DEALING WITH SIN

By A. W. Tozer
 

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life.   Romans 6:23
 

    Many evangelical teachers insist so strongly upon free

unconditional grace as to create the impression that sin is

not a serious matter and that God cares very little about

it!
 

    They make it seem that God is only concerned with our

escaping the consequences.
 

    The gospel, then, in practical application, means little

more than a way to escape the fruits of our past!
 

    But the heart that has felt the weight of its own sin and

has seen the dread whiteness of the Most High God will

never believe that a message of forgiveness without

transformation is a message of good news. To remit a

man's past without transforming his present is to violate

the moral sincerity of his own heart.
 

    To that kind of thing God will be no party! For to offer

a sinner the gift of salvation based upon the work of

Christ, while at the same time allowing him to retain the

idea that the gift carries with it no moral implications, is

to do him untold injury where it hurts him most!

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Yours in Christ,

Paul N. F.