Emphasis Preaching Journal
The only one who knows...
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The only one who knows the temptation to sin in its full intensity is the one who has not sinned. Most of us give in to sin, before the temptation becomes uncomfortable. Only the one who has resisted it to the end knows the pain that can be involved. So it is that we can go confidently to Christ even when, or especially when we are plagued by temptation. He has been there before.
