‘I don’t seem to be able to help it. It’s in my nature.’ Well, yes, that is certainly one way of looking at our sinful ways: it’s doing what ‘comes naturally’, and different weaknesses and flaws in different people come out in different ways. But as an excuse, it goes nowhere! What ‘nature’ are we talking about? Our ‘old nature’ before we knew Jesus, or the new nature that is God’s gift to us in Christ? It is still possible to find old school buildings with ‘Boys’
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