Forgiven souls are HOLY. Their chief desire is to please Him who has saved them, to do His will, to glorify Him in body and in Spirit, which are His. “What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits?”
(Ps. 116:12), is a leading principle in a pardoned heart. It was the remembrance of Jesus showing mercy that made Paul in labors so abundant, and in doing good so unwearied. If anyone points out to me believers who are in a carnal, slothful state of soul, I reply in the words of Peter, “They have forgotten they were purged from their old sins.” (2 Pet. 1:9.)
But if you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I answer, “He is under a ruinous delusion, and is not forgiven at all.” I would not believe he is forgiven if an angel from heaven affirmed it, and I charge you not to believe it too. Pardon of sin and love of sin are like oil and water—they will never go together. All who are washed in the blood of Christ, are also sanctified by the Spirit of Christ.
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Scriptures:
Psalm 116:12
What shall I render to the Lord
For all His benefits toward me? -nkjv
12 What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me? -kjv
What shall I repay to the Lord
For all His benefits to me? -nasb
What shall I return to the Lord
for all his goodness to me? -niv
2 Peter 1:9
9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. -nkjv
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. -kjv
9 For the one who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins. -nasb
9 But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins. -niv
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