If he, a Christian, continues to sin...
If he, a Christian, continues to sin, then his works, endeavors, and labors will seldom receive blessing from God. If he is a preacher, God blows like billows on his ministry, so that he labors in the fire. He is not honored with any success, nor is he honored for doing any work for God. The world today is full of poor, withering professors of Christ. How few walk in any beauty or glory! How barren, how useless they are! Among the many reasons for this sad state of affairs is that many men harbor spirit-devouring lusts in their hearts. They are like worms at the root of their obedience, eating away at it, weakening it day by day. All graces, all the ways and means by which any graces might be exercised and improved, are compromised by this consuming lust. And as to success, God blasts the labor of such men. ~ John Owen
