Christ Came to "Take Away" the "Inclination to Sin"
Our family is reading through the Youth Instructor articles for evening worship. Several nights ago, we read an article containing the following quote:
"But Christ did not forget John. In the lonely prison he manifested himself to him, showing him that erelong he himself was to suffer a most shameful, ignominious death. Not only that, but he was to bear the penalty of the transgression of the law of God, not to give men liberty to continue in sin, but to take away their inclination to sin, that they might not desire to transgress. Those who receive Christ are obedient to his commands; for his mind is given to them. He imbues them with his spirit of obedience, and they return to their loyalty." {YI, April 6, 1899 par. 3}
What a wonderful quote! Don't you want that experience where you have no desire to sin, no inclination to sin? Jesus wants to give us a new heart, that will not be inclined to sin, infact, we can have the same experience that Jesus had -
"Amid impurity, Christ maintained His purity. Satan could not stain or corrupt it. His character revealed a perfect hatred for sin. It was His holiness that stirred against Him all the passion of a profligate world; for by His perfect life He threw upon the world a perpetual reproach, and made manifest the contrast between transgression and the pure, spotless righteousness of One that knew no sin." 5BC-1142.
If we have a "perfect hatred" for sin, how can we at the same time desire sin or be inclined to sin? I believe that is impossible! Think of something, anything, that you hate with a "perfect hatred". Is there any part of you that is inclined that direction? Of course not...and that is how it must be for ALL sin.
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