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BEING FORGIVEN
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*PART 1*
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*SUNDAY, MAY 18TH 2003*
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WHEN WE TRULY REALIZE THAT EVERYTHING GOD HAS DONE THROUGH THE AGES HAS BEEN FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF RE-ESTABLISHING THE CLOSEST AND MOST FULFILLING RELATIONSHIP POSSIBLE WITH US…..
WE LOOK AT THINGS VERY DIFFERENTLY THAN WE DID BEFORE!!!
GOD REALLY ISN’T THE ALOOF JUDGE IN THE SKY WE EXPECT HIM TO BE, WRITING PEOPLE OFF ONE AFTER ANOTHER AS WE EACH FAIL TO LIVE UP TO HIS EXPECTATIONS OF US!!!
HE IS INSTEAD, A GOD OF LOVE WHO AGONIZES OVER THE WRONG, WITH RESULTANT DEATH……………THAT WE INTRODUCE INTO OUR OWN (AND OTHER’S) LIVES.
WHEN WE CHOOSE WAYS OF BELIEVING OR LIVING THAT CUT HIM OUT OF THE EQUATION, THE LOSS HE FEELS IS MORE RENDING THAN THE MULTIPLIED LOSS OF EVERY PARENT ON EARTH SUFFERING THE DEATH OF A CHILD!!!!
HE CREATED EVERY ONE OF US VERY PURPOSEFULLY AND PARTICULALRY….
DESIRING ABOVE ALL ELSE TO SHARE HIS WHOLE LIFE WITH US FOREVER!!!
AT ALL COSTS HE INTENDS TO MAINTAIN THE CLOSENESS AND INTIMACY OF OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM……..*LISTEN……EVEN WHEN HE HAS TO PAY THE PRICE HIMSELF!!!*
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SO WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?????
GOD IS GOD….
CAN’T HE DO WHATEVER HE WANTS TO DO???
I MEAN….IF HE WANTS SOMETHING TO BE A PARTICULAR WAY, THEN…../PRESTO!!!!/
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HE CAN MAKE IT THAT WAY….RIGHT???
WHY DOES GOD’S RELATIONSHIP WITH HUMAN BEINGS NEED TO BE MAINTAINED AND REPAIRED?
COULDN’T GOD JUST FIX IT ONCE AND FOR ALL TIME – AND MAKE IT FOOLPROOF?
THAT WAY EVERYONE COULD LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!!
THIS BRINGS US TO THE MOST CENTRAL ISSUE IN ALL OF CREATION.
IN A WAY, IT IS THE WHOLE STORY!!!
THE THEME….
THE PLOT………
OF GOD’S DEALINGS WITH EACH OF US!!!
IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE MAGNITUDE OF WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR YOU, YOU MUST FIRST GRASP A REALITY THAT PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE TO HEAR MUCH ABOUT ONE LITTLE THREE LETTER WORD - - - - -
! SIN
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AND THE REASON MOST PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT SIN IS SIMPLE!!!
HOWEVER ANYONE DEFINES THEIR PERSONAL BOUNDARIES BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG…….
BETWEEN ACCEPTABLE AND UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR….
EVERYONE….
EVERYONE….
KNOWS THAT THEY HAVE BLOWN IT!!!!
NO ONE HAS BEEN ABLE TO LIVE UP TO HIS OR HER OWN STANDARD FOR CONDUCT!!!
WE INSTINCTIVELY RECOIL AT THE RECOLLECTION OF THE BAD THINGS WE HAVE DONE - -EITHER BEC WE FEEL BADLY ABOUT THEM……AND WISH THEY HAD NOT HAPPENED…
OR BEC WE PLAN TO DO THEM AGAIN AND WE DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TO HURDLE OUR CONSCIENCE TO DO SO!!!!!
WE DO NOT WANT OUR MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL OR PHYSICAL EXCURSIONS INTO DARKNESS EXPOSED!!!!
LITERALLY /TO SIN/ MEANS TO ‘MISS THE MARK’ - TO COME UP SHORT, TO BE OFF TARGET, TO END UP MISSING WHERE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE AND ULTIMATELY, TO MISS OUT ON WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE RECEIVED IF YOU HAD HIT THE TARGET!!!!
