Kept by the Power of God unto Salvation!
" Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not." -I John 3:6 [KJV] Beware, O my soul! of licentious spirits, who make Christ a minister of sin, instead of a Saviour from all sin. For such are strangers to the sweet experience of abiding in Christ, whereby sin is dethroned in the heart, the power of it subdued in the life, and holiness maintained in the soul. To abide in Christ, is to continue to believe in, and rest upon Him, as the dwelling of our souls. “Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations” (Psalm 90:1.) This is the claim and confession of the faithful. Ask a believer, “where dwellest thou?" he will reply, On my own freehold, my Father’s patrimony, where my treasure is—IN Christ. Such an one sinneth not. What! never sin in thought, word, or deed? has he no sin in him? This state is the earnest desire of his soul. Verily, he doth not abide in Christ, who doth not long for it; but so far from being in it, that every believer feels he is a l