The first thing the Holy Spirit does when He comes into a person's heart is this: He finds that person with A VERY GOOD OPINION OF HIMSELF. And there is NOTHING which prevents a person coming to Christ like a good opinion of himself. The Holy Spirit must lay bare that heart and let him see the loathsome disease of sin, uncover to him all the evil and defilement of the human heart. "The heart is deceitful above all and desperately wicked; who can know it?" But IT MUST BE KNOWN before the sinner will fall at the feet of Christ and cry, "Lord, be merciful to me, the sinner." Actually, the Spirit of God not only reveals the corruptions of our EVIL deeds, but the corruptions of our BEST deeds, until the convicted sinner weeps with Wesley and says,
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