A SIN IS BOTH THE WRONG WE DO OR THINK………*AND* THE CONSEQUENCES FOR THAT WRONG!!!
CONSEQUENCES ARE NOT THE SAME AS PUNISHMENTS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE ADMINISTERED!!!
A CHILD MAY OR MAY NOT BE GROUNDED OR PUNISHED FOR BREAKING THE VASE HIS MOTHER TOLD HIM NOT TO TOUCH…….
BUT EITHER WAY……..THOUGH THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS WRONGDOING IS THE SAME….
THE VASE IS NOW BROKEN!!!!!!!
EVERYONE WANTS SIN BURIED IN THE PAST…..WITH NO AFTEREFFECTS IN THE FUTURE!!!
WE ALL WANT TO BE DONE WITH WHAT WE’VE DONE AND NOT TO HAVE TO FACE IT!!!
THE PROBLEM IS….
SIN DOESN’T JUST GO AWAY ON ITS OWN!!!
IT HAS A LINGERING OUTCOME!!!
PERHAPS IF SIN SOMEHOW HAD NO CONSEQUENCES - - IF BREAKING THE VASE DIDN’T BREAK IT - - - SIN COULD BE FORGOTTEN OR PASSED OVER AS THOUGH IT DID NOT EXIST!!!!
BUT
SIN DOES HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
IN FACT, IF YOU THINK ABOUT WAYS IN WHICH OTHERS HAVE WRONGED YOU…..WHAT YOU ARE LEFT WITH IS NOT SO MUCH WHAT THEY DID…..BUT WHAT THE WHAT DID TO YOU!!!
THE OUTCOME IT HAD IN YOUR LIFE!!!
ONCE SOMEONE SINS AGAINST US GRIEVOUSLY, A CURIOUS THING HAPPENS!!!
THAT PERSON’S WRONGDOING BECOMES MORE PROMINENT ON THE LANDSCAPE OF OUR RELATIONSHIP THAN HE OR SHE IS!!!
WE LOSE SIGHT OF THE INDIVIDUAL BEC THE SIN LOOMS ENORMOUSLY IN OUR WAY!!!
WHAT WE’CANNOT GET OVER’ OR “PUT BEHIND US’ BLOCKS OUR RELATIONSHIP!!!
AND THE WORST PART IS…
THAT SIN ALWAYS ENDS IN DEATH!!!
NOT ALWAYS A PHYSICAL END OF ONE’S LIFE…..
BUT AT THE LEAST A CUTTING OFF OF RELTAIONSHIP WITH THE PERSON AGAINST WHOM WE SINNED AND AN END TO THE FUTURE LIFE WE WOULD HAVE ENJOYED IF WE HAD NOT SINNED!!!!
YOU ALL KNOW PROBABLY MY MEMORY NOW……ROMANS 6:23 “/FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH…..BUT THE FREE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD!!”/
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SO DEATH……AS THE BIBLE DEFINES IT IS A LOSS OF RELATIONSHIP AND A LOSS OF A FUTURE!!!!
YOU MAY NOT WANT TO THINK OF IT THIS WAY……..BUT ONE OF THE SPIRITUAL LAWS GOVERNING HOW LIFE WORKS IS THAT SIN RESULTS IN DEATH!!!
YOU CANNOT HAVE RELATIONSHIP WIH BOTH A PERSON, AND THAT PERSON’S SIN AGIANST YOU!!!
THEIR ACTIONS OR THEIR WORDS BECOME THE FOCUS OF YOUR ATTENTION.
IF YOU HANG ON TO THEIR SIN………YOU HAVE TO LET GO OF THE RELTAIONSHIP!!!
JUST AS ADAM AND EVE CHOSE TO DISREGARD GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS, SIN ENTERED THE WORLD, AND DEATH CAME ALONG WITH SIN!!!! \\ \\
THEN DEATH SPREAD TO ALL PEOPLE FROM THAT POINT ON BECAUSE THEY (AND WE) KEPT MAKING THE SAME SORTS OF TERRIBLE DECISIONS THAT ADAM AND EVE MADE!!!
LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT I MEAN.
