One contemporary of Paul's named Serenus described his bondage in the pleasure of sin and yet his own desires to do what was right as a constant vacillation which was making him “sea sick.” Seneca another Greek contemporary of Paul declares himself to be “A man not to be tolerated” because like all men he loved his vices and hated them at the same time. He then wished that there was a Divine hand that would reach down to lift men out of their weakness.
In the midst of this decay and weakness and before the intolerable nature of sins entrapment and defilement, Paul raises the signal note the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ… before the entrapments of thievery and those softened by sin's pleasures… before fornicators and serial adulterers, and those prostituted in the wretchedness of the un-natural… Paul says, “And of such were some of you…” kleptomaniacs… alcoholics… sex addicts… homosexuals… serial abusers… NO MORE… “Of such were some of you…” Those who had once been slaves of wrong habits and incapable of spiritual life and power… those who by nature had been with out the inheritance of God's kingdom… were by the redeeming power of God… through Jesus Christ… Changed to be what they had never been able to be before… heirs of righteousness, heirs of the kingdom… and without the aching drag of their sins and their former way of life upon them. The greatest witness to the truthfulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ is its power to make people be through Christ what they had proven they had no power to be with out him.
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