“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” 2 Corinthians 5:17
When a man is absorbed by a new master-passion, what a different man he becomes. The passion for wealth will work marvels! We have known idle people become very diligent, and profuse voluptuaries become even self-denying to their flesh–in their ambition to acquire riches.
In the same way, whenever God really saves a person, He gives that person a new master-passion–the passion of gratitude to Christ, along with love to the God who saved him. These always become a new master-principle which rules the entire man.
From the moment that a man sincerely believes in Jesus, his nature becomes different from what it was before. Because he receives a new heart. Another influence takes possession of him–and another love engrosses him.
He who once loved sin–now loves God and lives for Him.
By the saving grace of God, this supernatural change is possible even to the most vile and degraded people.
If a man has committed every crime in the whole catalog of villainy, and his heart has become as hard as the nether millstone, his disposition altogether vile, detestable, groveling, sensual, and devilish–the Spirit can turn that man in a single moment, into a lover of that which is true, right, and just! Yes, the Spirit can passionately inflame him with the desire to be perfectly holy!
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances!” Ezekiel 36:26–2
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