JESUS CHRIST ~ the Way, the Truth and the Life!
"As
dying, and, behold, we live."
-II
CORINTHIANS
6:9 [KJV]
Though
we die, and die daily, yet, behold, we live; and in a sense, the more
we die, the more we live. The more we die to self, the more we die to
sin; the more we die to pride and self-righteousness, the more we die
to creature strength; and the more we die to nature, the more we live
to grace. And this runs all the way through the life and experience
of a Christian. Nature must die, that grace may live. The weeds must
be plucked up, that the crop may grow; the flesh be starved, that the
spirit may be fed; the old man put off, that the new man may be put
on; the deeds of the body be mortified, that the soul may live unto
God. As then we die, we live. The more we die to our own strength,
the more we live to Christ's strength; the more we die to creature
hope, the more we live to a good hope through grace; the more we die
to our own righteousness, the more we live to Christ's righteousness;
and the more we die to the world, the more we live to and for heaven.
This
is the grand mystery, that the Christian is always dying, yet always
living; and the more he dies, the more he lives. The death of the
flesh is the life of the spirit; the death of sin is the life of
righteousness; and the death of the creature is the very life of God
in the soul.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
May
25th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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