" Therefore there is no use my
warning you against sin, and telling you, do not do this, and do not
do that, unless I tell you at the same time who is the Lord. For
till you know that The Good God is the Lord, you will have no real,
sound, heartfelt reason for giving up your sins; and what is more,
you will not be able to give them up. You may alter your sort of
sins from fear of this and that; but the root of sin will be there
still; and if it cannot bear one sort of fruit it will bear another.
If you dare not drink or riot, you may become covetous and griping;
if you dare not give way to young men's sins, you will take to old
men's sins instead; if you dare not commit open sins you will commit
secret ones in your thoughts. Sin is much too stout a plant to be
kept from bearing some sort of fruit. As long as it is not rooted up
the root will breed death in you of some sort or other; and the only
feeling which can root up sin is to know that Jesus Christ, the Son
of God, is your Lord, and that your Lord condescended to die upon the
cross for you; that you must be the Lord's, and are not your own, but
bought with the price of His most precious blood, that you may
glorify God with your body and your soul, which are His.
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