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• The foolish failures and foul faults of such faithful men were forgotten and forgiven..

• and to Him. If remission of sins were only for those who had not sinned or if His forgiveness were only for the righteous, where would be the need of a Saviour? Remember the words He spoke about Mary? To whom much is forgiven, the same loves much. So do not fret or worry...
• New mercies, each returning day,Hover around us while we pray;New perils past, new sins forgiven,New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.

• Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.Hebrews 9:22
• separation from all that’s good. The sinner’s greatest need is for forgiveness of sins – and God alone can forgive sins.
• Kinsman-Redeemer But God had planned a unique way that all sinners could be forgiven of their sins., but it meant that the eternal Son of God would become a perfect human being so that He could be made a sacrifice for sin – a substitute for man – a kinsman-redeemer – and all who would believe on His name would be redeemed – saved forever. Life is in the blood and without the shedding of blood there is NO forgiveness of sins. Only a perfect kinsman-redeemer, Who  was willing to shed His own blood could redeem mankind.
• The Perfect Man Only God’s eternal Son was good enough to pay the incredible price for humanities sin, but God is Spirit and without the shedding of human blood – is no forgiveness of sins. He had to lay aside His glory, leave His heavenly abode and become the Son of Man. And so at God’s appointed time Jesus was born – as the innocent and perfect Man. Only the blood of an innocent and perfect Man was sufficient to pay the price for sin.

• I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, in order that Satan might not outwit us.

• Incorruptible Inheritance God has forgiven our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace. God has lavished upon us, all wisdom and insight into the mystery of His will. God plans to unite all things in Him, things in heaven and things on earth. It is by the counsel of His will that we have obtained an incorruptible inheritance…

• and even his righteousness was as filthy rags to the Lord, This great teacher of Israel was as guilty of breaking God’s Law, as everyone else. Had his need of forgiveness been revealed to him?

• Today is still the day for forgiveness and the day for love.

• Past present and future sins are forgiven, forgotten and flung into the fathomless sea..
• Forgiveness and Fellowship Although all our past, present, and future sins were forever forgiven at the cross God can never look on any sin – even a believer’s post-salvation sins.
• Sins we commit after salvation are forever forgiven but break our fellowship with Him.

• The lack I find in souls is, that while they know that their sins are forgiven, they do not know their new place.

• Our Substitute As our substitute Jesus went to the cross alone. As our substitute Jesus paid the price for our sins alone. As our substitute Jesus suffered the penalty for our sins alone. As our substitute we are accepted by God in the Beloved- alone. As our substitute we are forgiven because He alone died in our stead.
• As our substitute we are forgiven from the penalty of sin through Him – alone.
• It is grateful for the forgiveness of sins with the penalty of sins paid in full..

• for us, for our sins so that we may be forgiven and reconciled to Him, with the promise of eternal life.
• My Testimony When I gave my life to Jesus during the Billy Graham crusade event in Chesterfield in 1984, I remember being blown away by the fact that not only had my sins been forgiven and I had the assurance of eternal life but I had a direct line to Father God.
• Forgiven and Free No greater love,No greater forgivenessNo greater grace.
• In dying on that cross our Lord Jesus Christ, as He had promised, reconciled us to Father God in the forgiveness of our sins and the assurance of eternal life with Him and His Father – and the promise that He was leaving His Holy Spirit with us to live in us and amongst us until we die or  until He returns.

• The anguish, desolation, loneliness, and rejection poured on Him was the totality of humanities amassed evil – and the outflow from Him was forgiveness; hope; compassion – love.

• Died for All Christ died for the sin of the whole world which means that every man and woman who has ever lived has been forgiven of their sins.
• Grace and Truth Grace and truth came to the world for Christ died for the sin of the whole world so that every man has been forgiven of their sins.

• Gospel Teaching Some consider that unless a sinner believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, and in addition, goes through the process of repenting of all their sins – they are not properly saved. Many believers are told by certain teachers and preachers that unless they repent of every sin they have ever committed – then they cannot be properly forgiven by God. But this goes against the teachings of both John – the beloved disciple of the Lord and the apostle Paul, who was called as God’s special witness to the gentile nations.

• It tastes of mercy and forgiveness, grace and divine love.
• Man’s Desperate Cravings The deepest and most intense craving of the stained sinner is FORGIVENESS.
• How to Know Christ Are you longing after God – desirous of His presence? Do you seek to be filled with His Spirit and overwhelmed by His Love? Do you yearn for forgiveness and holiness and assurance? Do you call out with Paul “That I may know Christ – that I may know Him?

• Victory of Defeat We all delight in the wonderful news that all our sins have been forgiven, past present and future, and rightly so – but new believers should also be trained up in the Christian life and understand about post-salvation sins, and how they can all to often affect our relationship to God and our fellowship with Him.
• And although the power sin has been severed in our life, and we have been given a new live in Christ, believers still commit sins and although forgiven through the blood of the Lamb, often have consequences to face.
• A Consequences Check Are my sins not properly forgiven as a believer?
• A believers’ sin of fornication is forgiven, but the result may be aids or a baby.
• A believers’ sin of ‘murder’ is forgiven, but a consequence may be prison.
• A believers’ sin of stealing is forgiven, but may result in the loss of a friend’s trust, but most serious of all is that any sin in our life puts us out of fellowship with the Father – eternally saved but devoid of communion with God.

• One Way There is a need in the life of all mankind for God – for His forgiveness and love, and multiple methods have been designed in an attempt to reach humanity’s goal..
• God’s Wisdom There is a need in the life of all mankind for God – for His forgiveness and love, but the true and only God has been swept aside in preference for man’s imaginings. Multiple methods have been designed in an attempt to reach humanity’s goal. God will once again astound these hypocrites with amazing wonders.

• At the home of the sin-stricken paralytic in Capernaum He graciously announces:- Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee, Matthew 9:2.

• Gift of Grace We don’t deserve His forgiveness or salvation, but it is His gift of grace to us, and because we are in Christ we have been brought to complete fullness. There is nothing lacking in the Christian, because we are complete in Him.

• Microscope of Grace Let us allow the truth of God to deal with our whole spirit, soul and body, as day by day we replace ourselves under His microscopic gaze of grace. Such scriptural self-examination – will issue in godly repentance. Such self-searching will occasion a turning from every known transgression. This will not only result in avoiding outward sin which can mar our testimony, but will prevent us entertaining the inward sins, which so easily ensnares us:- lack of faith as well as jealousy, pride, bitterness, lust, un-forgiveness, fear….

• Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered, Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.Psalm 32:1-2
• Forgiveness Benefits Many believers recognise David, as a man after God’s own heart.
• We read: blessed is he whose transgression (sin) is forgiven; blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

• – and that means no forgiveness for anyone – not for me, for you… not for Mary
• Forgiven by the Lord The gentle handmaiden of the Lord is in equal need of His grace and forgiveness, but once forgiveness is bestowed ALL condemnation is eternally removed, forever: for there is therefore now NO condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

• The Shed Blood Christ went to the cross not only to die for our sins – but to die unto SIN. His blood not only to paid the price FOR sin but it also broke the power OF sin in us. Many do not appreciate that Christ’s cross dealt with more than forgiven sins. The shed blood of Christ also gave us victory over the power of sin in our life,
• Willing Victim Christ died instead of us for our forgiveness – He lives instead of us for our deliverance. When we start to see the significance of the fuller cross – it produces a liberty in life. Because Christ died as the willing victim – death has no more dominion over Him. Because our identification is with Christ – sin shall no more have dominion over us. I have been crucified with Christ.

• Faithful Shepherds It seems these men, like David the shepherd king, were men after God’s own heart, as night after night and maybe year after year – these ones were unseen but faithful – unseen by multitudes, who daily flocked to the temple to seek YHWH’s forgiveness. Seen by the One who daily covered those sins – until the fullness of time came in…

• Covenant Theology, at the utmost, is forgiveness of sins and divine favor enjoyed; and all that concerns their position in the Lord Jesus is ignored, or alas!

• PEACE would rejoice in forgiveness and grace.

• God’s Peace He knows that the only peace with God a sinner will know, is His forgiveness, but He also knows that the only path for His children is their need of Him – for it is only as we rest in Him will we find the true peace OF God.

• Second Man  Just as sin entered the world through the disobedience of one man, and death came through sin, causing condemnation and separation from God to be the inherited status of all people – so also redemption came to the world through the obedience of one Man, resulting in the forgiveness of sins for all humanity – and light and life and hope and peace and renewed fellowship with the Father – to ALL who would believe on His name. It was divine grace that provided a second Adam to redeem the fallen race of man.

• 2 Aspects of Salvation The death of Christ is the most wonderful thing that deserves our thanks, for through the death of the innocent Victim our sins were forever forgiven.
• How many prefer to simply focus on the initial surrender – forgiveness of sins..
• Surrendered Life Praise God for those that focus on the initial surrender of a forgiven sinner, but how crucial the we go on to that glorious surrendered life of a saint.
• The Galatians were forgiven, born-again people, who were not relapsing into sin, but they were foolishly falling into the trap of ego, self-righteousness and pride.

• A person may easily know his sins forgiven, but it is a further truth to know that he himself has died to sin.' He finds this conflicts with his experience.
• He tells us our sins are forgiven, and it is a question whether we believe Him.

• God’s Forgiveness If pardon is offered on the condition of repentance, I need faith to accept it.
• If forgiveness is dependent on confession, I need to trust 1 John 1:9 for if we (who are saved) confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• I need to trust that God says what He means and I need to thank Him for His blessed gift and rejoice in His loving forgiveness – or I live my life enchained and entrapped behind the prison door of unbelief.
• Faith is the key that unlocks the heart to God’s forgiveness.

• ot knowing He bore their sins on His shoulders, so that they could be forgiven.
• Forgiveness was God’s heart of love towards the perpetrators of this heinous crime..
• Only the love of our precious Saviour could have implored such a powerful pardon – and His death purchased and procured God’s gracious forgiveness for us all.
• yet had they known the fuller consequences, Jesus would never have been crucified, for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.1 Corinthians 2:8  But the Lord Jesus had to die if we guilty sinners were to live. Had the Lord of glory not died our sins could not have been forgiven.
• Propitiatory Sacrifice Perhaps this is the epitome of the goodness of God, Who turns all evil to good. God’s propitiatory sacrifice for sin was the product of history’s most heinous crime. The crucifixion of God’s Son, opened the floodgates of His gracious forgiveness – and His death paid for the full price of humanities sin – all the sin of all men, so that all that believe in His name will be saved.
• Heaven is open to all who believe that Christ paid the full price for their sins. Salvation is the gift of God to all that believe in the name of His only begotten Son. Forgiveness is the precious fruit on the tree of life to all that accept His forgiveness.
• Christ’s substitutionary death at Calvary paid the price for the sin of the world. His precious pardon was prayed over every guilty person, Jew and Gentile alike. Forgiveness is Father-heart of God’s great love towards every guilty sinner – believing on the Lord Jesus Christ is the only requirement – What think ye of Christ?

• Plan of Redemption Every member of the human race is a sinner – so all are under God’s condemnation, but God’s plan of redemption was so designed that sin could be eternally forgiven – the Lord Jesus willingly took the punishment to forgive the sin of the whole world.
• Blood of Christ So if our sin is already forgiven – what does it mean when John tells us that: the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin?
• Permanent Union The union we have with Christ when we first believed is eternal and can’t be broken. When we trusted Jesus as Saviour all our sins – past, present and future were forgiven – and we were placed in everlasting, permanent and unbreakable union with Christ.
• the cross dealt with forgiveness of sin – but confession restores communion. When we discover we are out of fellowship with God we need to confess our sins. When we realise we’ve sinned we need to go straight to the throne of grace and confess – and when we do we are restored into loving fellowship with our heavenly Father.
• Forgiven and Cleansed Sins are finally and forever forgiven at the cross – all sin. A believer who sins is cleansed by simply telling the Father – Father I sinned.

• We were removed from the filth of Satan’s kingdom and eternally positioned in Christ – and nothing in heaven or earth can secure this forgiveness – but Christ’s blood.

• True Forgiveness Forgiveness not only covers forgiving those that have deeply wronged us, but sometimes we too need to accept that we have been truly forgiven. Guilt often suffocates the breath of life that came from the cross announcing :- “It Is Finished”
• Remembered No More Too often we revisit forgiven sins and beat ourselves mercilessly for our misdemeanours, but once forgiven, that sin is remembered no more.
• Once forgiven, your sins are as far away as the east is from the west.
• No Fishing The great D.L Moody once noted that if God promises to cast all our confessed sin into the depth of the sea, we must not get out a fishing line and keep pulling them back in. If God has forgiven you then accept His forgiveness and forgive yourself as well.
• Daily Cleansing Day by day we need to confess the sins we commit – moment by moment, for if we confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from every wrong. 1John 1:9 But remember – once forgiven, that sin is remembered no more. Once forgiven – your sins are as far away as the east is from the west.
• Renouncing Anger To forgive others you need to renounce anger and resentment against the other, but have you been willing to accept God’s forgiveness of all of your sins? Are you prepared to bestow on another the gift you received from God?  Can you honestly withhold forgiveness towards another, when the Lord gave His beloved Son’s life in order to forgive you?
• I spent time identifying and praying forgiveness over everything: Forgiveness over every person; cleansing over every situation, for I had not been faithful in applying 1 John 1:9 – For if we believers confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from every wrong.
• Prayer of Forgiveness How true is the scripture that tells us that love covers a multitude of sins. Little did the martyred Stephen, as he received those vicious attacks from his aggressors know how far his prayer of forgiveness would stretch. Little did he realise that his forgiving prayer, which echoed the One on the Cross would cover the man Saul, who stood in agreement to his murder. Little did Stephen realise that his prayer of forgiveness would cover the man who became the apostle to the gentiles and wrote:-The greatest of all is love 1Cor.13:13
• is the Sacrifice of Praise and forgiveness is one of the main requirements for a heart of praise.
• Broken Heart Forgiveness is one of the main requirements of a broken heart, for forgiveness helps address the other elements needed for a broken heart. Forgiveness can help to identify self, pride, anger, lust, jealousy – regret.
• Golden Gate Forgiveness opens the golden gate to God’s loving fellowship in your life.

• The elder brother in Luke 15 did not object to his brother being forgiven, but it was unwelcome to him to see the wonderful excess of grace bestowed on him by the Father.
• Thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.' Many have the sense of forgiveness without the knowledge of His abundance. -J.B.S.

• Sufficient Forgiveness Do you sometimes revisit those sins committed in the flush of youth? Do you bow your head in shame thinking that your sins were too grave to be forgiven? Do you strive; in your own way, to prove yourself to now be good enough? You foolish man – you silly woman, accept His forgiveness and be comforted. You pride yourself, that the depth of your faults exceeds the height of His Grace. Your sins, like grains of sand, are washed in the vast ocean of His loving absolution.
• Empathy for another is discovered from our Heavenly Comforter’s arms, for His forgiveness and consolation, flows out from Him, through you – to others.

• Step to Holiness Man of himself remains dead in trespasses and sins… unless and until he is washed: cleansed and forgiven in the blood of the Lamb.

• The truth of His Father-heart of love has at times become warped and distorted, as He is manipulated  into the image of a demanding brother; a scornful mother; an abusive father… as God’s love and His forgiveness – His promises and His precepts are twisted to blaspheme His holy character. Many will not face the truth that their view of God could be thus distorted.

• Eternal One Mercy and Truth meet and are linked together in His eternal embrace. Righteousness and Peace are joined in God’s profound Love and Grace. Mercy is disposed to Clemency and Pardon. Truth is linked with Justice and Punishment. Righteousness must maintain the blameless One, yet judge the sinful one. Peace would rejoice in Forgiveness and Grace – all have their roots in the Love, Tenderness and Intimacy of the Eternal One.

• Grace Upon Grace Our sins are forgiven and we’re made alive – quickened into new and abundant life, and the supernatural grace of sanctifying grace cascades into God’s glorifying grace.

• In union with Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our sin, according to the riches of God’s grace.
• Cost of Redemption Sometimes we overlook the enormous significance of salvation – and its cost to God, but redemption and the forgiveness of sins is according to the riches of His grace.
• Forgiveness of Sin Forgiveness of sins is just one from a shower of blessings He richly bestows upon us. The shedding of His blood secures pardon and God remembers our sin no more..
• but without forgiveness of sin we are ineligible for all other graces of salvation.
• All the riches of redemptive grace are uniquely united with the forgiveness of sins – for a holy God can’t look at sin but as forgiven sinners we are united with His Son.
• Vital Trigger This is a mystery that is beyond the comprehension of our limited understanding, for forgiveness is the vital trigger from which explodes the riches of God’s grace.
• In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our offences.
• Riches of God’s Grace But why would God allow His dearly beloved Son to be treated so cruelly and suffer? How could God’s love for alienated sinners rationalise this treatment of His Son – well it seems that there is one answer and one answer alone. It was according to the riches of God’s grace – for we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our offences, according to the riches of God’s grace,

• Greater Plan Every believer in Christ rejoices in their salvation, knowing that their sins have been forgiven and that they have received eternal life – knowing that they have a glorious inheritance, which is laid up for them in heaven.

• They often hide behind the skirts of faith, forgiveness, peace and long-suffering.
• Paul tells us in Eph.4:32: be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another..even as God for Christ’s sake, hath forgiven you.

• Like us, all sins are forgiven, but only because of Another – only because of a sinless One.
• Just like you and me, Job’s sins are forgiven through my living Redeemer.

• Underlying Lesson The underlying lesson of the life of Job has nothing to do with sins. It has nothing to do with any sin righteous Job did or did not commit. It has nothing to do sins Job’s friends accused him of committing. Past, present and future sins of the believing man are forgiven and forgotten. The same holds true for the man of God today – all sins are forgiven and forgotten – past, present and future – all forgiven and forgotten. So don’t pride yourself that your forgiven sins are influencing the troubles in your life.

• Jesus offered her His love and His forgiveness..

• I write unto you, my little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake. 1 John 2:12
• and John the apostle in his twilight years was submerged in love for His Lord, for he had dwelt on His gracious words, for no man spoke like this Man:  “love as I loved; trust as little children; forgive as your Father has forgiven you”.
• Deep Love John had experienced the love and forgiveness of Christ in His own turbulent life, for this son of thunder who thought to strike others with fire and brimstone..
• ow seeks to smite them with Christ’s forgiveness and the love of Jesus..
• Deep Forgiveness This beloved disciple had seen forgiveness flow at Calvary as Christ implored: “Father forgive them for they know not what they do”. This devoted follower had witnessed words of forgiveness to the burly fisherman: “feed my lambs, feed my sheep” – feed my precious, little children. This ageing apostle longed for others to know the blessings of Christ’s forgiveness. This prophet of God ached that others be washed in the blood of the Lamb.
• Wrath of God John knew these children were sinners, both in practice and by nature. He knew the blessings of forgiveness and grace of God were freely open to all, but he also knew the only sacrifice for sin rested on the spilt blood of the Lord Jesus. John knew He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities – for the wrath of God was poured out on Christ to pay that price for all sin.
• Blood of Christ God’s forgiveness was for HIS sake – for Christ’s sake; for the sake of His Son – it was not for the sake of man’s merit or man’s work, but for His name’s sake.
• His death alone could satisfy the wrath of a holy God for the sin of the world – and your sins are forgiven you, for His name’s sake.
• John drank deeply of the love and forgiveness of His Jesus, and so we read: I write unto you, my little children, because your sins are forgiven you – for HIS name’s sake.

