Forgiveness Received (Ps. 32:1, 2)

Of the forgiveness of sins. I believe in the forgiveness of sins. That is the confession of the church of the Living God. In it lies the admission of the corrupt condition of the sinful heart -- the testimony of a wounded soul. Of sin, not simply as an objective fact, or as a matter of dogmatical knowledge, as the result of what one may have learned from others, no, but knowledge of self as an actual experience. The knowledge that creates sorrow and humiliation, of shame and unworthiness. For...