0:02 oh Wretched Man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death I thank God through Jesus Christ Our Lord Romans 7: 24 and 25 the fainting Warrior a sermon delivered by CH Spurgeon Lord's Day morning January the 23rd 1859 if I chose to occupy your time with controversy IAL matter I might prove to a demonstration that the Apostle Paul is here describing his own experience as a Christian some have affirmed that he is merely declaring what he was before conversion and not what he was when he became the recipient of the grace of God
0:48 but such persons are evidently mistaken and I believe willfully mistaken for any ample hearted candid mind reading through this chapter could not fall into such an error it is Paul the Apostle who was not less than the very greatest of the Apostles it is Paul the mighty servant of God a very prince in Israel one of the king's Mighty Men it is Paul the saint and the Apostle who here exclaims oh Wretched Man that I am now humble Christians are often the dupes of a very foolish era they look up to certain Advanced say Saints and able ministers and they say surely such men
1:33 as these do not suffer as I do they do not contend with the same evil passions as those which Vex and trouble me ah if they knew the heart of those men if they could read their inward conflicts they would soon discover that the nearer a man lives to God the more intensely he has to mourn over his own evil heart and the more his master honors him in in his service the more also doth the evil of the flesh Vex and tease him day by day perhaps this error is more natural as it is certainly more common with regard to Apostolic Saints we have been in the habit of saying St Paul and St John as if they
2:20 were more Saints than any other of the children of God they are all Saints whom God has called by his grace and Sanctified by his Spirit but some how we very foolishly put the apostles and the early Saints into another list and do not venture to look on them as common Mortals we look upon them as some extraordinary beings who could not be men of like passions with ourselves we are told in Scripture that our savior was tempted in all points like as we are and yet we fall into the egregious era of imagining that the apostles who were far inferior to the Lord Jesus escaped these Temptations and were ignorant of these
3:05 conflicts the fact is if you had seen the Apostle Paul you would have thought he was remarkably like the rest of the chosen family and if you had talked with him you would have said why Paul I find that your experience and mine exactly agree you are more faithful more holy and more deeply taught than I but you have the same trials to end nay in some respects you are more sorely tried than I do not look upon the ancient Saints as being exempt either from infirmities or sins and do not regard them with that Mystic reverence which almost makes you an idolator their Holiness is attainable
3:51 even by you and their faults are to be censured as much as your own I believe it is a Christian's Duty to force his way into the inner circle of saintship and if these saints were Superior to us in their attainments as they certainly were let us follow them let us press forward up to yay and Beyond them for I do not see that this is impossible we have the same light that they had the same Grace is accessible to us and why should we rest satisfied until we have distanced them in the Heavenly race let us bring them down to the sphere of common Mortals if Jesus was the son of man and very man bone of our bone and
4:38 flesh of our flesh so were the apostles and it is an egregious error to suppose they were not the subjects of the same emotions and the same inward trials as the very meanest of the people of God so far this may tend to our comfort and to our encouragement when we find that we are engag engaged in a battle in which the apostles themselves have had to fight and now we shall notice this morning first the two Natures secondly their constant battle thirdly we shall step aside and look at the weary Warrior and hear him cry oh Wretched Man that I am and then we shall turn our eye in another
5:24 Direction and see that fainting Warrior ging up his loins to the conflict and becoming an expectant Victor while he shouts I thank God through Jesus Christ Our Lord first then the two Natures carnal men unrenewed men have one nature a nature which they inherited from their parents and which through the ancient transgression of Adam is evil only evil and that continually mere human nature such as is common to every man has in it many excellent traits judging of it between man and man a merely natural man may be
6:10 honest upright kind and generous he may have Noble and generous thoughts and may attain unto a true and manly speech but when we come to matters of True Religion spiritual matters that concern God and Eternity the natural man can do nothing the carnal mind whose ever mind it may be is fallen and is at enmity to God does not know the things of God nor can it ever know them now when a man becomes a Christian he becomes so through the infusion of a new nature he is naturally dead in trespasses and sins without God and without hope the Holy Spirit enters
6:57 into him and implants in him a new principle a new nature a new life that life is a high holy and Supernatural principle it is in fact the divine nature array from the great Father of Lights it is the spirit of God dwelling in man thus you see the Christian becomes a double man two men in one some have imagined that the old nature is turned out of the Christian not so for the word of God and experience teach the contrary the old nature is in the Christian unchanged unaltered just the same as bad as ever it was while the new nature in him is
