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This is the struggle!
("Reconciliation
by Death, and Salvation by Life"
Preached at Providence Chapel, Eden Street, London,
on Tuesday Evening, July 30, 1850, by J. C. Philpot)
"Oh, what a wretched man I am! Who will free me
from this body that is dominated by sin?" Rom. 7:24
If a person were to tell me he did not love sin in his carnal
mind, I would say with all mildness, "You do not speak the
truth!" If your carnal mind does not love sin . . .
Why do you think of it?
Why do you secretly indulge it in your imagination?
Why do you play with it?
Why do you seek to extract a devilish sweetness out of it?
O, what a mercy it would be, if there were not this
dreadful love of sin in our heart! This is the struggle
--that there should be this traitor in the camp; that
our carnal mind should be so devilish as to love that
which made the blessed Jesus die; as to love that
which crucified the Lord of glory, and to love it with
a vehement love!
"Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord!"
Romans 7:25
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