The Sore Fight

The elect, justified, sanctified child of God must battle his indwelling sin. The Christian is a new man in a corrupt nature. Implanted in him is the new life, of Jesus Christ, a new obedience to the divine will, a principle of the sinless resurrection life of Christ. But this new life dwells now in a corrupt flesh which can do no good. This is not the same as saying that the Christian can do no good. The old man of sin in us, the flesh, the corrupt nature inherited from Adam and transmitted to...