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Posted by MAC (Member # 47) on :

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Let it be pointed out though, that salvation from the love of sin is felt and
evidenced in varying degrees by different Christians, and in different periods
in the life of the same Christian, according to the measure of grace which God
bestows, and according as that grace is active and operative.

Some seem to have
a more intense hatred of sin in all its forms than do others, yet the principle
of hating sin is found in all real Christians. Some Christians, rarely if ever,
commit any deliberate and premeditated sins: more often they are tripped up,
suddenly tempted (to be angry or tell a lie) and are overcome. But with others
the case is quite otherwise: they— fearful to say—actually plan evil acts.

If any one indignantly denies that such a thing is possible in a saint, and insists
that such a character is a stranger to saving grace, we would remind him of
David: was not the murder of Uriah definitely planned? This second class of
Christians find it doubly hard to believe they have been saved from the love of
sin.