But every last drop of poison is poison; every spark of fire is fire; and the last bit of flesh that remains in the believer is still enmity. When God’s grace changes our nature, it doesn’t change the nature of the flesh. It conquers it, weakens it, mortally wounds it, so that we are no longer Captain Ahabs by nature; yet his defiant malice smolders in our flesh. By the time Paul wrote Romans, he must have been as Christlike as anyone can expect to be on this side of heaven, and he surely spend his days putting his flesh to death. Still he cried out for deliverance from this irreconcilable enemy (Rom. 7:24).
— Kris Lundgaard, Christlicher Autor und Pastor
Related Bible passage: ROM.7.24
Topics: Temptation & Struggle, Growth & Character
Kris Lundgaard
Kris Lundgaard ist ein US-amerikanischer presbyterianischer Pastor, Missionar und Autor, der in den USA und in der Slowakei tätig war. Er ist dafür bekannt, Schriften puritanischer Theologen wie John Owen über den inneren geistlichen Kampf und den Umgang mit Sünde in eine alltagsnahe Sprache zu übertragen. Bibellesern bieten seine Texte theologische Reflexionen über persönliche Heiligung, geistliche Wachsamkeit und die Ausrichtung auf Christus.
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The devil is a better theologian than any of us, and he is still a devil.
A.W. Tozer
Discipline is choosing what you want most over what you want now.
Craig Groeschel
Martin Luther
Fyodor Dostoevsky
And Satan trembles when he sees, the weakest saint upon his knees.
William Cowper
Our old man is crucified, but he is long at dying.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Dante Alighieri
Gilbert Keith Chesterton