"If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His
Son cleanseth us from all sin" (1 John i. 7). Hallelujah!
"Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of
righteousness" (Romans vi. 18).
These are sample promises and assurances any one of which is
sufficient to encourage us to believe that our Heavenly Father
will save us from all sin, if we meet His conditions.
4. And that deliverance is _possible_. It was for this that
Jesus Christ, the Father's Son, came into the world, and suffered
and died, that He might "save His people from their sins"
(Matthew i. 21). It was for this that He shed His precious blood:
to "cleanse us from all sin." It was for this that the word of
God, with its wonderful promises, was given: "That by these ye
might be partakers of the Divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust" (2 Peter i. 4); by
which is meant, escape from inbred sin. It was for this that
ministers of the Gospel--Salvation Army Officers--are given, "for
the perfecting of the saints" (Eph. iv. 12), for the saving and
sanctifying of men (Acts xxvi. 18). It is primarily for this that
the Holy Ghost comes as a baptism of fire: that sin might be
consumed out of us, so that we might be "made meet for the
inheritance of the saints in light"; that so we might be ready
without a moment's warning to go into the midst of the heavenly
hosts in white garments, "washed in the blood of the Lamb.
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