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经文: 祂儿子耶稣的血也洗净我们一切的罪。（约翰一书一：7）
经文中说：“洗净”，不是“将要洗净”。许多人以为死的时候可以盼望得到饶恕。能在现在被洗净比濒临死亡时能得赦要好得太多。也有人想像饶恕是要有多年基督徒经历才可能获得的。但是，赦罪是一件现在就发生的事──今天可得特权，此时刻的喜乐。罪人一信靠耶稣，就完全得饶恕。经文也指出继续的全义。昨日被“洗净”了，今日被“洗净”了，明日也将得到“洗净”。基督徒啊，赦罪是一辈子与你同在，直至你渡过生命之河为止。你能每时每刻到此泉下，让泉水不断的洗净你。请注意洗净的完全性。“祂儿子耶稣的血也洗净我们一切的罪”──不仅是一些罪，乃是“一切的罪”。圣灵将让你尝到这话的甘甜。我们得罪上帝甚多。不论所欠的帐是多是少，同一支票将这些罪全部偿还了。对鲁莽之彼得的过犯和所爱之约翰的缺点，耶稣基督的宝血所付出的祝福和神圣的代价是相同的。我们的污秽永远除去了，得到完全的祝福！临睡前，这是个值得凝思的甜美主题。
Evening, July 23
Scripture: “The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”(1 John 1:7)
“Cleanseth,” says the text－not “shall cleanse.” There are multitudes who think that as a dying hope they may look forward to pardon. Oh! how infinitely better to have cleansing now than to depend on the bare possibility of forgiveness when I come to die. Some imagine that a sense of pardon is an attainment only obtainable after many years of Christian experience. But forgiveness of sin is a present thing－a privilege for this day, a joy for this very hour. The moment a sinner trusts Jesus he is fully forgiven. The text, being written in the present tense, also indicates continuance; it was “cleanseth” yesterday, it is “cleanseth” to-day, it will be “cleanseth” tomorrow: it will be always so with you, Christian, until you cross the river; every hour you may come to this fountain, for it cleanseth still. Notice, likewise, the completeness of the cleansing, “The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin”－not only from sin, but “from all sin.” Reader, I cannot tell you the exceeding sweetness of this word, but I pray God the Holy Ghost to give you a taste of it. Manifold are our sins against God. Whether the bill be little or great, the same receipt can discharge one as the other. The blood of Jesus Christ is as blessed and divine a payment for the transgressions of blaspheming Peter as for the shortcomings of loving John; our iniquity is gone, all gone at once, and all gone for ever. Blessed completeness! What a sweet theme to dwell upon as one gives himself to sleep.
“Sins against a holy God;
Sins against his righteous laws;
Sins against his love, his blood;
Sins against his name and cause;
Sins immense as is the sea-
From them all he cleanseth me.”