"One Sin"

From: Messages of God's Love: 1904

MOTHER,” inquired a little boy, “how many sins do people have to do to keep them out of heaven?”

“One sin,” replied the mother, “is quite enough.”

“Then it’s no use me trying to go,” said poor Willie, “for I’ve done more than one.”

Willie has since learned that the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanseth us from all sin; and now he knows that though his sins were very many, yet the blood of Jesus has washed them all away. Willie knows, too, that Jesus has gone back to heaven to prepare a place, even for him.

Little reader, are your sins forgiven? Has Jesus gone to prepare a place for you?

See Proverbs 24:9⁹The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men. (Proverbs 24:9); James 2:10¹⁰For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. (James 2:10); 1 John 1:7⁷But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7), John 14:2, 3²In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:2‑3).

“And now the ‘living way’

To all is open free;

And ruined sinners may

Go in and happy be—

May have their sins through Christ forgiven,

The only way to enter heaven.”

ML 07/03/1904

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