Someone said, show me a home where the buffalo
roam and I'll show you a dirty house. Now if that's all that person
got out of that song, Home, Home on the Range, they've missed
the whole message. And that's the way it is with
most self-righteous religionists, actually all self-righteous religionists. They missed the message of the
cross. They just miss it. They're too wrapped up in their
own way of thinking of what they have done to earn merit with
God and have not seen that Jesus Christ and what He did for His
chosen blood-bought children is the only reason God has mercy
on anyone. And so, my subject this morning
has to do with the heart. Would you turn to Mark chapter
7? spiritual truths have to be explained. And God calls his
preachers out of darkness, brings them under the preaching of his
gospel, teaches them the message that he wants his people to hear,
and then sends them out as his chosen preachers to explain things
that The Word of God clearly teaches but cannot be understood
without the Spirit of God being the one who enlightens our minds. Now, the heart needs to be explained. We read scripture like the heart
is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can
know it? Most people think of the heart
as the muscle that pumps the blood throughout our body. And
we have special occasions, birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine's Day,
and people draw pictures of what the heart is shaped like and
even get little candy, you know, shaped like hearts, what have
you. And that's understandable. I understand that. But that's
not what the heart is referring to. When we read, as a man thinks
in his heart, so is he. Or, out of the abundance of the
heart, the mouth speaketh. Then we read, for we are to love
the Lord our God with all our heart and soul and strength and
mind. Let not your heart be troubled,
our Lord said. You believe in God, believe also
in me. So the heart, heart has to do with the inner person.
It's not the muscle that pumps the blood, it's that soul that
lives, it's the spirit within us where we think and out of
the heart come these thoughts that we have and our Lord explains
that here in Mark chapter 7 starting at verse 15 we read There is
nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile
him, but the things which come out of him, those are they that
defile the man. If any man have ears to hear,
let him hear." And when he was entered into the house from the
people, his disciples asked him concerning a parable. Now let
me make a a comment about this right here that is a biblical
truth. Our Lord did not speak in parables
so that he would be more easily understood. He spoke in parables
so that people wouldn't understand what he was saying. And then
when he was alone with his disciples he explained the meaning of the
parable that he spoke. And so his disciples wanted him
to explain what he was referring to when he just made the statements
about if we eat something that's not what's going to defile us
but what comes out of our mouth that's what defiles us so they
asked him to explain that and in verse 18 we read and he saith
unto them are you so without understanding also? Do ye not
perceive that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the
mouth, it cannot defile him." In other words, the food we eat,
the water we drink, or whatever, that doesn't defile the man.
"...because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly,
and goeth out into the draft, purging all meats." And he said,
"...that which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man,
for from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts,
adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness,
deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from
within and defile the man. So he's talking about that which
is within us, the innermost being. And in our unregenerate state,
before the Lord is pleased to send His Spirit into our heart
and quicken us, giving us spiritual life, all of the things concerning
God and His gospel and that which gives Him all the glories, nothing
but foolishness to us. And so we have within the innermost
person a deceitful heart and it's desperately wicked and we
can't even know our own heart. Let me take you over to Romans
chapter 8 and share some scripture that has to do with this very
truth. And I have three points that I want to share with you
concerning this message from the heart. Evil in me, good in me, and good
and evil in me. And I've titled this message,
In Me. So my first point on this subject
of the heart is evil in me. Now when we tell our hearers
that there's nothing good in any of us, we're not saying that
people have no morals. And I know people get a little
angry when you say, well, your grandma is no good. Well, we're not saying that.
We don't teach people that there's not good before our eyes and
what we can see in others. Our mama and our daddy were good
to us. Amen? I remember I remember what
my dad went through. I didn't know really how to appreciate
that until I had children of my own. I remember one time my
mama told me this. I have a sister. She's going
out into Eternity now, but she was a little older than me, and
my dad came into the house. It was just pouring down rain.
He'd been working all day. He was soaked from head to foot. And my sister Shirley was standing
at the window saying, let it rain, let it snow, I don't care,
no, no, no. And Daddy said, I could have
whipped her, but, you know, she was just singing from her heart.
