Finally, I must focus our attention on the truth that it is by the believing use of the cross that you are to slay your corruptions or cure your heart plagues. In proportion as we wander from our Lord's cross and our death in Him, our besetting sins will revive. Our right and adequate return to abiding in our Lords' death and our sins with Him, weakens, mortifies, and kills them. all sanctification is from participating in the power of the cross. (Romans 6) It is from communion in the death and resurrection of Christ. It is being made conformable unto His death. If we are to make progress in putting off the deeds of the flesh, putting to death the old man, it must be by making His Death yours!!! Humiliation and holiness can be found by a sinner nowhere but at the cross. He loved us and gave Himself for us that He might cleanse us with the washing of the water of the word. His Work is the assurance that sin shall not have dominion over us. Believe it!!! His name is called Jesus because He is to save His people from, out of their sins.
All efforts after holiness and holy self-control apart from the cross will end in proud self-righteousness or in a paralysing sense of failure. The sin-killing power of the Savior's death--would that we adequately knew and felt and exemplified it. This cross, this Glorious Death is the Power of God unto a full salvation, not just from condemnation, but also from the domination of sin. Through His vicarious righteousness, purchased for us at such an immeasurable cost, The Holy Spirit comes. To achieve the Sacrifices intent and purpose, the Spirit comes. And when He comes, He wields on his peoples' souls the virtue and energy of Christ's death and resurrection. He writes it on the fleshy tables of their hearts. Live by faith upon the firm belief that all that needs to be done, all that could be done, has been done in this glorious awful cross upon which our Blessed Savior died. "That I may know Him, and the power of His Resurrection, being made conformable unto His death. It is thus that we will have our heart plagues more and more cured and our besetting sins crucified, till at last we are through the infinite power of Emmanuel's blood and Spirit, holy, harmless, and undefiled, and separate from sinners, without spot or plague or any such thing
All efforts after holiness and holy self-control apart from the cross will end in proud self-righteousness or in a paralysing sense of failure. The sin-killing power of the Savior's death--would that we adequately knew and felt and exemplified it. This cross, this Glorious Death is the Power of God unto a full salvation, not just from condemnation, but also from the domination of sin. Through His vicarious righteousness, purchased for us at such an immeasurable cost, The Holy Spirit comes. To achieve the Sacrifices intent and purpose, the Spirit comes. And when He comes, He wields on his peoples' souls the virtue and energy of Christ's death and resurrection. He writes it on the fleshy tables of their hearts. Live by faith upon the firm belief that all that needs to be done, all that could be done, has been done in this glorious awful cross upon which our Blessed Savior died. "That I may know Him, and the power of His Resurrection, being made conformable unto His death. It is thus that we will have our heart plagues more and more cured and our besetting sins crucified, till at last we are through the infinite power of Emmanuel's blood and Spirit, holy, harmless, and undefiled, and separate from sinners, without spot or plague or any such thing
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