7:45 Holy pure and Heavenly and hence as we shall have to notice in the next place hence there arises a conflict between the two now I want you to know notice what the Apostle says about these two Natures that are in the Christian for I'm about to contrast them first in our text the Apostle calls the old nature the body of this death why does he call it the body of this death some suppose he means these dying bodies but I do not think so if it were not for sin we should have no fault to find with our poor bodies they are noble works of God and are not in themselves the cuse of sin Adam in the
8:31 garden of perfection felt the body to be no incumbrance nor if sin were absent should we have any fault to find with our flesh and blood what then is it I think the Apostle calls the evil nature within him a body first in opposition to those who talk of the relics of corruption in a Christian I heard people say that there are relics remainders and remnants of sin in a believer such men do not know much about themselves yet oh it is not a bone or a rag which is left it is the whole body of sin that is there the whole of it from the crown of the head to the soul of the foot Grace does not maim this body and cut away its members it leaves
9:19 it entire although blessed be God it crucifies it nailing it to the Cross of Christ and again I think he calls it a body because it is something tangible we all know that we have a body it is a thing we can feel we know it is there the new nature is a spirit subtle and not easy to detect I sometimes have to question myself as to whether it is there at all but as for my old nature that is a body I can never find it difficult to recognize its existence it is as apparent as Flesh and Bones as I never doubt that I am in flesh and blood so I never doubt but what I have
10:05 sin within me it is a body a thing which I can see and feel and which to my pain is ever present with me understand then that the old nature of the Christian is a body it has in it a substance or as Calvin puts it it is a mass of corruption it is not simply a shred a Remnant the cloth of the old garment but the whole of it is there still true it is crushed beneath the foot of Grace it is cast out of its throne but it is there there in all its entireness and in all its sad tangibility a body of death but why does he call it a body of
10:53 death simply to express what an awful thing this sin is that remains in the heart it is a body of death I must use a figure which is always appended to this text and very properly so it was the custom of ancient tyrants when they wish to put men to the most fearful punishments to tie a dead body to them placing the two back to back and there was the living man with a dead body closely strapped to him rotting putrid corrupt and this he must drag with him wherever he went now this is just what the Christian has to do he has within him the new life
11:39 he has a living and undying principle which the Holy Spirit has put within him but he feels that every day he has to drag about with him this dead body this body of death a thing as loathsome as hideous as abominable to his new life as a dead stinking carcass would be to living man Francis quals gives a picture at the beginning of one of his emblems of a great skeleton in which a living man is encased however quaint the fancy it is not more singular than true there is the old Skeleton Man filthy corrupt and abominable he is a cage for the new principle which God has
12:25 put in the heart consider a moment the Striking language of our text the body of this death it is death incarnate death concentrated death dwelling in the very Temple of Life did you ever think what an awful thing death is the thought is the most abor to human nature you say you do not fear death and very properly but the reason why you do not fear death is because you look to a glorious immortality death in itself is a most frightful thing now inbred sin has about it all the unknown Terror all the destructive force and all the stupendous Gloom of
13:13 death a poet would be needed to depict the conflict of life with death to describe a living Soul condemned to walk through the black shades of confusion and to Bear incarnate death in its very bows but such is the condition of the Christian as a regenerate man he is a firing bright Immortal Spirit but he has to tread the shades of death he has to do daily battle with all the tremendous powers of sin which are as awful as sublimely terrific as even the powers of death and Hell upon referring to the proced preceding chapter we find the evil
14:00 principle styled the old man but there is much meaning in that word old but let it suffice us to remark that in age the new nature is not upon an equal footing with the corrupt nature there are some here who is 60 years old in their Humanity who can scarce number two years in the life of Grace now pause and meditate upon the Warfare in the heart it is the cont test of an infant with a full grown man the wrestling of a babe with a giant old Adam like some ancient Oak has thrust its roots into the depths of manhood can the Divine infant uproot him and cast him from his
14:47 place this is the work this is the labor from its birth the new nature Begins the struggle and it cannot cease from it until the victory be perfectly achieved nevertheless it is the moving of a mountain the drying up of an ocean the threshing of the hills and who is sufficient for these things the heaven-born nature needs and will receive the Abundant help of its author or it would yield in the struggle subdued beneath the superior strength of its adversary and crushed beneath his enormous weight again observe that the old nature of man which remains in the Christian is evil
