Abraham is spoken of as a man of faith, but it is not told how he denied his wife down in Egypt; all that had been forgiven. Moses was kept out of the Promised Land because he lost patience, but this is not mentioned in the New Testament, though his name appears in the apostle’s roll of honor. Samson too is named, but his sins are not brought up again. Why, we even read of “righteous Lot.” He did not look much like a righteous man in the Old Testament story, but he was forgiven, and God made him righteous. If we are once forgiven by God, our sins will be remembered against us no more. This is
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