Forgiveness Unlimited 9.27.11
Romans 8:1-2
1-2With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.
Unlimited—vast — without measure – boundless— are just a few of the words which describe the universe which God created.
Light travels at the speed of 186,000 miles per second which is mere than 11 million miles per minute or approximately 700 million miles per hour, or 17 billion miles in one day, or 64 trillion miles in one year which equals a light year.
Likewise God’s forgiveness of and removal of our sins are just as mind boggling as these numbers.
Everyone everywhere has placed themselves under a legal penalty by the fact that they have voluntarily broken God’s law.
Jesus came and took upon Himself men’s spiritual liabilities and paid the otherwise impossible price of redemption.
The purpose of forgiveness is to restore man’s relationship with God to the state it was in before sin entered.
God alone cannot restore man to fellowship, man must desire that fellowship.
Repentance is a positive, glorious gift of God that enables us to avert divine judgment for our sins.
The change which repentance brings about is so deep and radical as to affect the whole spiritual nature and to involve the entire personality. Psychology shows repentance to be profound, personal, and all-pervasive.
When God’s principles are followed, God’s promises are performed.
We must change our attitudes before God will change His judgments.
God forgives us even though He knows us better than we know ourselves.
Guilt is such a destructive force in our lives that Satan does everything in his power to see to it that the guilt is not remitted toward self.
We must never uncover what the Blood has covered.
