II. An Example Of The Cleansing Power Of Christ.

We know nothing about how she had come under His merciful eye, nor any of the circumstances of her healing; but only that, this woman, with whom the serpent was so closely intertwined, as in some pictures of Eve's temptation, was not beyond His reach, and was set free. Note--

There is no condition of human misery which Christ cannot alleviate.None is so sunk in sin that He cannot redeem them. For all in the world there is hope.

Look on the extremest forms of sin. We can regard them all with the assurance that Christ can cleanse them, prostitutes, thieves, respectable worldlings. None is so bad as to have lost His love.

None is so bad as to be excluded from the purpose of His death.None is so bad as to be beyond the reach of His cleansing power.None has wandered so far that he cannot come back.

Think of the earliest believers--a thief, a woman that was a sinner,' this Mary, a Zacchaeus, a persecuting Paul, a rude, rough jailer, etc.

Remember Paul's description of a class of the Corinthian saints--such were some of you.'

As long as man is man, so long is God ready to receive him back. There is no place where sun does not shine. No heart is given over to irremediable hardness. None ever comes to Christ in vain.

The Saviour is greater than all our sins.The deliverance is more than sufficient for the worst.God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.'Ezekiel's vision of dry bones.