32 The Fundamentals crimson, they shall be as wool.” Then turn to Romans seven and eight and read with him from verse fourteen. I have personally known more men reached by these chapters than by any others. They are a sort of photograph or mirror to most men of their own very lives. Just note that fifteenth verse: “For what I do, I allow no t; for what I would, that do I not, hut what I hate, that do I.” Then verse seventeen: “Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.” Read on, verse after verse, until you get to that power ful verse, the eleventh of the eighth chapter. Then you will have to stop. “But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you.” This verse will inspire most men who need it. I t lifts a man out of himself. There is actual life power in its truth. The thrill and longing is liable to come especially after a man has realized what sin is doing in and for him. I have known many a man look up at that verse and ask if it could be possible for him to attain such a thing. Of course it can. That eleventh verse, led up to aright by that which precedes it, will arouse almost any heart. Then take a man right over to chapter twelve: “I beseech you, therefore, brethren.” Tell your man how the first eleven chapters of Romans are the theory of Paul’s great theme of “Justification by Faith,” and that now in the twelfth we have the practical, hence the “therefore.” “I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacri fice, holy, acceptable unto God,1which is your reasonable service, and be not conformed to this world, but be ye trans formed by the renewing of youi mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Tell a man the glory of sacrifice, and what it means to live that kind of a life, subject to God’s will. Turn over then to Ephesians three, the fourteenth verse, and read Paul’s great
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