"How, then, can we be made clean to enter His presence? Because of Christ and Him alone, we have every right to come into the house of God. For our sakes, Christ “offered himself without blemish to God to purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God” (Heb. 9:14). In Christ, we have already been made righteous, holy, and cleansed. God, by his great love and mercy, has even declared us to be his own beloved children in Christ (John 1:12–13). We are adopted and have been given a family — the church. Having been united to Christ, we are also united to all those who are in union with him. This is our true family, those with whom we are making pilgrimage together to God’s heavenly land of rest, and with them we have the great privilege each Lord’s Day of resting at the brook along the way that God has provided to sustain the souls of weary pilgrims. God calls His covenant family to manifest the fact that we have been made righteous, holy, and cleansed in Christ. This requires that we not leave sin between us and God, or even between one another. God tells us that when we sin against Him or one another, we have a very simple and clear obligation: to confess our sins."
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 13:51:35 +0000
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