The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 302

THE SINNER TO BE WROUGHT UPON

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but have a positive action, which

morbid growth, and

destroys

A

the tissues, creates

is not merely a body, but the seat of dissolution and corruption. In like manner we are conscious that sin is not merely the deprivation of

corrupts the body.

corpse

lifeless

we feel its fearful activity, corruption, and dissolution which destroy. Strongest proof is the fact that we do not joyfully welcome God's grace entering the heart, but with our whole nature oppose it. There is conflict which would be impossible if that deprivation and loss had not developed evil which opposes holiness, but

God.

This corruption does not stop until the body is dissolved into We do not know what became of the bodies of Moses, Enoch, and Elijah. The Scripture makes excep-

its original constituents.

Christ did not see corruption, and believers living at the

tions.

But all others, miland return to the dust. Physical disease and death are types of soul-corruption which mere words fail to express. Scripture and experience show clearly that Satan is not merely bereaved, emptied, and lacking, but that he causes a positive, corrupting activity to proceed from him. And so, tho in less degree, Lord's return will escape bodily dissolution.

lions

upon

millions, will sicken

the soul has

and

die,

become corrupt; not only

in the sense of being dark

instead of light, chilled instead of warm, but that this deprivation

has resulted in positive destruction and corruption.

Cold is loss of which on reaching the freezing-point causes positive injury

heat,

to the body. tion,

tive

And

such

and nakedness. working which

is sin.

As

to its being, it is loss, depriva-

And

these cause in body and soul a destruc-

affects

man's whole nature, binding him with

the fetters of corruption, altho he ceases not to be man.

We

reconcile s\n's privative beifig with its positive working as fol-

lows: depriving the ceaseless activity of man's nature of correct guidance, itself.

it

runs in the wrong direction, and wrests and destroys

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