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Human Perversity

From: Faithful Words for Old and Young: Volume 9

GOD gave a law to convince of sin. (Rom. 7:7⁷What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. (Romans 7:7).)

FLESH uses the law to work out righteousness. (Phil. 3:9⁹And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: (Philippians 3:9).)

GOD acts in grace to lift us above sin and its dominion. (Rom. 6:14¹⁴For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (Romans 6:14))

FLESH would use grace as an occasion to sin without restraint. (Rom. 6:2²God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? (Romans 6:2))

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Faithful Words for Old and Young: Volume 9

• Introduction

• Two Friends, The

• Joy Unspeakable and Full of Glory

• Christ and Our Need

• Impossibility, An

• Plain Direction, A

• Self-Infliction

• Bible Truths Illustrated: Voices From Heaven

• Saw - Chose - Pitched His Tent

• Living With Jesus

• Little Singing Bird, A

• True Stories of God's Servants: William Farel's Two Days at Geneva

• Young Student, The

• Ah! I Have Rest Now

• Reuben Garman

• Spiritual Warfare

• Bible Truths Illustrated: Voices From Heaven

• In the Light

• Human Perversity

• Happy Childhood

• Nearly Drowned

• Priceless Treasure, The

• Working for Love

• Little Schoolmaster, The: True Stories of God's Servants

• Ruins of Tell Hum, Supposed to Be Capernaum.

• What Old Isaac Learned From Luke 15:1-7

• Waiting for the Bright Side