"The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all
sin." – 1 John 1:7

"Cleanseth," says the text-not "shall cleanse."
There are multitudes who think that as a dying hope they may look
forward to pardon. Oh! how infinitely better to have cleansing now than
to depend on the bare possibility of forgiveness when I come to die.

Some imagine that a sense of pardon is an attainment only obtainable
after many years of Christian experience. But forgiveness of sin is a
present thing-a privilege for this day, a joy for this very hour. The
moment a sinner trusts Jesus he is fully forgiven.

The text, being written in the present tense, also indicates
continuance; it was "cleanseth" yesterday, it is
"cleanseth" to-day, it will be "cleanseth" tomorrow:
it will be always so with you, Christian, until you cross the river;
every hour you may come to this fountain, for it cleanseth still.
Notice, likewise, the completeness of the cleansing, "The blood of
Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin"-not only from sin,
but "from all sin." Reader, I cannot tell you the exceeding
sweetness of this word, but I pray God the Holy Ghost to give you a
taste of it.

Manifold are our sins against God. Whether the bill be little or
great, the same receipt can discharge one as the other. The blood of
Jesus Christ is as blessed and divine a payment for the transgressions
of blaspheming Peter as for the shortcomings of loving John; our
iniquity is gone, all gone at once, and all gone for ever.

Blessed completeness! What a sweet theme to dwell upon as one gives
himself to sleep.

"Sins against a holy God;
Sins against his righteous
laws;
Sins against his love, his blood;
Sins against his name
and cause;
Sins immense as is the sea-
From them all he
cleanseth me."

C.H.Spurgeon.