But we don't appreciate, we really don't appreciate what our parents
go through until we're up and have children of our own. My
daddy and mama were good people, good people before my eyes. And
we're not saying that people don't have morals. Some people have more than others. Some children are raised in homes
where they're taught the difference between good and evil, and they
go out when they become young adults, and those things go with
them. They're good people, considered
very precious people in the neighborhood where they live. But we are saying
that in God's sight there is none good, no not one. You know why? In our unregenerate
state there is nothing within us that gives the Lord Jesus
Christ all the glory. We can't give Him glory until
we know Him. We can't glorify the Lord Jesus
Christ until He comes within us and reveals Himself to us,
not just in as far as the biblical view of him but a personal relationship
with him so that we know him and we love him and we worship
him then we have an understanding and only then of the difference
between that which gives him all the glory and our unregenerate
state which hated him and ran from him and would have any use
for him. Here in Romans chapter 8 in verses 6 through 8 we read
these God inspired words for to be carnally minded verse 6
for to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded
is life and peace because the carnal mind this is that person
that inward being that we're talking about the heart because
the carnal mind is enmity enmity against God for it is not subject
to the law of God neither indeed can be so then they that are
in the flesh cannot please God so in the flesh without the Spirit
of God dwelling in our heart in our unregenerate state we
can't do one thing that's pleasing in the sight of God I didn't
write this but that's what it says And we don't know this until
we experience the miracle of the new birth. Until God sends
the Spirit of His Son into our heart, where we can see the difference
between that new heart that He gives us and the old heart that
hated Him and ran from Him. Look over here in Romans chapter
7. We're right here close. Look
at verse 18. This is where I got the title
of this message, In Me. Writing on a divine inspiration
the Apostle Paul says for I know that in me for I know that in
me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing for to will is
present with me but how to perform that which is good I find not. So this is What Paul, writing
under divine inspiration, is conveying to all of God's enlightened
children, in that old unregenerate heart, in that inward person
that we come into this world with, dwelleth no good thing. That's hard to convey. Matter
of fact, people without the Spirit of God dwelling in them They
don't understand that. They can't believe that. And
so they think that they can somehow do enough good without way they're
bad and God will accept them on the basis of what they're
doing. And that just won't work. It will not work. Folks, I'm
telling you, there's no hope for any of us apart from the
Lord Jesus Christ. He is the believer's only hope.
Turn over if you will to Colossians chapter 1. The book of Colossians
is right after Philippians chapter 1. And my second point is good
in me. In our unregenerate state we
have no desire to give our Lord Jesus Christ all the glory. None
whatsoever. We want to share in that glory.
That's why false preachers. can easily convince their hearers
who do not have the Spirit of Christ dwelling in them that
they have something good in them. And God will accept that if they'll
just do that which is good. And so they build up their congregations
on the basis of what man does instead of what Christ does.
And people want to hear that. They delight in that. They want
to somehow rob God of His glory and share in that glory by something
they do. We don't know that Jesus Christ
is Jehovah God, our Creator. We don't know that in our unregenerate
state. Or we might have a mental ascent
to some facts concerning that, but we just don't know that in
a personal way. We don't know that Jesus Christ
is the true living God. We don't know Him. We don't.
We'll have a God of our own imagination and we'll bow down to that false
image in our own mind, but we won't bow down to the sovereign
creator of the Lord Jesus Christ who's on his throne right now
in glory ruling over this whole universe and everything in it.
We don't want that kind of a God to reign over us in our unregenerate
state. We don't know that Jesus Christ
was born of a virgin. We might say that We read that
in the scriptures, but we don't know why he was born of a virgin.
We don't know that. That has to be explained to us.
The blood of man could not enter into the picture as far as the
birth of the Christ child. God formed him in the womb of
the Virgin Mary so that in her womb he was as spotless and sinless
as he was when he was on his throne in heaven before he came
to this earth. And when He came from His mother's
womb, He was the pure, spotless Lamb of God. And everything He
did, folks, listen to me, everything the Lord Jesus Christ did was
perfect in the sight of our Heavenly Father. Every thought He had,
every word He spoke, every deed He performed, and His motive
for doing all of that was for the glory of His Father who sent
Him to this earth. He's perfect, pure, and holy,
and righteous, and undefiled. And that's our righteousness.
