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Life, Liberty, Grace, Christ
(excerpt printed in Fundamental Bible Church Sunday Bulletin

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"They that are in the flesh cannot please God," (Rom. 8:8).  They may be very moral, very amiable, very religious, very benevolent; but they cannot please God.  Their entire position is false. ... They must have a new life, new motives, new objects-they must be a new creation.

But on the other hand, mark the glorious privilege of all true believers.  "Ye are not in the flesh " (Rom. 8:9).  They have a new nature-a new life.  Of this life, the Holy Ghost is the power, Christ the object, glory the goal, heaven the home.  All is divine, and therefore perfect.  True, the believer is liable to err, prone in himself to wander, capable of sinning.  In him (that is, in his flesh,) "dwelleth no good thing" (Rom. 7:18).  But his standing is based on the eternal stability of the grace of God, and his state is met by the divine provision which that grace has made for him in the precious atonement and all-prevailing advocacy of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Thus he is forever delivered from that terrible system in which the prominent figures are, "Flesh," "Sin," "Death" a melancholy group, most surely!-and he is brought into that glorious scene in which the prominent figures are, "Life," "Liberty," "Grace," "Christ." C.H.M.

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