In a way, if in our Christian life we didn’t have a great failure – something that we do which makes the other saints shake their head when they think about it – we cannot say we have experienced a great repentance matched by God’s forgiveness… No, we don’t want to say, Let us do evil so that good may later come. We don’t want to tempt God nor do we desire to willingly fail, but we may fail and commit a great sin – we may have a great failure – and there will be a deep repentance that will follow.
our transgression plus our repentance joining God’s forgiveness issues in something for the building!
April 28, 2011 by 9 Comments
This morning I was reminded afresh of the verse in Matt. 1:6 in the genealogy of the Lord Jesus, And Jesse begot David the king. And David begot Solomon of her who had been the wife of Uriah. and I enjoyed the first part of footnote 3 on this verse, on the word, Solomon, When […]