That's the believer's righteousness. That's the only righteousness
that our wonderful God will accept. So we don't know these wonderful
truths until the Lord reveals them to us by His Spirit dwelling
in us. We just don't know that by the
supreme sacrifice of Himself, Jesus Christ took away all of
our sins, removed them as far as the east is from the west,
and God remembers them against us no more. We don't know that
until we have those wonderful truths revealed to us by the
power of God the Holy Spirit working in us. Unregenerate folks
don't know that Jesus Christ was delivered for our offenses
and was raised again for our justification. I read in the
scriptures where God has justified me and I believe that. He justified
me through the perfect redeeming work of Christ my Savior and
God has forgiven us for Christ's sake. not for anything He sees
in us, not for anything that we have done, but for Christ's
sake. And our Lord Jesus is on His
throne right now, right now, as a glorified, exalted God-man, ruling over this whole universe
and everything in it. I don't care what it is that
happens. If it's a hurricane that hits
down in the Gulf of Mexico or over on the east coast, or if
it's an earthquake out in California, or if it's a tornado ripping
through any part of the country, my Lord Jesus is in control of
all of that, and He's going to accomplish His will through it.
I know that's hard to grasp, but it's true. It's true. Every drop of rain that falls
from the sky is purposed by Jesus Christ and falls right where
he wants it to fall at his own appointed time. I read in the
scripture when Moses stood before Pharaoh saying let God's people
go and he refused. God brought a plague of hail. Moses was talking to Pharaoh
inside out of the hail storm. Everything that was out there
that did not take cover, man or beast, anything that had breath
in it, was killed by the hail that came down from heaven. Moses
told Pharaoh that he was going to walk out of the city and then
he would raise, and the hailstorm would stop. He walked out from
where he was talking to Pharaoh, walked out of that city, the
hail was still falling, not one hailstone hit Moses, God directed
everyone, it's just the power of our Lord. And so we need to
bow down to His absolute sovereign power and recognize that He,
Jesus Christ, is the very one who's in control of all things.
1 Corinthians 2.12 says, Now we have received, not the spirit
of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might
know the things that are freely given us of God. So we've received. A man can receive nothing except
to be given to him from above. Why would we glory as if we haven't
received it? You see, God's the one who makes
us to differ. And it's just wonderful to look
now through the eyes of faith, the eye of faith I should say,
and see these things that bring glory to our Lord. There was
a time when we were so blinded we couldn't even see one thing
that brought glory to our Lord. And so it's God's grace and His
mercy and the Spirit of God guides His enlightened children into
all truth. Universal atonement is a lie. It's a blatant lie right out
of the pit. Jesus Christ did not die for
everybody. He did not atone for everybody's
sins. If He did, there would be no
hell. Everybody would go to heaven. Atonement was designed for a
particular people before a star ever twinkled in the sky. This
is God's plan for those He promised to Christ before the foundation
of the world. And when our Lord Jesus went
to the cross, He met all the conditions of the eternal covenant
of grace so that God Himself God the Father can look down
upon a particular people and accept them based upon what His
darling Son did for them. We have nothing to glory in but
the Lord Jesus Christ. He alone is the believer's hope. And we read that right here in
Colossians chapter 1, if you're with me, starting at verse 25. Paul says, where have I made
a minister Colossians 125, whereof I am made a minister according
to the dispensation of God, which is given to me for you to fulfill
the word of God, even the mystery which hath been hid from ages
and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints,
to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory
of this mystery among the Gentiles. Now catch this. which is Christ
in you, the hope of glory. In our unregenerate state there's
nothing good in any of us in God's sight. But when God performs
the miracle of the new birth, when He brings one of His blood-bought
children under the preaching of the gospel, and it's the appointed
time of love for that person, He sends His Spirit into the
heart of that individual, and we have a new man created in
us. And if any man be in Christ,
he's a brand new creation. And that new man that God creates
is Christ in us, the hope of glory. Brethren, that's just absolutely
amazing. Christ dwells in me. Christ in
me. That's the title of this message.
