The expulsive power of a new affection
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"For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God." Romans 8:14
"I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes and be careful to obey My rules."Ezekiel 36:27
God has made gracious provision to secure, on the part of His ransomed people, a holy walk and obedience; and that, not through their own strength, but through the strength and power of His indwelling Spirit.
By that Spirit, we are not only renewed, but led. We are sweetly constrained to walk in harmony with the divine will as manifested in His Word, and the impulses of our regenerated nature. We have here, what is called the expulsive power of a new affection.
This expulsive power of a new affection, is a plant which our Heavenly Father must plant. It is not indigenous to the natural soil of the human heart, which is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
The power of sin, becomes slowly weaker and weaker.
The power of grace, slowly, it may be imperceptibly, becomes stronger and stronger.
Reader, have you in any feeble measure, been able to realize the presence and power of the indwelling Spirit, leading you to the surrender of your heart and life to Christ? Is the Spirit gradually leading you to the conquest of sin, and the expulsion of whatever is . . .
impure and corrupt,
grasping and covetous,
unloving and unholy?
"I will put fear of Me in their hearts, so they will never again turn away from Me!" Jeremiah 32:40
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