You never told me seriously of the misery of a natural, unrenewed state!
If you know well what grace is, and what a sinful, unrenewed soul is, you would not think it so easy a matter to convert a soul.
Hence men generally, and unrenewed men always, are unacquainted with much that goes on within their own minds and hearts.
But such is not the state of things, in the unrenewed soul.
The unrenewed heart never can do so; and hence, the moment you introduce God, all its reasonings fall to the ground.
There may be many petty little gods that he worships upon occasion, but every unrenewed man hath some one thing predominant in him, unto which he hath sworn obedience and devotion.
And thus, while living in an unrenewed and unpardoned state, we are legally dead; our life is forfeited to the claims of Divine justice; and we are exposed to the penalty of the violated law of God.
In fine, the preaching of the cross includes a faithful denunciation of eternal misery, as the inevitable doom of all who pass from this state of probation, unrenewed by the Spirit of grace, unwashed in the blood of the Lamb.
How clearly and terribly, my hearers, does this subject discover the ungodliness of the unrenewed heart.
On the other, there could not be a full disclosure of the true feelings of the unrenewed heart.
It is notunrenewed nature turning religious, trying to do better, endeavouring to keep the law.
Right acts from right motives are good, whether performed by a Christian or by one who is unrenewedin heart.
Doubtless this it is which the unrenewed heart cannot bear, the very notion of giving up sin altogether and once for all.
So is it with spirits and souls: an unrenewed spirit could not live in heaven, he would die; an Angel could not live in hell.
Even the offers of mercy to the unrenewed are made as the requirements of a mere law.
The unrenewed part of the community, both the clergy and the laity, look at them with some degree of amazement, regarding them as strange and mystical phenomena; but we know that they are the moral workmanship of the Spirit of God.
Distrust of God is the natural outgrowth of the unrenewed heart, which is at enmity with Him.
A religion of externals is attractive to the unrenewed heart.
But the Bible is interpreted in a manner that is pleasing to the unrenewed heart, while its solemn and vital truths are made of no effect.
Thus I have given you a brief account of the case of unrenewed souls, and but a brief one, because I have done it before more largely.
If you go into twenty families, and ask them all, whether any of them are in an unsanctified state, unrenewed and unpardoned, and under the wrath and curse of God?
The brutish appetite and sense hath got such dominion over the reason of carnal, unrenewed men, that for such to be governed by themselves, is for a man to be governed by a swine, or the rider to be ruled by the horse.
He will confess that he is a sinner, or any thing else which the most godly must confess, or which doth not conclude him to be in a damnable, unrenewed state.
It not only continues unchanged and unrenewed in its old disposition, but is obdurate and very old.
He makes leaven a general term for everything which proceeds from flesh and blood and an unrenewed sinful nature, but classifies it under two heads--the leaven of malice and the leaven of wickedness.
And it may be farther maintained, in opposition to this sentiment that the mere perception of truth, even when united with conscience, and personal fear and hope, is not sufficient to give the will power over the unrenewed affections.
If a saint--one who has been washed and renewed--finds nevertheless that his will is so weak as to need the continued grace of God to enable him to do the things that he would, much more is this true of the unrenewed sinner.
All the sanctified will be saved; all who die unrenewed will be damned.
Those who are unrenewed are not all equally depraved.
But alas, the carnal unrenewed mind is enmity against God and his Christ.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unrenewed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
