Showing posts with label Forgiveness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forgiveness. Show all posts
Sunday, July 8, 2018
Your Past Experience
ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: Your Past Experience: Whatever may have been your past experience, however discouraging your present circumstances, if you will come to Jesus just as you are: we...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Forgiveness - Promised
How wonderful that when we come to Jesus, just as we are, sorry for our sins, asking in faith for forgiveness, He will "abundantly pardon.". Isaiah 55:7. Yes, Jesus "is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.". 1 John 1:9.
Here is your comfort, your assurance, your surety. You come to Jesus just as you are, you ask forgiveness, then believe you are forgiven. You may accept it as a fact, for He has promised. It's done - you are forgiven.
"For thou, Lord, are good and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy to all them that call on You.".
Psalm 86:5
Crash Landing, 49, Robert Lee Osmunson, Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1963
Here is your comfort, your assurance, your surety. You come to Jesus just as you are, you ask forgiveness, then believe you are forgiven. You may accept it as a fact, for He has promised. It's done - you are forgiven.
"For thou, Lord, are good and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy to all them that call on You.".
Psalm 86:5
Crash Landing, 49, Robert Lee Osmunson, Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1963
Friday, March 2, 2018
When We Cannot Pray
When we feel that we have sinned and cannot pray, it is then the time to pray!
"If we confess our sins," God "is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.". 1 John 1:9
"God retains not His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.". Micah 7:18
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: He could not give anything less
ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: He could not give anything less: When God gave His Son, Jesus, to die for humanity's sins, He could not have given anything greater - and He could not have given anythi...
ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: God's Free Love
ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: God's Free Love: God's love cannot be bought - He gives it freely.
Monday, December 11, 2017
ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: Ashley Madison - Forgiveness
ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: Ashley Madison - Forgiveness: Compassion for those who have been exposed by the Ashley Madison hack has been in short supply. There has been a lot of "they got what ...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Even if You're A Really Bad Person
Even if you are a really bad, evil person - God still loves you. Just go to God, confess your sins, and He will forgive you completely! And He will give you a new clean slate!
If you fall again, God still loves you! Repent and Ask Him to help you, and God will forgive you and help you and give you another clean slate.
However, God expects you to turn away from sin.
He expects to see improvement in your life.
He wants you to exercise faith in His Son Jesus Christ.
It is not "once saved always saved". Because, "faith without works is dead!". James 2:17-20.
If you fall again, God still loves you! Repent and Ask Him to help you, and God will forgive you and help you and give you another clean slate.
However, God expects you to turn away from sin.
He expects to see improvement in your life.
He wants you to exercise faith in His Son Jesus Christ.
It is not "once saved always saved". Because, "faith without works is dead!". James 2:17-20.
Saturday, February 6, 2016
Unpardonable Sin
No one need to look upon the unpardonable sin against the Holy Spirit as mysterious. The unpardonable sin is the persistent refusal to repent.
Felix slighted his last offer of mercy; never was he to receive another call from God.
If we are honest with ourselves, we can count many calls from God to repent and be saved.
How many calls will God give us? Felix had only two!
Based on writing of G Edward Reid
In the Bible book of Acts, the apostle Paul pleaded with Governor Felix twice to repent, but Felix told Paul to go away and that he might call for Paul at a more convenient time. But Felix never called for Paul again.
Felix slighted his last offer of mercy; never was he to receive another call from God.
If we are honest with ourselves, we can count many calls from God to repent and be saved.
How many calls will God give us? Felix had only two!
Based on writing of G Edward Reid
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
He could not give anything less
When God gave His Son, Jesus, to die for humanity's sins, He could not have given anything greater - and He could not have given anything less.
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Your Past Experience
Whatever may have been your past experience, however discouraging your present circumstances, if you will come to Jesus just as you are: weak, helpless, and despairing, our compassionate Savior will meet you a great way off, and will throw about you His arms of love and His robe of righteousness.
Jesus presents us to the Father clothed in the white raiment of His own character. He pleads before God in our behalf, saying: I have taken the sinner’s place. Look not upon this wayward child, but look on Me.
Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing 21, E G White
Jesus presents us to the Father clothed in the white raiment of His own character. He pleads before God in our behalf, saying: I have taken the sinner’s place. Look not upon this wayward child, but look on Me.
Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing 21, E G White
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
God always hears Our Cries
Amid the anthems of the celestial choir, God hears the cries of the weakest human being.
We pour out our heart’s desire in our closets, we breathe a prayer as we walk by the way, and our words reach the throne of the Monarch of the Universe
. [Our prayers] may be inaudible to any human ear, but they cannot die away into silence, nor can they be lost through the activities of business that are going on.
Nothing can drown the soul’s desire.
