Sin separates us from God. David says in Psalm 32: "Oh the happiness of a man, to whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity. And in whose spirit there is no deceit.

When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day."

When we roar against others, the plank in our own eye too great to see our own sin; when we are sharp to look for fault in an other, yet are silent about our own sin, then our bones become old. And the roaring is also in us, convicting us by the Holy Spirit of sin and of judgement and of righteousness, but as we keep silent before God, our bones become old, we dry up inside as in a summer drought when the land dries and cracks. No one is persuaded by roaring.

But we do not have to live like this. We have a way to forgiveness.

In times past, we could bring a sacrifice which we gave t ...