Therefore these words, 'Rule thou over it,' do really point onwards
through all the ages to that one fact in which every man's sin is
conquered and neutralised, and every man's struggles may be made
hopeful and successful, the great fact that Jesus Christ, God's own
Son, came down from heaven, like an athlete descending into the
arena, to fight with and to overcome the grim wild beasts, our
passions and our sins, and to lead them, transformed, in the silken
leash of His love.

My brother! your sin is mightier than you. The old word of the Psalm
is true about every one of us, 'Our iniquities are stronger than
we.' And, blessed be His name! the hope of the Psalmist is the
experience of the Christian: 'As for my transgressions, Thou wilt
purge them away.' Christ will strengthen you, to conquer; Christ
will take away your guilt; Christ will bear, has borne your burden;
Christ will cleanse your memory; Christ will purge your conscience.
Trusting to Him, and by His power and life within us, we may conquer
our evil. Trusting to Him, and for the sake of His blood shed for us
all upon the cross, we are delivered from the burden, guilt, and
power of our sins and of our sin. With thy hand in His, and thy will
submitted to Him, 'thou shalt tread on the lion and the adder; the
young lion and the dragon thou shalt trample under foot.'




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