Christ’s Object Lessons 177, E G White
We pour out our heart’s desire in our closets, we breathe a prayer as we walk by the way, and our words reach the throne of the Monarch of the Universe
. [Our prayers] may be inaudible to any human ear, but they cannot die away into silence, nor can they be lost through the activities of business that are going on.
Nothing can drown the soul’s desire.
Christ’s Object Lessons 177, E G White
Friday, September 11, 2015
Ashley Madison - Forgiveness
Compassion for those who have been exposed by the Ashley Madison hack has been in short supply. There has been a lot of "they got what they deserved," even though the innocent spouses, children and family members deserved nothing of the sort.
But the truth is, we all have secrets! How would you feel if your most personal details were exposed? What if your deeply-held secrets were published on a searchable database? Yet as uncomfortable as that sounds, the Bible is clear that one day the private secrets of all people who have ever lived are going to be revealed.
The Bible says, "Fear God and give Him glory, for the hour of His judgment is come." Revelation 14:7. And Daniel 7:10 states, "...the judgment was set, and the books were open."
The Books of Record that contain the deeds and misdeeds of every person (good or evil) will one day be opened. As Solomon wrote in Holy Scripture, "God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it is good, or whether it be evil." Ecclesiastes 12:14.
While many are trying to figure out how to handle the damage caused to their reputations, God offers every person a simple remedy. Acts 3:19 states, "Repent and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the Lord."
In the judgment that precedes Jesus' return, the sins of those who have faith in God will be blotted out. When the Books are opened, their pages are clear rather than stained by sin. In place of sin is purity and righteousness. The grace that forgives is the grace that cleanses, and in the judgment the redeemed are found to be white as snow (Isaiah 1:18).
The woman taken in adultery repented for her sin and heard Jesus say, "neither do I condemn you" John 8:11
Repentance opens the door to the cleansing power of God. Grace does not justify sinful behavior, but it does justify the sinner.
God sees the hearts of all, and He does so without condemnation. King David wrote that God "knows our frame, He remembers that we are only dust" Psalm 103:14, and God loves us anyway.
Holy Scripture promises that "if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" 1 John 1:9.
We all have secrets. What shouldn't be a secret is that God is able to cleanse and heal, remake, restore, forgive. The reality of the judgment isn't only that sinners will be judged, but that sinners - when they repent - are forgiven! God offers that hope to all sinners everywhere.
Original Blog by John Bradshaw, August 31, 2015. blog.itiswritten.com
But the truth is, we all have secrets! How would you feel if your most personal details were exposed? What if your deeply-held secrets were published on a searchable database? Yet as uncomfortable as that sounds, the Bible is clear that one day the private secrets of all people who have ever lived are going to be revealed.
The Bible says, "Fear God and give Him glory, for the hour of His judgment is come." Revelation 14:7. And Daniel 7:10 states, "...the judgment was set, and the books were open."
The Books of Record that contain the deeds and misdeeds of every person (good or evil) will one day be opened. As Solomon wrote in Holy Scripture, "God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it is good, or whether it be evil." Ecclesiastes 12:14.
While many are trying to figure out how to handle the damage caused to their reputations, God offers every person a simple remedy. Acts 3:19 states, "Repent and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the Lord."
In the judgment that precedes Jesus' return, the sins of those who have faith in God will be blotted out. When the Books are opened, their pages are clear rather than stained by sin. In place of sin is purity and righteousness. The grace that forgives is the grace that cleanses, and in the judgment the redeemed are found to be white as snow (Isaiah 1:18).
The woman taken in adultery repented for her sin and heard Jesus say, "neither do I condemn you" John 8:11
Repentance opens the door to the cleansing power of God. Grace does not justify sinful behavior, but it does justify the sinner.
God sees the hearts of all, and He does so without condemnation. King David wrote that God "knows our frame, He remembers that we are only dust" Psalm 103:14, and God loves us anyway.
Holy Scripture promises that "if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" 1 John 1:9.
We all have secrets. What shouldn't be a secret is that God is able to cleanse and heal, remake, restore, forgive. The reality of the judgment isn't only that sinners will be judged, but that sinners - when they repent - are forgiven! God offers that hope to all sinners everywhere.
Original Blog by John Bradshaw, August 31, 2015. blog.itiswritten.com
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
What is Love?
If I had the gift of speaking in foreign languages without learning them, and even if I could speak every heavenly language, but did not love others, I would only be making noise.
If I had the gift of prophecy and knew the future, but did not love others, what good would it do?
Even if I had the gift of faith and could move mountains, I still would be worth nothing without love.
If I gave all my worldly possessions to the poor, and even if I were burned alive for preaching the Gospel, but did not have love, it would be of no value.
Love* is patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, never haughty, selfish or rude.
Love does not demand it's own way. Love is not irritable or grouchy. Love does not hold grudges, and will not keep score against friend or enemy.
