It’s certain that those who Christ has washed in His precious blood don’t need to confess their sins as criminals before God the Judge, because Christ has taken away all their sins forever, so they no longer stand in a position to be condemned. But as children of God who sometimes disobey, shouldn’t

we go to our heavenly Father every day to confess our sins and acknowledge our wrongs? Just as nature teaches that it’s the duty of a child to apologize to their earthly father, the grace of God in our hearts teaches us that we, as Christians, owe the same duty to our heavenly Father.

Lovers of antiquity, make sure your antiquity is truly ancient. Let the old things be genuinely old. We’ve seen “real antiques” being made, with the final touches giving a fine dark finish to furniture supposedly from the middle ages but fresh from the

cabinet-maker’s shop. The infallible Word of God is older than the supposed infallible Pope, the priesthood of all believers is older than the clergy’s priestcraft, the epistles are older than the thirty-nine articles, and the true Church of God is older than any denomination.