Every moment, Lord
Continue to believe in him who loved you and gave himself for you, who bore all your sins in his own body on the tree. He saves you from all condemnation, by his blood continually applied. This is how we continue in a justified state. And when we go on from faith to faith, when we have faith to be cleansed from indwelling sin, to be saved from all our uncleannesses, we are likewise saved from all that guilt, that desert of punishment, which we felt before. So that then we may say, not only,
Every moment, Lord, I need the merit of your death.
But likewise, in the full assurance of faith,
Every moment, Lord, I have the merit of your death.
For by that faith in his life, death, and intercession for us, renewed from moment to moment, we are every bit clean. There is not only now no condemnation for us, but no such desert of punishment as there was before, the Lord cleansing both our hearts and lives.
1771 text
4. Continue to believe in him that loved thee, and gave himself for thee, that bore all thy sins in his own body on the tree, and he saveth thee from all condemnation, by his blood continually applied. Thus it is that we continue in a justified state. And when we go on from faith to faith, when we have faith to be cleansed from indwelling sin, to be saved from all our uncleannesses, we are likewise saved from all that guilt, that desert of punishment, which we felt before. So that then we may say not only
Every moment, Lord, I want The merit of thy death:
But likewise, in the full assurance of faith,
Every moment, Lord, I have The merit of thy death!
For by that faith in his life, death and intercession for us, renewed from moment to moment, we are every whit clean, and there is not only now no condemnation for us, but no such desert of punishment as was before, the Lord cleansing both our hearts and lives.
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Sermon 14 in the 1771 Works. Mark 1:15. Dated at Londonderry, 24 April 1767.
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