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<p>&quot;I know that nothing good lives in me—that is, in<br />
    my sinful nature. For I have the <strong>desire</strong> to do what<br />
    is good—<strong>but I cannot carry it out</strong>.&quot; Romans 7:18<br />
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    Now it is this which makes the Lord's people such a <br />
    burdened people—that makes them so oppressed in <br />
    their souls as to cry out against themselves daily, <br />
    and sometimes hourly—<strong>that they are what they are</strong><br />
    —that they would be spiritual, yet are carnal—that <br />
    they would be holy, yet are unholy—that they would <br />
    have sweet communion with Jesus, yet have such <br />
    sensual alliance with the things of time and sense—<br />
    that they would be Christians in word, thought, and <br />
    deed; yet, in spite of all, they feel their carnal mind, <br />
    their wretched depravity intertwining, interlacing, <br />
    gushing forth—contaminating with its polluted stream <br />
    everything without and within—so as to make them <br />
    sigh, groan, and cry being burdened, &quot;What a wretched <br />
    man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?&quot;<br />
    Romans 7:24<br />
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    He would not be entangled in these snares for ten thousand <br />
    worlds—he hates the evils of his heart, and mourns over the <br />
    corruptions of his nature. They make the tear fall from his <br />
    eye, and the sob to heave from his bosom—they make him <br />
    a wretched man—and fill him day after day with sorrow, <br />
    bitterness, and anguish.<br />
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    None but a saved soul, under divine teaching, can see <br />
    this evil—and mourn and sigh under the depravity, the <br />
    corruption, the unbelief, the carnality, the wickedness, <br />
    and the deceitfulness of his evil heart.<br><br>
  <strong>This inward conflict</strong>, this sore grief, this internal burden, <br />
    that all the family of God are afflicted with—is an evidence <br />
    that the life and grace of God are in their bosoms. <br />
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    &quot;Thank God! <strong>The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord!</strong> <br />
    So you see how it is—in my mind I really want to obey <br />
    God's law, but because of my sinful nature I am a <br />
    slave to sin.&quot; Rom. 7:25
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