The Sick World of Sin: The Flesh Within

By Marie Elizabeth Randall Chandler

What is sin? Anything that goes against the Word of God. In the end, sin will destroy us all. Yet through the Lord God, we have a way out, an end to eternal punishment and the beginning of life eternal. Our salvation is sure, promised and true. We desire to live as Christ, righteous and pure.

Though it is our heart’s endeavor to live God’s way, our flesh stumbles and falls each day. The battle of sin surely inevitable, a constant in the daily life we live.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: May 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9781532099922

Marie Elizabeth Randall Chandler

Marie resides in Texas with her husband and five cats. She is an avid runner and follows a strict organic whole foods only diet. She is an active member of the First Presbyterian Church and is devoted to learning, reading, and hearing God's Word.

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The

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of Sin

The Flesh Within

Marie Elizabeth Randall Chandler

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THE SICK WORLD OF SIN

THE FLESH WITHIN

Copyright © 2020 Marie Elizabeth Randall Chandler.

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Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 The Entanglement of Sin

Chapter 2 So Many Sin

Chapter 3 Sin Washed Away

Closing

About the Author

Streams of tears flow from my eyes, for your law is not obeyed.

Psalm 119:136 (NIV)

For the Lord God

who forgives us all!

For your name’s sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.

Psalm 25:11 (AKJV)

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Romans 3:23 (NIV)

If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to

do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

James 4:17 (NIV)

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Preface

Living life with God, how great it is.

For we are changed as we become more pleasing to Him.

We live life in accordance to His law; it is favorable for us all.

Though still made of flesh, we carry sin in each heart.

Yet what can we do?

For this is a part of who we are, a side so very hard to lose.

We fall again and again into a world of sin, hating every step we take.

For we know we are in the wrong place.

Yet we carry on.

This is the flesh in the sick world of sin.

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Chapter 1

The Entanglement of Sin

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Outright and purposed is this sin of mine.

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Weak without my Lord, hopeless with not a prayer.

This is life without God.

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The Spirit of God cries out in this flesh of mine,

though I continually cast Him aside.

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Create in me a pure heart, for You know I want to do right, yet I do not.

This sin of mine is straight from the heart.

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It is written do not grumble against one another, and surely do I know how very hard this is, guilty on all counts.

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Daily I ask the Lord to forgive my thoughts, for I know this is where sin starts.

It starts in the heart, runs to the mind, made active by deeds.

Steps ordered by just one thought.

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Found now bound and gagged, left alone to die, a bloody path follows feet.

For I have left the way of the Lord,