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Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Romans 7:24

If the Lord the Spirit has implanted that piteous cry in our soul, “O wretched man that I am!” this will follow as a necessary consequence—“Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” Where shall I look for deliverance? From what quarter can it come? Shall I look to the law? O no! that curses and condemns me, because I am continually breaking it. Can I look to friends? They may pity and sympathize; but they cannot remove the body of sin and death; it is too fast-linked on for them to remove.

Shall I go to ministers of truth? I may hear what they say with approbation; but there is something more needed to remove this chilling embrace of the body of sin and death. Shall I look to the Scriptures? They contain the remedy; but I need that remedy to be sweetly applied.

“Who then shall deliver me?” What refuge can I look to? Where can I go, or where shall I turn? From what quarter can help or deliverance come? See the bewilderment! view the perplexity of an exercised soul!—looking here, and looking there; turning to the right hand and turning to the left. Yet from one quarter only can the deliverance come.

And thus, when the Apostle was brought here—when he was sunk down to a low spot, and anxiously turning his eyes to every quarter to see whence deliverance could come—God blessed his soul with a view of His precious Son. God the Spirit wrought in his heart that living faith whereby he saw Jesus, and whereby there was a communication of the blood and love of the Lamb to his conscience.

To the reader…

Do you recognise this? You look in every direction for deliverance and find it nowhere. The law condemns you, friends can only pity you, and even hearing the truth does not take the body of sin away from you. What perplexity, what anguish, when the soul turns to the right hand and to the left and cries out, “Who shall deliver me?” Do not be ashamed of that cry; it has been put into your soul by the Holy Spirit Himself.

For it is right here, where every other way has been cut off, that God blessed the apostle with a view of His beloved Son. There is only one quarter from which deliverance can come: the blood and love of the Lamb. So do not keep looking to what cannot help you, but look to Him. He Who has wrought the need in you can also work that living faith by which His blood reaches your conscience.

With warm regards,
The compilers of jcphilpot.nl