CAN YOU THINK OF SOMETHING THAT SOMEONE DID OR SAID TO YOU SEVERAL YEARS AGO THAT THE INDIVIDUAL HAS PROBABLY FORGOTTEN - - BUT IT STILL PAINS YOU DEEPLY?
THAT PERSON’S WORDS OR DEEDS PROBABLY LEFT NO LASTING IMPRESSION!!!
NOR DID THE BEHAVIOR AFFECT THE REST OF THE WORLD.
IT LANDED PRIMARILY ON YOU!!!
AND YOU ARE HAVING A HARD TIME GETTING OUT FROM UNDERNEATH THE PERSONAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE SIN!!!
IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO SEPARATE WHAT THE PERSON DID FROM WHAT IT DID TO YOU!!!
YOUR VASE WAS BROKEN …………….ONCE THEY BROKE THE VASE!!!!
THAT SHOULD HELP YOU UNDESTAND GOD’S DILEMMA!!!
SINS COMMITTED AGAINST OTHER PEOPLE ALSO HAVE CONSEQUENCES ON THE ONE WHO COMMITTED THE SINS!!!
EVEN THOUGH THEY MAY NOT BE AWARE OF THE CONSEQUENCE!!!
AS SURELY AS SIN AFFECTS OTHERS WITH ITS DEATHLY CONSEQUENCES, SO IT BRINGS LONG-LASTING CONSEQUENCES INTO THE LIFE OF THE SINNER!!!!
EVERY WRONG WE HAVE DONE - - -THOUGH IT WAS DONE TO OTHER PEOPLE OR TO OURSELVES - - - HAS ULTIMATELY BEEN AN OFFENSE AGAINST GOD!!!!
EACH WRONG CUTS ACROSS AND DISREGARD BOUNDARIES GOD HAS SET FOR HIS CREATION!!!
YOU NEVER SIN IN ISOLATION!!!! \\ YOU NEVER SIN ALONE!!!!
YOU NEVER JUST AFFECT YOU WHEN YOU SIN!!!!
YOU AFFECT A MULTITUDE OF RELATIONSHIPS!!!!!! INCLUDING YOUR’S AND GOD’S!!!!!
THAT IS WHY, IN RELATIONSHIP TO GOD…..YOU WERE ‘DEAD IN YOUR TRESPASSES AND SINS’ (EPH 2:1)
IN OTHER WORDS…..YOU WERE CUT OFF FROM CONNECTION WITH THE LORD!!!
EXCLUDED FROM THE LIFE OF GOD……..
YOU HAD FORFEITED FUTURE (ETERNAL) LIFE WITH HIM!!!!
THOUGH NOT PHYSICALLY DEAD……WE HAVE LIVED A LIFE SPIRITUALLY REMOVED FROM THE LORD’S PRESENCE!!!
ADAM AND EVE HAD TO GIVE UP THEIR PLACE IN THE PERFECT GARDEN!!
THEY FOUND THEMSELVES HIDING FROM GOD - -RATHER THAN RELATING TO HIM INTIMATELY AND CONVERSTATIONALLY AS THEY HAD BEFORE THEIR SIN!!!!
SO TOO HAVE WE LIVED LIFE AWAY FROM GOD’S PRESENCE AND PLANS!!!!
SIN AND DEATH RUINED EVERYTHING GOD HAD EVER WANTED FOR US TO ENJOY WITH HIM.
IN ORDER TO RESTORE WHAT PEOPLE HAD DONE AWAY WITH…..GOD HAD TO DO AWAY WITH THE CAUSE FO ALL THE DEVASTATION……HE HAD TO GET RID OF OUR SIN!!!!
SO THERE REALLY IS ONLY ONE SOLUTION!!!
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FORGIVENESS!!!!
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SIN IS A PERMANENT MARK ON OUR RECORD!!!
IT IS LIKE A BLOTCH OF INDELIBLE INK THAT HAS BEEN SPILLED ONTO A WHITE COTTON SHIRT OR BLOUSE!!!
GOD’S ORIGINAL INTENT WAS FOR NO ONE TO SIN……JUST AS OUR HOPE IS THAT NO ONE WILL EVER DO ANYTHING TO HURT AND OFFEND US!!!
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