As long as the natural life is in your body, it will do a lot towards repairing that body.\u00c2\u00a0 Cut it, and up to a point it will heal, as a dead body would not.\u00c2\u00a0 A live body is not one that never gets hurt, but one that can to some extent repair itself.\u00c2\u00a0 In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble….<\/p>\n
The Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him.\u00c2\u00a0 He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.<\/p>\n
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