I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 9/27/2015 AM |
Text: | Acts 5:31, 13:38; Ephesians 1:7; Lord's Day 21 |
Psalters: | 231, 64, 142, 364 |
- The objective reality.
- To understand forgiveness we have to have an accurate understanding of sin.
- And an accurate knowledge of sin requires an accurate knowledge of God as Creator and as Father.
- All men are sinners because of our relationship to Adam, our first father and representative head (Rom. 5:12).
- Each and every sin must be and will be punished with eternal damnation (Heb. 12:29).
- By nature we constantly conceal, deny, minimize, rationalize, justify our wrongs, or shift the blame to others.
- God will by no means clear the guilty (Ex. 34:7); He cannot forgive without the punishment being endured fully.
- Forgiveness means that the perfectly just God completely punished each sin and sinfulness, so nothing is left.
- Every one of the sins of every believer is forgiven, without exception.
- Further, God declares me to be righteous and worthy of eternal life.
- The only basis for forgiveness is God's great and amazing grace.
- To understand forgiveness we have to have an accurate understanding of sin.
- The subjective experience of the forgiveness of sins.
- Forgiveness is experienced by faith in the Christ proclaimed by the church in the preaching of the gospel (Acts 5:31; 13:38).
- Second, forgiveness is experienced by those who express godly sorrow (over against worldly sorrow) (II Cor. 7:10).
- Third, forgiveness is experienced in the way of constant confession/repentance and embracing Jesus.
- Receiving God's forgiving grace...
- Gratefully strive to live according to all God's commandments by loving Him with our all.
- Be assured that no sin still in us against our will can condemn us.