Deliverance from sin isn\u2019t deliverance from human nature. There are certain things in human nature, such as prejudice, which the Christian has to destroy by neglect; we have to flat-out refuse to give these things air. Other things we have to hand over to God, then stand still and witness the power of his salvation.<\/p>\n
But there are also things which have to be destroyed by violence\u2014by drawing on the divine strength imparted to us by God\u2019s Spirit. Any theory or idea that raises itself up against the knowledge of God has to be determinedly demolished, not through fleshly effort or compromise but by drawing on his power. \u201cThe weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds\u201d (2 Corinthians 10:4).<\/p>\n
Only when God has altered our disposition and we have entered into the experience of sanctification can this fight begin. Our fight isn\u2019t against sin. We<\/em> can never fight against sin; sin is Jesus Christ\u2019s domain, and he deals with it through redemption. The war we must fight is the war of turning our natural life into a spiritual life. This is never easily done, nor does God intend it to be easily done. It\u2019s done only through a series of moral choices. God doesn\u2019t make us holy in the sense of instantly giving us a good character. He makes us holy in the sense of imparting innocence. It\u2019s up to us to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.<\/p>\n These choices are continually in conflict with the entrenched habits of our natural lives\u2014the pretensions and arguments that raise themselves up against the knowledge of God. We can refuse to make the moral choice, knowing that if we do, we\u2019ll be of no account in his kingdom. Or we can determinedly demolish every pretension, and let Jesus bring us to glory.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deliverance from sin isn\u2019t deliverance from human nature. There are certain things in human nature, such as prejudice, which the Christian has to destroy by neglect; we have to flat-out refuse to …<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2240,"template":"","collection":[],"class_list":["post-2683","modern-classic","type-modern-classic","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/modern-classic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}