It radically changes the whole man!
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Genuine salvation is always transformative. It radically changes the whole man! He was once at enmity with God, and hated Him. Now he is a friend of God, and loves Him. His condition before God, his moral tone, his nature, his state of mind--are made radically different from what they were before salvation!
Genuine salvation changes the PRINCIPLE UPON WHICH HE LIVES.
He once lived for self--he now lives to please God.
His OBJECTS IN LIFE are changed.
He once lived for money, or the flesh, or the world. Now he lives for the glory of God.
His COMFORTS are changed.
The pleasures of the world and sin are now nothing to him. He finds comfort in the love of God shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Spirit.
His DESIRES are changed.
That which he once panted and pined for, he is now content to do without. That which he once despised, he now longs after as the deer pants after the water brooks.
His FEARS are different.
He fears man no more, but fears his God.
His HOPES are also altered.
His expectations fly beyond the stars. He now confidently looks forward to a city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God!
The saved man has begun a new life!
A convert once said, "Either the world is altered--or else I am!"
The saved man feels that the things which are seen are shadows, and the things which he hears are but voices out of dreamland. He now knows that unseen spiritual realities are substantial. He lives by faith, not by sight.
2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"