Renouncing Sin for Forgiveness
These are days of solemn decision. Men may buy lawyers, jurors, judges, in earthly courts. They may alter charges and pleadings. They may escape on technicalities. But no "immunity bath" will be given in the Court of high Heaven to the man who clings to his sin. No change will be made in the charge. God will forgive, but He demands that the one who seeks forgiveness shall renounce every sin. The smallest sin retained means disloyalty to God; for He demands, as He has the right, the abjuration, the forsaking of all sin. If, therefore, the soul chooses the sin, he by that choosing counterworks God; he becomes God's adversary, and is also working for his own destruction. But the soul who chooses God's way, renounces all sin, will have all his sins washed away in the blood of Jesus.