The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
D. Christ overrules sin for the good of those who love him.  "Where sin increased, there grace abounded all the more"  (Romans 5:20).  Under the great Mormon organ in the Salt Lake City Tabernacle, a great pit was opened up to give the organ deeper tones.  Similarly, people who have been scarred and burned in the ugly pits of sin are often more CONSCIOUS of God's grace than some who have led more conventional lives.  Perhaps in this is explained why the publicans and harlots entered into the kingdom of heaven before the Pharisees.  Sin is overruled to the benefit of those who truly love God by increasing their appreciation for God's holiness, and through the discipline of sorrows suffered because of sin.  Through tragic experience, people learn what they should have known already, that God's word is indeed true, and that "the wages of sin is death."  God's teaching with regard to sin is confirmed and verified by every sin ever committed by either saint or sinner.  This endlessly-repeated proof and verification of God's word is a strong inducement to fidelity.