• God’s Forgiveness God is gracious and merciful and full of tender, loving-kindness.

• Preventing disloyal betrayals of trusted friends may dictate a smoother route, but it won’t perfect in us a generosity of heart towards gracious forgiveness.
• They are not only used to test worthiness, patience, faith and forgiveness – but to strengthen it, to increase it, to perfect it.

• Well at rebirth, all our past, present and future sins were forgiven forever, and that’s grace.
• Our ungrateful hearts, fleshly irritations, lack of forgiveness and criticism of others fall far short of God’s standard, which grieves the Spirit and blocks our fellowship, with the Father – and that requires us to confess our sin to Him.
• It is not to beg for mercy, seek forgiveness, plead repentance, or weep copious tears, though that may take place.
• Consequences of Sin His faithfulness guarantees forgiveness as well as a return to fellowship.

• all who respond to Christ’s self-giving, by giving ourselves wholly unto Him. He was the innocent sacrifice that was nailed to Calvary’s cross. He was the willing victim, Who spent His life and Shed His blood for me. He identifies with me that I might be forever forgiven. Should not I fully identify with this blessed Saviour and Lord..  every moment of my life, for ever and ever, AMEN.

• Life of Christ Forgiveness at the cross is the first of numerous acts of the Spirit in a new believer… but from the beginning we are placed in Christ.

• Never build your preaching of forgiveness on the fact that God is our Father and He will forgive us because He loves us.

• Strength of Christ Being kind to one another; tender-hearted; forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.. And in the sight of God this is of great value. But how to follow His wonderful example? How to be merciful, compassionate, forgiving, loving and good? HOW ?

• First Love In the beginning the joy of sins forgiven was a mountain-top experience.

• Forgive me for going back to such an elementary stage, if it is necessary to ask forgiveness, for it is just possible there are some among us whose relationship is of that kind.

• Night of Forgiveness That ‘Last Night’ He was the object of a cruel joke..

• That they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith (Acts 26:18).

• When we truly hate ourselves, we are prepared to rejoice in the blessed fact that we have been crucified with the Lord Jesus - that sin in the flesh was condemned (not forgiven) when He died unto sin, that our whole history as in the flesh closed before the Father in His Son's death - and that this is our title to be free.

• Not only forgiven, child of God.
• Forgiven and blameless.

• Most do not care to go beyond the thought of forgiveness and a godly walk in the world; but it is our Father's pleasure and purpose to bring us as priests into His presence.

• He has in the first place rejoiced greatly in the forgiveness of his sins, and his acceptance by God; but sooner or later he begins to realise that all is not well, and that he has failed and fallen from the high standard from which he set himself to reach in the first flush of his conversion.”

• Divine Love This love is not the frothy romance of novels – nor the passion of a paperback. It speaks of strength and stamina, pain and long-suffering patience. It speaks of heartache and endurance. It speaks of deep disappointment, and yet an abiding forgiveness. It speaks of love that never fails, despite the grossest betrayals. It speaks of tenderness, regardless of the most ruthless duplicity. It speaks of forbearance and grace, in spite of deception and disloyalty. It speaks of the deepest affection – a love that never gives up – that never ever fluctuates, no matter what. It speaks of His precepts and promises through poetry and prophecy.

• Broken Fellowship Although we are forgiven sinners, and in unbreakable and eternal union with Christ, there are times when we fall into sin and every sin places a barrier between God and us.

• The Father has left us as much dependent upon the Lord Jesus' work for our deliverance from the power of sin as for our forgiveness!

• Then patience and forgiveness are easy, for we already see the Lord's finished work.

• Twisted Truth We are forgiven – yes indeed, and as pure and innocent as the Lamb that was slain. Let us never forget what He has done for us – and Who He actually is.

• God’s Purpose God purposed His own Son would shed His innocent blood to pay the tremendous price for the sin of the entire human race – as God’s perfect Law required. God’s plan was not simply to restore man to his original position – where sins could be forgiven and a right standing between God and man could be restored.

• And we are to become kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one other – just as God in Christ Jesus also has forgiven each of us.  see Ephesians 4:32.

• Sea of Forgiveness Past pains can erect future barriers that entomb hearts and wreck relationships.
• Bury all thoughts of unkindness and bitterness, in His sea of forgetful forgiveness and lay to rest each sadness and each bitter memory – all dislikes and painful resentments.

• Our Good Shepherd He is praying for us now, that our faith will not fail – and even when we become faithless, His prayers and pleadings on our behalf are honoured by the Father – for we are kept through His pleading prayers – so that when we do return into His arms of forgiveness – we will strengthen our brethren. He is praying as our good Shepherd for He knows each one of us by name.

• Forever Forgiven And from His unblemished sacrifice..
• And Christ received the wages for my sins and yours so we could be forever forgiven.

• Union With Christ Forgiveness at the cross is the first of numerous acts of the Spirit in a new believer… but from the beginning we are placed in Christ.

• Price for Sin When the Lord Jesus died on the cross His death paid the price for all sin, so that all who believe on Him would receive forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• Not changed or forgiven but utterly condemned in the death of the Lord Jesus.

• What was born in Job, blossoms throughout the God-breathed Word, as one by one, we see the same purifying process being perfected, in each saint… not as a punishment for sins forgiven, but a deeper understanding of God’s Way.

• Christ’s Peace He not only bestows on us peace WITH God as we nestle in His forgiveness, that glorious ‘new birth’ peace with God the Father….and endows us with the peace OF God, which protects and guards our hearts and minds… but also by His grace He lavishly supplies us with His OWN peace… the peace of God that surpasses understanding – the peace of Jesus….

• This is an epistle that should permeate the warp and woof of our forgiven souls.

• Believers in Christ are forgiven their sins; and clothed in the righteousness of Christ.
• In Acts 26:18 we read: by faith in Christ they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified, while in Romans 6:19 we read: just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

• In-Christ Every member of the human race that trusts Christ – is born again into Christ. All who trust Christ as saviour become God’s children and joint-heirs with Christ. All in Christ have been regenerated, forgiven and clothed in His righteousness. Every born-again believer is freely given salvation by God’s grace – thru believing,  and the consequences of this is everlasting life and eternal union with Christ. This is the irreversible and glorious consequence of accepting Christ as Saviour.
• But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and His gift of forgiveness to many through this other Man, Jesus Christ.

• We do not deserve to be forgiven, but the Lord Jesus deserves to be trusted.

• Words of Forgiveness I wonder what touched the heart of this criminal – this malefactor and thief, who sharply rebuked his fellow-convict to call out: Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.
• Did this dying man hear the gracious words of forgiveness..
• the sweet words of forgiveness that dropped from the lips in this innocent victim?
• Death should hold no sting for Christ’s redeemed and forgiven ones – “for to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 5:8

• see Psa.51:10  A pure heart must first be a clean heart, a washed heart, a penitent heart..  a heart forgiven by God Himself and a heart cleansed by Christ’s blood.

• He has not only in His mercy forgiven us of our ugly filth and died to accomplish it..  but He organised that we died with Him – so that we could never be hurt by death.

• Just as a sinner is taught to rest in the Lord Jesus' shed Blood for his forgiveness, so must the saint rest in the Lord Jesus for his deliverance from the power of sin and the grip of the law - yes, and from himself, also.

• His entreaties are to the lost sinner and the errant saint alike – all need His continuous flow of love and forgiveness.

• Object of God’s Love Such love pours out itself in giving gifts to the object of its love. Such love expresses itself in forgiveness of the object of its love.

• The marvels of conviction of sin, forgiveness, and holiness are so interwoven that it is only the forgiven man who is the holy man, he proves he is forgiven by being the opposite to what he was, by God's grace.

• Forgiveness has been procured for all mankind who would believe, and He could now say:- “Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit.
• Sins Forgiven By faith He clung, irrefutably to, MY God and MY Father.
• Forgiveness of sins at this point was finished.
• Hallelujah, all my sins are forgiven and flung as far as the east is from the west.
• Forgiveness of sins at this point was Finished.

• No doubt I shall find lovely confidence in the Lord in respect of His government of this world, the comfort of forgiveness, the happy confidence of integrity of heart, and remarkable prophecies of Christ; but where shall I find heavenly hopes, or my union with the glorified Lord Jesus, or even the out-flowings of divine grace, as manifested in His person on earth, or the blessed affection which flows from hearts acquainted with these?

• The forgiven man is on an altogether new ground with God; he is on the ground of grace - grace which is set forth in Christ.

• The Father has left us as much dependent on the Lord Jesus' work for our deliverance as for our forgiveness.

• And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses (Col. 2:13).

• Our sins are forgiven.
• Not Guilt Sins are forever forgiven at the point of salvation.
• There is no guilt for a forgiven sinner, who is ‘forever‘ a saint and child of God..
• Work of God Jesus said: this is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent.” John 6:29 Believe in Him for the forgiveness of your sins – believe Him that through life’s trials you are being changed into his likeness..

• SIN or the SIN NATURE is an inherited power within that causes us to sin against God We require forgiveness FOR our sins. We require deliverance FROM our sin, but both forgiveness and deliverance are found in the cross of Christ.
• FOR our SINS In 1 Corinthians we read that Christ died for our SINS – He paid the price for our sins. Every transgression in action or attitude are sins for which Christ died on the cross. Every sin we ever commit falls into the category of SINS – sins that we have committed. Transgression in thought, word or deed are sins against God, and need forgiveness.
• Forgiveness of sins But God in His love and justice has provided a solution for the sins we commit. The remedy God has provided for the SINS we commit – is forgiveness of sins –  but they can only be forgiven when an innocent sacrifice dies in our stead. Christ’s innocent blood was God’s required purchase price for forgiveness of sins,  and the only way to access God’s forgiveness of sins – is to believe on Christ. for there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1
• Cross of Christ The problem,  principle and power of sin in our lives was  dealt with at the cross, because we were crucified with Christ – we are set free from sin’s vice-like power. We require forgiveness for our SINS – and it is PAID IN FULL. We require deliverance from our SIN – and it is PAID IN FULL. Both forgiveness and deliverance is found in the cross of Christ.
• By Grace Through Faith It is by grace that we have received forgiveness of our sins. It is by grace that we have been delivered from the power of sin . Remember:There are 2 fundamental SIN problems but BOTH are dealt with at the cross of Christ. It is by grace through faith in Christ that we appropriate forgiveness – of SINS. It is by grace through faith in Christ that we appropriate deliverance – from SIN.

• Some continue to blame things on past sins and failures, but your sins have been forgiven forever.
• They have been forever forgiven, and God sees you as perfect and loves you with a perfect, pure and holy love.

• We may be forgiven because He died in our stead; we may be delivered because we died with Him.

• we question His Forgiveness..

• Romans 5 and 6 In Romans chapter 5 we are told that sin is dealt with by the BLOOD of Christ. In Romans chapter 6 we see that sin is dealt with by the CROSS of Christ. In Romans chapter 5 the BLOOD of Christ removes us of the penalty of our sins – we are forgiven by the shedding of Christ’s blood. In Romans chapter 6 the CROSS of Christ removes us from the power of sin – we are delivered of sin’s power because we are in Christ – identified with His cross.
• Duel Purpose We need to see that Christ’s death has a duel purpose in the life of all Christians. We need to appropriate this wonderful truth into the core of our understanding. Both the forgiveness of sins and deliverance from sin are gifts of grace to all believers – and we appropriate both forgiveness and deliverance by faith in Christ sacrifice. The liberating truth is knowing that God has done it all. He has saved us by grace and has promised to keep us throughout our life – by grace. All we have to do it to believe His word to be true..

• Forgiveness of Sin No-one who isn’t covered, cleansed, redeemed, forgiven, born again can overcome.
• Forgiveness through faith, is the first crucial step to being an overcomer.
• For without the blood of Jesus, there is no forgiveness of sin, and without the blood of Christ, there is no communion with God.
• The blood of Jesus is often only seen in the context of forgiveness of sins, but there is more that this cleansing flood has achieved in a believer’s life.

• We are to reflect His love and forgiveness..

• On the cross He forgave our sins and took the punishment in our stead – forgiven.

• Again I beg your forgiveness for making this personal reference, but this is a true thing.

• The greatest fear a man has is not that he will be damned, but that Jesus Christ will be worsted, and the things He stood for - love and justice and forgiveness and kindness among men - will not win out in the end; the things He stands for look like will-o'-the-wisps.

• Humble Repentance He also sees the secret thoughts of the heart and the hidden sins that mar our lives. This should not disturb us but rather lead us to mourn for our foolish wrongdoing. It should cause us to run to Him for forgiveness with a humble and repentant heart. It will bring us back into fellowship with the Lord and keep our heart pure before Him. The ever-watchful eye of our Father should rejoice our heart and influence our walk.

• Tender Forgiveness He was praying His gracious words of tender forgiveness over you, and He was praying His precious words of loving pardon over me too.
• Are we who have been so beautifully and so freely forgiven by the Lord – are we unwilling to forgive the ones that have wounded and hurt us so much?
• Unlocking Resentment Corrie ten Boom who watched her beloved sister die in a Nazi death-camp said: Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment.
• Forgiveness is the thing that removes the handcuffs of hate.
• Forgiveness breaks that power that chains bitterness.
• Forgiveness unfastens the shackles of selfishness.” Paul reminds us that: “God forgave us ALL our sins” Col.2:13 – only one of which is sufficient to secure the eternal wages of death and hell.
• Full Forgiveness Jesus is the only one Who could proclaim God’s full forgiveness. He proclaimed full and free pardon instead of pronouncing the required penalty, and in the brief prayer He taught His disciples Jesus included forgiveness. In that exemplary prayer He included a profound statement:- Forgive – Forgive as you have been forgiven.
• Heavenly Quality Forgiveness is a beautiful heavenly quality that touches the heart of God, When you fully recognise how the Father has forgiven you of your sins – it becomes not only easier to forgive – but a vital necessity.
• God’s  Forgiveness Yes, we are certainly supposed to love and forgive those that sin against us, yet forgiveness does not come easily to any one of us. It is the Holy Spirit Who is the One Who can fill our hearts with God’s love and forgiveness.
• Pursue His Love But before waiting for things to happen to enable forgiveness to be applied.We should seek to be proactive in asking that His love fill us to overflowing.
• Buried Unforgiveness Equally harmful to the soul is the pretence that we have forgiven another.. when in fact we have only buried the pain in the depths of our being.. allowing it to resurface periodically to our own harm and often  to the hurt of others – hiding behind a mask of normality while unforgiveness burns in our soul.
• Father Forgive Buried unforgiveness is at the root of most relational difficulties, but forgiveness melts the hardening casement around a hardened heart.

• “In whom we have … the forgiveness of sins.” Ephesians 1:7
• The only ground on which God can forgive us is the tremendous tragedy of the Cross of Christ; to put forgiveness on any other ground is unconscious blasphemy.
• Forgiveness, which is so easy for us to accept, cost the agony of Calvary.
• It is possible to take the forgiveness of sin, the gift of the Holy Spirit, and our sanctification with the simplicity of faith, and to forget at what enormous cost to God it was all made ours.
• Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace; it cost God the Cross of Jesus Christ before He could forgive sin and remain a holy God.
• The only way we can be forgiven is by being brought back to God by the Atonement.
• God's forgiveness is only natural in the supernatural domain.
• Compared with the miracle of the forgiveness of sin, the experience of sanctification is slight.
• Sanctification is simply the marvellous expression of the forgiveness of sins in a human life, but the thing that awakens the deepest well of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven sin.

• His love is ever deep and ever pure. His attitude toward my sin remains forever the same – forgiven and forgotten. His grace towards me is unending.

• We trample the blood of the Son of God under foot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.
• The only explanation of the forgiveness of God and of the unfathomable depth of His forgetting is the Death of Jesus Christ.
• We have forgiveness through His blood.

• Gracious Words He neither exaggerated an issue nor did He ever speak a half-truth or falsity. He never embroidered a statement nor was required to retract any lessons He taught. He did not have to apologise in word or deed for there was no fault to be found in Him. He maintained the highest moral dignity, while extending courtesy to all in His path. He never had to plead for pardon – for all His words, ways and wisdom were faultless. He never had to ask for forgiveness – yet extended forgiveness to all who would come,

• We are forgiven forever – cleansed; made whole and ministers of a new covenant. The death and resurrection of Christ Jesus our Lord has paid the price for our sin..

• It is just wonderful.... You are not meant just to be saved and get to heaven, to know your sins are forgiven and to have a certain number of blessings which come with salvation.

• He died so our sins would be forgiven, but also to break the power of SIN.

• Christ’s Blood His perfect life would be a payment – for the sinful lives of the entire human race. All sin that was covered by the fleece of a lamb would be atoned for by His blood. Until the blood of the perfect Sacrifice was offered, man’s sin would remain covered – covered but never forgiven UNTIL the final Sacrifice for all sin was offered.
• the old sin nature can still sin..and when we sin as a believer we lose precious fellowship with our Saviour, – and when we sin we live our life in our own strength and not in Christ’s strength. Nevertheless all SIN was forgiven at Calvary – so all condemnation is lifted.

• Forgiveness – God First Act These were the first words spoken by the Lord Jesus on the Cross. Forgiveness was the first thought on the mind of the crucified Saviour. Forgiveness was the first response of God to sins committed in the Eden. Forgiveness is an unfathomable grace that is deep in the heart of God.
• Forgiveness – Christ First Thought These sublime words were uttered at the very act of His crucifixion on the cross..
• All-embracing Forgiveness His forgiveness traversed the centuries of time. His forgiveness spanned the extremity of the universe. His forgiveness flowed down into the bowels of the earth.. to Hades, to Abraham’s bosom – to the place of the dead. His forgiveness tore down the veil to the Holy of Holies.. and the wall of partition was removed – FOREVER.
• His Story of Forgiveness His prayer encompassed you and me – as His life giving love flowed.. streaming like great drops of blood and water. His prayer washed our bloodied, bruised, battered, ugly, sin-stained hearts.
• This is “His-Story” – the only thing of account in History. This pivotal point in HIS-Story, which flooded the far reaches of creation..  as fallen man was saturated with God’s forgiveness. This centralized fulcrum in the affairs of mankind – spans past time and through eternity.
• Everlasting Forgiveness There is now no condemnation to we who are in Christ Jesus the Lord .. None – None – NONE. What a lesson in gracious forgiveness are these precious words – precious words from our precious, forgiving Savior. Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.
• Prayer of Forgiveness We too should pray for those that despise and reject us. We too should pray for those that hurt and abuse us. We too should pray for those that grieve and harm us – and we too should love as He loved. This is not mere choice.
• Illustration of Forgiveness There are some fragrant trees that bathe a sweet perfume…  on the very axe that strikes them, and we too should show only sweet tender forgiving love, to those that hurt or harm us – to those that grieve or pain us. Father forgive them – for they don’t know what they are doing.

