The mature believer who has grown in his understanding that salvation is all of grace will be deeply troubled by even the slightest suggestion that his salvation might be the result of his own virtue or merit. He would rather that his greatest moral failures be exposed and that he be looked upon with the greatest contempt than for someone to think too much of him and too little of Christ. Furthermore, he will disdain every accolade except that which is laid at the feet of Christ. It is for this reason that the mature Christian is not repulsed by the kind of preaching that exposes the universal
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