Fighting, or at ease
Are you daily fighting against all sin, and daily more than conqueror? I acknowledge you for a child of God. O stand fast in your glorious liberty. Are you fighting, but not conquering, striving for the mastery, but not able to attain? Then you are not yet a believer in Christ. But follow on, and you shall know the Lord. Are you not fighting at all, but leading an easy, indolent, fashionable life? O how have you dared to name the name of Christ, only to make it a reproach among the heathen? Awake, you sleeper. Call upon your God, before the deep swallows you up.
1771 text
Art thou daily fighting against all sin? And daily more than conqueror? I acknowledge thee for a child of God. O stand fast in thy glorious liberty. Art thou fighting, but not conquering; striving for the mastery, but not able to attain? Then thou art not yet a believer in Christ; but follow on, and thou shalt know the Lord. Art thou not fighting at all, but leading an easy, indolent fashionable life? O how hast thou dared to name the name of Christ? Only to make it a reproach among the Heathen? Awake thou sleeper! Call upon thy God: before the deep swallow thee up.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 9 in the 1771 Works. Romans 8:15.
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