• Israel as a nation is already an adopted son (waiting for forgiveness of the spirit.)
• The Church is already forgiven (waiting for our adoption as sons.)

• But God sent His Son to pay the price for our sin, so that all who believe on Him would have their sins forgiven forever.

• I have not forgiven someone his trespasses; I have not been kind to him; I have not been living as God's child among my relatives and friends. (v.12.)

• Seven 7-fold Work There is a sevenfold work of the Spirit of God at our salvation, which can be resisted:-  1) He convicts us of our need of a Saviour (John 16:8-9) 2) He regenerates the forgiven sinner, giving a new life (Titus 3:5) 3) He baptises the new believer into the body of Christ (1Cor.12:13) 4) He indwells the new believer permanently and forever (1Cor.3:16 1Cor.6:19) 5) He anoints the new believer (2Cor.1:21 1John 2:20-21) 6) He earnests a first-fruit pledge of full fruit (Eph.1:14 Rom.8:23) and 7) He witnesses with an assurance of son-ship (Rom.8:16).

• What salvation has done is not merely forgiving me my sins; forgiveness, cleansing, justifying, applies to my responsibility and guilty condition in the first Adam; but salvation applies to my standing in the Last Adam.

• o sin is so great that cannot it be forgiven and no place is so remote that we cannot be restored to the Father.

• There are vast numbers who profess to believe in the atoning virtue of the death of the Lord Jesus, but who do not see aught therein beyond the forgiveness of their sins.

• Buried Hurts Too many believers allow the weight of past forgiven sins..
• We must acknowledge that past sins have been forgiven..
• We must finally stop beating ourselves for the past sins that have been forgiven..
• forgiven.
• Bitterness and Forgiveness Second, we must let go of other things that have plagued our past lives .

• He has in the first place rejoiced greatly in the forgiveness of his sins, and his acceptance by God; but sooner or later he begins to realise that all is not well, and that he has failed and fallen from the high standard which he set himself to reach, in the first flush of his conversion.

• and the new-born believer rejoices in his liberty – sins forgiven and sins forgotten – sins forever buried in the vast ocean of God's gracious forgetfulness.

• It is by grace we are forgiven; saved; sealed – clothed in Christ’s own righteousness.

• He came baptising in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of their sins.
• That through His Name, whosoever believeth on Him shall receive forgiveness of sinsActs 10:31

• He has in the first place rejoiced greatly in the forgiveness of his sins, and his acceptance by God; but sooner or later he begins to realize that all is not well, and that he has failed and fallen from the high standard which he set himself to reach in the first flush of his conversion.

• God’s Forgiveness And then you recall the time when you first believed that your sins were forgiven.
• And you recall that first tinge of joy and the astonishment that you are forgiven..
• Am I really forgiven?

• Son of God God in His justice cannot look upon sin – for the wages of sin is death. God in His love discovered a way to have those sins forgiven, forever. God is His wisdom sent His only begotten Son that we could have life – His Life.
• that I am forgiven : Faith in the Servant King – Who broke the power of sin and death in me – that I have access to the throne room of the Father, and I am permitted to call Him Abba, Father.

• Still the small inward voice I hear,That whispers all my sins forgiven;Still the atoning blood is near,That quenched the wrath of hostile Heaven.I know the life His wounds impart;I know the Saviour in my heart.

• Forgiveness means not merely that I am saved from hell and made right for heaven (no man would accept forgiveness on such a level); forgiveness means that I am forgiven into a recreated relationship, into identification with God in Christ.

• Only Way It all centres around believing on the Lord Jesus Christ and His work on the cross, for apart from Calvary there is no forgiveness of sin – no salvation – no heaven. Man’s assumption is inevitably that I must win my way to heaven by my good deeds. God’s criteria is believe on the finished work of Christ crucified – and nothing else. The one point men seem to forget is that we are all sinners and estranged from God. Sin is the one thing that separates man from God.
• God’s Way But God has set out the one and only and exclusive way to be united with Him:- believe on the Lord Jesus Christ – and you will be saved. BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ – and your sins are forgiven. BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ – and you are not condemned. BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ – and you are given eternal life. BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ – and you are put in union with the Lord Jesus. BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ – and you are forever in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit. BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ – and you are no longer separated from the Father.

• Cleansing Flood The knowledge that ALL my sins was forgiven forever – was a most glorious truth – a cleansing that flooded my soul like a sweet refreshing fountain of crystal water..
• Identification Forgiveness of sins is a fairly simple and acceptable concept – substitution.
• Substitution Truth SUBSTITUTION – is where Christ took our sins upon Himself – He died for us. Christ died for our sins: He took the punishment we deserve: He was our substitute. Sin as an offence was forgiven at the cross.
• The death penalty for sin was paid. Sin in the life of every believer is totally acquitted, for Christ died for our sins. BUT sin as a master, ruling our forgiven lives – requires identification with Him.

• Faith and Forgiveness But what of forgiveness of the sins that I commit during my Christian life?
• Pardon is offered on the condition of confession – confessing our sins to Him – and I need faith to accept His forgiveness.
• Post-salvation forgiveness is dependent of confession.
• I need to thank Him for His blessed gift and rejoice in His loving forgiveness, or I live life chained and entrapped behind a prison door of guilt, doubt and disbelief.
• Faith is crucial for it unlocks our heart to God’s forgiveness.

• Truth in Love They brought comfort to the hurting; forgiveness to the sinner; direction to the lost. They gave freedom to the captive; wisdom to the simple; correction for the proud.

• No one who believes in Christ is condemned, for their sins have been eternally forgiven.

• When justification, the forgiveness of sin, eternal life, a home in heaven, conformity into the likeness of the Son of the most High God, an immortal body and innumerable, additional spiritual blessings are given to us, in exchange for faith - in the sacrificial death, burial and resurrection of Christ, it must appear to be indisputably disproportionate, with the eternal benefits that we receive.

• We are positioned in Christ; have forgiveness of sins and are redeemed through His blood.

• We are not to constantly revisit the sins that have already been forgiven, and keep on repenting of those same sins.

• With man the forgiveness of sins is impossible but with God, all things are possible - when you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

• Our sins have been forgiven by faith, and our eternal citizenship is secured for us in heaven.
• By faith we are forgiven of our sins and identified with His perfect righteousness.

• May the light of His love so shine through each one of us, that men may see our godly deeds, hear the Word of truth, trust in Christ for the forgiveness of sin and glorify our Father, Who is in heaven.

• We who were dead in trespasses and sin and without God in the world have been brought near to God because of Israel's transgressions, and by grace through faith in Him, we have been made children of God; forgiven of our sins, made part of the Body of Christ, been in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit and received eternal life as a free gift of God's grace. Hallelujah!!

• saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus - all had their sins forgiven through His shed blood and all had been given eternal life as God's free gift of grace.
• All John's 'little children' were saved by grace for simply believing on the only begotten Son of God for the redemption of sin and life everlasting - all had their sins forgiven: for His name's sake.
• The forgiveness of sins and redemption of our lives rests firmly and exclusively on: His name's sake.
• What a wonderful truth to wake to every day knowing that forgiveness of sins is our present possession - morning by morning - great is His faithfulness.
• What glorious grace it is to know that the forgiveness of our sins does not have to rest on our own merit or good works - but is secured on Christ's finished work on the cross - for His names sake.
• Praise God that when the aged apostle John said: I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake.

• The enemy will accuse you of sin and try to dislodge your trust in God’s holy Word – but GOD is the one that has forgiven your sins forever – past, present and future and flung them all into the sea of His forgetfulness, simply because you trust in the Lord Jesus.

• He no doubt touched on His Life, His ministry, His mission and His work on the cross for the forgiveness of sin, the redemption of mankind and life everlasting, as outlined in so many prophetic books.

• From start to finish the book of Galatians outlines the deep concern that the apostle Paul showed for the Christians in Galatia, who having been saved by grace through faith in Christ for the forgiveness of their sins..
• If there was any other way to be declared righteous before God and receive forgiveness of our sin, other than through the finished work of Christ - then His sacrifice was not sufficient!!..
• We are declared righteous by faith in the only begotten Son of God for the forgiveness of our sin and we are to continue to LIVE by grace through faith..

• He explains how the faithful remnant will mourn deeply over rejecting their Messiah, when they realise their sin, but that in His grace, the Lord had made provision for their sin to be forgiven; the nation to be restored and their land to be cleansed.

• Let our every thought be taken captive to the Lord so that we may remain in sweet fellowship with the God of our salvation, for when the eyes of our heart are fixed on Him in grateful thanks for His cross-work on Calvary and the redemptive work within our own lives, we who are forgiven much will love much.

• He also reminds us that we have a living hope in Christ, for when we finally see Him, we shall be like Him.. and this glorious hope keeps us pure, even as we are pure, through faith in Christ - for by faith in Christ we are forgiven of our sins and covered in His own righteousness.
• Lawlessness, or sin is antithetical to godliness and purity and the lawless sinner is always at variance with the forgiven child of God.

• As Christians we are citizens of heaven who are passing through a cursed world, which is filled with condemned sinners who are in need of Christ's forgiveness..

• No matter what our station in life there are many lessons that each one of us can learn from this little letter to Philemon. What a joy to know that no-one is excluded from the good news of the gospel of grace - for anyone can be saved through faith in Christ. And yet it is also important to be aware, that although sin can be forgiven, there are always consequences for our wrongdoings and our responsibilities must always be addressed.

• that while we were yet sinners Christ died on our account, so that we might be forgiven of our sin, receive a new life in Him, become united with Christ and abide with Him forever,Faith, enables us to worship in spirit and truth.

• Sarah represents the one-new-man-in-Christ, who have trusted in Christ as Saviour, for the forgiveness of sin.

• God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son - the eternal Son of God to be born as the perfect Son of Man..  so that by His death we might be forgiven and by His life we might have eternal life..

• for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• It is by His grace through faith in Christ, that we have peace with God for we have been forgiven of our sins and received eternal life - through faith in Him.

• Our faithful God is the one who fed the hungry multitude, provides comfort for the broken-hearted, gives succour to the weak, strength to the weary, hope to the afflicted and salvation to all who trust in Christ Jesus for the forgiveness of their sins - for while we were yet sinners, God in His grace provided a kinsman-Redeemer, to save His people from their sins.

• By faith we are no longer under God's condemnation because we trusted in the Lord Jesus for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.
• and all who have trusted Christ for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting are children of the free-woman- children of promise.

• their iniquity would be forgiven and their sin would be remembered no more.

• who is dead in sins, estranged from God and steeped in apostasy as recorded in the Old Testament - to the 27 New Testament chapters that follow, which deal with redemption and comfort, forgiveness and grace - and joyfully terminates with a new heaven and a new earth.

• Faith in Christ saves us from God's righteous judgement and His baptism unto death becomes our death - NOT the removal of the filth of the flesh for the forgiveness of sin, which we received by faith in Christ, but an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Who is our righteousness.

• Through His finished sacrificial work on the cross, when He became both the sin offering, for the forgiveness of sin as well as the heavenly High Priest, Who made the atoning offering to God.

• The curse of the Law has been lifted, the sting of death has been removed and we have been born into the family of God and become part of a totally new creation – in Christ, with sins forgiven and our eternal life secure.
• First, He died to set us free from slavery to sin, and the only thing we had to do to receive forgiveness of sin and life everlasting, was to believe on the Person and Work of the only begotten Son of God.

• The authority to call Him Father, is for those that believe in Jesus for the forgiveness of sins, and life everlasting.

• All have been freed from the slave-market of sin, for we all have been redeemed by the precious blood of Christ - forgiven of our sins, justified in the eyes of God, regenerated and sealed; adopted and born again.

• But in His amazing grace He sent His Son to become sin for us so that by believing in Him, we might be forgiven and made the righteousness of God in Him.

• We do not have to undertake the annual cleansing rituals, as laid out in the Law of Moses, but we do have to purify our hearts before the Lord - and we do this by trusting in the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Christ for the forgiveness of sin and by living each day in a way that honours His name.

• The Son of God was born into the human race that He Himself created in order to carry out the will of the Father - that whosoever believes on His sacrificial death and glorious resurrection for the forgiveness of sins.. might have eternal life and become ministers of reconciliation to a lost and dying world.

• Grace and forgiveness was contrasted with law and accusations when the woman was caught in adultery.

• He is to be the centre and circumference on which forgiven men and women must be securely anchored... for to Him has been given all honour and glory, might, majesty, dominion and power, forever and ever, amen.

• It seems to be setting the stage, to show that righteous living can only be achieved from a changed heart that has trusted in God for the forgiveness of sin – for only those who believe in Him are credited with righteousness.

• Whose shed blood at Calvary paid the full and final penalty for sin, for without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

• However forgiveness of sins and eternal life is the result of Christ's obedience on the cross - and this is the glorious conclusion, for all who will trust on His name.
• But God's wonderful grace and His gift of forgiveness is so much better - for whosever will..
• may be forgiven of their sins, through one perfect man, the Lord Jesus Christ.

• How much more should who have been forgiven of our sins, clothed in His own righteousness, made joint-heirs with our Saviour and seated together with Him in heavenly places, unite our voices in great rejoicing and sing songs of praise about the majesty of his reputation - and give Him the honour He deserves.

• They heard His voice; they trusted His word, and their faith expanded to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• so that all who believe on His name might not perish but have forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• Suffering with Christ is simply a portal which translates His blood-bought believers into His eternal joy, and as sinners saved by grace, we have peace with God - for the forgiveness of sin and the peace of God in our heart.

• How long it took for this truth to blossom in the heart of Nicodemus, we will never know, but as one of the men who laid Christ's dead body in the stone-cold tomb, we know that this dear man did not only SEE heaven with his spiritual eye of faith, but will enter the kingdom of heaven as a forgiven child of God and a member of the body of Christ.

• but after having been saved by grace through faith we were forgiven of our sin, joined to Christ and positioned in Him

• and as forgiven sinners we glory in the cross of Jesus Christ - our Lord and our God.

• Let us rightly divide the word of God; study to show ourselves approved and seek to live as we have been taught - not only being identified with His death for the forgiveness of sins but with His new-born-again life within.

• but hold fast to that which you have, knowing that the Lord Jesus is the way and the truth and the life and that in Him we have forgiveness of sins and life everlasting - to His praise and glory.

• How blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered, we read.
• How blessed are those whose wrong-doings have been forgiven and over whose sins a veil has been drawn!..
• Oh how happy are they whose transgressions have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered up!
• Everyone who has believed God's living Word is justified in His sight and their sin is forgiven.

• It is not what we know intellectually, that returns us into fellowship with the Father, but simply trusting in His Son for the forgiveness of sins and abundant, everlasting life.

• The trial that comes our way is not a stick of punishment from an angry God for our misdemeanours, but the corrective, chastening rod of our loving heavenly Father, Who loved us so much that He sent His only begotten Son to pay the price for our sin - so that by believing in Him we might receive forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• As members of Christ's body, we have been forgiven by grace, through faith in the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and like Israel before us.

• Righteousness outlines our relationship with God, for having been forgiven of our sins - for we have been placed into right relationship with Him and it behoves us to live righteously before Him all the days of our life.

• Praise, my soul, the King of heaven;to his feet your tribute bring.Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven,evermore his praises sing.Alleluia, alleluia!Praise the everlasting King!

• In the same way, after supper, He also took the cup, and said, this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many, for forgiveness of sins. It was the cup of redemption He lifted in His hand and gave to His disciples. THIS is the new covenant in My blood, He told them.
• This is to represent My blood, which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins
• Jesus was the eternal Son of God Who has become the perfect Son of Man, for this is the blood of the covenant - Christ's blood, which is poured out for the forgiveness of sins. 

• and that ALONE is the criteria for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• He wanted to rejoice in the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting by faith in Christ.But the body of Christ had been slowly and stealthily infiltrated, by certain vulgar individuals, who were denying the efficacy of the blood of Christ, and adversely influencing the faith of others.And so he wanted to remind his fellow believers of the fate of those people, who deny the truth of the gospel.
• but finally destroys them by the breath of His righteous judgement.Jude used Sodom, Gomorrah and the cities around them as a warning to all who choose to turn the grace of our God into lewdness, by denying the shed blood of Christ for the forgiveness of their sin.  The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah stand as an example of the punishment of eternal fire that awaits those corrupt individuals who indulge in ungodly perversions and reject the Lord of glory.The destruction of these cities was an example of the fate of all unbelievers, who willingly turn away from God, deny His grace, refuse the truth and ignore His warnings of the judgement to come.Jude’s warning of heresy, apostasy and the subtle infiltration of the church by false teachers, who deceptively creep into churches, deny the Lord Who bought them and peddle a false, watered-down, feel-good, unbiblical gospel, has morphed into an apology for what is termed “Christendom” today.The serious warning that Jude shared in his little epistle, should be taken to heart by every one that is sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Christ Jesus our Lord.The best way to recognise a false teaching is to know the truth.

• All men need forgiveness of sins in order to be brought back into a right relationship with God..

• Their salvation is by grace through faith in Christ's finished work on the cross, and forgiveness of sins and eternal life are two of many heavenly benefits that every sinner receives - by grace, through faith in the only begotten Son of God.

• They were not following Him because their soul was hungry for forgiveness but to satisfy their physical appetite.

• God in His grace extended His hand of salvation to the Gentiles, to turn away from their idols of wood and stone, and to trust in the Lord, for the forgiveness of sin and eternal salvation.

• The dear pleasure of Paul's heart and his deep spiritual burden was for Israel's salvation. His personal longing and pleading prayer was that God's chosen nation would believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and place their collective trust in His sacrificial work for the forgiveness of their sins.

• In this church age we are called to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• So many of the psalms of David rejoice our heart as he pours fourth a harmony of poetic praise for God’s merciful forgiveness and favour; the wonders of His mighty works and ways; the glories of His creative wisdom and His gracious acts towards the rebellious children of Israel.

• a systematic study of salvation.. (or soteriology), clearly shows that believing on the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, is sufficient for salvation.
• And when a person believes on the Lord Jesus Christ in their heart, for the forgiveness of their sins - God knows and He saves.

• God knows that those that trust Him and believe His Word are truly rich – for the outcome of believing on the Lord Jesus Christ is forgiveness of sins; peace with God; a new life in Christ; the indwelling Comforter; joint-heirs of Christ’s coming kingdom and a glorious and eternal heavenly home, among a multitude of wonderful blessings that are showered on all who trust in His name.

