Bible Passage:2 Peter 1:9
For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.
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Whoever does not have such an assortment of the fruits of faith, gropes like a blind man here and there, demonstrates by his life that he does not know what his true state is, that he does not have real faith, and that he has of the knowledge of Christ no more than that he can say he has heard of it. Therefore he goes along and gropes like a blind man on the way, in an unconscious life, and has forgotten that he was baptized and that his sins were forgiven him, and so he is unthankful, and is an idle, negligent man, who allows nothing to touch his heart, and neither feels nor tastes such great grace and blessing. This is the admonition which St. Peter gives to us who believe, to urge and enforce those works by which we shall demonstrate that the true faith is in us. And, even though he thus exhorts us, this ever remains true, that faith alone justifies. Where this faith, then, is present, there works must follow.
O Thou who wouldst not have
One wretched sinner die,
Who diedst Thyself, my soul to save
From endless misery!
Teach me my course to run,
While yet I sojourn here,
That when Thou comest on Thy throne
I may with joy appear.
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Cuda.
aka Pastor Robin Fish
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