Revelation 7:13-14 And one of the elders answered, saying to me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and from where came they?… I. THE WHITE ROBES OF INNOCENCE. The devil stains our souls. The world, too, stains them. Alas! we stain them by our own folly and fault. II. THE WHITE ROBES OF PROMISE. These are the baptismal robes. III. THE WHITE ROBES OF CLEANSING. God gives us not one start alone in life; He gives us many. We make our promises, and we break them. But God never bids us give up hope. Try to do better. Lift up your hearts. IV. THE WHITE ROBES OF VICTORY. It will not always be striving here. It will not always be staining our robes and cleansing them anew, and then, alas! staining them once more. If we persevere, we shall win. It is not failing to succeed which is so bad, but failing to try. And all who try, however feeble they may be, however often they may give in to the forces against them, shall at the last "stand...clothed with white robes," etc. (J. E. C. Welldon, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? |
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