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Buried in the grave of carnality and worldliness

"Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, 
set your hearts on things above, where Christ 
is seated at the right hand of God." Col. 3:1
How many there are even of those who desire 
to fear God who are kept down by the world, 
and to whom it has not lost its attractive power.

They are held fast, at least for a time, by worldly 
business—or entangled by worldly people or worldly 
engagements . . .
their partners in business or their partners in life;
their carnal relatives or their worldly children;
their numerous connections or their social habits;
their strong passions or their deep rooted prejudices; 
all bind and fetter them down to earth. 

There they grovel and lie amid "the smoke, and stir 
of this dim spot which men call earth;" and so bound 
are they with the cords of their sins, that they scarcely 
seek deliverance from them—or ever desire to rise 
beyond the mists and fogs of this dim spot into a 
purer air—so as to breathe a heavenly atmosphere, and 
rise up with Jesus from the grave of their corruptions. 

But they shall never be buried in the grave of carnality 
and worldliness.