Gold Tried in the Fire - Robert J. Wieland

met our temptations as we must meet them. He
must meet our enemy on his own ground, in his
own lair, and there slay him.
God's holy law demands from fallen man a
righteousness that he cannot give because he has a
problem in his "flesh." Paul says: "I am carnal
[fleshly], sold under sin... The good that I would I
do not: but the evil which I would not [do], that I
do. Now if I do that I would not [do], it is no more
I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. ... Evil is
present with me, ... warring against the law of my
mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of
sin which is in my members... With the flesh [I
serve] the law of sin." Romans 7:14-25.
Every man and woman on earth must confess
that Paul knows what he is talking about. Sin has
established a stranglehold on our nature. Its
enticement and allurement are overwhelming. The
Enemy of Christ has gloated that he has apparently
invented a Frankenstein so strong that not a single
human being, other than Christ, has ever escaped
its tyranny. If he can prove that it is indeed
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