Jesus Cleanses Our Sins and Clothes Us with His Robe of Righteousness ㅡ
“But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;” (Romans 4:5; 5:1)
Well may our hearts turn to our Redeemer with the most perfect trust when we think of what He has done for us, even when we were sinners.
Through faith we may rest in His love.
“Him that cometh to me,” He says, “I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37).
It would be a terrible thing to stand before God clothed in sinful garments, with His eye reading every secret of our lives.
But through the efficacy of Christ’s sacrifice we may stand before God pure and spotless, our sins atoned for and pardoned.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
The redeemed sinner, clothed in the robes of Christ’s righteousness, may stand in the presence of a sin-hating God, made perfect by the merits of the Saviour.
Only through faith in Christ’s name can the sinner be saved....
Faith in Christ is not the work of nature, but the work of God on human minds, wrought in the very soul by the Holy Spirit, who reveals Christ, as Christ revealed the Father.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
With its justifying, sanctifying power, it is above what men call science.
It is the science of eternal realities.
Human science is often deceptive and misleading, but this heavenly science never misleads.
It is so simple that a child may understand it, and yet the most learned men cannot explain it.
It is inexplainable and immeasurable, beyond all human expression.
(In Heavenly Places 51)
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