A
depiction of divine fullness that includes the Holy Spirit with Jesus
Christ as the Lion of Judah and the Lamb of GOD who takes away the
sin of the world.
Today,
the reply is on forgiveness as a release from sin that men on the
earth receive through love and obedience appearing within the Son of
GOD. Forgiveness and mercy are intended for those who come to divine judgment, and are actually guilty. Finite human tools such as
intellect, science, and willpower do not provide mankind with
sufficient integrity of being to appear sinless before divinity, or
to display justification and worthiness for their own having
eliminated sin. Salvation is the necessary divine operation wherein
GOD extends forbearance, forgiveness, new life and reconciliation to
mankind on the basis of the merit, sacrifice, virtue and works
accomplished by Jesus Christ. It is written: 1st John 1:
5-10, KJV: 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him,
and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at
all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in
darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the
light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another,
and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is
not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a
liar, and his word is not in us. A fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers”
public forum on Religion and Spirituality using the ID “Jeff”
(Level 1 with 1 point, a member since November 20, 2018) posted the
following:
I
want to give all my guilt and regret and mistakes to God but I feel
like I'm not worthy of forgiveness.?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: If thou, LORD, shouldest mark
iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness
with thee, that thou mayest be feared. I wait for the LORD,
my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth
for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say,
more than they that watch for the morning. Let Israel hope in
the LORD: for with the LORD
there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. (Psalm 130:
3-8, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Paying For Our Sins? (08/20/2019); Spirit Using Human
Form (08/16/2019); That Not Of Yourselves (08/13/2019); We Must
Acknowledge Christ (08/08/2019); GOD Is The Creator? (07/04/2019);
The Character of GOD (06/27/2019); Salvation Through Jesus Christ
(03/25/2019); Forgiveness, Grace and Merit (06/22/2017)
“Jeff”,
divine forgiveness displays that GOD the Creator is worthy of love,
obedience, praise, and reverence from his Creation. Developing and
mature Christian believers are encouraged to accept the truth that
forgiveness appears as an aspect of the divine active presence,
eternal process, and inseparable sacred substance. Forgiveness is to
be received as a fresh endowment of the same life essence
(breath; spirit; word) that was imparted to Adam and Eve. Included
were faith, holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness, oneness without
sameness, personhood, wisdom, and wrath against sin. While this and
other divine content establishes opportunities and possibilities for
created beings and living creatures to be in relationship with the
Creator as heirs, offspring, and sons and daughters to GOD, both Adam
and Eve violated the instructions they had been given, and
transgressed against the divine law. The character and makeup of
mankind was altered in such a way that all the descendants of Adam
now receive an inheritance of being vulnerable to the operations of
sin and ungodliness.
It
is our profound need: it is not our ignorance, nor is it our
innocence. It is what we have become through human error, and our
condition as sinners who need change, release and repentance that
qualifies us to receive a ministry of forgiveness that is extended to
mankind through Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD. It is not that we are
worthy; it is that Christ continues to be received as worthy before
the Father; and the Son may intercede on behalf of those who are
truly guilty. It is not by our influence, our skill, our talents; it
is because the makeup of GOD is made visible through divine judgment
that features compassion, completeness, impartiality, mercy, and
righteousness. On the basis of human accomplishments demonstrated
through divinity using flesh and blood as Jesus Christ (we say,
Incarnation), there now are no issues of merit and worthiness for
sinners to receive forgiveness.
Consider
again the following that uses language from the Bible:
1.
1st John 4: 8-11, King James Version (KJV): 8 He that
loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In this was
manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only
begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent
his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if
God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
2.
Isaiah 53: 3-6, KJV: 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man
of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our
faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely
he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was
wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and
with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone
astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD
hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 3. Luke 7: 37-50, KJV: 37 And,
behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that
Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s
house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 And stood at his
feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with
tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and
kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. 39 Now
when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within
himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who
and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she
is a sinner. 40 And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have
somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on. 41 There
was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five
hundred pence, and the other fifty. 42 And when they had nothing to
pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them
will love him most? 43 Simon answered and said, I suppose that he,
to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly
judged. 44 And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest
thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water
for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them
with the hairs of her head. 45 Thou gavest me no kiss: but this
woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. 46
My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed
my feet with ointment. 47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which
are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is
forgiven, the same loveth little. 48 And he said unto her,
Thy sins are forgiven. 49 And they that sat at meat with him began
to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also? 50
And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.)
Even so, I trust this fragment will be
useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
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