15:35 and it cannot ever be anything else but evil for we are told in this chapter that in me that is in my flesh there dwelleth no good thing the old Adam nature cannot be improved it cannot be made better it is hopeless to attempt it you may do what you please with it you may educate it you may instruct it and thus you may give it more instruments for Rebellion but you cannot make the rebel into the friend you cannot turn the darkness into light it is an enemy to God and an enemy to God it ever must be on the contrary the new life which God has given us cannot sin that is the
16:20 meaning of a passage in John where it is said the child of God sinth not he cannot sin because he is born of God the old nature is evil only evil and that continually the new nature is Holy good it knows nothing of sin except to hate it its contact with sin brings it pain and misery and it cries out woe is me that I dwell in Meek that I Tabernacle in the tents of kedar I have thus given you some little picture of the two Natures let me again remind you that these two Natures are essentially unchangeable you cannot make the new nature which God has given you less
17:06 Divine the old nature you cannot make less impure and Earthly old Adam is a condemned thing you may sweep the house and the evil spirit may seem to go out of it but he will come back again and bring with him seven other Devils more wicked than himself it is a leper's house and the leprosy is in every Stone from the foundation to the roof there is no part sound it is a garment spotted by the flesh you may wash and wash and wash but you shall never wash it clean it were foolish to attempt it whilst on the other hand the new nature can never be tainted spotless
17:54 holy pure it dwells in our hearts it it rules and Reigns there expecting the day when it shall cast out its enemy and without a rival it shall be Monarch in the heart of man forever I have thus described the two combatants we shall now come in the next place to their battle there was never deadlier feud in all the world between two Nations than there is between the two principles right and wrong but right and wrong are often divided from one another by distance and therefore they have a less intense hatred suppose an instance right holds
18:40 for Liberty therefore right hates the evil of slavery but we do not so intensely hate slavery as we should do if we saw it before our eyes then would the blood boil when we saw our black brother Smitten by the cowhide whip imagine a slaveholder standing here and smiting his poor slave until the red blood gushed forth in a river can you conceive your indignation now it is distance which makes you feel this less acutely the right forgets the wrong because it is far away but suppose now that right and wrong lived in the same house suppose two such death desperate
19:28 enemies cribbed cabined and confined within this narrow house man suppose the two compelled to dwell together can you imagine to what a desperate pitch of Fury these two would get with one another the evil thing says I will turn thee out thou Intruder I cannot be peaceful as I would I cannot Riot as I would I cannot indulge just as I would out with thee I will never never be content until I slay thee nay says the newborn nature I will kill thee and drive thee out I will not suffer stick or stone of thee to remain I have sworn War to the knife with thee I have taken
20:15 out the sword and Cast Away the Scabbard and will never rest till I can sing complete victory over thee and totally eject thee from this house of mine they are always at enmity wherever they are they were never friends and never can be the evil must hate the good and the good must hate the evil and Mark although we might compare the enmity to the wolf and lamb yet the newborn nature is not the lamb in all respects it may be in its innocence and meekness but it is not in its strength for the newborn Nature has has all the omnipotence of God about it whilst the
21:01 old Nature has all the strength of the evil one in it which is a strength not easily to be exaggerated but which we very frequently underestimate these two things are ever desperately at enmity with one another and even when they are both quiet they hate each other nonetheless when my evil nature does not rise still it hates the newborn nature and when the newborn nature is inactive it has nevertheless a thorough abhorrence of all iniquity the one cannot endure the other it must Endeavor to thrust it forth nor do these at any time allow an opportunity to pass from being revenged upon one another there are times when
21:48 the old nature is very active and then how will it apply all the weapons of its deadly Armory against the Christian you will find yourselves at one time suddenly attacked with anger and when you guard yourself against the hot Temptation on a sudden you will find Pride rising and you'll begin to say in yourself am I not a good man to have kept my temper down and the moment you thrust down your pride there will come another Temptation and lust will look out of the window of your eyes and you desire a thing upon which you ought not to look and a you can shut Your Eyes Upon the vanity sloth in its deadly torper