In me. And if Christ dwells in me, there's
good in me now. There wasn't before, not in God's
sight. But now He sees Christ in me. And if Christ is in me, that's
the only good I have in me. Any good we have is what God
puts in us. And any good that comes from
us, that's pleasing to God, is the result of the Holy Spirit
dwelling in us. And He alone will receive all
the praise and all the honor and all the glory. Brethren,
the only good, the only good that God sees in any individual
is Christ in us. the hope of glory. Our love for
God comes from Jesus Christ who lives in us. Our love for the
saints of God is the result of God's Spirit dwelling in us.
Our desire to worship God under the preaching of His glorious
gospel comes from Jesus Christ who gives us the desire to be
where that gospel is preached. I want to hear about Jesus Christ,
don't you? Why would I want to hear about
anyone else? Why would I want to hear about what so-and-so
has done for God? And you can name several of these
preachers who have doctor's degrees behind them, they have titles,
they come before the people boasting on who they are, where they graduated
from college, how many churches they found. I don't want to hear
about that. I want to hear about Jesus Christ. You know who He
is? He's the very one who said, let it be, and everything we
see in creation just came into existence by the word of His
mouth. That's power. That's power. So it's Christ in me that thrills
the hearts of God's people, and it's pleasing in God's sight
when His Son Jesus Christ thrills our hearts. That's the individual
dwelling in us. That's Christ in us. In me dwelleth
no good thing in my unregenerous state, but when I experience
the miracle of the new birth, and God sends the Spirit of His
Son into my heart, He sees Christ in me, and that pleases God. Brethren, we have so much to
be thankful for. We know that it's God who works
in us. Philippians 2.13 says, It is
God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good
pleasure. That's God. That's His Word. Our desire to get baptized, That's
Christ working in us. Our desire to join a local body
of believers, that's Christ dwelling in us. Our desire to support
our local church with our monies, our time, our prayers, our talents,
and our gifts, that comes from Christ dwelling in us. Our desire
to want to serve Jesus Christ is the result of Christ dwelling
in us, and He's going to get all the glory. Is there anything
wrong with Christ getting all the glory? There's something
wrong if we don't give Christ all the glory. Now if you will,
turn back to Romans chapter 7. We were there a moment ago. Our
closing point is good and evil envy. And we know that Christ
dwells in our heart God's power sending him out of
the preaching of his gospel but we still have that old nature
to contend with. I have good in me because Christ
dwells in me but that evil is still there too. There's a war
going on in the heart of every believer We want to do good,
but when we do, evil is present with us. And we have false preachers
amongst us who deny, they deny the two natures in followers
of Jesus Christ. In other words, what they're
saying is once we experience the miracle of the new birth,
we don't have any more sin in us. Well I don't know how they can
believe that unless they don't have Christ dwelling in them.
They don't know the difference because they're still in their
unregenerate state and all they have is that high opinion of
themselves. They don't see the difference.
If you've experienced the miracle of the new birth, you know the
difference. You can look back now and you can say, I can see
how blind I was, how deaf I was, how foolish I was, because Christ
has revealed that to me. But until we experience the miracle
of the new birth, we don't know. We can't tell the difference.
Our Lord Jesus came into this world to save sinners. And those self-righteous false
preachers, they're telling the folks, we're not sinners. Not
now. We're not. Well look, Jews said
the very same thing to our Lord Jesus. They said to Him, we'll
not be born in sin. We're God's children. We'll be Abraham's seed. And
our Lord says, you're of your father the devil. And they were. Jesus Christ Himself reveals
to us our helpless and hopeless ungodly, sinful state makes us
mournful over our sins. You'll never mourn over your
sins until God sends the Spirit of His Son into your heart. But
when He does, we'll grieve. We'll be remorseful. I'm sorry
I sinned against God. I still sin against Him. I don't
want to, but I do. evil still dwells in me. I hate
that. And I was preaching this years
ago, and there was a fellow in our congregation who had been
coming for several Sundays, and I made this statement. I just
hate myself for the things that go through my mind, the things
that I know are not pleasing in God's sight. And he told me
afterwards, he said, I wonder what you going to do when you
get to the scripture that says no man yet hated his own body. Well that's not talking about
the inward man, he missed the whole message. We take care of
our body, we wash it, we clean it, we take medicine when we're
sick, we exercise, some of you do, and we want to take care
of this body. I wasn't referring to the body,
I was referring to that old nature within us that's still there.
