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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 5, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 18.

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Covering Sin

By D. L. Moody

THERE are two ways of covering sin — man's way and God's way. You cover your sins, and they will have a resurrection sometime; let God cover them, and neither devil nor man can find them. There are four expressions in the Bible with regard to where God puts sins. He puts them “behind his back.” If God has forgiven me, who shall bring a charge against me? “He has blotted them out as a thick cloud.” You see a cloud to-night, and to-morrow there isn't a cloud to be seen. “He casts them into the depths of the sea.” Some one has said: “Thank God that it is a sea, and not a river; a river might dry up, but the sea can not.” The greatest blessing that ever comes to me this side of heaven is when God forgives me. Have you been forgiven? The fourth expression is that he removes them “as far as the east is from the west.” Do you know how far that is? Perhaps some good mathematician will figure that up. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Then make sure that you are forgiven.— D. L. Moody.