22:34 surrounds you and you give yourself up to its influence and cease to labor for God and when you bestow yourselves once more you find that in the very attempt to Rouse yourself you have awakened your pride evil haunts you go where you may or stand in what posture you choose on the other hand the new nature will never lose an opportunity of putting down the old as for the means of Grace the newborn nature will never rest satisfied unless it enjoys them as for prayer it will seek by prayer to wrestle with the Enemy it will employ Faith and Hope and love the threatenings the
23:21 promises Providence Grace and everything else to cast out the evil well says one I don't find it so then I am afraid of you if you do not hate sin so much that you do everything to drive it out I'm afraid you are not a living child of God antinomians like to hear you preach about the evil of the heart but here is the fault with them they do not like to be told that unless they hate that evil unless they seek to drive it out and unless it is the constant disposition of their newborn nature to root it up they are yet in their sins men who only believe their
24:08 depravity but do not hate it are no further than the devil on the road to Heaven it is not my being corrupt that proves me a Christian nor knowing I am corrupt but that I hate my corruption it is my agonizing death strug with my Corruptions that proves me to be a living child of God these two Natures will never cease to struggle so long as we are in this world the old nature will never give up it will never cry truce it will never ask for a treaty to be made between the two it will always strike as often as it can when it lies still it will be only
24:55 preparing for some future battle battle the battle of Christian with apolon lasted 3 hours but the Battle of Christian with himself lasted all the way from the Wicket gate to the River Jordan the Enemy Within can never be driven out while we are here Satan May sometimes be absent from us and get such a defeat that he is glad to go howling back to his den but old Adam abideth with us from the first even to the last he was with us when we first believed in Jesus and long a that and he will be with us till that moment when we shall leave our bones in the grave our fears in the Jordan and our sins in
25:46 Oblivion once more observe that neither of these two Natures will be content in the fight without bringing in allies to assist the evil Nature has old relations and in its Endeavor to drive out the grace that is within it sends off Messengers to all its helpers like Kido laom the king of Elam it bringeth other kings with it when it goeth out to battle ah says old Adam I have friends in the pit he sends a missive down to the depths and willing allies come there from Spirits from the vasty deep of Hell Devils without number come up to the help of their brother and then not content with that
26:33 the flesh says Ah I have friends in this world and then the world sends its Fierce cohorts of Temptation such as the lust of the eyes and the pride of life what a battle When sin Satan and the world make a dead set upon the Christian at once oh says one it is a terrible thing to be a Christian I assure you it is it is one of the hardest things in the world to be a child of God in fact it is impossible unless the Lord makes us his children and keeps us so well what does the new nature do when it sees all these enemies it cries unto the Lord and then the Lord sends it
27:19 friends first comes into its help Jehovah in the Everlasting counsel and reveals to the heart its own interest interest in the secrets of Eternity then comes Jesus with his blood Thou shalt conquer says he I will make thee more than a conqueror through my death and then appears the Holy Spirit the comforter with such assistance this newborn nature is more than a match for its enemies God will sometimes leave that new nature alone to let it know its own weakness but it shall not be for long lest it should sink in despair are you fighting with the Enemy today my dear Christian Brethren are Satan the Flesh and the
28:05 world that hellish Trinity all against you remember there is a Divine Trinity for you fight on though like Valiant for truth your blood runs from your hand and glues your sword to your arm fight on for with you are the legions of Heaven God himself is with you Je Jehovah Nissi is your banner and Jehovah roofi is the Healer of your wounds you shall overcome for who can defeat omnipotence or trample Divinity beneath his foot I have thus endeavored to describe the conflict but understand me it cannot be described we must say as Hart does in his hymn when after singing the emotions
28:53 of his soul he says but Brethren you can surely guess for you perhaps have felt the same if you could see a plane upon which a battle is fought you would see how the ground is torn up by the wheels of the cannon by the horse Hooves and by the trampling of men what desolation is where once the golden crops of harvest grew how is the ground Soden with the blood of the slain how frightful the result of this terrible struggle but if you could see the believer's heart after a spiritual battle you would find it just a counterpart of the battlefield as much cut up as the ground of the battlefield after the darest
29:40 conflict that men or fiends have ever waged for think we are combating man with himself N More man with the whole world no more man with hell god with man against man the world world and hell what a fight is that it were worth an angel's while to come from the remotest fields of ether to behold such a conflict we come now to notice the weary combatant he lifts up his voice and weeping he cries oh Wretched Man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death it is the Cry of a panting
