THE SINFUL MAN AND THE WILFUL MAN

THE SINFUL MAN AND THE WILFUL MAN

As to your question, I understand the difference between the ‘sinful man’ and the ‘wilful man’ to consist in this — ^[p. 177] the former is the man in whom the sin is, who was judicially ended in the cross of Christ, which the believer knows when he believes on Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. He is then brought to God, all between God and him has been removed in the cross. If, like the thief on the cross, he dies, he enters into the greatness of the accomplished work; but if he remains here, and does not reckon himself to be dead unto sin — dead with Christ — he is reviving the will of the flesh, which had been set aside in the cross, and thus is the wilful man.

Grace enables me to say, “The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2: 20).

... I trust you were happy in the confidence that the Lord was with you; and that He is the unfailing resource even in these natural blessings, whether when we have them or when a time comes (which may come) when on our side there is “no wine”.