T H E K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.” (Eph. 4 :18 ): “Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.” In just what condition is the heart of the unregenerate man? (Jer. 17:9 ): “The heart Is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know It?” (Mt. 15:19): ' “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murder, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.” What is the consequence of this sin ful condition of man? (Jno. 8 :24): “If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.” (Matt. 16:16): “He that believeth not shall be damned.” (Heb. 9 :27): “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.” What is God's solution of the sin problem? (Jno. 3:16, 36): “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that who soever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.” (Rom. 5:6, 8 ): _. “For when we were yet without strength, In due time Christ died for the But God eommendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” What is the best advice for all men? (Isa. 55:6): “Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, eail ye upon him while he is hear.” (Rom. 10:13): “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Is there any one so low in sin as to be hopeless? (Isa. 1 :18 ): “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” What had to be required in the Saviour of men? .(Heb. 4 :15): “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” (2 Cor. 5 :21): “For he hath made him to be sin for ns, who knew no sin; that we might b . made the righteousness of God in him.”
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How has He put away sin? (Heb. 9 :26 ): “But now once In the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by th . sacrifice' of himself.” By what may we be cleansed from the guilt and stain of sin? (1 Jno. 1 :7 ): ¿‘But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the hlood of JFesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” Are there any who can get along without Jesus Christ as a personal Saviour from sin and its eternal conse quences?' (Rom. 3 :10 ); “As is written, There is none righteous, no, not one,” When a person is truly saved, what will be the result in the life? (Rom. 6 : 2 ) : “How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein V’ Does this mean that the sinful nature is entirely eradicated when one is saved? (1 Jno. 1:8, 10): “If we say that we have no sin, we jonnivA ourselves, and the truth is not in ” *if we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in U S ,” . Can a Christian safely assert that it is imnossible for him to sin? (1 Cor. 10 : 12 ) : “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. When a Christian sins, what should he do immediately? (1 Jno. 1 :9 ): “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. What provision is made for the sfns nf hollRvers? (1 Jno. 2 :1 ): “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make inter cession for them.” Are Christians liable, throughout thofr lives, to be beset by sin? (Heb. 12:1 ): “Wherefore seeing we also are com passed about with so great a cloud of wit nesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” “If any man sin, we have with the Father, Jesus righteous.” (Heb. 7 :25 ): an advocate Christ the
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