Love is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out. Love is loyal, and has faith in God under all circumstances.
Someday prophecy, foreign languages and special knowledge will disappear, but Love goes on forever.
Now we know so little even with our special gifts, but when Jesus comes and we have been made perfect and complete at His coming, then those special gifts will come to an end, for they are no longer needed.
It is like this: when I was a child, I spoke and thought as a child. But when I reached adulthood my thoughts were far above childish ways.
In the same way, we can see and understand only a little about God now, as if we were looking at His reflection in a poor mirror. But someday we are going to see Him as He is, face to Face! What I see now is blurry, but later I will see everything as clearly as God sees now!
There are three great things: FAITH - HOPE - LOVE. And the greatest is LOVE!
*God is Love. In this paragraph substitute your name wherever the word "Love" appears.
Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13.
If I had the gift of prophecy and knew the future, but did not love others, what good would it do?
Even if I had the gift of faith and could move mountains, I still would be worth nothing without love.
If I gave all my worldly possessions to the poor, and even if I were burned alive for preaching the Gospel, but did not have love, it would be of no value.
Love* is patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, never haughty, selfish or rude.
Love does not demand it's own way. Love is not irritable or grouchy. Love does not hold grudges, and will not keep score against friend or enemy.
Love is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out. Love is loyal, and has faith in God under all circumstances.
Someday prophecy, foreign languages and special knowledge will disappear, but Love goes on forever.
Now we know so little even with our special gifts, but when Jesus comes and we have been made perfect and complete at His coming, then those special gifts will come to an end, for they are no longer needed.
It is like this: when I was a child, I spoke and thought as a child. But when I reached adulthood my thoughts were far above childish ways.
In the same way, we can see and understand only a little about God now, as if we were looking at His reflection in a poor mirror. But someday we are going to see Him as He is, face to Face! What I see now is blurry, but later I will see everything as clearly as God sees now!
There are three great things: FAITH - HOPE - LOVE. And the greatest is LOVE!
*God is Love. In this paragraph substitute your name wherever the word "Love" appears.
Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13.
Monday, March 23, 2015
Who can Comprehend the Love....
Who can comprehend the love that God has shown in sending Christ to save perishing souls?
I am conscious that language is far too feeble to depict this love. And our minds can not take it in. It is impossible even for the angels fully to comprehend how completely God identifies His interests with those of His blood-bought heritage, and how tenderly He deals with the tried and tempted....
How much God loves human beings, we never can compute. The universe is filled with proofs of His measureless benevolence.
Excerpt from Battle Creek Letters, November 11, 1902
from Ellen G White to John Harvey Kellogg MD
I am conscious that language is far too feeble to depict this love. And our minds can not take it in. It is impossible even for the angels fully to comprehend how completely God identifies His interests with those of His blood-bought heritage, and how tenderly He deals with the tried and tempted....
How much God loves human beings, we never can compute. The universe is filled with proofs of His measureless benevolence.
Excerpt from Battle Creek Letters, November 11, 1902
from Ellen G White to John Harvey Kellogg MD
Friday, March 20, 2015
Hasty Temper...Spirit of Strife
Great is our need of the saving grace of Christ. Everywhere we turn we see more or less clearly revealed the spirit of strife for place and position, a reaching out for honor and recognition.
My brethren and sisters, if you desire honor, seek it in the right way. How shall you seek it, do you ask? In obedience to the word of truth. Our ambition in this life should be to honor Christ at every step.
The hasty temper, the cruel speech, the unkind thought, are not to be indulged. It is not for us to exalt this one, and condemn that one. In right words, words that bless and encourage, we are to reveal the fruits of righteousness.
An Appeal for Unity and Confidence, pamphlet 14, page 13, Ellen G White
This entry is just as much for me as anyone. In the past week, I too, had a hasty temper.
My brethren and sisters, if you desire honor, seek it in the right way. How shall you seek it, do you ask? In obedience to the word of truth. Our ambition in this life should be to honor Christ at every step.
The hasty temper, the cruel speech, the unkind thought, are not to be indulged. It is not for us to exalt this one, and condemn that one. In right words, words that bless and encourage, we are to reveal the fruits of righteousness.
An Appeal for Unity and Confidence, pamphlet 14, page 13, Ellen G White
This entry is just as much for me as anyone. In the past week, I too, had a hasty temper.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Purchased by the Blood of God
God is a judge. He is passionately concerned with justice. But He alone is our Intercessor. He presents His own perfect life and shed blood as our Substitute. He satisfies His own demand for justice - at great cost to Himself. That is the foundation of His righteous empire.
We are guilty. There is nothing we can do to cover our shameful acts. We deserve to die. But God looks through all that and sees Jesus' sacrifice. Mercy and justice come together in that great act of Love.
We have been purchased and saved by the shed blood of God Himself.
