Pastor Stephanie
ACTS 13:38 KJV
Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that THROUGH THIS MAN is preached unto you the FORGIVENESS of SINS:
EPHESIANS 1:7 NKJV
In Him we HAVE redemption through His blood, the FORGIVENESS of sins, according to the RICHES of HIS GRACE
G859 FORGIVENESS
Original: ἄφεσις
Transliteration: APHESIS
Phonetic: af'-es-is
Thayer Definition:
release from bondage or imprisonment
FORGIVENESS or PARDON, of SINS (LETTING THEM GO AS IF THEY HAD NEVER BEEN COMMITTED), remission of the penalty
Strong's Definition: From G863; freedom; pardon:- deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission.
Your spirit soul and body always looking at things from 5 senses.
For those who has not been to prison and in the place of bondage, will not be able to understand so easily.
In Him we have redemption through His blood.
A pardon of our sin. Letting go of our sins as if it is not committed.
Why do we need forgiveness?
ROMANS 3:23 NLT
For EVERYONE has SINNED; we ALL FALL SHORT of God’s glorious standard.
G264 SINNED
Original: ἁμαρτάνω
Transliteration: HAMARTANŌ
Phonetic: ham-ar-tan'-o
Thayer Definition:
to be without a share in
to MISS THE MARK
to err, be mistaken
to miss or wander from the path of uprightness and honour,
to do or go wrong
to wander from the law of God, violate God's law, sin
Strong's Definition: to MISS THE MARK (and so not share in the prize), that is, to err, especially (morally) to sin:- for your faults, offend, sin, trespass.
All have sin cos all born under Adam
G5302 COME SHORT
Original: ὑστερέω
Transliteration: hustereō
Phonetic: hoos-ter-eh'-o
Thayer Definition:
behind
to come late or too tardily
to be left behind in the race and so fail to reach the goal,
to fall short of the end
fail to become a partaker,
fall back from
to be inferior in power, influence and rank
to fail, be wanting
to be in want of, lack
When you sin what is your result ?
Why do u feel not good enough
Based on your mark
ROMANS 6:23 KJV
For the wages of sin is DEATH;
but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
What is the wage for sin?
What is the result for you and me when we were sinners?
Death is what you and me deserve.
Grace is about undeserving favour.
To God everyone deserves death
We deserve death and punishment, even if we did not do anything illegal
G2288 DEATH
Original: θάνατος
Transliteration: THANATOS
Phonetic: than'-at-os
Thayer Definition:
the death of the body
that separation (whether natural or violent) of the soul and the body by which the life on earth is ended
with the implied idea of future misery in hell
the power of death
since the nether world, the abode of the dead, was conceived as being very dark, it is equivalent to the region of thickest darkness, i.e.
figuratively, a region enveloped in the darkness of ignorance and sin
metaphorically, the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name
the misery of the soul arising from sin, which begins on earth but lasts and increases after the death of the body in hell
the miserable state of the wicked dead in hell in the widest sense, death comprising all the miseries arising from sin, as well physical death as the loss of a life consecrated to God and blessed in him on earth, to be followed by wretchedness in hell
ROMANS 7:14-16 MSG
I can anticipate the response that is coming: “I know that all God’s commands are spiritual, but I’m not. Isn’t this also your experience?”
Yes. I’m full of myself—after all, I’ve spent a long time in sin’s prison.
What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise.
So if I can’t be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God’s command is necessary.
ROMANS 7:17-20 MSG
But I need something more!
For if I know the law but still can’t keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help!
I realize that I don’t have what it takes.
I can will it, but I can’t do it.
I decide to do good, but I don’t really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway.
The power of forgiveness of sin
Vertical relationship
Why do we like to come into His presence
ROMANS 7:21-23 MSG
It happens so regularly that it’s predictable.
The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up.
I truly delight in God’s commands, but it’s pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight.
Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge.
Forgiveness of sin save you from death
Sometimes even if we are strong but we still cannot do it with our flesh.
We want to do good but we do the bad
Jesus Christ can and does.
ROMANS 7:25 MSG
The answer, thank God, is that JESUS CHRIST CAN and DOES.
HE ACTED to SET THINGS RIGHT in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.
Today when Jesus set us free from the law, we no longer feel that is the right thing to do. We serve because we appreciate.
The law was deserved favour.
ROMANS 8:1-2 MSG
With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud.
A NEW POWER IS IN OPERATION.
The SPIRIT of LIFE in CHRIST, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, FREEING you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of SIN and DEATH.
We always believe in the realm of “i am not that bad”
The spirit of life in Christ
ROMANS 8:1 AMP
Therefore there is now NO CONDEMNATION [no guilty verdict, no punishment] for those who are in Christ Jesus [who believe in Him as personal Lord and Savior].
G2631 CONDEMNATION
Original: κατάκριμα
Transliteration: KATAKRIMA
Phonetic: kat-ak'-ree-mah
Thayer Definition:
DAMNATORY SENTENCE, condemnation
Strong's Definition: From G2632; an adverse sentence (the verdict):- condemnation.
No condemnation is a gift
ROMANS 8:2 AMP
For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has set you FREE from the law of sin and of death.
