KenH
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"Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you." Ezekiel 36:25
We do not learn that we are sinners merely by reading it in God's word. It must be wrought, I might say burnt, into us. Nor will any one sincerely and spiritually cry for mercy, or a sense of pardon and reconciliation by the application of atoning blood, until sin in its misery, in its dominion, in its guilt, in its entanglements, in its wiles and allurements, in its filth and pollution, and in its condemnation, is spiritually felt and known.
Where the Holy Spirit works, he kindles sighs, groans, supplications, wrestlings, and pleadings to know Christ, feel his love, taste the efficacy of his atoning blood, and embrace him as all our salvation and all our desire. And though there may, and doubtless will be, much barrenness, hardness, deadness, and apparent carelessness often felt, still that heavenly Teacher will revive his work, though often by painful methods. He will not let the quickened soul rest short of a personal and experimental enjoyment of Christ and his glorious salvation.
- excerpt from J.C. Philpot's Through Baca's Vale, January 18
We do not learn that we are sinners merely by reading it in God's word. It must be wrought, I might say burnt, into us. Nor will any one sincerely and spiritually cry for mercy, or a sense of pardon and reconciliation by the application of atoning blood, until sin in its misery, in its dominion, in its guilt, in its entanglements, in its wiles and allurements, in its filth and pollution, and in its condemnation, is spiritually felt and known.
Where the Holy Spirit works, he kindles sighs, groans, supplications, wrestlings, and pleadings to know Christ, feel his love, taste the efficacy of his atoning blood, and embrace him as all our salvation and all our desire. And though there may, and doubtless will be, much barrenness, hardness, deadness, and apparent carelessness often felt, still that heavenly Teacher will revive his work, though often by painful methods. He will not let the quickened soul rest short of a personal and experimental enjoyment of Christ and his glorious salvation.
- excerpt from J.C. Philpot's Through Baca's Vale, January 18