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It will come in at every chink and crevice!
("The
Spiritual Conflict" Preached at Zoar Chapel,
London, on July 30, 1843, by J. C. Philpot)
"I know that nothing good lives in me."
Romans 7:18
The world within us is ten thousand times
worse than the world outside of us!
We may shut and bar our doors, and exclude the
outside world—but the world within cannot be so
shut out! More—we might go and hide ourselves
in a hermit's cave, and never see the face of man
again—but even there we would be as carnal and
worldly as if we lived in Vanity Fair!
We cannot shut out the world—it will come in
at every chink and crevice! This wretched world
will intrude itself into our every thought and
imagination!
I don't know how it may be with you, but I have no
more power to keep out the workings of sin in my
heart—than I have power by holding up my hand to
stop the rain from coming down to the earth! Sin will
come in at every crack and crevice, and manifest
itself in the wretched workings of an evil heart!
The seeds of every crime are in our nature—and
therefore, could your flesh have its full swing—there
would not be a viler wretch in London than you!
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