The Expulsive Power of a New
Affection by John McDuff For all who are being led by the
Spirit of God, these are sons of God. Romans chapter 8 verse
14 I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in
my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. Ezekiel chapter
36 verse 27 God has made gracious provision
to secure on the part of His ransomed people a holy walk and
obedience, and that, not through their own strength, but through
the strength and power of His indwelling Spirit. By that Spirit
we are not only renewed but led. We are sweetly constrained to
walk in harmony with the divine will as manifested in His Word
and the impulses of our regenerated nature. We have here what is
called the expulsive power of a new affection. This expulsive
power of a new affection is a plant which our Heavenly Father must
plant. It is not indigenous to the natural soil of the human
heart, which is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. The power of sin becomes slowly
weaker and weaker. The power of grace, slowly, it
may be imperceptibly, becomes stronger and stronger. Reader,
have you in any feeble measure been able to realize the presence
and power of the indwelling Spirit, leading you to the surrender
of your heart and life to Christ? Is the Spirit gradually leading
you to the conquest of sin and the expulsion of whatever is
impure and corrupt, grasping and covetous, unloving and unholy? I will put fear of me in their
hearts, so they will never again turn away from me. – Jeremiah
32.40