30:28 Warrior he has fought so long that he has lost his breath and he draws it in again he takes Breath by prayer oh Wretched Man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death he will not give up the conflict he knows he cannot and he dare not that thought does not enter into his mind but the conflict is so sore the battle so Furious that he is almost defeated he sits down to refresh himself and thus he sigh out his soul like the panting heart longing for the waterbrook he says a Wretched Man that I am nay it is more than that it is the Cry of one who is
31:14 fainting he has fought till all his strength is spent and he falls back into the arms of his Redeemer with this fainting gasp oh Wretched Man that I am his strength has failed him he is sorely beaten in the battle he feels that without the help of God he is so totally defeated that he commences his own whale of defeat oh Wretched Man that I am and then he ask the question who shall deliver me and there comes a voice from the law I cannot and will not there comes a voice from conscience I can make the see the battle but I cannot help thee in it and then there comes a cry from old
32:01 human nature and that says Ah none can deliver Thee I shall yet destroy thee Thou shalt Fall by the hand of thine enemy The House of David shall be destroyed and Saul shall live and Reign forever and the poor fainting Soldier cries again who shall deliver me it seems a hopeless case and I believe that sometimes s the true Christian may think himself hopelessly given over to the power of sin the wretchedness of Paul I think lay in two things which are enough to make any man wretched Paul believed the doctrine of human responsibility and yet he felt the doctrine of human
32:48 inability I have heard people say sometimes you tell the sinner that he cannot believe and repent without the help of the Holy Spirit and and yet you tell him that it is his duty to believe and repent how are these two to be reconciled we reply that they do not want any reconciliation they are two truths of Holy Scripture and we leave them to reconcile themselves they are friends and friends do not need any reconciliation but what seems a difficulty as a matter of Doctrine is clear as daylight as a matter of experience I know it is my duty to be perfect but I'm conscious I cannot be I know that
33:34 every time I commit sin I'm guilty and yet I'm quite certain that I must sin that my nature is such that I cannot help it I feel that I am unable to get rid of this body of sin and death and yet I know I ought to get rid of it these two things are enough to make any man miserable to know that he is responsible for his sinful nature and and yet to know that he cannot get rid of it to know that he ought to keep it down and yet to feel he cannot to know that it is his business to keep God's law perfectly and walk in the Commandments of the law blameless and yet to know by sad experience that he is as unable to do so as he is to reverse the motion of the
34:21 globe or Dash the Sun from the center of the Spheres how will not these two things drive any man to desperation the way in which some men avoid the Dilemma is by a denial of one of these truths they say well it is true I am unable to cease from sin and then they deny their obligation to do so they do not cry oh Wretched Man that I am they live as they like and say they cannot help it on the other hand there are some men who know they are responsible but then they say I but I can cast off my sin and these are tolerably happy The Armenian and the
35:06 hyper calvinist both of them get on very comfortably but the man who believes these two doctrines as taught in God's word that he is responsible for sin and yet that he is unable to get rid of it do not wonder that when he looks into himself he finds enough to make him sigh and cry ever to faintness and despair oh Wretched Man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death and now says one ah I would not be a Christian if that is the way in which he faints if he is always to be fighting with himself and even until he despairs of Victory stop a moment let us complete
35:52 the picture this man is fainting but he will be restored by and by think not that he is hopelessly defeated he falls to rise he faints but to be revived aresh I know a magic which can awaken his sleeping hopes and shoot a thrill along the freezing current of his blood let us sound the promise in his ear see how soon he revives let us Put The Cordial to his lips see how he starts up and plays the man again I have been almost defeated says he almost driven to despair Rejoice not over me oh mine enemy though I fall yet shall I rise
36:38 again and he lets fly against him once more shouting I thank God through Jesus Christ Our Lord so on he goes again more than a conqueror through him that has loved him this brings me to this last point that the Christian is to be a conqueror at last do you think that we are forever to be the drudges and the slaves of sin am I forever to be the galley slave of my own nature to tug for freedom and never to escape am I always to have this dead man chained to my back and sniff the pestiferous exhalations of his putrid
37:24 body no no no that which is within my heart is like a caged eagle and I know that soon the bars which confine me shall be broken the door of my cage shall be opened and I shall Mount up with my eye upon the son of Glory soaring upward true to the line moving neither to the right hand nor to the left flying till I reach my high nest in the Everlasting rocks of God's eternal love no we that love the Lord are not forever to dwell in Meek the dust May besmear our robes and filth may be upon our brow and beggared may be our garment but we shall not be so