• It is faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross, for the forgiveness of sin, and His glorious resurrection from the death that saves mankind from their sin. 

• when the sky turned black for three hours and the veil of the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom - giving all who will believe on Him, forgiveness of sin, life everlasting and access to the heavenly throne of grace.

• The word of God exposes our innermost thoughts and desires and the one who trusts in Christ as their Saviour has had their scarlet sins forgiven forever and have been covered in Christ's robe of righteousness.

• Because we are His children by faith we have been permanently positioned in-Christ, which has given us peace with God, the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• This only happens through faith in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, for the forgiveness of sin.
• Christ's DEATH on the cross, secured forgiveness of Sin for our SOUL but without Christ's RESURRECTION from the dead our mortal body could not be resurrected from the grave.
• Without Christ's resurrection we would be forgiven of our sin... for which we praise His holy name..

• The role of the priest was also to reconcile fallen man back to a holy God so that man could be redeemed, forgiven and returned into sweet fellowship with the God Who created him - but against Whom all humanity had sinned. But no man is good enough to act as mediator between God and man.

• For all who believe on Him, by grace through faith, would be reconciled to God; become eternally saved and forever forgiven, by means of the astonishing atoning sacrifice that Christ made on that singular day.

• The righteous man has recognised that he is a sinner in need of salvation and believes that God sent His dearly beloved Son to die on the cross for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• so that we might be forgiven of our sins and receive on our heads a crown of righteousness.

• The forgiveness of sin, (i.e.
• salvation of the soul and eternal life, which is part of the package of forgiveness), is a gift; a free gift; a free gift from God; a free gift from God, which demonstrates His amazing grace and unconditional love - and it is open to every-man – every sinner.
• Forgiveness of sins and eternal life is God’s free gift which comes to all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ – Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved, Paul told the Philippian jailer, while John tells us in his gospel, for God so love the world that He GAVE His only begotten Son so that all that BELIEVE ON HIM should not perish but have eternal life.

• Not only are we forgiven of our sins and redeemed by His blood – but we have been given the glory that Christ Himself was given by the Father.

• He was to turn them from the dominion of Satan to God and tell them that through faith in the Lord Jesus they would receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Christ. 
• From the moment we are born from above we receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance with all who have been positionally sanctified..
• It is only by His grace we have received forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Him.
• so that by faith in Christ they too may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Christ.

• Although this is a time of great tribulation, it is not God’s will that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, through faith in Christ, for the forgiveness of sin.
• This great multitude are those that have been forgiven of their sin, by faith in Christ.
• The great crowd that John saw in his vision were Jews and Gentiles, who had rejected God’s offer of salvation during the Church age, but who trusted Him for the forgiveness of sin, during this terrible time of tribulation.

• We have not only received forgiveness of sin and life everlasting through faith in Him, but have been called to be partakers of God's heavenly kingdom and received a share in His own glory - as heirs God and joint-heir with Christ!
• We who were once living in the kingdom of darkness, enslaved to sin and steeped in shame, have been forever transported into His kingdom of light and received life, grace, glory, forgiveness and hope.

• As believers we have been forgiven of our sins and have received a new life in Christ.

• Behold:- we have a Saviour Who gave His own life for us so that our sins are forever forgiven and we are covered in Christ's glorious righteousness.

• Gracious forgiveness, health and healing is the portion for those who call on the name of the Lord, for the Sun of Righteousness will arise with healing on His wings.

• The blood of innocent animals could only cover humanities sin until the perfect Lamb of God in the Person of the Lord Jesus came to earth to become that singular sacrifice, Who alone was sufficient to cleanse us from all sin and clothe us in the righteousness of God - and we access His forgiveness of our sins by faith in Him.

• on our behalf, so that we might be forgiven of our sins; clothed in His perfect righteousness and receive eternal life as a free gift of God's grace -by faith.
• It is faith in the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ at Calvary that renders a man or woman saved, forgiven and a citizen of heaven.

• Our very life has been redeemed from the pit of the dead - for not only are we forgiven of our sins and the beneficiaries of eternal life, (by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ), but part of that free gift of grace was to redeem us from that pit of destruction, (that was prepared for the devil and his angels), and eternal separation from our heavenly King.

• God's way challenges sin, brings about repentance without regret, cleanses, forgives and returns us into His life-giving sanctification highway, while the unsaved are buried in guilt, shame, regret and remorse - with no forgiveness and a road that leads them to the dungeons of death.

• when the Father sent the Spirit to permanently indwell all who would trust in Jesus for the forgiveness of sins - the salvation of their soul and life everlasting.

• Peace with God for forgiven sinners and the peace of God within the hearts of all who trust in Christ as Saviour.

• Every good and perfect gift comes from God above, but there is no more precious and lasting gift than that of the forgiveness of our sins.
• God's forgiveness of sinners is exclusively and singularly tied to the cross of Calvary and the blood of Christ that was shed for many for the remission of sin and the redemption of mankind.
• Christ did indeed die to pay the price for humanity's sin, but only those that trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour, experience His full and free forgiveness - forever.

• Weeping over sin is an important step in bringing a lost sinner into fellowship with Christ and the forgiveness of sin - through faith in Him.
• and may we praise and thank our glorious Saviour, Jesus Christ, Who died on the cross to pay the enormous price for our sin, so that by faith in Him we might be eternally forgiven and receive the promise of life everlasting.

• He became the full and sufficient payment for the sin of the whole world - and all who believe on Him receive forgiveness of sins because He died in our place.

• Love bears all things by patiently enduring wrongs and evils, with a heart of forgiveness, which covers over the faults of others with a beautiful graciousness, that reflects the Saviour and does not seek for vengeance.

• We are not expected to hide our light under a bushel nor to turn a deaf ear to their pitiful state of the unsaved – for all are in need of salvation and all need Christ, for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• The wrath of God was poured out in fullest measure on Christ so that your sin and mine could be forgiven by grace through faith in Him.
• God's wrath was poured out on Christ in our stead and we are forgiven of all our sin.
• We are forgiven of all our sin because Christ took the punishment in place of us.
• the choice is to believe and be forgiven of all sin, which means that we escape the wrath to come, having obtained salvation in Christ.

• Yet by grace through faith in Him our sins have been washed as white as snow and we have been forever forgiven of our sin, adopted into God's family; placed into the Body of Christ and reconciled to the Father.

• The Law spoke to them, about their need to be saved and forgiven.. because the Law is addressed to those who are living under the Law.

• God in the Person of Jesus Christ came to earth and was born into His own creation so that all who believe in His finished work on Calvary's cross, for the forgiveness of sin might be forgiven - and have eternal life.
• Salvation means coming to Christ's cross for forgiveness of sin and life everlasting, which is open to all.
• Redemption requires us to believe on the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sins and by grace through faith in Him we are born from above..

• We read that GOD so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son to be the sacrifice for sin – and Christ was made sin for the accumulated sin of the whole world in loving obedience to the Father, for He cried not My will but Thine be done – and through His shed blood, the sin of the world was forgiven.

• We all enjoy the same gift of grace through faith and all are forgiven of our sins and have received eternal life.

• it is precious to discover that He was led like a lamb to the slaughter for us and willingly and quietly took the punishment that you and I deserve so that our sins could be completely forgiven through His sacrificial death..

• and the forgiveness of sins.

• Earlier in the epistle, John explained that the believer who sins, must confess his sin to God the Father… and the Lord Jesus will act as our heavenly Advocate, so that our sins may be forgiven, and fellowship with the Father may be restored.
• A mind of goodness, grace and forgiveness.

• His father announced that John would be a prophet of the Most High and give God's people a knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sin..

• and the forgiveness of sins.

• May the joy we have in our Lord Jesus Christ be made complete as we speak of the lovely Lord Jesus, through Whom we have received forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• But we who have trusted in His holy name have been forgiven of sin, made holy and blameless in His sight and given all we need for life and godliness - according to His riches in mercy and everlasting love.
• for we who were once dead in our sins and shrouded in the thick blackness of sin, have been called out of darkness into His wonderful light, so that we might proclaim to all with whom we come in contact, the excellences of our heavenly Father and the grace of kinsman Redeemer - Who loved us so much that He was prepared to go to the cross for our sake, so that our sins could be forgiven, and we could exhibit the glories of His grace, not only in this world but also in the ages to come.

• When we were eternally saved by grace through faith in Christ; forgiven of our sin, declared righteous before God; positioned in Christ; indwelt by the Spirit and made one with Him - nothing and no-one should  be placed alongside Him - for there is nothing to compare with Christ's sacrifice on the cross of Calvary for you and for me.

• How blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
• It was because his sins were forgiven BY FAITH, that David wrote in Psalm 32, How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
• No wonder David cried out, BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED.
• He did not have to carry out some penance or legalistic action to atone for his sin - his sin (past, present and future) was forgiven, because of his faith in God's sacrifice for sin - Jesus Christ the righteous... and when any post-salvation sin was confessed, David was restored into fellowship with the Lord.

• Only the saved can enter God’s presence, for not only have our sins been forgiven but we have been placed IN Christ and must approach the Father THROUGH the Lord Jesus, for we are accepted in the Beloved.

• We are to pray for our daily food and to ask forgiveness for any sin..
• and we are also to be prepared to forgive others, knowing how much our Saviour has forgiven us.

• It is only after the sovereignty of our heavenly Father is fully acknowledged, and we are encouraged to ask Him for the spiritual and physical needs of our everyday lives, that we come to the verse that says: and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
• Forgiveness in this verse has nothing to do with God's judicial forgiveness of our sins.
• We are justified by God, and forgiven of our sin by grace..
• Forgiveness in this verse is more akin to the forgiveness of a father, for his dearly loved child, when his son or daughter has done something wrong.
• Although all our sins, past, present and future are judicially forgiven at the cross..
• And in this prayer we are taught to follow the Lord's gracious example of godly forgiveness.
• Forgiveness should be freely offered to those who hurt us or offend us.
• However, Jesus was not teaching here, that we earn the right to God's judicial forgiveness by forgiving other people..
• that the forgiveness of sin is an expression of God's grace and mercy, because of our faith in Christ.
• Rather it is showing that in consideration of the immense forgiveness that we have received from our heavenly Father, through the forgiveness of our sins - how much more should we forgive those that harm us.
• Indeed, lack of forgiveness has an impact on both our prayer life and our fellowship with the Lord.
• May we, who have been forgiven of our sin by faith in Christ, be quick to forgive others their trespasses, shortcomings and debts - in the same way that we have been so gracious forgiven by our Father in heaven..

• Paul has taught them the truth of the gospel of grace, so that by faith in Him, they had been born again, forgiven of their sin, transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son and received the gift of eternal life.

• We live in a fallen world and there are many challenges that face the believer, who has not only trusted Christ for salvation – through the forgiveness of sin, but is also ready and willing to deny self, take up his cross, follow Christ’s example, and say without compromise – Thy will not mine be done.

• Despite their apostasy God continues to offer His people complete forgiveness and restoration if they will simply return to Him and renounce their wicked ways.
• and likewise as Christians we have to admit our guilt, renounce our idolatry, repent and recognise that we are sinners who need a Saviour so that by faith in His sacrificial death and glorious resurrection we may be cleansed of our wicked ways, forgiven of our sin, washed in His precious blood, declared righteous in the eyes of our heavenly Father - and live a life that is holy unto the Lord.

• By His one act of obedience we are inputed with Christ's righteousness - and it is ours simply by faith - by believing in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• Though some see her question on the place and purpose of worship as evading the sin-issue at hand, others see her response as a genuine, heart-enquiry of how she might be forgiven of her sins and brought back into sweet fellowship with the God of Israel, for there is salvation in no other name than Jesus - for Salvation has come through the Jews, in the person of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

• For the unbeliever faith in God is trusting in the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus for redemption…trusting Him for the forgiveness of sins – and that pleases God, for it is not His will that anyone should perish.

• We are to glory in the scars that beautify the hands and feet of our Lord Jesus, for by His stripes we are healed and by His blood our sins are forgiven.

• The forgiveness of sin, life everlasting and the gates of heaven itself are flung open wide to whosoever will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.

• The peace we have with God through the forgiveness of sin is an unconditional gift for all who believe, and it remains our present possession through time and into eternity.

• but the little remnant of Israel who accepted Christ's message of salvation at His first coming received the promised restoration; the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• The wages of sin is death, but the Son of God set aside His heavenly glory, in order to clothe Himself with human flesh, and take upon Himself, the punishment that we deserve, so that by faith in Him, we might be forgiven of our sin, and returned into the same, privileged fellowship with the Father, that man enjoyed before the fall - but to do so God had to become man.

• Indeed, He ever lives to make intersession for us at the throne of grace, by pleading our case, so that sin can be forgiven, and fellowship restored.
• You see little children, our sins are all forgiven, forever, to those that believe.

• There is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus, for they have received forgiveness of sin, by faith and been declared righteous by God.
• There is no further sacrifice for the forgiveness of their sin, for God's wrath was poured out on Christ Jesus, in our stead.
• May we fulfil our calling and become ministers of reconciliation between God and man, so that some will turn from their wicked ways and trust in the Lord for the forgiveness of sin, and life everlasting.

• And it is not by self-effort, extensive training, mortification or ignoring the presence of sin in our life that we can be forgiven of our sins and have our lives redeemed from death - but by looking at God's perfect Sacrifice for sin - Jesus Christ, our sin-Substitute, Who was lifted up on the cross, so that all who would look on Him by grace through faith would live.

• God's promise to Abraham includes ALL who believe in the Lord Jesus for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting - and since God could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself.

• The Lord Jesus was not simply referring to the physical resurrection of people like Lazarus, Jairus' daughter or the dead son of the widow of Nain, but to all who would hear and receive His message of salvation, and trust in His own redeeming blood for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• by trusting in the cross of Christ, for the forgiveness of sins... we are warned not to become legalistic, by reverting back to the Levitical system.

• But every attack on Christianity has its roots in Satan's demonic agenda, which is designed to blaspheme the God of heaven and earth, to discredit His holy Word, to belittle the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus on the cross, to blind the eyes of the unsaved who are perishing and to shipwreck the lives of those that have been saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• Salvation is indeed by grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone, but never let us ignore that tremendous price that God Himself had to pay so that you and I could be given this free gift of salvation - that cost to the Father was the death of His only begotten Son, Who became sin so that we might be forgiven and be made the righteousness of God in HIM.

• Every member of humanity is born into the old creation, but only those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of sins, are part of the new creation - and become a member of the one new man in Christ.
• all who believe God's word and trust in His only begotten Son for the forgiveness of sins, are not only saved by God's grace and declared righteous before Him, but ALSO have become part of a New Creation, where the OLD nature was crucified with Christ and we have received a NEW nature - Christ's own perfect nature - His own resurrected life.

• for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting, will be saved.

• They have been forgiven and will receive eternal life.
• and in so doing they reject God's free offer of salvation: the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting. There is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus (which is accessed by faith) for God's wrath was poured out upon Him in our stead.. and we have been forgiven and have received the gift of eternal life - by God's grace and through faith in Christ.

• Unrighteous deeds must be punished, and although the sins of every believer...past, present and future are forgiven at the cross, there are serious consequences for Christians to face when we bring suffering upon ourselves, due to our own, foolish wrong-doings.

• It is by the marvellous grace of our great and loving Kinsman-Redeemer, that our sins are forever forgiven.
• It is by the grace of Christ, the eternal Lamb of God, that we have been purged, cleansed, forgiven, redeemed and reconciled with the Father.

• God knows the end from the beginning and in His omniscience, God knows all who will one day exercise their God-given, free-will and choose to believe on the only begotten Son of God for the salvation of their soul; the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.
• The Father gives to the Son all who choose to place their trust in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• It is David who calls us to “taste and see that the Lord is good,' and we who have trusted in Christ as Saviour have truly tasted of the goodness of God in our own lives, and have seen in abundance the loving-kindness and forgiveness of our gracious heavenly Father.

• he might find forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• a simple childlike trust in the Lord Jesus which gave birth to the salvation of the soul for the forgiveness of sins, life everlasting and spiritual growth.

• as part of God's redemption plan for mankind - the forgiveness of sin.
• How critical to let them know that there is forgiveness of sins and life everlasting for all who trust in the name of Jesus - Who died and rose again from the dead, on our behalf.

• and not only be forgiven of our sin, but also receive in our body His very life.

• We have been washed of our filthiness, forgiven of our sin and will one day walk in white.

• It is only those that believe on the name of Jesus for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting that are given the right to become Sons of God.

• He was prepared to stand falsely accused and unjustly condemned to death, knowing that the sacrifice of His perfect sinless life was the only way that sinners who were justly condemned and deserved God's wrath could be pardoned, forgiven and receive the remission of sins.
• He received cruel stripes, humiliation and death, so that we might be forgiven of our sin by faith in Him..

• Both for the nation of Israel, and for unsaved Gentiles alike, the precious truth of this passage... is that it is never too late for sinners or backsliders to turn away from their sins; to return to the Lord with all their heart and to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, for forgiveness and salvation.
• It is a beautiful demonstration, that the goodness, grace and mercy of our long-suffering God, remains open to ALL, who will simply trust in His word, remember His goodness, genuinely return to Him with heart and soul - and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of sins, and life everlasting.

• Those of us who have been saved by grace through faith in Christ, are able to testify with David, that we also sought the Lord for the forgiveness of sin, and He graciously delivered us out of the hands of the enemy - triumphing over sin and death, and redeeming our life from the pit.

• He was to be made sin for us so that we who believe in Him might be saved and forgiven.

• Jesus did all this so that You and I might receive forgiveness of sins – by believing on the Name of the only begotten Son of God – the Son Who is the radiance of God's glory and the exact expression of His nature, Who is sustaining all things by His powerful WORD and Who has made purification for your sins and mine – and He it is that is seated at the right hand of the Majesty on high waiting for the day when He will come again to receive us unto Himself, so that where He is, we may be also.

• And although He appeared at God's appointed time, as the sacrifice for the sin of the whole world - only those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, are identified with Him, through the forgiveness of their sins - only they receive eternal life.

• The Law was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, for only in Him is there forgiveness of sins, and only in Him can the free gift of eternal life be realised.

• He felt constrained to teach and preach the good news that Christ died for our sin, was buried and rose again on the third day, so that by faith in Him we could be forgiven of our sin and receive eternal life as a free gift of God's amazing grace.
• He was instructed to teach that by faith we may receive forgiveness of sins and receive a share among those who are sanctified by faith in Him.

• They discovered that in addition to our position in Christ and the forgiveness of sins, we have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

• Indeed everyone who has been saved by grace through faith in the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of their sins and life everlasting is part of that elect group - we are all a member of that special group that God in His omniscient foreknowledge knew.

