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The Mighty Deliverer, August 17
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people,
which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts.
Isaiah 65:2
.
The Lord God through Christ holds out His hand all the day long in
invitations to the needy. He will receive all. He welcomes all. He rejects
none. It is His glory to pardon the chief of sinners. He will take the
prey from the mighty, He will deliver the captive, He will pluck the brand
from the burning. He will lower the golden chain of His mercy to the
greatest depths of human wretchedness and guilt and lift up the debased
soul contaminated with sin. But man must will to come, and cooperate in
the work of saving his soul by availing himself of opportunities given him
of God. The Lord forces no one. The spotless wedding robe of Christ’s
righteousness is prepared to clothe the sinner, but if he refuses it he must
perish
The record of the past can be blotted out with His [Christ’s] blood, the
page made clean and white. “Come now, and let us reason together, saith
the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (
Isaiah 1:18
)....
The words falling from the lips of Jesus, “Thy sins be forgiven thee”
(
Matthew 9:2
), are worth everything to us. He saith, I have borne your sins
in My own body on Calvary’s cross. He sees your sorrows. His hand is
laid upon the head of every contrite soul, and Jesus becomes our Advocate
before the Father, and our Saviour. The lowly, contrite heart will make
very much of forgiveness and pardon....
We may repeat His tender compassion for us to others who are wander-
ing in the mazes of sin. The grace of Christ revealed to us must be tenderly
revealed to others. A great tenderness and compassion will fill the soul
for human beings who are still under the control of Satan. Christ is to be
multiplied in every man and woman who believes in Him, for they are to
live over the life of Christ in blessing and enlightening and bringing hope
and peace and joy to other hearts
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23
Letter 22, 1892
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24
Letter 120, 1893
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