17 November 2007

Defeated

Christ defeated our sin on the cross, not so that we stop sinning, but so that our sins can't keep their hold on us any longer; not so that we try to free ourselves from sin, but so that we would already know that freedom; not so that we turn and fight our sins, but so that we repent and run from them.

The opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.-- Philip Yancey

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