• The Bible tells us that the most high God does not dwell in houses made by human hand, for heaven is His throne and the earth is His footstool and yet the most wonderful news is that God makes His home in the heart of all who come to Christ for Salvation - the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• God is no respecter of persons and the joy and peace in believing in Christ for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting is for Jew and Gentiles alike – for bond and free; male and female; old and young, black and white.

• Despite the sin of the first man, God determined in His heart, to redeem the human race, by sending a Second Man, and imputing His righteousness on all, who would believe on His name, for the forgiveness of their sin.

• How we praise our heavenly Father for Calvary, that our sins are forgiven; that there is no more condemnation for those that are in Christ Jesus; that we have been placed in union with Christ and accepted forever in the Beloved.

• The price for all the sin of the whole world collectively, which includes all the accumulated sin of every individual man and woman, was forgiven at Calvary.
• But had Christ died without being resurrected, we would not have a LIVING Saviour – OH, our sins would have been forgiven at Calvary - but without a RESURRECTED Saviour… without a LIVING Saviour, death and hell would not have been conquered - and we could never have been given the new resurrected LIFE of Christ.

• The cross of Christ most certainly paid the price for the sin of the whole world so that whosoever will may come – none are excluded from the forgiveness that flowed from the veins of the Messiah, which paid the price for all sin – NONE are excluded from this gift of God's grace.
• But the blood of Christ has a secondary function for all who would believe in Him - for as well as the forgiveness of sins for every man – the power of sin was simultaneously broken in the lives of all who would one day trust in the only begotten Son of God, as Saviour – for when He died, we who are His seed died in Him… we died with Him – His death became our death – and His resurrected life became our new life in-Christ – our new nature.

• And that price was paid by Jesus Christ the sinless Son of God at Calvary - but it is only by faith in the sacrificial offering of Himself upon the cross can that heavenly forgiveness become ours - for we must be born from above..
• so that whoever looks to the Lord Jesus as the sacrificial offering for their sins, will be forgiven of their sins..

• Heaven was hushed, and time stood still as the only begotten Son of God as the perfect Son of Man paid the price for the sin of the world. Gracious forgiveness had been extended to whosoever would trust in His saving sacrifice and a precious promise of paradise had been given to a lost sinner.
• His forgiveness has been extended to us and a heavenly home is our own precious promise of paradise.

• was simply a shadowy precursor of Christ, being lifted up on the cross, for the forgiveness of sin..
• Similarly, the Sabbath day ritual, which was guarded so jealously by the religious leaders of Israel, was simply a pale shadow of the Lord Jesus Christ, - Who Himself, has become the Sabbath rest, for the people of God, and for all who trust in Him, for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.
• so that His death became our death, and our sin is forgiven.

• He has not only forgiven us of all our sin, by taking the punishment we deserve upon Himself, but has imputed us with HIS own perfect righteousness.
• During this church age we are also justified by God's grace and forgiven of all our sin - by faith.

• He promised forgiveness of sin, spiritual regeneration, godly guidance and rivers of living water, streaming from their innermost beings.

• cannot be accepted into the spiritual realm of a holy God, unless he becomes as perfect as God and as holy as the Father in heaven is holy - unless he is forgiven of his sins, accepted in Christ and covered with the garment of Christ's perfect righteousness.

• For three long dark hours the wrath of God had been poured out in full measure on the eternal son of God so that by faith in His death, burial and resurrection we might be forgiven of our sin and made one with Him.

• May we look to Jesus the incarnate Word made flesh, who died and rose again, so that we who believe on Him would never die, but gain forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• Through the blood of Christ has come the good news of peace with God and an eternal relationship with Him, by faith in Christ's shed blood for the redemption of the body and the forgiveness of sins.

• in order to cover the sins of Israel - for by the one offering of Himself has the Lord Jesus Christ perfected for all time - all those who have trusted in the blood of the Lamb for the forgiveness of sins..

• The one and only Saviour of the world hung on a cruel wooden cross, with His arms of forgiveness wide open to all who would trust His name.
• I wonder whether it was Christ’s gracious prayer of forgiveness that prompted his requests, when with a repentant heart he cried, this man has done nothing wrong, and then turning towards the Lord and pleaded:- Jesus, remember me when you come into Your kingdom.I doubt that thieving criminal expected to hear Christ’s merciful reply, today you will be with Me in paradise, nor would he have anticipated the wonderful joy into which he would shortly enter.
• It is faith in the Person, the Work and the Word of the Saviour that secures  for us the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.It was by the sin of the first Adam that paradise was lost and the way to the tree of life barred and guarded by mighty angels with flashing swords, and it was by the sacrifice of the second Adam that paradise was regained and the way to the tree of life was once again flung wide open, to whosoever will believe.The door to paradise was unbarred and the gates of heaven were thrown wide open to this repentant sinner who hung next to our Lord, for he gained the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God, simply because he trusted on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin – for as it is written all who call on the name of the Lord will be saved – for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whosever believes on HIM will not perish but have everlasting life.

• Any form of 'imprecatory' prayers should never be taken lightly, but perhaps the most appropriate was to address this issue in our own lives is to maintain a biblical balance - between praying for the forgiveness and salvation of our enemies and asking God for justice to be carried out.

• God in His grace formed a plan of redemption, whereby He offered to pardon every man's many transgressions, and declare all who believe in His Word, (Christ, the Word made flesh), to be justified in His sight, clothed in His own righteousness, forgiven of sin and returned into fellowship with God..

• so that we could be forgiven of the many sins we commit throughout out lives - but He died UNTO sin so that we might also be released from the conditions that causes us to sin.
• Jesus died so that we may become a new creation in HIM as well as being forgiven of our sins - and it is ALL by grace though faith in HIm.

• Despised, rejected and dying on the cross, with outstretched arms of love, to redeem mankind from their sins. The first thought on the mind of our Saviour was not hatred, revenge or self-pity but eternal forgiveness.
• There was no resentment or anger, no bitterness, no feelings of hostility or damaged pride, but it encapsulated a depth of divine forgiveness that was able to lovingly embraced the crude Roman soldiers that greedily envied His bloodied garment and cast lots for his seamless cloak.
• Oh yes, Christ’s heart of forgiveness not only embraced all who were present and participated in this historic miscarriage of justice, but His gracious forgiveness stretched right back to the first fallen couple, who disobeyed God by eating of the three of knowledge, and reached forward into the far-distant future – for His gracious forgiveness includes you and it includes me.
• His infinite forgiveness touches the lives of all who are born of woman – all who are of the seed of Adam’s fallen race.
• This did not catch God out by surprise. Forgiveness was on the heart of the Father Who planned for the sacrificial death of the Lord Jesus from before time began, before space was created – before the worlds were made.
• The holy Lamb of God was slain from the foundation of the world so that all rebellious human-kind could be offered the free gift of redemption for the forgiveness of sins, an escape from death’s cruel sting, a release from the curse of the Law and eternal salvation with life more abundant.
• The love that flooded from the heart of the Father and blood that streamed from the body of the Saviour was a demonstration of divine forgiveness and love divine – so that all who believe on His name are forever forgiven – forever.

• May our feet be shod with the good news of peace with God - knowing that all who hear this proclamation and respond in faith to its call will be forgiven of their sins, made one with Christ, be clothed in His righteousness and receive everlasting life - by faith, which comes by hearing, and hearing through the truth that comes through Christ - the living Word of God

• By His grace, through faith in Him, we have been granted the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• is transferred into a heart belief in His sacrifice for sin, and His death-defeating resurrection - that knowledge is ineffective for salvation, the forgiveness of sin and life eternal.
• Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone in the Person of Christ and His sacrificial work on the cross. He alone is the incarnate Son of God - and we are saved by trusting in His redeeming blood, for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• but following in the footsteps of the Master we hear Stephen's gracious prayer of forgiveness being offered up to His God and Saviour - and falling on his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, 'Lord, do not hold this sin against them!' and having said this, Stephen fell asleep.

• Not only are our sins forgiven through His blood because of substitution, but the power of sin and death has been severed forever by means of His resurrection – (identification with Christ).
• Should we not seek to walk in holiness and righteousness all our days, knowing that our sins are forgiven and we are one with Christ?

• By grace the born-again believer is not only forgiven of their sin but they are dead to sin because sin’s power and dominion, in the life of every Christian, was forever broken at the cross.
• At salvation we were not only forgiven of our sin but declared to be righteous by God, because we were removed from the old creation in Adam and placed into the new creation in Christ – how important to reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to Christ – to reckon on our heavenly position in Christ as fact.

• In Him we already have redemption through His blood and forgiveness of sins..

• We are exhorted to be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other - just as God in Christ also has forgiven us.

• John had been sent ahead of the Lord Jesus, to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, teaching a baptism of repentance, for the forgiveness of sins - but there were many pretenders among the crowd who came out to hear him.
• No doubt many had come out into the wilderness, out of curiosity, having heard of the spectacle, of this highly controversial figure, proclaiming a baptism of repentance, unto the forgiveness of sins.

• But Scripture always encourages such parents to hope in the Lord, to pray for their repentance - and to look for the day when the prodigal returns to the fold - with a penitent heart and a cry for forgiveness - for it is not God's will that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
• There are those who knowingly or unwittingly have encouraged their children to develop, worldly ways, sinful habits and ungodly patterns of behavior - but does this verse exclude those children from God's promise of forgiveness?

• and let us never treat as insignificant our eternal position in Christ, our future inheritance, the forgiveness of sins and everlasting life - for what God has said He will fulfill - not because of who we are..

• Forgiveness of sin and life everlasting are two of the multiple blessings that are ours - in Christ.
• we would not have to go through punished for our sin - but would receive forgiveness of sin, eternal life..

• Christ's resurrection from the dead broke the power of sin and death in the life of all who trust in His name for the forgiveness of sins.

• Whatever the reason that this ruler of the Jews came to see Him at night, the Lord Jesus recognised a man who was earnestly seeking the truth, and so begins the most wonderful passage that outlines to whosoever will, how to be saved - how to be born again - how to be born of the Spirit - how to become a Christian - how to see the kingdom of heaven - how to have their sins forgiven - how to gain eternal life: 'For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

• Through faith in His indescribable act of love… our sins are forgiven, our certificate of debt is cancelled, and He has disarmed the rulers and authorities that enslaved our soul.

• Although every sinful, careless or lying word we have ever uttered, or will utter in the future, has been covered by the blood of Christ and forgiven..

• But the blessing we all receive when we confess this truth and place our faith in HIM - is the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• Many of the Psalms are penitential hymns, where the people of God cry out to Him for confession and forgiveness - or to plead for His mercy and blessing.
• BUT there is true forgiveness - eternal forgiveness with our Father, through Jesus Christ the Son, that the Lord may be worshipped and glorified for ever and ever.

• for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• He was her God and He was her Saviour and she needed forgiveness of sins and life everlasting- just like you and me.

• And as the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world, He had to endure the full force of God's wrath, poured out on Him in our stead... for the forgiveness of OUR sin. 

• tasted death for every member of the human race, so that by faith in His sacrificial death for the forgiveness of sin..

• Peter was so acutely ashamed of his cowardly denial of the Lord, in the chilly shadows of the high priest’s courtyard, that he did not see the forgiveness in Christ’s eyes, when the Lord turned and looked upon him, after the cock had crowed for the third time.

• To those who are lost and perishing - to those who have not trusted in the shed blood of Christ for the forgiveness of sins and God's free gift of eternal life- the message of the cross is insane madness; stupid silliness and illogical idiocy .
• The shed blood of Christ as the redemptive price for the forgiveness of sin and His glorious resurrection from the dead - with its promise of eternal life and our blessed hope in Christ's soon return, is our glorious hope; our sufficient strength..

• The only way a sinner can be forgiven, is if the price of his sin is paid by a righteous Man.
• It is sad that the term 'born-again' is so often used incorrectly or flippantly.  The new birth is the glorious fact of regeneration and spiritual renewal by the Holy Spirit when a lost sinner believes on the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• It was for US, He paid the price for sin, and for US He rose again, so that OUR sin could be forgiven and OUR BODIES be resurrected, to be like unto His glorious, eternal Body.

• When it is used to show an unsaved man or woman that they are sinners, in need of God’s forgiveness it fulfills its purpose, but when it is manipulated by false teachers to cause believers, who have already been justified by grace through faith in Christ, to turn aside to vain discourses, useless discussions, frivolous arguments and ungodly philosophies – it is very dangerous and very wrong.

• It is trusting in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ Jesus our Saviour, for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting, that overcomes the world.

• Without this core truth our faith would be rendered irrelevant - for it is by Christ's death that we are forgiven and it is by His imputed, resurrected life that we too shall live.

• It is also to Jesus to Whom the indwelling Spirit of God directs our gaze and it is Jesus who demands our worship, praise and thanksgiving – for as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so that all who looked upon the bronze serpent would live, so Jesus was lifted up on the cross, so that all who look to Him would be saved by grace through faith and have forgiveness of sins and everlasting life.

• We are reminded in many places in Scripture that we are no longer under the curse of the Mosaic Law, which it the tool our Creator established to expose our sin and bring us to the cross for forgiveness.

• for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting - For in the power of one Spirit, we have all been baptised into one Body - i.e.

• All who are called by His name, forgiven of their sins and have been granted eternal life, will carry out their service of righteousness, in quietness and in confidence, forever.

• Jesus Christ fulfilled the Law on our behalf - for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• Every act and action, every temptation and trial, every pain and every prayer was preparing Him for this ultimate hour - without which the sins of the world could never have been forgiven and Salvation could never have been procured.

• David cries for mercy and forgiveness, which flow into a deeper concern about the continuing onslaught and attacks from His enemies, which identifies the desperate situation in which David found himself .

• When his own sins were confessed and forgiven by God, Isaiah was ready and willing to be sent on a life-time mission, to minister to his own, sinful nation, who were blinded to their own faults.

• in the heart of all who have been forgiven of their sins by faith in Christ, and have received eternal life, by the goodness and grace of almighty God.

• and be saved by grace through faith in the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ - but that open door into full forgiveness of sin and life everlasting is soon to be closed and the floodgates of God's wrath are soon to be poured out on a God-hating, Christ-rejecting, sinful world in a coming time of terrible judgement - as foretold by the prophets of old.
• They will either be judged as forgiven saints or unredeemed sinners for all are either positioned 'in Christ' or positioned 'in Adam' - all are either clothed in Christ's righteousness or clothed in their own unrighteous acts.

• and it is by faith in His finished work on Calvary's cross, that Salvation:- the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting, becomes our eternal possession.
• John records that the blind receive their sight; the lame walk; lepers are cleansed; the deaf hear - the dead are raised up and the poor have good news preached to them - and John makes it very clear that He wrote his gospel as a witness to the world: that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing in His name, the lost may be saved; sin may be forgiven and eternal life may become the everlasting possession (through time and into eternity) of all who believe on the name of the only begotten Son of God.

• But how often is this scenario repeated in this day and age, when sin-sick sinners hear the simple truth of the gospel but are too proud to humble themselves before the mighty hand of God - and cry out to Him for forgiveness and cleansing?

• We are forgiven of our sin; declared righteous before God and are given an eternal inheritance, that is kept for us in heaven - and these are just a few of many biblical blessings that are ours, by grace, through faith in Christ.
• We have been forgiven of all our sins, past, present, and future (Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14), which will be remembered no more (Heb. 8:12; 10:17) and we are being made fit for heaven (Col. 1:12).

• Praise to our thrice holy God should be the ongoing song of rejoicing of all of the elect, for we have not only been forgiven of our sin and saved from the shocking consequences of sin, but we have been accepted by the Father in the Beloved and seated with Him in heavenly places.

• the moment a sinner believes in Christ, and trusts the Lord Jesus for the forgiveness of sins and eternal salvation.
• OH, we are POSITIONALLY forgiven!
• We are permanently forgiven at salvation and clothed in Christ's eternal righteousness, which gives us eternal peace with God.

• forgiven of our sin, loved by the Lord, accepted in the Beloved, heirs of God and joint-heirs with the Lord Jesus..
• But although we are called to put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness and long-suffering, where gracious consideration and genuine forgiveness of others are identified as vital qualities of the believer - it is love ruling the heart and peace protecting the soul that is given the main emphasis here. But above ALL, put on love which binds these things together the unity of the Spirit - and let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful.

• Because Christ died we are forgiven, and because He lives, we too will live..
• May we be those that not only trust in Christ for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting, but continue to trust him throughout our Christian life and love Him with a holy love..

• Although there is nothing that can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord, and although there is no sin that cannot be forgiven..

• But God in His long-suffering, loving-kindness and great mercy has extended the period of His gracious forgiveness to include you and to include me - and to include all who will turn from their sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation..

• Yes, we should indeed rejoice, that we as members of His Body and partakers of His sufferings – for it is by faith in His sacrificial death and glorious resurrection that we have not only been forgiven of our sin and clothed in His righteousness – but we are His blood-bought children who have a blessed hope; a glorious future and life everlasting  amen.

• It was this same apostle, who felt the tender touch of Christ's gracious hand of forgiveness upon him, when He said to His distraught disciple: 'feed my lambs' - on that memorable day, before His ascension into the heaven of heavens, where He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

• As guilty members of the old creation we were under God's condemnation, but by faith in Christ's redeeming work, we are part of a new creation, which has been set free from the requirements of the Law and have been declared forgiven saints.

• But the only way to sever our sinful nature from the law of sin and death is: EITHER 1) to have our sin forgiven, by the death of another..
• Forgiveness of sin by means of a mediator or physical death are the only two ways that sinful man can be released from the power of sin and death over their life.
• The former, (forgiveness) is impossible because our sins must be punished by death (or a sinless substitute) ..

• It is a 'salvation' label given to a child of God, who is covered in Christ's righteousness; forgiven of sin; a recipient of eternal life and many other incredible privileges.

• But for the one that has trusted Christ for the forgiveness of their sins and who has been covered in His own righteousness..

• Were it not for the cross, we could never have been forgiven of our sins and delivered from our offenses against God, but were it not for the resurrection we would have no proof of Christ's claims to be our Saviour.

• outlined all we need to receive His promised blessing of salvation, the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• He starts to catalogue the tender mercies of our God and the amazing gospel truths, that have impacted the lives of so many, who have trusted in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.
• The beautiful result of the man or women who has received God's perfect forgiveness... is our redemption, healing, comfort, provision, satisfaction and goodness.

• But there is coming a day of vengeance, when all evil-doers, who have not sought Christ for the forgiveness of sins, through the cleansing power of His blood, will have to stand before the judgement seat of God..

• The sting of death is sin, but for the believer in Christ, death has lost its sting for we have been forgiven and clothed in Christ's righteousness.

• May we never forget that our salvation has nothing to do with ourselves It is not our works, our kind acts or generous giving that has saved us, forgiven us and redeemed us from sin, Satan, death and hell.

• Jesus trod the path of rejection for our sake so that we could be forgiven of our sin and identified with HIM.

