God Does Forgive

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 30, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 34.

God Does Forgive.— His mercy reaches as far as sin has blasted. “Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven.” Matt. 12:31. There is the sin of ignorance; there is the sin of yielding to temptation, knowing it is wrong, but too weak to resist; there is wilful, deliberate sin. For the first two there is abundant forgiveness; for the last there is no forgiveness, because there is no repentance. When God’s very means of healing is rejected, He has no remedy left. The failure is on the part of the sinner. God’s “mercy endureth forever,” but the rejected sinner will have none of it. He identifies Himself with sin, and with sin must suffer the consequences.