Love One Another
" Charity shall cover the multitude of sins." —I Peter 4:8 [KJV] Many sinners have and do awfully deceive their poor souls by a sad perversion of these words. For they suppose that being charitable to the poor will cover the multitude of their sins from the sight of a holy, sin-avenging God. O fatal mistake! Hence they are encouraged in their sinful practices, from such a vain, unscriptural notion. It is thy mercy, believer, to be delivered from such delusion, by the truth as it is in Jesus. For to atone for sin was His blessed work. He hath done it effectually by shedding His precious blood. And every believer in Jesus is the only blessed man, whose sins are covered by His all-perfect righteousness. Here is the true source and spring of charity, or rather LOVE, love to God and man. "We love God, because He first loved us." —1 John 4:19. And through the faith of this we obey His commandment, "Love one another." Of this charity, or love, th...