• because our sinful heart has been cleansed by faith, through the shed blood of Christ, for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• Only in Christ can we be forgiven of sin and only in Him can we be imputed with Christ's nature and love as He loved us.

• that the one who confesses their sinfulness with a penitent heart of true repentance will be forgiven - but this truth must not be divorced from the Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ - the Anointed Messiah and promised Saviour, Whose sacrificial death paid the price for our sins and Whose glorious resurrection transferred us from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son - making us a new creation in Christ, clothing us in His own righteousness and sending His Holy Spirit to permanently indwell our heart.
• but by faith in Christ Jesus our Saviour, our sins were forgiven, all our sins - all our past, present and future sins - and we were cleansed from all unrighteousness.
• Although our post-salvation sins were forgiven forever at the cross of Christ, fellowship with the Father is broken when we allow the old sin nature to direct our lives, which means that the communion we once enjoyed with Him, is broken.

• And Christ endured the cross, the pain, the humiliation and the devastating separation from the Father and the Spirit, in obedience to God’s perfect will – for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son… so that you and I might be forgiven and live in eternal union and communion with Him – forever.

• And also, the Holy Spirit of God took up permanent residence within our weak, mortal frame, from the moment we trusted Christ Jesus, for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• Indeed forgiveness of sins is the crucial matter for all people - and so Jesus said to the man: son, your sins are forgiven you.
• while the forgiveness of God is akin to having health restored and life revitalised.

• Trusting in Christ as Saviour is the only path to forgiveness of sin and the only key into His heavenly home.

• Repentance is ineffective unless one turns, in faith, to the Lord Christ for forgiveness.

• David asked for forgiveness - not because he merited it but based on God's gracious character.
• David had strayed far from the Lord because of his sin and knew that only God's forgiveness could cleanse his blackened heart, Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and from my sin make me clean.
• Sinners need forgiveness of sin, which can only come from God.
• We all fall short of God's perfect righteousness and we all need forgiveness of sin.

• This remnant of Church-age, Jewish believers, who have trusted in Christ's death, burial and resurrection for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting..

• God knows that when we start to come to terms with the unfathomable mercy that He has shown to us - in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, so that by faith in Him we might be forgiven of our sins and receive eternal life - that His perfect life will be formed within, and we will be enabled to diffuse mercy to others, because of the mercy that our heavenly Father has so graciously bestowed on each one of us.

• Let us run to win, so that we may lay up for ourselves good treasure in our heavenly home - for although our sin is forgiven and eternal life is our present possession, we will be judged for what we did in our lives - whether for good or ill.

• As fellow-believers who have trusted in the finished work of Christ on the cross, we are all partakers of God's heavenly grace, for we who were once dead in our trespasses and sins and estranged from God by sin, have been forgiven of our sins, and brought near to His throne of grace - through faith in Christ Jesus our Saviour.

• Once we have a knowledge of the Law, we have no alternative but to admit we are wretched sinners, in need of forgiveness..

• The beautiful intimacy and eternal union that is enjoyed by the Father and the Son has graciously been extended to all who trust in His sacrificial work - for the forgiveness of sin.

• He was born into the human race and named JESUS - God is Salvation, for your sake and for mine, so that by grace through faith in Him we might be forgiven of our sins and have life everlasting.
• And in Christ we have an absolute assurance in God's plan of redemption for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting..

• It is only by means of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ that this very specific, Abrahamic promise:- (that all families of the earth will be blessed) could come to pass - for God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, the promised Seed of Abraham, to die for the sin of the whole world - so that whosoever believes in Him would not perish but be blessed, with the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• We may not have experienced the type of vision Paul had on the road to Emmaus and we may not be a pastor-teacher like Timothy, but we all have received the same great salvation - the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting and we all have work to do in the power of the Holy Spirit.

• Our promised positions in Christ's coming Kingdom and the many precious pledges that God has made to all who believe in His only begotten Son, for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting, are equally certain, totally true and unquestionably unbreakable - for God cannot lie.

• The healing of their friend's twisted, disabled body was what they expected - and their expectation was rewarded, for we read that when Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic - Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.
• The sick man may have hoped to have his body healed - but he would never have expected to hear Christ's staggering pardon - Your Sins Are Forgiven!

• so that sinful man might be declared righteous, forgiven of our sin forever, and eternally clothed in the glorious righteousness of Christ.
• and yet His final words pleaded, Father forgive, and all that fallen man has to do to receive His forgiveness is to say - I believe on the Lord Jesus Christ - I believe that He died for ME.

• And it is only by faith in Him we can be forgiven of our sin and receive His gift of eternal LIFE.
• Our sins would be forgiven, but without the resurrection of Christ to life eternal - death would have gained its prey.
• Christ is therefore the 'Firstfruits from the Dead' and we who have trusted Him for the forgiveness of sins have received His free gift of eternal life-in Christ... and the promise of our resurrection to life.

• The name of the Lord encompasses all the wonderful, eternal, glorious, infinite and amazing aspects of our Creator God, Who loved us so much that He gave His only begotten Son to be the substitute for the sin of the whole world, and to die in our place - so that we could be forgiven of our sins and be showered with all the wonderful and eternal gifts that God in His grace has bestowed on all who believe on the name of Jesus.

• Memories of Christian brothers and sisters should be bathed in love and grace, forgiveness and faith.

• in Whom we have redemption through His blood - the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting..

• Forgiveness will be given to those who pardon others, while condemnation will be meted out on those who criticise and condemn.

• And so it was not his question on inheritance that immediately grabbed Christ's attention... for forgiveness of sins, eternal life and a heavenly inheritance is God's free gift to ALL, who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, as their perfect kinsman Redeemer and substitute for sin.

• There are none that are good and not one can brag that their kindly deeds; financial contribution; pious prayers; saintly religiosity or ecclesiastical duties contributed towards their forgiveness of sin and everlasting life.
• God not only purposed to pay the price for the sin of mankind so that our sin could be forgiven, but He chose to reestablish our fellowship with Himself and adopt us as His own children.

• Justification is the initial work that takes place when a lost sinner places their trust in Christ for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• Jesus lived a sinless life so that all who believe in Him might be forgiven of their sins and clothed in His righteousness - but it is only as we die to self; live to Christ and walk in spirit and truth - in the power of the Holy Ghost, that our life can be holy unto the Lord.

• All who believe in Christ and drink of the living water He offers, receive forgiveness of sin and life everlasting, for He is the Fountain and Source of all life. 'Come,' is the exhortation to those that are thirsty.

• One that He mentions, is of the man or woman dead in their trespasses and sins who comes to Christ for the forgiveness of sins - and by grace through faith in Him are raised into newness of life and receive the free gift of life everlasting.

• He had come to give to His people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins.

• We have passed from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of His dear Son, for we have received the forgiveness of sins and newness of eternal life, in Christ Jesus, our God and our Saviour - and nothing can pluck us out of His hand, and no one can pluck us out of His Father's hands, for ever and ever, AMEN.

• Though Aaron and his descendants were fallen creatures in need of the forgiveness of sins through the constant cleansing from the old sin nature by means of many blood sacrifices..

• Christ took the punishment for our sins, so that by grace through faith in Him, so we might be forgiven of our sins.

• by becoming the sinless sacrifice - so that all who believe on His name might be forgiven of their sins.
• But forgiveness of sin was only one aspect of this eternal plan of Salvation.
• Not only would all who believe in Christ be:- 1) identified with the death of Christ for the forgiveness of sins - but they would also be: 2) identified with His resurrected life and become part of a new Creation..
• All who believe on His sacrificial work for the forgiveness of sins would be made a new Creature with a new Christlike Nature and have a new Beginning and a glorious inheritance in Christ.
• By God's grace through faith in the death, burial and resurrection of the Son of God we are born-again for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• It is as we reach chapter 33 that we find the people repenting of their unbelief and Moses, on his face, before the Lord, in the Tent of Meeting, pleading for forgiveness and praying that the Lord would still accompany them, and that His Presence would continue to go with them.
• Just like Noah, before him, Moses also found grace in the eyes of the Lord - and that same grace is extended to ALL who will believe in His Word and trust in Christ for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting - for LO, I am with you even to the end of the age.

• Jews that were steeped in the Mosaic Law were prepared to add elements of Christianity to their Judaism, by believing in Jesus for the forgiveness of sin, but they were not prepared to live by faith alone - preferring to revert back to the Law, as they lived out their daily lives, through works of the flesh.

• and to deliver to them the good news of the glorious gospel of grace, so that by repentance and believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of sins... they might be saved by grace through faith in Him, and receive life everlasting.
• and yet so few are prepared to humble themselves under the mighty hand of God and believe on the only begotten Son of His love, for the forgiveness of sin.
• This good news is given to us through the pen of the apostle Paul, in order to produce in us the obedience that God requires from those, who have been forgiven by grace through faith in Him.

• Indeed, God loved us so much that He gave His only begotten Son to come to earth to suffer and die, in order to pay the enormous price for our sin - so that we might be forgiven of our sin and receive eternal life.

• They were to be His witness to a lost and dying world that salvation is available to all who would believe on Christ for the forgiveness of sins..

• Everyone has the opportunity to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• Participating in holy communion is a sombre, yet joyful celebration of Christ's gracious sacrifice on the cross, where the New Covenant, which God promised to the nation of Israel, was cut, through the precious blood of God's only begotten Son - such that all who believe on His name, are made children of God, forgiven of our sins, positioned in Christ..

• and that forgiveness of sin and everlasting life is not dependent upon our good deeds but on His good work on the cross.
• Once a sinner has been forgiven of their sins..
• The wonderful truth is that even a believer's post-salvation works that are carried out in the flesh are forgiven.
• As believers we are warned that works of the flesh will result in a loss of possible reward, but they were all forgiven at the cross.

• The Old Covenant could only instruct a sinner in righteousness, convict him of sin, point out his need for forgiveness - and label him guilty.
• It contains superior promises of grace; an inner change of the heart - unlimited blessings, sins forgiven and an eternal hope, laid up in heaven..

• He pleaded with the Lord for forgiveness and mercy, and his grief over Jerusalem was reflected in his service to Artaxerxes, the king..
• Nehemiah was in fellowship with the Father, for his sins were forgiven and confessed up to date, and so he was well able to come to the throne of grace for mercy to find help at this time of need.

• Paul was called and chosen to be used by God so that countless millions might receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified and positionally set apart for God - by grace through faith in the redeeming work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

• Paul is showing that all have sinned, Jew and Gentile alike, but that God loved the world so much, that He gave His only begotten Son, into the world, to pay the price for the accumulated sin of the entire race, so that whosoever believes on Him, whether Jew or Gentile, would NOT perish, but be reconciled to God through the shed blood of His dearly beloved Son ... and that through faith in Him, may be forgiven of their sin and receive life everlasting.

• We do not deserve forgiveness or eternal life., and yet by His grace - through faith - we have been eternally saved and fully forgiven.
• Before the cross a gentile who believed in God had to seek His forgiveness by becoming a Jewish proselyte and carefully following all the Jewish rites and customs, feasts and ordinances.
• as in the time of Paul there were an increasing number of legalistic Jews who continued to argue that Gentiles were outside of God's grace and could not receive His forgiveness without becoming a proselyte..
• God's free gift of salvation was not only for the Jews but reaches out to whosoever will believe on the name of the only begotten Son of God - whether they are Jew or Gentile - for all have equal access to His goodness and grace and all receive His forgiveness and life everlasting - by faith in Jesus Christ the righteousness.

• Sins are forgiven, we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, fellowship with the Father is reinstated, we become children of God, citizens of heaven and placed in unity with Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Paul was not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for he knew that it was the power of God unto salvation for all – both Jew and Gentile alike, who would trust in Christ for the forgiveness of sin.

• Purity of heart; love for one another; and doctrinal truth that stems from the Word of God alone... which was the hallmark of the early Christian Church has deteriorated into Christian mud-slinging and hostility against brothers in Christ... OR has resulted in a watering down of the gospel of grace to accommodate any slight variation from the truth of the glorious gospel of CHRIST - Who alone bore the sin of the world on His shoulder so that by faith in HIM we might be forgiven of our sin and receive everlasting life.

• But there is only ONE way to be saved; there is only one way to gain forgiven of sin; there is only one way to receive life everlasting, and that is by faith in Christ's finished work on the cross.
• With man the forgiveness of sins is impossible but with God, all things are possible - when you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

• They came to understand that the Messiah had to suffer and die and rise from the dead on the third day, if the plan of salvation, which God Himself ordained in eternity past was to accomplish its great work of man's reconciliation to God, the redemption of human-kind, the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting, for all who would believe on His name.

• And here in this passage it is Paul’s Jewish ‘brethren’ that are hearing that through Christ the forgiveness of sins is being proclaimed to them.
• Finally, Paul dropped the climatic bombshell – let it be known to you, brethren, that through Jesus, the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Paul was explaining to his unsaved Jewish ‘brethren’ that Jesus was great David’s greater Son, after the flesh.
• He was the one about Whom David prophesised, for He died, and rose again for the forgiveness of their sins – and for ALL who would believe on His name.
• This is the gospel that must be preached to unsaved Jew and Gentile alike – that through faith in the Man Christ Jesus is received the forgiveness of sin.

• All Who have trusted in Christ are already forgiven of our sin and have received the gift of eternal life - and by His grace the Church will accompany our God and Saviour on that incredible day - when Israel recognises Jesus as their Messiah - when they see the nail-print on His hands and the sword-wound on His body and ask Him - What are these wounds between your arms?

• unless they trust in Christ for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• our sins have been forgiven and eternal life is our present possession.

• Men of Israel, at the time of Christ, who believed the voice of John the Baptist and trusted in Jesus as their Lord, have already received the many benefits of trusting in their prophesised Messiah, for their sins are forgiven, eternal life is their portion and each one is being conformed, day by day in the beautiful image and likeness of the Saviour, in Whom they placed their trust.

• He alone suffered, died and rose again, so that we might be forgiven of our sin and receive life eternal - by faith.

• What could be more glorious than to know that we are forgiven of our sin, redeemed from slavery to sin and saved from eternal condemnation by God's amazing grace..
• having been forgiven of our sin, imputed with His righteousness and received the indwelling life of Christ within our hearts.
• Nothing is more glorious that to know that we are forgiven of our sin, redeemed from slavery to sin and saved from eternal condemnation by God's amazing and super-abounding grace..

• The work of the Holy Spirit within the life of a believer, has far greater consequences that simply the forgiveness of sin through Christ's sacrificial death.
• What use would the forgiveness of sin be..
• We are not only co-crucified and co-buried with Christ for the forgiveness of sins - but we are ALSO co-resurrected with Christ unto eternal life - through faith in the working of GOD..

• But His righteousness is only given by grace through faith in the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• In Him we have an everlasting reality with a better sacrifice, for Christ Jesus presented His shed blood on the sacrificial Alter in the true Sanctuary above, so that by faith in Him we are forgiven of our sins, and made one with Christ

• What a thrill it must have been, as Philip opened the prophetic Scripture to this God-fearing man and revealed to him that Jesus is the Christ, the promised Son - in Whom is the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• for it is only in Christ that this perfection can be attained - it is only through the blood of the Lamb, that we can be forgiven of our numberless sins and be clothed in Christ's righteousness - and live godly in Him.

• As lost sinners, who have been saved by grace, through faith in Christ, and forgiven of our sin..
• However, this is not a passage that teaches that immorality can't be forgiven..

• Although the debt for mankind's sin has been paid in full, not everyone will receive God's amazing free gift of grace, for the forgiveness of sins.

• Suffering is part of our passage through life but when we willingly suffer for Christ, (Who Himself suffered so that we might be forgiven of our sins and freed from the pain of eternal death to the joys of eternal life) it can become an opportunity for rejoicing - an opportunity to glorify His name.

• While John's gospel was written, so that lost sinners might believe in the saving blood of Christ, be forgiven of their trespasses, be redeemed from the slave-market of sin and have life in His name, the purpose of his first epistle is to enable born-again saint to enter into the fullness of the eternal life we received at salvation.
• Only those who are saved by grace through faith in Christ are forgiven of all their sin and declared righteous in the sight of God.
• How we praise our heavenly Father that at the moment of oursalvation... past, present, and future sins are forgiven forever, and will be remembered no more.
• However, the forgiveness of our sin at salvation does not make us sinless beings, nor do we stop sinning.
• Our sins were forgiven because of HIS shed blood at Calvary.

• Christ died to pay the price for sins committed in our lives - so that we might be forgiven and Christ rose again the third day to break the power of sin in our lives, so that we may live the rest of our Christian life free from the powerful strangle-hold of sin within our hearts - and in this glorious chapter Paul transports us to the pinnacle of who we are in Christ and what His death and resurrection really means to all who believe on His name.

• He wrote his gospel so that we may know and believe, that Jesus, the Son of Mary and Carpenter of Nazareth, is the eternal Son of the Almighty... and that by believing in HIM for the forgiveness of sin, we have life through His name.

• As forgiven sinners we ALL became members of the body of Christ at salvation.

• But Paul reminds us at the start of chapter 2 of what we once were, before we were redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, forgiven of our sins, born from above, baptised into the body of Christ and made children of God, through our position in Christ, as a result of His finished work at Calvary.

• As Christians we have been forgiven of all our sins for the sake of Christ.

• Both are a picture of our great redemption in Christ through the forgiveness of sin and our life everlasting... and we are further reminded that we are covered in Christ's own righteousness and have found rest from our labour in Him... AND we are promised to an inheritance, that is kept for us in heaven - a legacy that was lost in Eden.

• Praise God that they receive witness to the truth of His Word, during the great tribulation, and choose to believe in Christ for the forgiveness of their sins and life everlasting. Jesus is the good Shepherd of Israel and He is the great shepherd of all His sheep. Jesus became our good and gentle Shepherd, when we trusted Him as Saviour, through the blood of the everlasting covenant.

• How much more important that we should praise and thank God that we have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb and forgiven of the sins we commit or omit.
• Redemption is not only the forgiveness of sins committed in our bodies.

• God has kept the oath which He swore to Abraham our father, to grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies - and we are able to serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness all our days.... The Messiah has come to give to His people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God - and to guide our feet into the way of peace!

• so that by His death and resurrection, He would break the power of sin and remove the curse of the Law - in the lives of ALL, who would trust in His name, for the forgiveness of sins and the salvation of their souls.

• And so, as Peter drew his final letter to a close, he entreated Christians everywhere to recall the teachings of Paul – and to consider any apparent delay in the Lord’s return as a demonstration of God’s grace, whereby sinners are being given time and opportunity to turn from their sin and trust in Christ for forgiveness.

• When instructing Gentiles of the gospel, he would often begin by pointing to the God of Creation, the sinfulness of man, the need for forgiveness and God's plan of redemption through the death, burial and resurrection of His only begotten Son.

