Focal Passage- Ephesians 1:7-8
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What is the greatest need every person has? A relationship with God, which only comes through the forgiveness of the cross.
* Forgiveness is needed by all people.
Trespasses- crossing the boundaries of God's Law
Redemption- sin is our captor and slave owner and demands a price for our release.
* Forgiveness is costly.
Redemption through His blood
To understand forgiveness we must see the severity of our sin. A greater price could not have been paid than the blood of the Savior.
- A Manifestation of Divine Love
- A Manifestation of Divine Grace
- A Manifestation of the Glory of God
* Forgiveness is received through faith.
Repentant faith is the doorway to forgiveness.
All forgiveness results from the work of Jesus.
* Forgiveness is complete.
If forgiveness were incomplete, then the death of Jesus would be incomplete. Yet the Bible describes it as a finished work.
God takes away our sins and blots them out, cancels them, expunges them, and wipes them away to be remembered no more.
* Forgiveness received is then to be extended.
We are to be imitators of God and Jesus it the ultimate example.
The forgiving life grows from the soil of forgiveness beneath the foot of the cross.
The cross and the forgiveness that it brings as part of the plan of God has had a profound eternal impact. Revelation 7:9-10
