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criminality and degradation of such a course, was just terrible. You
had not a sense of the aggravated character of sin.
God’s Patience With Sinners—The message was given Jonah to
Nineveh, that in forty days it should be destroyed. Nineveh repented,
and God spared the wicked city, because kings and nobles humbled
themselves greatly before God, and the Lord gave Nineveh chance
for repentance. If the Lord in His great mercy treats your case in a
similar manner, oh, I shall be so thankful. If He grants you probation
in which to manifest that repentance that needeth not to be repented
of, because you see and sense the real nature of sin, that you abhor
yourself because of your sin, and have an abhorrence likewise of the
sin, the Lord is gracious, of pitying tenderness and loving kindness.
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” [
1 John 1:9
].
I believe you have confessed your sin, and that God will pardon the
sin as He has promised. The only drawback in my mind is that the very
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same want of perception of what constituted sin, in the prostituting of
your body, giving it up to the use of an adulterer, a whoremonger, and
you connected with the work and cause of God giving Bible readings,
as though the Lord would serve with your sins while you were engaged
in His work and voluntarily seeking the embrace of an adulterer [is
still a weakness with you].
Divine Mercy to the City of Nineveh—I presented you with the
matter as presented to me, and tell you that God abhors all such things.
If your moral sensibilities are quickened, it is through the converting
power of God. If you are transformed in character, the Lord knows all
about that. And if you have through repentance been uplifted to reach
a high and holy standard, I cannot myself say the Lord will not regard
your case in the same light He regarded Nineveh.
Said the king of Nineveh, “Let man and beast be covered with
sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one
from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who
can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from His fierce
anger, that we perish not? And God saw their works, that they turned
from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that He had said that
He would do unto them; and He did it not” [
Jonah 3:8-10
]. Read this
over carefully, and if the Lord [should] trust you with His work, I have
not a word of objection. This is all I can say to you.