The Forgiveness of Sins
"In
Whom
we have redemption through His
blood, even the forgiveness of sins."
-COLOSSIANS
1:14 [KJV]
Of
all spiritual blessings made known to the soul by the power of God "a
knowledge of salvation by the remission of sins" is the hardest
to be obtained, and most prized when got. How many poor tried,
exercised, distressed souls are at this very moment sighing and
crying for the manifestation of this one blessing. These well know,
and some of them by the painful experience of many years' hard
bondage and travail, how hard it is to get forgiveness sealed on
their heart. Not that it is really hard on the part of God now to
forgive, that is, in experimental manifestation; for it is already
done to and for all the elect of God: "And
you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
hath He
quickened together with Him,
having forgiven you all trespasses"
[COLOSSIANS
2:13];
and again, "In
Whom
we have"
(not "shall have," but "have,"
that is, now
have)
"redemption
through His
blood, the forgiveness of sins."
Though he may not be able to lay hold of it for himself, appropriate
it as a personal blessing, and feel sweetly and blessedly assured, in
his own heart and conscience, of the forgiveness of all his sins; yet
every quickened soul is really forgiven all his trespasses, past,
present, and to come. It is one of the spiritual blessings with which
he has been blessed, already blessed, in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
February
12th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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