He missed it. When we're in that state without
Christ in us, we don't know these things. But when He sends the
Spirit of His Son into our heart, then these things are revealed
to us. So when we refer those self-righteous
sinners to these words of Paul in Romans 7, they say Paul was
referring to himself before he was converted to Christ. That's
not true. That just is not true. Paul says in this very passage
of scripture in verse 24 of chapter 7 of Romans, O wretched man that
I am, not that I was. He's referring to himself after
he was converted to Christ. Now here's a man who thought
he was doing God a favor by persecuting those who love the Lord Jesus
Christ. And he was on the road to Damascus
with letters from the high priest to persecute those who were followers
of Christ. He wasn't looking for Christ.
He had a high opinion of himself and thought he was doing God
a favor until the Lord knocked him down on his face before God
and he heard, Paul, Saul of Tarsus heard these words, Saul, Saul,
why persecutest thou me? And Paul said, who art thou,
Lord? He knew it was God talking to
him, but he didn't know what God it was until the Lord said,
I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecute. And Paul said
later, when I could not see for the glory of that light, he saw
the glory of God. He saw that bright light, brighter
than the new day sun, and was told to go right on into Damascus
and a man by the name of Ananias would come and speak to him.
God's word is so beautiful. He has ordained men as instruments
to bring the message of God's grace to those we have the honor
of preaching to. And you know what Ananias said
to Saul of Tarsus? The very first thing that Saul
of Tarsus heard from Ananias was, The God of our fathers hath
chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that just
one, and hear the voice of his mouth. Paul was a pattern for
all of us who would hereafter believe he said that. And so
he was a man who was used of God more than the other apostles. He founded more churches. He
suffered more. He was responsible for writing
at least 13 of the letters in the New Testament. God used him
in a mighty way and here he tells us in Romans chapter 7 starting
at verse 18 he said for I know that in me that is in my flesh
dwelleth no good thing for to will is present with me but how
to perform that which is good I find not For the good that
I would, I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but
sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that when
I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the
law of God after the inward man, but I see another law in my members,
warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity
to the law of sin, which is in my members. O wretched man that
I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank
God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I
myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of
sin." Now can you identify with those words? I'll tell you folks,
we struggle. We have weaknesses. We have a
mind that still dwells on evil things. We have a fleshly desire
for the things of this world. And we lust after them. It's
a heart matter. I'm bringing before you that
which deals with the heart. And it's going to be a war until
we get to glory. That struggle is going to be
going on until we're delivered from the body of this death.
We want to serve God. I want to. If I could, I wouldn't
sin against my God ever again. Is that the way you feel? We don't want to sin against
Him. But we can't make it through
one hour of any day without being aware of the evil that's present
with us. Even though we might have the
desire to do good, we know that that old part of us that we've
come into this world with is still there. Let me share something
with you over in First Timothy, I think it is. If you would turn
over there, I'll bring this to a close. First Timothy. chapter 6, 1 Timothy chapter 6. Every enlightened
child of God can identify with Paul's struggle in the flesh.
And of all the enemies that we do battle with, and we do battle
with them, evil forces of darkness, false preachers, neighbors and
loved ones who believe in a different Jesus than that which We read
about it in the Holy Scripture. We do battle with Him, but our
worst enemy is flesh. Our worst enemy is flesh. Self-righteous
religionists accuse God's preachers of encouraging our hearers to
commit sin, saying we're teaching others that grace gives us a
license to sin. That's a blatant lie. You've
never heard any of God's preachers encourage our hearers to commit
sin. Hate sin. Crucify the flesh. Don't yield your members to that
which is evil in the sight of God. Struggle. Try to walk pleasing
as children of light, but at the same time when we fail, when
we because of the weaknesses of the flesh do that which we
know is not pleasing in the sight of God rest assured we have an
advocate with God in heaven Jesus Christ the righteous who's pleading
for us who's pleading for us right now the love of God is
like himself perfect immutable he can't change God's love for
his chosen people is not determined by what we do or by what we don't
do. God's love stems from himself
and he tells us in the book of Jeremiah that he loves us with
an everlasting love therefore with loving kindness he draws
us unto himself. And brethren we're in a war We're
in a war, and we need to fight the good fight of faith. And
Paul tells Timothy that here in 1 Timothy chapter 6, if you're
there with me, starting at verse 12. He said, fight the good fight
of faith. lay hold on eternal life, whereunto
thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before
many witnesses." Timothy professed Christ. He professed Christ before
the apostles. He professed Christ as his Lord
and his Savior before many witnesses, and Paul is telling his beloved
son in faith, fight a good fight of faith. It's a fight worth
fighting for. It's a fight that we all know
about. We're fighting this fight. And
we're going to be victorious because Christ who is working
in us won't stop until we're delivered from this body of death.
