Holy Spirit can
make it ours, will make it ours, will bring deliverance from the power of
your efforts.
What brought deliverance to that poor condemned sinner who was most dark
and wretched in his unconverted state? He felt he could do nothing good of
himself. What did he do? He saw set before him the almighty Saviour and he
cast himself into His arms; he trusted himself to that omnipotent love and
cried, "Lord, have mercy upon me." That was salvation. It was not for
what he did that Christ accepted him. Oh, believers, if any of us who are
conscious that the carnal state predominates have to say: "It marks me; I
am a religious man, an earnest man, a friend of missions; I work for Christ
in my church, but, alas! temper and sin and worldliness have still the
mastery over my soul," hear the word of God.
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