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IV. This Record May Be Blotted Out By The Blood Of Christ.
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It cannot be made not to have been, but God's pardon will be given, and in respect to all personal consequences it is made non-existent. Circumstances may remain, but their pressure is different. Character may be renewed and sanctified, and even made loftier by the evil past. Our dead selves may become stepping-stones to higher things.'
Memory may remain, but its sting is gone, and new hopes, and joys and work may fill the pages of our record.
He took away the handwriting that was against us, nailing it to His Cross.'
Our lives and characters may become a palimpsest. I will write upon him My new name.' Ye are an epistle of Christ ministered by us.'