• BUT, where sin increased (through the giving of the Law), grace abounded all the more. (through faith in Christ) Once we start to recognise that we are sinners - we also begin to recognise the amazing love of God, the forgiveness of sins and His over-abounding grace, which is ours, by faith in the sacrificial death and glorious resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Once sin is exposed in our life - the more precious become the grace of God and the forgiveness we receive - by faith.
• But His grace continues to be poured out on a sinful race - who by faith in Christ's sacrificial work on Calvary, may not only be forgiven of our sins - but declared righteous before a holy God - Praise His holy name.

• It is on the basis of Christ finished work on the cross that mankind has been redeemed - so that all who believe on His name are forgiven, justified, sanctified and glorified IN Christ - our federal Head..

• We not only identify with His death (sins forgiven) but also His resurrection (life eternal).

• And in this verse we read these important instructions: Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a difference against another or some grievous complaint, we are to readily pardon each other; just as the Lord has freely forgiven us.
• Our forbearance and forgiveness should reflect God's forbearance and forgiveness towards us - which is full, free and forever.
• God has promised that He will remember our sins no more, and we in turn should reflect His grace in forbearing with one another and freely forgiving our fellow men - just as the Lord has freely forgiven us.

• Let us never forget that He is the immortal, invisible God Who and has set eternity in the hearts of all His people and that by faith in His only begotten Son we have the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• Sadly there are those that reject God's free offer of salvation - which is accomplished by faith in Christ's sacrificial death and glorious resurrection for the forgiveness of sins.

• Jesus' death was only six months away and His pleading cry was for all to believe on Him, for in so doing, their thirsty souls would be satisfied eternally, through this gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit, welling up within unto eternal life, and they would be used of God to draw others into His arms of forgiveness.

• All fall short of God's glory and all need forgiveness of their sin.

• God ordained that the one and only way that a race of sinful creatures, who were made in the image and likeness of God could be forgiven of their sin, would be through the shed blood of a perfect, Kinsman-Redeemer - but none were good enough - not even one.

• our crucified Saviour, so that we could be forgiven of all our sins and raised up together with Him into newness of life.

• And so God sent His dearly loved Son into the world to be the propitiation for our sins so that all who believe on Him would be forgiven of their sin, justified in the sight of God and declared righteous before Him - by faith.

• But a Christian who has become lukewarm and careless towards God or one that doubts the truth of God's word needs to break up the fallow ground - to revisit God's word of truth and to root-our weeds of bitterness, legalism, un-forgiveness, unbelief, disinterest or distrust, so that the seeds of righteousness sown in our hearts can take root, as we grow in grace - to the glory of our merciful God.

• The wonderful truths is that we are forgiven of our sins, according to the riches of His grace - which has been lavished on us in all wisdom and understanding.

• Forgiveness is by God’s grace, through faith, and righteousness is imputed to all who believe what God has promised, by faith.

• Peter was not only forgiven of all his sins, but re-commissioned by the risen Lord Jesus Christ, to be His chief apostle - who would feed His sheep, shepherd His lambs..

• By God's sufficient grace, Stephen pleaded the forgiveness of his murderers: Lord, do not hold this sin against them.  It appears that Stephen's murder, completed mankind's rejection of the Triune Godhead - rejection of the Father, rejection of the Son and now..
• together with his gracious words of forgiveness and the releasing of his spirit into the loving arms of Christ Jesus our Lord, is an inspiration to men and women of all ages - who may have to face severe persecution, for the sake of Jesus Christ.

• Before we were saved we were estranged from God BUT when we were saved by grace through faith in Christ our sin was forgiven..

• He was pierced through for our transgressions and He was crushed under the enormous weight of the accumulated sin of the whole world, and by grace through faith in Him we are healed; we are forgiven; we are saved; we are redeemed and we are freed from bondage to Satan, the curse of the Law and the enormous and eternal consequences of our sin.

• He identified with our sin and became sin for us so that we might be forgiven, redeemed, born again and returned into fellowship with the Father.

• When we look at the cross we often only think of the forgiveness of sins that is provided – and had forgiveness of sins been the only gift of grace that we received, it would certainly cause eternal rejoicing.

• He redeemed us from the curse of the Law, and secured redemption and the forgiveness of sin..
• to all who are dead in their trespasses and sins: that you believe in Him Whom He has sent - that you believe in Christ's finished work, for the forgiveness sins and life everlasting

• Such lowliness of spirit proceeds from a heart of faith, which is looking to Christ as Advocate, for it is only through Him that God's mercy, forgiveness, kindness and grace will wash away every scarlet-stain that clings to our sin-encrusted soul, when offered in brokenness of heart and true contriteness of spirit.

• Christ came to the circumcision first, so that they could be forgiven of centuries of apostasy, by faith in Jesus - the eternal Son on God and perfect Son of Man.

• And like us, they believed that He rose again from the dead, to give them life-everlasting and the forgiveness of sins.

• Christ laid aside His heavenly glory to live in humble submission to the Father, doing only those things that He heard from Him, so that we might be forgiven and become a new creation in Christ.

• They were about to face the most traumatic few hours in the history of the universe – when Son God and Son of Man willingly spread wide His arms of love to embrace whosoever will, with His everlasting forgiveness and crown all who would believe on His name with His gift of life eternal – His own righteous Life in exchange for our sad, sinful lives.

• But the day is coming when Israel will recognise their terrible sin against their God and Messiah, and will call out to the Lord for forgiveness.

• Our God of grace is willing to extend His arms of love and forgiveness to all Who will trust in Jesus - for He is not willing that any should be condemned but that all come to a saving knowledge of the Lord.
• There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repents but Jonah complained because God extended His grace to people he considered were unworthy to receive God's forgiveness.

• Freedom from righteousness is futile and fruitless, but it is the eternal state in which the unsaved sinner will find himself, unless he turns from his sin to Christ, and trusts in His redeeming work on the cross - for the forgiveness of his sins and life everlasting.

• and is unambiguously linked to faith in Christ's death, burial and resurrection, as the only acceptable sacrifice for the forgiveness for sins, and life everlasting.

• His precious blood not only covered the scarlet sins and shocking shame that separated us for ever from a holy and righteous God, but His very Life became the propitiation for our sins - so that in Christ our sins are forgiven forever, and have been removed as far as the east is from the west - and Christ's sacrifice of Himself on the cross - is sufficient.

• We could never have been set-apart by God and forgiven of our sins through our own vain efforts to keep the perfect requirements of the Law.

• Israel should have responded to the many calls to repent of their sin and produced the fruit of righteousness, by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness.
• The Father not only responded to Christ's request to, leave it for one more year', as He continued to share the good news of the gospel of God and the coming kingdom, but it seems that God also answered Christ's prayer on the cross - Father forgiven them for they know not what they do, and maybe He even answered Stephen's prayer, when he was brutally murdered by the Jews - do not hold this sin to their charge.
• Throughout the Church age they have had even more opportunity to repent of their sin, return to the Lord and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin.

• Others like to hide the shed blood of the slain Lord Jesus, for the forgiveness of sins, under the proverbial carpet..

• Salvation and the forgiveness of sin could never be attained by keeping the unattainable Law - indeed the perfect Law of God declared the death sentence on all men.
• Salvation and the forgiveness of sin is simply by faith - believe in God and Jesus Christ Whom He has sent - for Christ is the end of the Law to all who believe.

• Our sin nature and the sins we commit have to be punished and Jesus took the full and final punishment that we deserve - but it is only and exclusively and unalterably by faith in the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus that we can be fully and forever forgiven of our sins and placed in eternal union with Christ - by which we are brought back into a right relationship with our heavenly Father.

• However, these two emboldened believers had already been born-again of the Spirit and received forgiveness of their sin from the true Passover Lamb - the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

• He did not excuse this woman's adultery by finding fault with God's law, but He challenged her to face her wrong-doing and to 'go and sin no more.' And by His atoning death she too was forgiven by grace through faith.
• Praise God that Christ is the only One that has the righteous authority to cast the first stone at you and me, but by grace through faith in Him we are forgiven of all our SINS through His atoning death.

• so that through His shed blood we might receive redemption of our bodies - the forgiveness of sins.

• God's righteous judgement on sin was secured at the Cross of Christ's, purchasing forgiveness of sin to all who believe.

• We are God's children and have His assurance that we are secure in His hand... for we have received the forgiveness of sin and His promise of life eternal.

• The Lord offers cleansing and forgiveness for the unsaved sinner, who in recognising their need of salvation, trusts that Christ is the acceptable sacrifice for their sin - including the sin of abortion.
• There is no condemnation, to those that are in Christ Jesus, for He even gives forgiveness and healing to those who commit this sin, both in their post salvation life - for if we, who have been justified by faith, confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleans us from all unrighteousness - including this one.

• These words of Isaiah were indeed good tidings of great joy to the little, faithful remnant of Israel, but they are words of great comfort and succour to all who are weary and heavy-laden - both Jew and Gentile alike, for He sent Jesus to be the good Shepherd of the sheep, the Door of the sheepfold - the Way, the Truth, the Life and the Light to all who would trust in His name, for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• As she heard His gracious pronouncement of forgiveness upon her that day, little did she realise that soon He would be despised, rejected of men and led as a lamb to the slaughter, in order to die on the cross to pay the price for her sin..

• Propitiation for our sins was made for fallen humanity through Christ, such that all who believe on Him are forgiven.

• for the forgiveness of sins.

• Praise God that we have been released from the law of sin and death, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the new way and better way. Praise God that we are not called to serve in the old letter of the law but in spirit and in truth. Praise God that the Spirit's law of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and of death. Praise God that in Christ our trespasses have been forgiven and that He will remember our sins no more.

• The warm gentleness and tender-hearted forgiveness of Paul's chapter on love, in 1 Corinthians 13: (God's greatest fruit the Spirit) is condensed into one tiny verse by Peter, the big 'fisher-of-men,' who was such a fervent lover of his Lord and encouraged us to: above all things have fervent love among yourselves: for love shall cover a multitude of sins. 
• And should not we who have received such a depth of love and forgiveness from our Saviour, not show forth His love to others. Love as I have loved was the command that Christ gave to the Church and our love for one another should reflect the pure love that Christ demonstrated toward us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.
• Should not we who have had the sordid sins of our blackened souls washed, covered, cleansed and eternally forgiven by our gracious God, reflect His tender-hearted forgiveness, His warm gentleness, His deep compassion and fervent love in our dealings with our brothers and sisters in Christ.

• God has done mighty works in the life of all believers, for all who have been saved by grace through faith in Him have been forgiven of sin and received everlasting life as a free gift of God's amazing grace.

• He asked for forgiveness on behalf of the nation and requested that God would water the earth, following the inevitable droughts, which would result from sin.

• but he also discovered the freedom and joy of sins confessed and sins forgiven.

• Jesus came to give them rest from their labour; spiritual nourishment for their soul - forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.
• He had been sent from the Father to set up His kingdom of righteousness - not a worldly kingdom but the kingdom of heaven, but FIRST His people had to repent of their sin and believe on the Lord Jesus for the forgiveness of sin.

• First, with the Holy Spirit-for salvation, forgiveness and eternal life and second, with Fire-for judgement, condemnation and eternal separation from God.

• The good news, this angelic choir delivered, was for ALL humanity, for God loved the whole world so much that His gave His only begotten Son into the world, to be the sacrifice for the sin of the world - so that everyone in the world who would believe on Him, would not remain at enmity with God, but would be forgiven of their sin, regain fellowship with the Father and receive life everlasting.
• Although the gospel message that these angels shared, continues to be available to ALL men, only those that enjoy goodwill before the Lord; by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, and trusting in the name of the only begotten Son of God, for the forgiveness of sins, will enjoy the peace on earth, that this heavenly choir proclaimed.

• We are urged to live a life that is becoming of one that has been saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus, and upon whom our Father in heaven has lavished so much grace and favour - forgiveness, mercy and love.

• And because we have trusted Him as Saviour we have been forgiven of our sins; sealed by the Holy Spirit; imputed with His righteousness; in-dwelt by the Spirit of Christ; showered with the riches of His grace; seated with Him in heavenly places; adopted as sons of God and made joint-heirs of Christ's rich inheritance - and you belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God.  

• Forgiveness was a matter that was dear to the heart of our compassionate God – and forgiveness paid a tremendous part in the redemption of mankind.
• Forgiveness of sin is what fallen man yearns for and yet is incapable of receiving, unless he comes to the foot of the cross and is washed clean by the blood of the Lamb, for there is no forgiveness of sins – except through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Forgiveness was also a theme that was close to the heart of our kind and gracious Lord Jesus and much of His teaching and training surrounds the principle of forgiveness – gracious, beautiful, unconditional forgiveness.
• Forgiveness was one of the final thoughts on the heart of our Messiah as He hung on the cross - and uttered those universe-shattering words, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.
• Forgiveness should be a subject to which we should also play close attention for forgiveness is one of the godly garments with which we have been covered and clothed - and our call to kindness, compassion and forgiveness rests on the immeasurable forgiveness and mercy that each of us have received in Christ Jesus.
• It seems to be the case that those who are not able to forgive have never come to an understanding how much they have been forgiven – for the more understanding we have of the grace that we have received the deeper our gratitude and the greater our capacity to forgive other people.

• How we praise and thank our heavenly Father, that through the Law, we are able to recognise our sinfulness and turn to Christ as Saviour, for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• Paul contrasts the corrupt lives of unregenerate man with the normal Christian walk, which should exhibit the tenderness, forgiveness and grace that we see in the character of God and the life of Christ.
• We are being called here to live as sons and daughters of God whereby our lives reflect the kindness, tenderness and forgiveness of the Father – in the same way that God in Christ has forgiven us.
• We have been freely forgiven and have received the unsearchable riches of God’s grace - and for Christ’s sake, Who gave Himself for us.

• Man seeks after empty happiness and longs for peace in a world at war, but the child of God, who has been saved by grace through the sacrificial work of Christ on Calvary's cross gains more than happiness, for He is blessed to have peace with His God through the forgiveness of sin and is enabled to receive that peace that passes understanding as he remains in right relationship with Him, through the Lord Jesus Christ.

• To those of us who believe that Christ died on the cross, was buried and rose again the third day for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting, Paul's message is like a sweet, aromatic perfume.

• God purposed that fallen man could be forgiven of all his sins, redeemed from his eternal punishment, and even be adopted into His own family as His sons - if the price of man's accumulated sin was paid for by an innocent, sinless, perfect man.

• The Corinthian Christians had become sceptical of this teaching, causing Paul to detail the whole counsel of God in this area, together with the good news of the gospel of grace, which promises eternal life to all who believe on the Person and Work of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• God GAVE His Son, so that all men and women of faith, past present and future could be forgiven of their sins and receive eternal life - and God SENT his Son into the world at the appointed time...  in the fullness of time,  so that He could save us from our sins.
• Yes, God sent forth His Son, at the right time and He was born of a woman and born under the law, so that we might receive forgiveness of sins and come into full son-ship with the Father - so that we could receive His promised inheritance and the riches of His grace.

• In his defence Paul was relating his life-changing event, on the Damascus road, which caused Him to renounce his Jewish faith and place his trust in Christ, for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• Praise God that we are saved by grace through faith in the finished work of Christ at Calvary and receive forgiveness of sins and life everlasting as a free, unmerited gift of God's goodness and grace.

• May we come to a fuller understanding that forgiveness of sins is dealt with by the blood of Christ, but that our old sinful self is dealt with by the cross - as we die to self daily and life for Him. For although the shed blood of Christ procures our pardon from sin - it is the cross that procures our deliverance from the power of sin in our lives. May we learn to die to self daily..

• There is no condemnation for those that are in Christ Jesus, but the result of unbelief is everlasting contempt and eternal condemnation - because they did not believe on the only begotten Son of God, for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• and rose again the third day - and that through His name everyone who believes in Him would receive forgiveness of sins, life everlasting and the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• Our salvation rests of the finished work of Christ on the cross of Calvary: so that all who believe on Him would not perish but have forgiveness of sins and receive life everlasting.
• We have not simply been forgiven of our sins but have been redeemed from all our lawlessness..

• We read in Luke, all were speaking well of Him, and wondering at the gracious words which were falling from His lips ... and can we ever forget the wonderful words of forgiveness Christ uttered on the cross?

• Under the old covenant almost everything and every person had to be purified by blood, however under the new covenant something greater than purification took place: for without the shedding of blood.. (the blood of the sinless Son of God) there is no forgiveness of sins, for humanity.
• Unlike the old covenant, all the conditions to be fulfilled by the new covenant were the responsibility of God, alone - and which was implemented with the death of the Lord Jesus Christ - all we have to do is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ - for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting and by His grace we have become ministers of the new and better covenant.

• At salvation, we were born-again at a particular time and particular place - by faith in Christ for the forgiveness of our sins and life everlasting.

• Jesus died for our sins; to take the punishment that we deserve but He died unto sin, so that sin would no longer have power over us - for all our transgressions, (past, present and future) were nailed to the cross of Christ forever, and we are forgiven of ALL our sins, once and for all.
• Before our salvation Paul likens us to the unbelieving, pagan nations that surrounded God's chosen people, Israel - and he described them as dead in transgressions and uncircumcised in flesh - but after salvation Paul reminds us of Christ's complete and final victory over sin - God made us alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions.

• The deadly sin issue in our lives was a settled action at this point – for in Christ our sins were forever forgiven, and we were eternally redeemed – we were bought with a price – the precious blood of Christ.

• He wanted his friend to apply grace and forgiveness eagerly... not reluctantly or begrudgingly.
• Before beginning his appeal for mercy, which restated several Christian doctrines on grace, forgiveness, servanthood and our imputed righteousness... by faith in Christ, Paul reminded Philemon of their own, close Christian intimacy, and the mutual love and respect they had for one another - For I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

• There are many that believe in the historical Jesus and His moral teachings without believing in His sacrificial death and glorious resurrection for the forgiveness of their sins and life everlasting.

• rejoice greatly for the forgiveness of sin..

• Some had heeded the call of the Baptist to repent of their sin and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness.

• Christ prays to the Father, and pleads forgiveness.. for they know not what they do, while it is to Jesus - his Lord, Saviour and intermediary, to Whom Stephen interceded when he prayed: Lord, do not charge them with this sin.
• and Stephen, who fell asleep after having prayed for his murderers forgiveness..

• Only the sacrifice of the eternal Son of God would appease the wrath of God against humanities sin - only the spilt blood of the Lord Jesus Christ was sufficient to satisfy God's righteousness judgement on sin, death and hell - and permit forgiveness to flow from His pure heart of love, to all who would believe on His name...
• The price He paid for our forgiveness was His own precious BLOOD, so that we could be forgiven forever, of ALL our sins and receive eternal life as a free gift of HIs grace - and this was according to the RICHES of God's marvellous GRACE - His loving-kindness and His matchless holiness.

