OVERCOMING SIN AND TEMPTATION

This is a tragically light healing. I call it a tragedy because by making life
easier for ourselves in minimizing the nature and seriousness of our sin, we become greater victims of it. We are in fact not healing ourselves. Those who say that they already feel bad enough without being told about the corruptions of indwelling sin misread the path to peace. When our people have notbeen taught well about the real nature of sin and how it works and how to put it to death, most of the miseries people report are not owing to the disease but its symptoms. They feel a general malaise and don’t know why, their marriages are at the breaking point, they feel weak in their spiritual witness
and devotion, their workplace is embattled, their church is tense with unrest, their fuse is short with the children, etc. They report these miseries as if they were the disease. And they want the symptoms removed.

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THE GOSPEL MYSTERY OF SANCTIFICATION

 The certain knowledge of these powerful and  effectual means is of the greatest importance and necessity for our establishment in the true faith and  avoiding errors contrary to them, for we cannot rationally doubt that the moral duties of love to God and our neighbor are absolutely necessary to true  religion, so that it cannot submit without them.
And, from this principle, we may firmly conclude that  nothing repugnant to the practice of these holy duties ought to be received as a point of faith, delivered to  us by the most holy God; and that whatever is truly necessary, powerful and effectual to bring us to the  practice of them ought to be believed, as proceeding from God, because it has the image of His holiness and righteousness engraven on it.

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