38:09 forever the day is coming when we shall rise and Shake ourselves from the dust and put on our beautiful garments it is true that we are now like Israel in Canaan Canaan is full of enemies but the Canaanites shall and must must be driven out amalec shall be slain agag shall be heun in pieces our enemies shall every one of them be dispersed and the whole land from Dan to be Sheba shall be the Lords Christians Rejoice you are soon to be perfect you are soon to be free from sin totally free from it without one wrong inclination one evil desire
38:57 you are soon to be as pure as the angels in light N More with your Master's garments on you are to be holy as the Holy One can you think of that is not that the very sum of Heaven the Rapture of bliss the solet of the hilltops of Glory that you are to be perfect no temptation can reach you from eye or ear or hand nor if the Temptation could reach you would you be hurt by it for there will be nothing in you that could in any way Foster sin it would be as when a spark falls upon an ocean your Holiness would quench it in a
39:43 moment yes washed in the blood of Jesus aresh baptized with the Holy Spirit you are soon to walk the golden streets white robed and whitee hearted too and perfect is your maker you are to stand before his throne and sing his praises to Eternity now Soldiers of Christ to arms again once more rush into the fight you cannot be defeated you must overcome though you faint a little yet take courage you shall conquer through the blood of the lamb and now turning aside for a minute I shall conclude by making an observation or to to many now
40:28 present there are some here who say I'm never Disturbed in that fashion then I am sorry for you I will tell you the reason of your false peace you have not the grace of God in your hearts if you had you would surely find this conflict within you do not despise the Christian because he is in the conflict despise yourself because you are out of it the reason why the devil lets you alone is that he knows you are his he does not need to trouble you much now he will have time enough to give you your wages at the last he troubles the Christian because he's afraid of losing him he thinks that
41:15 if he does not tease him here he shall never have the chance to do it in eternity so he will bite him and bark at him while he may this is why the Christian is vexed more than you you are as for you you may well be without any pain for dead men feel No Blows you may well be without prickings of conscience for men that are corrupt are not likely to feel wounds though you stab them from head to foot I pity your condition for the worm that dieth not is preparing to feed upon you the Eternal vulture of remorse shall soon wet his horrid beak with the blood of your soul tremble for the fires of hell are
42:03 hot and unquenchable and the place of pedition is hideous Beyond a madman's dream oh that you would think of your last end the Christian may have an evil present but he has a glorious future but your future is the Blackness of Darkness forever I Adore You by the Living God you that fear not Christ consider your ways you and I must give an account for this morning's service you are warned men you are warned take heed to yourselves that you think not this life to be everything there is a world to come
42:49 there is after death the Judgment if you fear not the Lord there is after after judgment Eternal wroth and everlasting misery and now a word to those who are seeking Christ ah says one sir I have sought Christ but I feel worse than I ever was in my life before I had any thoughts about Christ I felt myself to be good but now I feel myself to be evil it is all right my friend I'm glad to hear you say so when sergeon heal a patient wound they always take care to cut away the proud flesh because the Cure can never be radical while the
43:35 proud flesh Remains the Lord is getting rid of your self-confidence and self-righteousness he is just now revealing to your soul the deadly cancer which is festering within you you are on the Shore Road to Healing if you are on the way to wounding God wounds before he heals he strikes a man dead in his own esteem before he makes him alive ah cries one but can I hope that I ever shall be delivered yes my brother if you now look to Christ I care not what your sin nor what your despair of heart if you will
44:21 only turn your eye to him who bled upon the tree there is not only hope hope for you but there is a certainty of Salvation I myself while thinking over this subject felt a horror of great Darkness rush over my spirit as I thought what danger I was in lest I should be defeated and I could not get a glimpse of light into my burdened spirit until I turned my eye and saw my master hanging on the tree I saw the blood still flowing Faith laid hold upon the sacrifice and I said this cross is the instrument of Jesus Victory and shall be the means of mine I looked to his blood I remembered
45:09 that I was triumphant in that blood and I Rose from my meditations humbled but yet rejoicing cast down but not in despair looking for the victory do likewise Jesus Christ came into the world to save Sinners believe that you are an awakened conscious and penitent sinner therefore he came to save you believe his word trust him do nothing for your own salvation of yourself but trust him to do it cast yourself simply and only on him and as this Bible is true you shall not find the promise failure you he that
45:57 seeketh findeth to him that knocketh it shall be opened may God help you by giving you this new life within may he help you to look to Jesus and though long and hard be the conflict sweet shall be the victory amen
