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Verse 5 of this same Psalm contains the record. "I said I will confess m}^ trangressions unto theAnd so: I acknowledged my sin unto And thou forgavest the iniquity of my When thus the soul holds on, and before GodLord." thee. sin".,.on bended knee mourns ...
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under sentence of death, our soul comes into direct contact, and immediate touch with the holy God. It brings us living and striking knowledge of him, with whom we have to do. The sin was terrible. ButGod used it for this end: that through it we should come to a better understanding of his holine ...
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And what do wefind even with the noblest of them, of a being busy with God? And of those who live only for business, and after that for pleasure, it must be confessed with shame, that there are no dealings with God at all. Add to this the people who are outspokenly wicked and godless in so ...
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to think of anything save God. That day is the day of judgment. In the representation of this day of judgment art has done much harm. As art it could not do otherwise than work with the representation. For this it borrowed its material and image from an earthly court of justice, with the millions ...
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asserted, that there was no God, or that nothing of him was known, or that there was no need to concern oneself about him. But after death one stands before this disregarded God, feels the terror of his all-pervading presence, and is no longer able, try what he may, to escape from him. For this i ...
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Savior. And liberated from the curse, he enters into eternal blessedness. But this opening of the book of the conscience will be terrible for those who died without* Christ.Conversion will then be too late. There can be no more hiding in Christ. Xo more* part can be obtained in the atoneme ...
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done either good or evil, are recorded side by side. This is the teaching of Scripture. For we must appear, "says the apostle," before the judgseat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad (2 Cor. 5:10). And every ...
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birthweareLifepassive.thenonlybegins.But when God has privileged us to reach the years of maturity, and the end has come, the servants and handmaidens of the Lord should not be dragged out by death against their will, but of themselves they ...
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wherever they may look, there will be nothing behind which to hide from the sight of the majesty of God. It then becomes the heat of a sun which does not cherish, but sears. The Scripture calls it hell, and so it is, but only by what God through his sacred presence makes it. If God could be done ...
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answer in reply: ''Behold, here I am, Lord," and then bravely enter the valley of the shadow of death and go through it, knowing that the Lord awaits our coming, and that by his hand he leads us through this darkness to the light. Let it be said at once that such ideal dying is rare. The woes and ...