ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
heaven where God will have a big book. The names of many people will be there. When God is about to read my name, Jesus will put His bleeding hand over it, and God can not see my sins." That little boy's experience shows clearly the mean- ing of the righteousness of God. "Blessed is the man whose sins are covered." But back to my experience this morning. When I came down to the church office, a young woman was sitting on the couch in the hall, waiting for me. We went into my st.udy. where she told her story. She was so nervous that she almost pulled her handkerchief to shreds as she talked. "I am the daughter of a minister," she said; "but I have sinned grievous- ly. I once joined the church. Then I went away to college, where all my faith was taken away. When I left school, I got a job in a certain city in Southern California, working in a hotel. There I fell into sin. But I came to the Church of the Open Door and heard you preach on the thirty-second Psalm-how God forgives sinners and does not impute sin to them. I fought against the conviction of sin, but I kept coming back. And now I want to know the blessedness David experienced." We knelt together, and she came to know the meaning of the words that David wrote from a penitent heart: "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered" (Rom. 4: 7). Let me say this: It is not in the day of judgment that God is going to cover sin and blot it out. It is right now that He does it for the man who acknowledges his sins. Then He blots them out, and remembers them no more forever. We have already seen that God must impute sin to someone, if not to you or me. God is never merciful at the expense of justice. If God did not impute sin to David, it was because He was going to impute it to One, Christ Jesus, our Lord. "He hath made him to be sin for usr who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him" Page 64]
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