• and the Church today, was to be founded on the spiritual work we are called to carry out - work that is to be accomplished in the lives of lost sinners who are dead in their trespasses and sins, estranged from God and facing eternal separation from Him - so that they might hear the good news of the gospel of grace, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, become a new creation in Him - and receive forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• Peter had witnessed John the Baptist delivering the same message of repentance to the same lost sheep of the same house of Israel - proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
• and turn from Your sin and be baptised in the waters of baptism, for the forgiveness of sin.
• Both John and Peter knew that simply believing on the God of their fathers and the Holy Spirit was not enough for the forgiveness of Israel's sins..
• The men of Israel were also to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ if their sins were to be forgiven..
• What a travesty that in certain quarters there is a teaching that insists that the forgiveness of sins can only be attained through the waters of baptism, when the only full and final price for the sin of the world was poured out in blood on Calvary's cross.

• He lived the sort of life that should be lived by every man or woman of God, who has placed their trust in Christ, for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• By grace through faith we are covered by His righteousness and forgiven of all our sin.
• Forgiveness of sin and life everlasting is ours, because of our faith in His sacrifice on the cross.

• and the forgiveness of sins for all who believe on His name - and Paul expressed his thanks and praise to God for all these beloved Christians at Rome..

• The Christian Church is composed of all individuals who have been saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• It is by grace that the Holy Spirit is in the world today, convicting the sinner of sin and righteousness and judgement so that by grace through faith in Christ that sinner may become a saint - so that the man who is dead in trespasses and sins and at enmity with God may be become His child, receive forgiveness of sin and gain peace with God - for the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men.

• Her own precious baby was to be the One who would die for her sin, He would bring forgiveness and salvation to his young mother, and to all sinners who trust in His redeeming blood.

• But God is so gracious, and His mercy is without limits, which is why He planned in advance to save us all from all our sin by implementing the only possible way to forgive every sin we ever commit – past, present and future sins; overt and covert sins; action and attitude sins - ALL the sins of the entire human race, along with our twisted and corrupt inherited sin-nature – ALL forgiven.
• ALL have sinned and need a Saviour, and ALL have access to this incredible free gift of God’s glorious grace – and those who believe that the LORD has laid on HIM the iniquity of us all are not only forgiven forever and given eternal life, but the Lord has laid on US the unsearchable riches of His grace and clothed us in His robe of righteousness.

• We who have trusted in the finished work of Christ on Calvary's cross have already received reconciliation; redemption; the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• The psalms, prayers and praises of David have been a source of comfort and encouragement to multitudes down the corridors of history, and this Psalm, where David cries out to God for forgiveness of his sins, has demonstrated the importance and wisdom of confessing our sins – particularly our post-salvation sins - for in so doing we are immediately returned into a right relationship with the Father.

• through Whom alone is found the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting - by faith in Him.

• the one who is forgiven much is the one who becomes the most devoted.

• Not one of us deserves to be forgiven of our sin, positioned in Christ, made a new creation in Him.

• Christ identified with our sin and died FOR us so that we could recieve forgiveness of sin, but we are also identified with Christ's death, for when He died..

• for the forgiveness of sins: do not come into judgment, but have passed out of death and into life.

• We are to establish, strengthen and build-up our faith in our Lord Jesus, through Whom we have received forgiveness of sins and life more abundantly.

• When we are reborn into the family of God all our sins are forgiven - past, present and future and we have peace with God and life everlasting.
• Though all our sins are indeed forgiven and removed far from us..
• Christ paid that death-penalty so that our past, present and future sins would be forever forgiven and remembered no more.

• All that is needed is faith in Christ Jesus for the forgiveness of our sin - to Whom be all praise and glory..

• Our sins were judged at the cross and by faith in Him we have already received forgiveness of sins and life everlasting However it is our works that are judged at the Bema seat of Christ.

• The Lord Jesus died to pay the price for sin – which means that all our sin is forgiven because of this fact.

• For by the first man came sin, death and eternal separation from God, but by the second Man, the Last Adam - Jesus Christ the righteous, came life and forgiveness and eternal peace on earth and goodwill with God - for as in Adam all DIE, so also ALL those that are positioned IN Christ, by faith, will be made alive.

• For three whole chapters Paul rehearses all the amazing benefits that God has, in His grace, showered on those that love Him – as the apostle opens to our understanding our position and privileges in Christ, and the inheritance that God has secured for all His blood-bought children.Having taken us to the heady heights of grace upon more grace upon much more grace for three amazing chapters, Paul begins to tell us how we should live as children of God and how we should behave as inheritors of the many benefits and privileges that God has prepared for each of us who have simply trusted the Lord Jesus.Because of our position in Christ we are urged to live our lives in a manner that is befitting our heavenly calling – because we are the children of the King, we are urged to walk in a manner that is worthy of the our royal status – because we have been called out of darkness into HIs kingdom of light and have been adopted as heirs of God, joint-heirs with Christ and inheritors of the kingdom of the majesty on high, we are to live and move and have our being in the liberty wherewith Christ and the Spirit has made us free – to walk by faith in Christ; and to walk in the ways of God – to His honour and glory.Paul rejoiced to be a prisoner of the Lord, not for any wrong that he had done for all sin and every sin was forgiven at the cross, but for the sake of the Lord Jesus – Who loves us and gave Himself for us.

• He fastened the confidence we have in Christ to His finished work at Calvary, which secured our forgiveness of sin; our eternal future and our confident access into the throne-room of grace, and restored fellowship with the Father.

• It means that His resurrected Life became our new eternal, resurrected life, and we became part of a new and perfect creation IN Him - simply by God's grace, through faith in the death and resurrection of His only begotten Son, for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.
• All who have trusted in Christ for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting are one with Him, identified with Him, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, for we are part of His Body - not only in this world but in the ages to come.

• would be redeemed, forgiven of their sins, made part of His new creation; receive His resurrected, eternal life..

• when a slave was called by the Lord and trusted in Christ's sacrificial death and glorious resurrection for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting - that man or woman became the Lord's freedman - spiritually free from slavery to sin.

• Both need God's forgiveness of their sins.
• Both Jew and Gentile have fallen short of the glory of God and both need to be redeemed, forgiven, justified, born again - both need propitiation for their sins.

• But despite repenting of their sin, many had yet to believe on Christ for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• All men need the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting..

• Having been justified by grace through faith in Christ, forgiven of their sin and given eternal life..

• Love, forgiveness and fellowship is what the world seeks most and yet true love, true forgiveness and true fellowship is only found in our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
• Jesus alone opened up the way for unconditional love true forgiveness and beautiful fellowship with the Father..

• We are not required to ascend the mountainous track to Jerusalem, thrice yearly to plead for forgiveness and mercy - for we have the Spirit of God residing forever in our hearts - and by the sacrifice of Christ's blood we have access into the holy throne-room of God every moment of the day.

• They insist that salvation depends of keeping the Law, in addition to believing on the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• The full and final sacrifice for ALL sin was paid at the cross, and although past, present and future sins of Christians are forgiven forever - one single sin removes us from fellowship with the Father.

• The Lord is the Alpha and Omega of all/ He is the First and the Last the Beginning and the End, and we who have had our sins forgiven and have been reconciled to God.

• The only way that man can have his sins forgiven and be redeemed from sin, death and hell is because Christ Jesus paid the price in full.

• And whosoever will, may be healed and made whole - for His grace is sufficient and His forgiveness is for all.
• But there are those that choose to reject His offer of salvation and His gift of gracious forgiveness of their sins.

• 'After me comes a Man who has a higher rank than I', was John's testimony of Jesus, for He existed before me and I am not sufficiently worthy to untie His shoe laces. 'He must increase and I must decrease', were words that were not only spoken by this 'voice' in the wilderness, but were carried out in his life as John testified that Jesus is the Son of God - the Lamb, Who was revealed to the world at the proper time - Who came to live a perfect life; die a sacrificial death; provide forgiveness of sin and give assurance of the eternal life, to ALL who believe in Him.

• In former times, an annual atonement was made for the sin of the nation, where the blood of animals covered their sin for a single year, and yet through the sacrifice of His life, Christ Jesus obtained eternal redemption, the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting for all who would believe in Him.

• just as God in Christ has forgiven us.

• In Luke's gospel the Lord Jesus was seen to wear in His own humanity in a human body, while in the book of the Acts the Lord Jesus clothed His activity and actions with the humanity of forgiven sinners, who were redeemed by His blood and indwelled by the Holy Spirit of God, for good works which God Himself prepared that they should do - IN CHRIST.

• When we believed in Christ as Saviour, our sins were forgiven, and we were declared righteous before God.

• When we are recipients of God's grace - by faith, we have access to God's peace - peace WITH God because our sins are forgiven and the peace OF God which guards our hearts as we rest and remain in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

• In His grace He has forgiven our sins; adopted us into His family; covered us in the righteousness of Christ and raised us up to sit with Christ in heavenly places. Can any human mind begin to fathom the enormity of such tremendous promises, given to a sinful and rebellious race of fallen creatures, who are estranged from their Creator, Who is eternally perfect and unchangingly holy?

• It is imperative that we maintain an ever-open channel of communication between ourselves and our heavenly Father, and when that channel of communication is closed, it is not the fault of our Father, but our own - for sin in its many guises and disguises is the single cause that keeps sinful man from a holy God and keeps a forgiven sinner from his heavenly Father.

• It is by His grace that we were forgiven of our sins and brought into loving fellowship with Him, and it is by His grace that we are being perfected to be conformed into the likeness of His dear Son.

• for God raised Him from the dead - so that all who trust in Him for the forgiveness of sins would not perish, but receive His everlasting life.

• Oh, the cross gave forgiveness of sins – but the resurrection broke the power of sin and death that reigns in the mortal body of fallen man – so that we too may rise to newness of life, in Christ - that I may know this mighty power of Christ’s resurrection.

• The only way for sin to be forgiven and the sentence of death to be removed, was through the sacrificial death of a perfect, Kinsman-Redeemer.

• We are all born, physically alive but spiritually dead in our sins, but every one of us has the opportunity to have ALL our sin forgiven, by grace, through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

• We are not told in this Psalm that David's punishing circumstances was a result of sin - even though the king considered this must be the reason for his chastening and sought forgiveness from the Lord.

• They can choose believe in God and Jesus Christ Whom He sent to save them from their sins - and in so doing will be forgiven of their sins and clothed in the righteousness of Christ..

• He was to be used to bring people from the dominion of Satan into the family God, so that sinners may be sanctified by faith in Christ, and receive forgiveness of sins and a heavenly inheritance.'
• Surely, if a man like Saul with such aggressive hatred against Christ and the Church could become the most devoted follower of the Lord Jesus, others can have the assurance that their sin can also be forgiven - by grace through faith in Him.
• Surely, if Paul's mercilessly slaughtering Christians and incarcerating men, women and children in prison can be forgiven by God - there is no sin too great that cannot be forgiven... except for the sin of UNBELIEF.

• for the forgiveness of sins.

• Jesus explained that a true disciple not only believes in Him for Salvation and the forgiveness of sins but also trusts Him to break the power of sin in their lives by denying themselves, taking up their cross and following after Him.

• There is only one way to be forgiven.

• who have trusted His name, for the forgiveness of sins, will also rise to life immortal.

• Just as the sinner is to rest in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus for the forgiveness of sins, so the saint is to rest in Christ Jesus for their deliverance from sin.
• We are now under grace; forgiven by God; accepted in the Beloved; covered in Christ's righteousness and freed from the power of sin and the curse of the Law because we DIED and our life is hid with Christ in God.

• For it pleased the LORD to crush Christ Jesus and to put Him to grief so that He would be the guilt offering – the sin offering – the blood-sacrifice - the innocent Lamb of God through Whom man individually and humanity collectively could have forgiveness of sins – by faith, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whosoever believes on His name would not perish but have everlasting life.

• As our substitute He died for our sins and we are forgiven and declared righteous.
• As the believer's substitute He paid the price for our sins and rendered us forgiven.
• We are forgiven of sin because He died for us but we are delivered from sin because we died in Him.

• and in Him we have been forgiven of our many sins and reckoned by our heavenly Father as righteous.

• for the forgiveness of sin.

• when we have wronged another person we are called to go to them quickly and admit our sin and seek their forgiveness - for this is the will of God for us.

• Being born of the Spirit is understood to be a supernatural happening in a man or woman who has trusted Christ for salvation - the forgiveness of their sins and life everlasting.
• A truly repentant heart, mixed with faith in Christ for the forgiveness of sin, is what God is seeking from fallen man.
• Similarly one can believe on historical facts about Jesus without trusting in Him for the forgiveness of sin..
• Repentance for the remission of sin and believing on Christ for the forgiveness of sin are not two separate actions but combine into one act of faith in the Person of Christ together with His work on the cross.
• water baptism must never become an 'add-on' to faith in the finished work of Christ for the forgiveness of sins.
• A truly repentant and contrite heart who trusts in Christ for the forgiveness of their sins is the one who is born of water and of the Spirit..

• The amazing truth is that because of God's wonderful grace, sinners can be forgiven of their sins and saved from eternal death.

• The parable of the prodigal son is connected to a section, that contrasts the rejoicing in heaven over one sinner that cries out to God for the forgiveness of sin, with the self-righteous scribes and Pharisees of Christ's day, who trusted in their own righteousness, and were blinded to the reality of their sins.
• Both the prodigal and the pharisee grieved their heavenly Father, and both were in need of His gracious forgiveness.
• There is rejoicing in heaven when an unsaved sinner believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of sin - but there is also rejoicing when a child of God, who has been dazzled by the things of this world, comes to their senses and confesses their sin to the Lord.

• by those who believed in the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the salvation of their souls and the forgiveness of their sins.
• Turn back to the GOD of Israel and believe on His Christ for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting - for by so doing they too would be baptised by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ and receive the indwelling Spirit of God, as promised of old
• They were born-again into the family of God and baptised into the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit - and these men of Israel demonstrated their trust in the Lord Jesus for the forgiveness of sins and life-everlasting..

• And in a systematic way, Paul lays out the depravity of all people in the early chapters of Romans to show that NO-ONE can merit forgiveness, NO-ONE can keep God's Law; NO-ONE can stand before God and proclaim that they are righteous, for all have sinned..
• We are saved by faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness for sins and life everlasting: believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved, Paul tells us.
• We are saved by trusting in His death, burial and resurrection for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• And although obedience to parents is not a ticket to salvation, (for children must also trust in Christ Jesus for the forgiveness of sins) - it is the Lord, Who ordained that parental obedience, in a godly home, is the best forum to teach our offspring the important things of life..

• He was to believe on the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, the salvation of the soul and life everlasting.

• forgiven of our sins and declared to be righteous in His sight - and it is all by faith in Christ's perfect sacrifice on the cross.

• His convicting work is to bring a sinner to a realisation that sin separates them from God and that only through Christ can they receive forgiveness of sins and life-everlasting - for only by faith in Christ can an unrighteous sinner be declared righteous in the eyes of God.
• The Spirit came to convict unbelievers that there is no merit in and of themselves - for it is only by grace through faith in Christ that man can be forgiven of their sins and covered in His cloak of righteousness.
• Praise God that we have come to a saving knowledge of our Saviour Jesus Christ and we pray that many who have not known Christ as Saviour and received the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting are convicted of sin - of righteousness and of judgement in the days that lie ahead - before it is too late.

• We who were dead in trespasses and sins and without hope in the world have been covered with His love, forgiven of our sins, saved by grace through faith in His only begotten Son, in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit, accepted in the Beloved, given an eternal inheritance and are today..

• The Lord Jesus Christ, is our dazzling and eternal day-star and He is the light of life, in Whom we have received forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• so that whosever believes on Him would not perish and pass away - as the grass in the field, but would receive the forgiveness of sins, and life everlasting.

• Having first been convicted by the Holy Spirit of sin and righteousness and judgment, we are brought face to face with our own depravity and utter sinfulness and we begin to understand the tremendous price that Christ paid on the cross for us - for it is only by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son, that we are forgiven of our trespasses - it is only by His spilt blood that we are cleansed from all sin.
• It is not just forgiveness of former sin but the ultimate purification of every transgression - past, present and future.

• Salvation is often an umbrella term, and covers justification; forgiveness; sanctification; glorification; redemption; reconciliation and propitiation.
• Reading through this magnificent treatise, one is increasingly aware of the sinfulness of man; the terrible consequences of sin; the need for forgiveness; our lack of righteousness for all a stark realisation that all are guilty - Jew and Gentile alike, and judgement and punishment is God's only recourse to sin.
• Forgiveness; redemption and the impartation of God's righteousness on a guilty sinner rests on faith alone, and Paul points out the inability of the Mosaic Law or any legalist practice to restore a guilty sinner into fellowship with the Father.
• He explains how our present suffering and future glory links in with God's sovereign redemptive plan to grant forgiven sinners eternal security, and to make us into a new creation in Christ.

• He taught us to depend on Him implicitly for all our physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs - and to seek His forgiveness of our sins... as we reflect His forgiving nature in all our interactions with others.

• For it is only in Christ that we discover forgiveness.

• so that by faith in Him we might be forgiven of our sins and clothed in His own perfect righteousness.

• Paul knew the horror of the domain of darkness from which we all have been redeemed and like these dear believers in Colossae, we too have been saved from the wrath to come and brought into the kingdom of God's dear Son - in Whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
• Like them we too have been redeemed from the slave-market of sin - we too have been forgiven of our sins by grace through faith in Christ's sufficient sacrifice on Calvary's cross.
• He has not only redeemed us from a lost eternity but has also forgiven us of our trespasses, past, present and future..
• Praise God for Jesus Christ, our kinsman.Redeemer, in Whom we have redemption - the forgiveness of sins.

• Every believer is delivered from the wrath to come by faith and everyone who believes in Christ receives the forgiveness of sins - for His perfect righteousness becomes our outer garment.

• for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• Kindness, compassion, forgiveness and grace were shown to us at the cross of Christ and they are the spiritual fruit that Paul tells us can halt and reverse the growth of bitterness in our heart.
• The main component to annihilate bitterness in our heart and its ungodly sisters seems to be forgiveness.
• When genuine forgiveness is married to kindness, compassion and grace it deactivates bitterness and all its ruinous counterparts.
• When kindness, compassion, forgiveness and grace is sprinkled over the root of bitterness it will shrivel away and allow us to love in the same way that Christ loved us and gave Himself for us.

• Everyone who has been born of the Spirit, by faith in Christ, has been forgiven of their sins, because Jesus took the punishment for our sake.

• so that by grace through faith in His death, burial and resurrection we might be forgiven of our sins; be brought back into fellowship with our heavenly Father and be given God's life, light, love and compassion in our heart, as we abide in Him and He in us.

• Redemption is not only the forgiveness of sins committed in our bodies, but redemption is also being clothed with the righteousness of Christ.

• eternal life and the forgiveness of sins.

• There was a time when Christians, were not a special group of people, but because of our faith in Christ we have become the people of God and obtained His mercy and grace, His love and forgiveness.