Let the light its sceptre wield.
While thy God prolongs His grace,
Haste thee to His holy face."

3. This purification from sin is _promised_. Nothing can be
plainer than the promise of God on this point. "Then will I
sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean; from
_all_ your filthiness and from _all_ your idols will I cleanse
you." When all is removed, nothing remains. When all filthiness
and all idols are taken away, none are left.

"But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound; that as sin
hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through
righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans
v. 20, 21). Grace reigns, not through sin, but "through
righteousness" which has expelled sin. Grace brings in
righteousness and sin goes out.

"If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His
Son cleanseth us from all sin" (1 John i. 7). Hallelujah!

"Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of
righteousness" (Romans vi. 18).

These are sample promises and assurances any one of which is
sufficient to encourage us to believe that our Heavenly Father
will save us from all sin, if we meet His conditions.

4. And that deliverance is _possible_. It was for this that