It is
necessary.
"Choose I must, and soon must choose
Holiness, or Heaven lose.
If what Heaven loves I hate,
Shut for me is Heaven's gate!
"Endless sin means endless woe;
Into endless sin I go
If my soul, from reason rent,
Takes from sin its final bent.
"As the stream its channel grooves,
And within that channel moves;
So does habit's deepest tide
Groove its bed and there abide.
"Light obeyed increaseth light;
Light resisted bringeth night;
Who shall give me will to choose
If the love of light I lose?
"Speed, my soul, this instant yield;
Let the light its sceptre wield.
While thy God prolongs His grace,
Haste thee to His holy face."
3. This purification from sin is _promised_. Nothing can be
plainer than the promise of God on this point. "Then will I
sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean; from
_all_ your filthiness and from _all_ your idols will I cleanse
you." When all is removed, nothing remains. When all filthiness
and all idols are taken away, none are left.
"But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound; that as sin
hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through
righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans
v. 20, 21). Grace reigns, not through sin, but "through
righteousness" which has expelled sin. Grace brings in
righteousness and sin goes out.
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