3.—When Have we the Possession?

Now, in the present time; for our text does not read “bad,” nor “will have;” it refers us neither to past nor future, but speaks of one blessed continuous present in the words “we have.” Do not then, dear soul, be deluded into the thought, that you cannot know your sins forgiven while upon earth. Men are either in their sins before God (a place of terrible solemnity), or they have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. They who have heard and believed the gospel, have now this blessed possession.