I'm sure we have all stained our clothes,and we have tried everything to remove it,but to no avail, we may be annoyed,and despose of the stained clothes.But let us consider another type of stain, that we cannot remove ourselves,the stain of sin.We all carry that stain because we sin,a lot of people would not agree with that,but there are none of us lily white. Let us look at a wonderful verse from Isaiah 1 v18,which reads,'Come now , and let us reason together.Says the Lord,''Though your sins are like scarlet ,They shall be as white snow; Though they are red like crimson,They shall be as wool'.These words use the imagery of scarlet and crimson,to emphasise the most extreme sinful state,but it goes on to tell us that we can know complete forgivness because Christ shed His blood on the cross,that means that we can be cleansed from all our sins .1 John 1 v 7 tells us that the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin'. Alex Nifong wrote the following,
'I hear Thy welcome voice
That calls me, Lord to Thee,
For cleansing in Thy precious blood
That flowed from Calvary.
I am coming , Lord!
Coming now to Thee!
Wash me, cleanse me,in the blood
That flowed from Calvary '
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