|
I saw that all this did not help me.
The second sermon was mightily accompanied by the power of the Holy Spirit, which took away all my supports and crutches and soon after had me crying out loud: That's what I'm missing, namely the full cleansing of all sins and of all formal, frivolous, artless and graceless Christianity. If I became a holy child of God, as the sermon proposed to me, then I would be victorious over all bitterness which I encountered.
The third sermon crushed my heart. Involuntarily I threw myself upon the mercy of my loving savior. In other words, I gathered together my guilt and innocence, my bad feelings, envy, resentment and bitterness which had raged within me since the New York Conference, no longer paying heed to the devil and casting my whole bundle of sins along with my sinful heart in faith upon the altar of my savior. May God forever be praised; he graciously accepted my offering and helped me. He washed me clean in his precious blood; he cleansed me of all my sins and of all things gnawing away at my heart and plaguing me since
|