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their sins, turn from their course of iniquity, and with full purpose of
heart seek the living God. He is waiting to take away their stained
garments, polluted by sin, and to put upon them the pure robe of his
righteousness, to bid them live and not die. In him, as branches of
the Living Vine, they may flourish. Their boughs will not wither nor
be fruitless. If they abide in him, they can draw nourishment from
him, be imbued with his spirit, walk as he walked, overcome as he
overcame, and be exalted to his own right hand.
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