“Alas!” cries another, “I am helpless because I cannot quit sinning and I know that I cannot go to heaven and take my sins with me.” I am glad you realize that, because it is quite true. You must be divorced from your sin or you cannot be married to Christ. Think back to young John Bunyan. He was in a field playing sports one Sunday when this flashed into his mind: “Will you keep your sins and go to hell, or will you give up your sins and go to heaven?” That question brought him to a dead stop. It is the same question that everyone will have to answer, because there is no continuing in sin and
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