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" Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief." - 1 Timothy 1:15.

Every man looks upon himself as belonging to a small minority composed of the world’s best men. If there were one enormous circle drawn, and another very small one, the former for the great transgressors and the latter for the comparatively innocent, all the world with one consent would seek to crowd into the smaller circle. And in this they would be acting quite conscientiously. They are accustomed in their self-estimates to overrate the good and underrate the evil. Again, they judge of themselves, not by their actual works, but by their imaginations, aspirations, and unrealized capabilities. Circumstances, they say to themselves, keep us down; but we feel that we are capable of rising to the loftiest heights of moral power. Their bad qualities again are treated as accidents, not properly belonging to them; as barnacles cleave to the bottom of a ship. Thus it was with Paul, till the law came, and he found himself compelled to apply God’s standard of goodness to himself. Then he was filled with horror; sin revived and he died; the former Paul whom he had known and admired, and wanted all the world to admire, disappeared, and in his place came Sin, revealing itself in all his nature, all his habits, and, as it were, possessing him, from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet. He now finds it impossible to see so much sin in any other as he sees in himself; just as it is impossible for the eye to see so much of things at a distance, as of things at hand.

This mighty and, as it seems, incredible change must pass upon all men. Yes, all the proud, the boastful, the self-complacent, the moral; the souls that eulogize themselves for heaven-born impulses and heaven-high aspirations; these all must be brought to the condition into which the law brought Paul. I say not that they will not be brought out of it. "When the wrath of the Lamb shall be revealed, who shall be able to stand?

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