Accepting no condemnation
God let go of our sins and we can let go of other people’s sin also.
ROMANS 8:3 NLT
The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature.
So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have.
And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.
Nobody got saved through obeying the law.
Sin no longer can rule over us. Jesus became the sacrificial lamb who took our sins.
ACTS 13:39 NKJV
and by Him everyone who BELIEVES is JUSTIFIED from ALL things from which you COULD NOT BE JUSTIFIED by THE LAW of Moses.
G1344 JUSTIFIED
Original: δικαιόω
Transliteration: dikaioō
Phonetic: dik-ah-yo'-o
Thayer Definition:
to render righteous or such he ought to be
to show, exhibit, evince, one to be righteous, such as he is and wishes himself to be considered
to declare, pronounce, one to be just, righteous, or such as he ought to be
Strong's Definition: From G1342; to render (that is, show or regard as) just or innocent:- free, justify (-ier), be righteous.
He declares us right
Justified -
declared or made righteous in the sight of God.
Just -
based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair.
"a just and democratic society"
God gives all of us 100 marks. We don’t deserve.
ROMANS 3:24 NLT
Yet God, in HIS GRACE, freely MAKES us RIGHT in HIS SIGHT.
He did this THROUGH CHRIST JESUS when he freed us from the PENALTY for our sins.
ROMANS 3:25 NLT
For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin.
People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood.
This sacrifice shows that God was being FAIR when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past,
Jesus said I take the blame
He has already set up the redemption plan.
We don’t need to justify anymore. Because we are declared right.
Jesus assumed all the sins and we go free.
ROMANS 3:26 NLT
for he was looking ahead and including them in what he would do in this present time.
God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for HE HIMSELF is FAIR and JUST, and he makes sinners right in his sight when they believe in Jesus.
ROMANS 3:27 NLT
Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God?
No, because our ACQUITTAL is not based on obeying the law.
It is based on FAITH.
ROMANS 3:28 NLT
So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.
ROMANS 5:9 TPT
And there is still much more to say of his unfailing love for us!
For through the blood of Jesus we have heard the powerful declaration, “You are now righteous in my sight.” And because of the sacrifice of Jesus, you will never experience the wrath of God.
We believe in Jesus, the undeserved favour, God already see us right
ROMANS 5:12 TPT
When Adam sinned, the entire world was affected. SIN entered human experience, and DEATH was the RESULT.
And so death followed this sin, casting its shadow over all humanity, because ALL HAVE SINNED.
Today when we do wrong He still make us right. It does not make sense. Not sense rule
ROMANS 5:13 TPT
Sin was in the world before Moses gave the written law, but it was not charged against them where no law existed.
ROMANS 5:14 TPT
Yet death reigned as king from Adam to Moses even though they hadn’t broken a command the way Adam had.
The first man, Adam, was a picture of the Messiah, who was to come.
ROMANS 5:15 TPT
Now, there is no comparison between Adam’s transgression and the gracious gift that we experience.
For the magnitude of the gift far outweighs the crime.
It’s true that many died because of one man’s transgression, but how much GREATER will GOD’S GRACE and his GRACIOUS GIFT of ACCEPTANCE overflow to many because of what one Man, Jesus, the Messiah, did for us!
God gives us much more than we deserve.
Forgiveness of sin gives me acceptance.
God accepted you not by your works or righteous deed. It is a gift. Jesus gives it to you.
It is Christ who gives us perfect righteousness
ROMANS 5:16 TPT
And this free-flowing gift imparts to us much more than what was given to us through the one who sinned.
For because of one transgression, we are ALL facing a DEATH SENTENCE with a verdict of “GUILTY!”
But this GRACIOUS GIFT leaves us FREE from our MANY FAILURES and brings us into the PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS of GOD —acquitted with the words “NOT GUILTY!”
ROMANS 5:17 TPT
Death once held us in its grip, and by the blunder of one man, death reigned as king over humanity.
But now, how much more are we held in the GRIP of GRACE and continue reigning as kings in life, enjoying our regal freedom through the gift of perfect righteousness in the one and only Jesus, the Messiah!
ROMANS 5:18 TPT
In other words, just as condemnation came upon all people through one transgression, so through one righteous act of Jesus’ sacrifice,
the perfect righteousness that makes us right with God and leads us to a victorious life now available to all.
ROMANS 5:19 TPT
One man’s disobedience opened the door for all humanity to become SINNERS.
So also one man’s obedience OPENED the DOOR for many to BE MADE PERFECTLY RIGHT with God and ACCEPTABLE to HIM.
Jesus is Grace. Even children talk to Jesus
ROMANS 5:20 TPT
So then, the law was introduced into God’s plan to bring the reality of human sinfulness out of hiding.
And yet, wherever sin increased, there was more than enough of God’s grace to triumph all the more!
ROMANS 5:21 TPT
And just as sin reigned through death, so also this SIN-CONQUERING GRACE will REIGN as king through RIGHTEOUSNESS, imparting ETERNAL LIFE through JESUS, our Lord and Messiah!
The way you conquer sin is by grace
You only can give what you receive
Harmony when grace reign
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