Acts 3:26 To you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. Lady Somerset at Chicago said that in a fisherman's but in the extreme north-east of Scotland, she saw a picture of our Saviour, and as she stood looking at it the fisherman told her its story: "I was way down with the drink," he said, "when one night I went into a 'public,' and there hung this picture. I was sober then, and I said to the bar-tender, 'Sell me that picture, this is no place for the Saviour.' I gave him all the money I had for it, and took it home. Then, as I looked at it, the words of my mother came back to me, I dropped on my knees, and cried, 'O Lord Jesus, will you pick me up again, and take me out of all my sin?'" No such a prayer is ever unanswered. To-day that fisherman is the grandest man in that little Scotch village. "I asked if he had no struggle to give up liquor; such a look of exultation came over his face as he answered, 'Oh, madam, when such a Saviour comes into the heart He takes the love of drink right out of it.' This Saviour is ready to take every sin out of your heart if only you will let Him." Parallel Verses KJV: Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. |
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