Selections from Empires in Collision, p 70, George E Vandeman
We are guilty. There is nothing we can do to cover our shameful acts. We deserve to die. But God looks through all that and sees Jesus' sacrifice. Mercy and justice come together in that great act of Love.
We have been purchased and saved by the shed blood of God Himself.
Selections from Empires in Collision, p 70, George E Vandeman
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Cost of Our Salvation
Sorrow filled Heaven when Adam and Eve broke God’s law and sinned. All realized that humanity was lost, and that they were doomed to misery, sickness and death. There was no way of escape – the entire human family must die eternally.
Then I saw the lovely Jesus and saw his expression of sympathy and sorrow. Soon I saw Jesus approach the exceeding bright light that enshrouded God the Father. Jesus was in close converse with Him. The anxiety of the angels was intense. Leaving the Father, Jesus' face was calm, free from all perplexity and doubt, and shone with benevolence and loveliness, such as words cannot express.
Jesus then told the holy angels that a way of escape had been made for lost humanity. Jesus said He had been pleading with His Father, and had offered to give His life a ransom, to take the death penalty upon Himself. Through Jesus - humanity might find pardon by the merits of His blood so they could have God’s favor and be saved, and live for eternity in total peace and joy.
Said the angel, “Do you think the Father yielded up His dearly beloved Son without a struggle? No! It was even a struggle with the God of Heaven, whether to let sinful humanity die, or to give His beloved Son to die for them.”
But nearly all would hate and reject Jesus, only a few would receive Him as the Son of God.
Throughout His life on earth, and also on the cross, Jesus would endure almost every cruelty and suffering that Satan could inspire wicked men to inflict. Jesus would die the cruelest of deaths; not merely agony of body, but also mental agony – that which bodily pain could not compare. The weight of the entire world’s sins would be upon Him.
It was impossible for God to alter or change His law to save lost humanity; therefore, God allowed His beloved Son to die for humanity’s sins. Nothing but the death, resurrection and intercessions of God’s Son, Jesus, would pay the debt and save lost humanity.
Then, at the end of the world, Jesus will come the second time to take to Heaven all those who love and trust Him.
based on Early Writings, pp 149-152, E G White
Then I saw the lovely Jesus and saw his expression of sympathy and sorrow. Soon I saw Jesus approach the exceeding bright light that enshrouded God the Father. Jesus was in close converse with Him. The anxiety of the angels was intense. Leaving the Father, Jesus' face was calm, free from all perplexity and doubt, and shone with benevolence and loveliness, such as words cannot express.
Jesus then told the holy angels that a way of escape had been made for lost humanity. Jesus said He had been pleading with His Father, and had offered to give His life a ransom, to take the death penalty upon Himself. Through Jesus - humanity might find pardon by the merits of His blood so they could have God’s favor and be saved, and live for eternity in total peace and joy.
Said the angel, “Do you think the Father yielded up His dearly beloved Son without a struggle? No! It was even a struggle with the God of Heaven, whether to let sinful humanity die, or to give His beloved Son to die for them.”
But nearly all would hate and reject Jesus, only a few would receive Him as the Son of God.
Throughout His life on earth, and also on the cross, Jesus would endure almost every cruelty and suffering that Satan could inspire wicked men to inflict. Jesus would die the cruelest of deaths; not merely agony of body, but also mental agony – that which bodily pain could not compare. The weight of the entire world’s sins would be upon Him.
It was impossible for God to alter or change His law to save lost humanity; therefore, God allowed His beloved Son to die for humanity’s sins. Nothing but the death, resurrection and intercessions of God’s Son, Jesus, would pay the debt and save lost humanity.
Then, at the end of the world, Jesus will come the second time to take to Heaven all those who love and trust Him.
based on Early Writings, pp 149-152, E G White
Friday, November 21, 2014
Moral Freedom
"God valued humanity's moral freedom of so great worth that He gave His life to restore it to all who choose to accept it. As soon as there was a human sinner there was a promise of a divine Savior, and a star of hope illumined humanity's future."
by Hulda Crooks in Conquering Life's Mountains page 100
by Hulda Crooks in Conquering Life's Mountains page 100
Friday, October 31, 2014
He Left All This for Me
I saw the beauty of Heaven. I heard the angels sing their rapturous songs, ascribing praise, honor, and glory to Jesus.
I could then realize something of the wondrous love of the Son of God. He left all the glory, all the honor which He had in Heaven, and was so interested for our salvation that He patiently and meekly bore every indignity and slight which man could heap upon Him.
Heaven page 17, E G White
I could then realize something of the wondrous love of the Son of God. He left all the glory, all the honor which He had in Heaven, and was so interested for our salvation that He patiently and meekly bore every indignity and slight which man could heap upon Him.
Heaven page 17, E G White
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