Sin is a condition of total corruption of both the faculties of the soul and the entire body of man. Sin is in the heart of man and always at work in its plans, schemes , and plots but we must gain control over it. We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. Or we resist sin at all cost by mortifying it in our thoughts by the word through the Spirit. So that the very seed of sin begins in the mind of man. Even on his bed he plots evil. Because in the heart of man is lust, greed, hatred, envy and a host of all other corruptions that make man faulty in his reasoning powers so that all of mans thoughts are futile. When man does not resist the desire to sin, he makes an idol , and he becomes like the thought he created so that he becomes like the idol he has made, he is greedy, hateful, lustful, envious and these idols that are man made are those paradigms that he lives his life by.
So that man loves what he creates in his own mind. And since his desire to cherish a lust has been his daily delight then man loves himself as a god. Every man has the potential to die in his atheism , if not as living without God, but practicing sin by his idols.
But the way of God is having power to exercise His will in spite of mans attempts to dethrone Him. God has spoken from eternity everything that comes into being. Since He has left us His revelation of Himself, that is natural revelation as well as special revelation, then we are only able to resist sin in these areas of casting down idols by that new life we have by His supernatural call from eternity , and not by any idea that we make to replace God as the cause of all things that come into being. If we are not totally unable to create an idea out of our own minds, then we are not able to resist the evil of an idea in ourselves. So that we rejoice in God as the cause of willing into existence all events past present and future for His own purposes of being good, for the purpose of giving Him glory. We know that He speaks nothing into being in the pleasure of our being enabled to glory in His work so that we will remain totally dependent on Him for everything.
We are saved for His glory, because He has given us a righteousness that is imputed to us as supernatural. Since we receive everything by His power over all things by Him exercising His will to do as He pleases, then we glory in that He willed our acceptance to not be anything in us, but only by the value of Christ life and death gaining the rite to rule all things. So that God might be exalted since anything that we design is always from a thing that already exist and is natural to a cause that exalts us by our pride of taking that causal glory from God. For God does not share His glory with man. And what ever good we have an understanding by is what God has declared and given by grace to us in the nature of who He is. The value of any good thing is in the nature of that thing.
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