ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
from the power of sin. The moment we cease struggling, the Spirit begins to work in the life. How long it takes many of us to come to the end of human effort! We must reckon our~ selves dead to sin, and dead to the law, so that the Spirit may work in us to give us victory. Again, very young Christians have often grasped this truth. Have you heard of the little girl in Scotland who applied for membership in a church, appearing before a group of dig~ nified elders who questioned her about her faith? One of them asked, "What are you trusting in for salvation?" And the little girl replied, "I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, that He died for my sins and rose again for my justification." The elder stroked his whiskers and asked again, "You have been saved through the blood of Christ, but does the tempter ever knock at your door?" The little girl, with a look of assurance, answered, "Yes; Satan knocks at my heart's door; but when he does, I say to Christ-He lives in me, you know-'Lord, wilt Thou open the door?' And when He goes to the door, and Satan see~ Him, he always says, 'Pardon me, but I knocked at the wrong door.'" Why should that little girl have opened the door to the tempter? She knew the secret of the eighth chapter of Romans, that it is the Holy Spirit who gives victory. He controls the life. "NO CONDEMNATION" 8:1 "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.'' This is the first verse of chapter eight as it should be read, as it is in the original Greek. The remain~ ing words in the Authorized Version, "who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit," were added by some translator; and therefore, they should be omitted. They obscure the text, and make it appear that our deliverance from condemnation depends upon our walk, which is not so; it depends entirely on the finished work of Christ! The Revised Version has made this correction. Page 134]
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