Romans 8:8. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
No man "in the flesh" can please God. Oh, what a sword this is,-a sharp two-edged sword against many of you, my friends! Some of you who regularly attend this house of prayer, and others of you who stray in here in the evening, you "are in the flesh," and you "cannot please God." Perhaps you have been attempting to do it. You have said, "I will attend the house of prayer regularly." You cannot please God by doing that, so long as you are "in the flesh." You may be as moral as you please, and we beseech you so to be; but unless you have the Spirit of God unless you are really changed in heart, and made new creatures in Christ Jesus, all that you can do, as long as you are "in the flesh, cannot please God." Virtues, in unregenerate men, are nothing but whitewashed sins. The best performance of an unchanged character is worthless in God’s sight. It lacks the stamp of grace upon it; and that which has not the stamp of grace is false coin. Be it ever so beautiful in model and finish it is not what it should be. "So then they that are in the flesh cannot praise God."
Romans 8:8. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
No man "in the flesh" can please God. Oh, what a sword this is,-a sharp two-edged sword against many of you, my friends! Some of you who regularly attend this house of prayer, and others of you who stray in here in the evening, you "are in the flesh," and you "cannot please God." Perhaps you have been attempting to do it. You have said, "I will attend the house of prayer regularly." You cannot please God by doing that, so long as you are "in the flesh." You may be as moral as you please, and we beseech you so to be; but unless you have the Spirit of God unless you are really changed in heart, and made new creatures in Christ Jesus, all that you can do, as long as you are "in the flesh, cannot please God." Virtues, in unregenerate men, are nothing but whitewashed sins. The best performance of an unchanged character is worthless in God’s sight. It lacks the stamp of grace upon it; and that which has not the stamp of grace is false coin. Be it ever so beautiful in model and finish it is not what it should be. "So then they that are in the flesh cannot praise God."