He which hath begun the good work in us will perfect it until
the day of Jesus Christ. So we're more than conquerors
through Him that loved us. So we need to fight. He said
in verse 13, I give thee charge in the sight of God who quickeneth
all things and before Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate
witnessed a good profession, a good confession. We see God
as the one who gives life to everything that lives. He quickeneth
all things we read in verse 13. That's Jesus Christ. He gives
life to the elephant. He gives life to the little mouse.
He gives light to the worm that's crawling underground. Did you
know that every worm that crawls under this earth is on a path
directed by Jesus Christ our Lord and he cannot turn from
that I'm telling you the truth he gives life to everything that
has life and he's given us physical life and he has given us eternal
life and our Lord Jesus confessed a good confession before Pontius
Pilate he told him he told Pilate he said don't you know Pilate
said don't you know speaking to our Lord that I have the power
to either crucify you or set you free. Our Lord Jesus said
you wouldn't have any power over me at all if it wasn't given
to you from above. And brethren, I know that. We
know that. And that applies to every person
in any position of authority or any person who doesn't have
any authority for that matter. Jesus Christ is God's power read
on it says in verse 14 that thou keep this commandment without
spot unrebukeable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ which
in his times He shall show who is a blessed and only potentate
the king of kings and Lord of lords Jesus Christ is the only
potentate The Greek word for potentate is dunastis. It's where
we get our English word dynamite. Jesus Christ is the only power. He's the power of God. He upholds
all things by the word of His power. And I know people deny
that today, but when He comes again, He's going to show that
He is a blessed and only potentate King of kings and Lord of lords.
And we have that understanding right now. I know that our understanding
is limited. I know it's not perfect. But
brethren, we have some understanding of the greatness of our Lord
Jesus Christ as He is revealed on the pages of Holy Scripture. And He's coming back one of these
days to show that He is a blessed and only potentate King of Kings
and Lord of Lords. But by His grace, By His sovereign
grace and His sovereign mercy, we have bowed our heart, that's
that new man that God has created in us, bowed our heart to the
true and living God, giving Him all the praise and all the glory. for every blessing He's been
pleased to shower down upon us. And we, by God's grace, will
continue to do that until this is all over. And it looks like
it's coming to a close in a pretty big hurry. It wouldn't surprise
me, even though I'm right there on the threshold of going out
into eternity, I'm up in years, it wouldn't surprise me to see
the return of the Lord Jesus. before I go through that doormark
death. And I know people have been expecting this ever since
He ascended to glory. But it just looks like it's getting
close to me. But when it happens, when it
happens, everything is going to burst into His marvelous light. He's coming in flaming fire,
taking vengeance on those that know not God and obey not His
gospel. but he's coming to receive us
unto himself that where he is there will we be also and for
all eternity will be in the presence of the blessed and only potentate
King of Kings and Lord of Lords in a state of eternal bliss that
cannot even be put into words from any human tongue but every
enlightened child of God longs for that day when we'll see Him
face to face in all of His glory. I thank God for allowing me the
honor of bringing these thoughts before you this morning, the
subject of in me. In me and my unregenerate state
dwelleth no good thing. Christ in me is the hope of glory. That's the only good that God
sees in any of us. But while we're waiting to be
delivered from the body of this death, we have both good, which
is Christ, and evil, which is the old man dwelling in us. And these are contrary the one
to the other, so that we cannot do the things that we would.
But God helped us to have the desire to walk as children of
light for the glory of Jesus Christ who loved us and gave
himself for us. Amen. Thank you.