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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. If there had never been any law, there could not have been any sin, because sin is a breaking of law. The law is good. We are not speaking about that. The law is necessary, but, still such is our nature that the very existence...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I was alive without the law once; I thought that I was everything that was good. I imagined that I was doing everything that was right. I felt no rebellion in my heart. I was alive. Rom_7:9. But when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. I kicked at that commandment. My holiness was soon gone. The excellence which I thought I had in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. “If I sinned the more when God’s commandment was revealed to me;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But, sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual: The law of the Lord is a far higher thing than it seems to be in the esteem of many people. Talk not of it as a mere “decalogue.” It has far-reaching hands, and it affects...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But I am carnal, sold under sin. “I am carnal.” There is the source of all the mischief, — a disobedient and rebellious subject, not an irksome law. The law is good enough, it is absolutely perfect; “but,” says the apostle, “I am carnal,” — fleshly, — “sold under sin.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, Fleshly. Rom_7:14. Sold under sin. Even now that I have become a Christian and am renewed by grace.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For that which I do I allow not: The man himself does that which is evil, but his conscience revolts against it. Rom_7:15. For what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. This is a strange contradiction, — a man who has grace enough to will to do good, and yet does it not. There are two men in the one man, — the new nature struggling...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For that which I do I allow not: I often do that which I do not justify, which I do not wish to do again, which I abhor myself for doing.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. “If I do that against which and my conscience rebel, so far, the better part of me owns the goodness of the law, though the baser part of me rebels against it.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. This is the believer’s riddle. To say that this is not a believer’s experience is to prove that the man who says it does not know much about how believers feel. We hate sin, and yet, alas! alas! we fall into it! We would live perfect lives if we could, we that are renewed. We make no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. The renewed man still stands out against sin. His heart is not wishful to sin, but that old nature within him will sin even to the end.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now then it is no more I that do it, The real “I,” the true “I,” the new-born “ego.” Thank God for that—to have a will to do good, to have a strong, passionate desire to be holy. “To will is present with me.” Rom_7:17. But sin that dwelleth in me. I would be earnest in prayer, and my thoughts are distracted. I would love God with all my heart, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Oh, how often have men, who have been struggling after holiness, had to use these words of the apostle! The more holy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
, For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me: but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, The true and real “I.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. The true man — the newborn man — is struggling after that which is right. The real “I “, the immortal “ego”, is still pressing forward, like a ship beating up against wind and tide, and striving to reach the harbor where it shall find perfect rest. Oh, what...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But sin that dwelleth in me. Oh! this accursed indwelling sin! Would God it were driven out. We do not say this to excuse ourselves-God forbid—but to blame ourselves that we permit this sin to dwell within us. Yet must we rejoice in God that we are born again, and that this new “I” the true “I,” will not yield to sin, but fights against it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. Speaking for myself, I can say that, often, when I am most earnest in prayer, stray thoughts will come into my mind to draw me off from the holy work of supplication; and when I am most intently aiming at humility, then the shadow of pride falls upon me. Do not gracious men...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I find then a law, Or rule.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Now, the more holy a...