Sermon Tone Analysis

Application of forgiveness

Synopsis

God’s forgiveness of believers’ sins leads them to pray for his forgiveness of others and to be forgiving in their dealings with other people.

Prayers for forgiveness on behalf of others

For God’s own people

(LEB) — 30 And the next day Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin.

And now I will go up to Yahweh.

Perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” 31 And Moses returned to Yahweh, and he said, “Alas, this people has sinned a great sin and made for themselves gods of gold.

32 And now if you will forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me from your scroll that you have written.”

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(LEB) — 4 When I heard these words, I sat and wept and mourned for days, and I was fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.

5 I said, “O Yahweh God of the heavens, the great and awesome one who keeps the covenant and loyal love for the ones who love him and for those who keep his commands.

6 Please, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying before you by day and by night for your servants, the Israelites, and confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have sinned against you.

I and my father’s house have sinned.

7 We have certainly offended you and have not kept the commands, regulations, and judgments that you have commanded your servant Moses.

8 Please, remember the word that you have commanded to your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you act unfaithfully I will scatter you all among the nations.

9 But if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, even though all of your outcasts are at the furthest parts of heaven, I will gather them and bring them to the place which I have chosen to make my name dwell.’ 10 They are your servants and your people whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.

11 O Lord, please let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight to revere in your name.

Please, let your servant be successful this day and give him compassion before this man.”

I was cupbearer for the king.

(LEB) — 4 And I prayed to Yahweh my God, and I made confession and I said, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, keeping the covenant and loyal love with those who love him and with those who keep his commandments, 5 we have sinned and we have done wrong and we acted wickedly and we rebelled and have been turning aside from your commandments and from your ordinances.

6 We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors and to all the people of the land.

7 “Righteousness belongs to you, O Lord, and on us is open shame, just as it is this day to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of their infidelity which they displayed against you.

8 Yahweh, on us is open shame, on our kings, on our princes, and on our ancestors, because we have sinned against you.

9 Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord, our God, for we have rebelled against him, 10 and we have not listened to the voice of Yahweh our God, by following his law which he placed before us by the hand of his servants the prophets.

11 “And all Israel transgressed your law and turned aside so as not to listen to your voice, and so the curse and the oath which was written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, has been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.

12 And so he has carried out his words which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring upon us a great calamity which was not done under all of heaven as it was done in Jerusalem.

13 Just as it is written in the law of Moses, all of this calamity has come upon us, and we have not implored the face of Yahweh our God so as to turn from our iniquities and to attend closely to your faithfulness.

14 So Yahweh has kept watch over the calamity, and now he has brought it upon us.

Indeed, Yahweh our God is righteous concerning all his works that he has done, but we have not listened to his voice.

15 “And now, Lord our God, who have brought your people out from the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and you have made for yourself a name until this day—we have sinned, we have acted wickedly.

16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your rage turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain, because through our sins and through the iniquities of our ancestors Jerusalem and your people have become an object of mockery among all of our neighbors.

17 “And now, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy.

Shine your face upon your desolate sanctuary for your sake, O Lord.

18 Incline your ear, my God, and listen; open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that is called by your name, for we are not presenting our pleas for mercy before you because of our righteousness, but rather because of your great compassion.

19 Lord, listen!

Lord, forgive!

Lord, pay heed and act!

You must not delay for your sake, my God; because your city and your people are called by your name.”

(LEB) — 1 This is what my Lord Yahweh showed me, and look, he is going to form locusts at the beginning of the sprouting of the second crop, and look, after the mowings of the king. 2 And then when they finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, “O Lord Yahweh, please forgive!

How can Jacob stand, because he is small?” 3 Yahweh relented concerning this.

“It will not be,” said Yahweh. 4 This is what my Lord Yahweh showed me, and look, my Lord Yahweh was going to call for a legal case with fire, and it devoured the great deep and it ate up the plots of ground.

5 Then I said, “O Lord Yahweh, please stop!

How can Jacob stand, because he is small?”

6 Yahweh also relented concerning this.

“This also will not be,” said my Lord Yahweh.

For other human beings

(LEB) — 20 Then Yahweh said, “Because the outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sin is very serious, 21 I will go down and I will see.

Have they done altogether according to its cry of distress which has come to me?

If not, I will know.”

22 And the men turned from there and went toward Sodom.

And Abraham was still standing before Yahweh.

23 And Abraham drew near to Yahweh and said, “Will you also sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

24 If perhaps there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city, will you also sweep them away and not forgive the place on account of the fifty righteous in her midst?

25 Far be it from you to do such a thing as this, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous would be as the wicked!

Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do justice?”

26 And Yahweh said, “If I find fifty righteous in Sodom, in the midst of the city, then I will forgive the whole place for their sake.”

27 Then Abraham answered and said, “Look, please, I was bold to speak to my Lord, but I am dust and ashes.

28 Perhaps the fifty righteous are lacking five—will you destroy the whole city on account of the five?”

And he answered, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

29 And once again he spoke to him and said, “What if forty are found there?”

And he answered, “I will not do it on account of the forty.”

30 And he said, “Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak.

What if thirty be found there?”

And he answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

31 And he said, “Please, now, I was bold to speak to my Lord.

What if twenty be found there?”

And he answered, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.”

32 And he said, “Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak only once more.

What if ten are found there?”

And he answered, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.” 33 Then Yahweh left, as he finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

For one’s persecutors

(LEB) — 33 And when they came to the place that is called “The Skull,” there they crucified him, and the criminals, the one on his right and the other on his left.

34 ⟦But Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”⟧

And they cast lots to divide his clothes.

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(LEB) — 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’

44 But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

(LEB) — 59 And they kept on stoning Stephen as he was calling out and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” 60 And falling to his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!”

And after he said this, he fell asleep.

Prayers for forgiveness for oneself

(LEB) — 4 And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us.

And do not lead us into temptation.”

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(LEB) — 1 On the twenty-fourth day of this month the Israelites gathered in fasting, in sackcloths, and with soil on them. 2 Those of the seed of Israel separated themselves from all of the foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.

3 They stood up in their place and read from the book of the law of Yahweh their God for a fourth part of the day, and for a fourth they were confessing and worshiping Yahweh their God.

(LEB) — 1 Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loyal love.

According to your abundant mercies, blot out my transgressions.

2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and from my sin cleanse me. 3 For I myself know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against you, only you, I have sinned and have done this evil in your eyes, so that you are correct when you speak, you are blameless when you judge.

5 Behold, in iniquity I was born, and in sin my mother conceived me.

6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden parts you make me to know wisdom.

7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean.

Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8 Make me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.

9 Hide your face from my sins, and all my iniquities blot out.

10 Create a clean heart for me, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

11 Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and with a willing spirit sustain me.

13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you.

14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation; then my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will proclaim your praise.