The Pilgrim's Progress: A Readable Modern-Day Version of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Revised and easy-to-read) (The Pilgrim's Progress Series Book 1)

You can see that the law can both discover and condemn sin, but it has no power to control it.

neglected to watch and be on guard. As a result, I stopped controlling my lust, and now it runs free; I sinned against the truth and goodness of God’s Word; I grieved the Holy Spirit, and now He’s gone; I flirted with temptation, and the devil came to me; I provoked God to anger, and He abandoned me. At last, I’ve hardened my heart to the point that I cannot repent.”

was confident that the enjoyment of those things would bring me the happiness I desired, but now every one of those things bites and gnaws at my soul like a burning worm.”

“Jesus has given me rest by means of His sorrow and life by means of His death!”

This man can be compared to a wild donkey in heat that cannot be turned away.160 When their minds are set upon their lusts, they will have them, whatever the cost.

Also, I was greatly ashamed for the sin of my past lifestyle while amazed that I could be so ignorant to have never thought about the beauty of Christ before.

all our righteousness stinks in his nostrils and that even with our best performance we still cannot stand before Him with any confidence, then we know our thoughts are good.”

In this false faith, you have Christ justifying your actions rather than you as a person. It’s false to believe your actions will ever justify you.

This righteousness of Christ is not an act of grace by which He makes your obedience a justifying work acceptable to God. Rather, it’s His personal obedience to the law in suffering for us, which this same law required of us. I can tell you that true faith accepts this righteousness as if it were a blanket that completely covers the soul.

Yes, you’re also ignorant of the true effects of saving faith in this righteousness of Christ, which is to bow and surrender the heart to God in Christ to love His name, His Word, His ways, and His people and not as ignorantly as you imagine.”