God's Remedy for the Old Man

BLJ: The only remedy for the old man is found in the atonement. It is not a matter of human effort or trying harder. It is about eradication, that is removal, of the old man. The power of the blood of Jesus Christ washes away our sins (things we do) and sin (our sin nature, the old man, that is carnality). 

GOD'S REMEDY FOR THE OLD MAN

"God is love." Love may be grieved, but loves still. Though grieved to the very depths of His great loving heart, God did not forsake man when he fell. Let Heaven and earth proclaim, "GOD IS LOVE." Love holds on when all else fails. "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.'' "When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly . . . . God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. "Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood . . . . be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen."

Through the loving sacrifice of the Father, the Atonement has been made. Through His exceeding riches in glory by Christ Jesus, provision has been made for triumphant victory for every soul. All who will may come to Jesus, and, through Him, have victory -- triumphant victory -- over all his enemies in life and in death, in time and in eternity. Glory be to our God and to the Lamb for ever and ever! Amen! Were it not for the marvelous grace and love of God, man would be absolutely helpless and hopeless. ''God is love.'' The Father love of God constrains Him to love man with an everlasting love, and to draw him with loving-kindness and tender mercies.

Redeemed men ought to make Heaven ring throughout eternity with shouts of glory over God's grace, His great grace, His riches of grace, His exceeding riches of grace.

The only remedy for sin is the Atonement. "The Atonement is the satisfaction made for sin by the sufferings and death of Christ, whereby salvation is made possible to man." Only through the Atonement can God retain His justice and holiness and forgive man. "All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." By nature, "There is none righteous, no, not one." The exceeding sinfulness of sin is manifested by every son of Adam. Yea, even children of tender days manifest the sinful tendency and total depravity of the natural human heart. Who can deny that the heart of man is hopelessly wicked and defiled? Who of sound mind cannot see that man's only hope is the Atonement? Experience joins witness with the Bible that "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately (that is, absolutely, hopelessly) wicked." Every one having the glory of entering Heaven will be able to sing, from the depths of his heart, to the praise of the Lamb of God, "Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals there of: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation." God's remedy for sin is the Atonement. The only way to deal with the old man is through the sufferings and death of Christ, the "Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world."