Friday, October 23, 2020

Know Your Disease! Know Your Cure!

 Know your disease!  Know your cure!  You were born in sin; therefore "you must be born from above" - that is, "born of God."  By nature, you are completely corrupted; by grace, you will be wholly renewed: "As all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ."  You "who were dead through your trespasses, Christ has made alive."  God has already given you a prescription for life:  "We live by faith in the Son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us"!  Therefore, let us go on "through faith for faith," until your whole sickness be healed, and "the same mind is in you that was in Christ Jesus."

-  John Wesley in Sermon 44, "Original Sin"

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