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What Does Your Forgiveness Cost?
Many of you will remember the hit and run driver in Los Angeles who plowed into a mother and her baby in a stolen car last year.
The incident was caught on video, and it was frightening if you saw it.
The young man who was driving the stolen car was killed this week in a shooting in Los Angeles.
When the mother who was hit by this man was told of his death, this is the statement she made:
“The universe delivered the justice we weren’t given in court, but a much harsher punishment than he’d have bbeen dealt in a court of law.”
Because of current trends in sentencing law, this young man did not receive the sentence that this mother, the victim, thought he should have recieved.
When we are wronged, we feel as if a debt has been created- to us.
And no matter what any of us think, justice will not be served until that debt is paid.
And for most people, our understanding of justice is skewed because we were injured.
We really are not supposed to be the jury, but if we have our way we will be both judge and jury.
Blood clots- pizza, donuts and a book from the doctor an dhis wife/daughter.
It is our sense of righteousness that does this to us.
In the OT, God was viewed as a God of holiness AND justice.
And when you understand what that means- God is not a good God because He is holy- He is a perfect God.
Look at Leviticus 11.44-45
God is perfection, and His holiness expects perfection.-We are doomed!
But not only is he holy, He is just.
See Genesis 18.25
This is the plea that Lot made to God concerning Sodom and Gomorrah.
And because He is just- he must punish all wrong doing.
Sin must be dealt with, and because it must be dealt with perfectly because God is holy- well, how could He ever forgive any of us?
Not because He is so holy, but because we are so sinful and sin must be dealt with.
BUT JUST AS IMPORTANTLY, GOD’S JUST NATURE REQUIRES THAT THOSE WHO ARE NOT SINNERS MUST NOT BE PUNISHED FOR SIN
Look at Exodus 19.23-24
God’s very nature of holy and just means he cannot overlook sin or evil.
And so, just who and what is God?
Is He a lover or a hater?
And if you ask that question, you’ve asked the wrong question (Yes, I asked it).
The answer depends on your perspective and how you see God.
And much of that depends on who we are (and have been) and our perspective.
The windows in Ed’s sunroom changed when I went back there after many years.
Many of us struggle with an angry/wrathful God as He is portrayed in the OT (in spite of the fact there is much talk about forgiveness in the OT).
See John 3.16-17
God’s love and anger(wrath) are not in opposition ot each other- they NEED each other.
God is both the God of love and anger/wrath.
If you can’t see that, you likely can’t see anything in life correctly.
You certainly will not see forgiveness correctly.
If your God is all love- you will live as a spoiled child.
If your god is all anger- you will live as an abused child.
But put them together- love and anger- and you will see God’s love expressed.
See Matthew 22.36-40
Anger is not the opposite of love- hate is.
And God does not hate us because we sin- he is angry because wedo.
Think of the parent of a drug addict.
They don’t hate the child; they love them but they weill be angry about the drug addiction.... because they love the addict who they see as their own child.
Jesus’ Death Is God’s Love For You Expressed In His Anger At Sin
The only place where God’s forgiveness makes sense is on the cross.
Jesus’ Death Is God’s Love For You Expressed In His Anger At Sin-Hebrews 7:25
Jesus’ Death Is God’s Love For You Expressed In His Anger At Sin- 1 John 2:2;
Jesus’ Death Is God’s Love For You Expressed In His Anger At Sin-Romans 8:34-35-
Jesus’ Death Is God’s Love For You Expressed In His Anger At Sin
Christ, on the cross, becomes our legal advocate.
And the law that condemned us now demands that we be accepted.
Jesus’ Death Is God’s Love For You Expressed In His Anger At Sin- 1 John 1:9-
God is just- even in His forgiveness.
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