“Just as I didnt join the worlds ways. Im not asking that You take them out of the world but that You guard them from the Evil One.” – John. 17:15 The Gospel is not concerned about removing the occasions for sin as removing from man the desire to sin. “.. Im not asking that you take them out of the world but that you guard them from the Evil... Sanctify them” (John 17:15, 17). Our Lord is saying in effect, “I am not so concerned that You should take the occasion for sin away, but that You should take out of the man the desire to take advantage of the occasion.” Do you see the difference? The Gospel of Jesus Christ does not so much take the Christian out of the world as take the world out of the Christian. That is the point. “Sanctify them”: it the world is not in them, the world outside them will not be able to affect them. The Gospel makes a man free in the midst of the devil’s work in this world.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 05:47:08 +0000
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