AELW 11:274-275
"Thus the good things that are preached have to do with Christ glorified and with heavenly things, while the things that reprove our evils have to do with Christ crucified. To preach Christ crucified is to preach our evils that must be crucified and us who must be reproved.
....We want to rejoice with the saints, but we do not want to hear our sins reproved. The future joys please us, but we do not want to disturb our sins.
...suffering is common to all, but men do not want to receive doing good from God, because they boast of their own strength. Nothing is to be preached, indeed practiced, so much as knowing that we are nothing of ourselves and that we have everything only from above"
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