The Expulsive Power of a New Affection
Thomas Chalmers
Why do we keep falling back into the same destructive patterns? Because willpower alone doesn’t break addictions or transform hearts. Instead, you need what Thomas Chalmers calls "the expulsive power of a new affection" — an experience of God's grace so compelling that it crowds out lesser desires. In this powerful sermon, Thomas Chalmers inspires Christians to remove the snares and tangles of sin―not through legalistic obedience but through the power of a new and greater affection for God. Chalmers reminds God’s saints that as sojourners living in this world, true power over the trials and sins of this life is found only in desiring Jesus Christ.
Salvation by grace—salvation by free grace—salvation not of works, but according to the mercy of God—salvation on such a footing is not more indispensable to the deliverance of our persons from the hand of justice, than it is to the deliverance of our hearts from the chill and the weight of ungodliness. Retain a single shred or fragment of legality with the Gospel, and we raise a topic of distrust between man and God.
