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Real Joy in Righteousness

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 28, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 17.

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Real Joy in Righteousness

“Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid.” The unregenerated heart is always asking for the privilege of continuing in sin. Why is this?—O, it is because of the pleasures that sin affords!” you say. But this is only a deception. It is not a real fact. Sin affords no pleasures that are real and abiding. The “pleasures of sin” at the best are but “for a season.” The Lord’s ways of righteousness are full of real joys, and these joys are everlasting. So, then, we should leave the paths of sin, because there is something infinitely better. If you do not know this, turn to the Lord with your whole heart and you will find by a living experience that it is a literal truth.