Those In Love With Sin Do Not Receive Christ

    By A. W. Tozer

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the
world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because
their deeds were evil.                               .  .  .  John 3:19

        I do not believe anyone has ever rejected Jesus Christ
    on philosophical grounds.  Israel did not reject the Lord
    because of philosophical reasons.  Israel's rejection was
    for moral reasons.

       The man who continues in his rejection of Christ has
    a pet sin somewhere -- he’s in love with iniquity.  He
    rejects Jesus on moral grounds, and then hides behind
    false philosophy -- philosophical grounds.

        I believe that every one of those who are having
    "intellectual difficulties" is hiding because he is morally
    reprobate.  When we fall in love with our sin, we can
    imagine and manufacture 10,000 syllogisms to keep us
    away from the cross.

        A blind man can argue that there is no sunshine, but
    when he gets his sight, the sunshine floods in!

        How wonderful it is that when a person gives up his
    sin and puts his pride under his feet and looks at the
    light, the whole body and mind are flooded with light.  I
    have talked with people who have come out of rational-
    ism and atheism and all the rest -- and they smile at you
    with clear eyes and say, "Oh, it is wonderful now; the
    light has flooded in."

        Jesus said, "For everyone that doeth evil hateth the
    light, neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should
    be reproved." This is the condemnation -- that light is
    come into the world, and men love darkness rather than
    light, because their deeds are evil. The natural man has a
    perverse antipathy to the light because it interferes with
    his iniquity!

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    Yours in Christ,
    Paul N. F.