Perhaps some of you are right now heavily burdened with the oppressive load of guilt and sin. You think that there in no hope for a sinner so black, so vile, so loathesome an you are. Yes, there is hope for sinners like you and me. Maybe you think to yourself, "How can God forgive my sin?" Let me tell you how it is that God forgives sin.
The Lord God forgives the nine of his people JUSTLY. "He in faithful and just to forgive us our sins" (I John l:9). By the substitutionary sacrifice of his own Son in the place of sinners, imputing our sins to Christ and punishing him for our sins, God has satisfied his own justice for us. "He hath made him to be sin for us, who know no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him" (II Cor. 5:21). Now, through the sacrifice of Christ, God is both just and the Justifier of every believer. God forgives sin freely. He requires nothing from us, either by way of punishment or retribution. The sinner in not required to suffer anything, or to do anything, or to give anything to obtain this forgiveness. It is the free gift of God. The Lord God has FULLY forgiven all the nine of all his people through the merits of Christ's blood and righteousness. All of our sins, past, present, and future, nine of the hearts mine of the minds and nine of outward action are fully atoned for and put out of God'a eight by the blood of Christ which he poured out at Calvary. And the Lord God forgiven all the sins of all his people ETERNALLY. God will never impute iniquity to any believer. He will never remember our sins against us. He will never treat us any the less graciously because of our sins. He will not punish us for our sins in this life, or in the life to come. And he will not refuse to give us any of the blessings of eternal glory because of our sins. You see, so far an the law and justice of God in concerned, IN CHRIST WE HAVE NO SlN! The blood of Christ washed it all away. And God cannot punish us for what we do not have.
Would you have this DIVINE FORGIVENESS? Come to Christ by faith. HE IS THE FOUNTAIN OPENED FOR CLEASING AND FORGIVENESS. To all of you who truly believe on the Lord Jesus Christs, I say take these blessed words of comfort to your hearts, rejoice in them, and give all praise to the Lord our God. With him there is forgiveness! With David we say - "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin" (Rom. 4:7-8).
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