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INTRODUCTION:
Have you ever laid awake at night because your guilt burned inside you?
Have you ever laid awake at night because your guilt burned inside you?
You were afraid that God was angry with you!
Did you feel like there was no way God could love you!
Shakespeare described this human experience in his classic play - Lady Macbeth.
The play goes like this - “Burdened with an intolerable weight of guilt, restless and sleepless, Lady Macbeth paces to and fro in the early hours of the morning.
Obsessively and compulsively she rubs her hands and cries out.”
What Shakespeare describes in this plot - is often how we feel.
When we have sinned.
In fact - we get so use to it -
That as Christians we live life in frustration - because we always fall short of the glory of God.
We live in constant guilt.
And so we always live afraid God is going to take his blessing.
Sinners without Christ often live a life suppressing the reality of their sin, and defining goodness in terms of moderate perfection.
Because they are guilty.
Sinners without Christ often live a life suppressing the reality of their sin, and defining goodness in terms of moderate perfection.
You see - a simple observation of society shows that the human experience includes the experience of sin and guilt.
That is the observation of Solomon in -
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Eccl 7:20
ILLUSTRATION:
The human experience includes many times of us wallowing in the depths of our sin and guilt.
Despairing at our own wickedness and rejection of God’s wonderful holiness.
Feeling like we are unworthy of God’s love.
ILLUSTRATION:
Like a pig,
we are bathing in a mud pit of sin, covered in dark crusty mud of guilt.
We feel it,
the shame, guilt, the entrapment, the slavery to sin, the anger of God
Last week, we read a depressing summary about Israel’s response to the wonderful blessings of God.
When they should have been grateful,
Israel was:
(a) Proud and Presumptuous.
(b) Rebellious.
(c) Disobedient.
(d) Indifferent.
And if we were honest - we realize we sin in all those same ways.
We are no different then Israel.
We, even as Christians,
Instead of gratefulness we are at times:
(a) Proud and Presumptuous.
(b) Rebellious.
(c) Disobedient.
(d) Indifferent.
And [[[if]]] that is where it was left, we would be doomed.
We would live in hopelessness - and unworthy of God.
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Prov 20:9
Rom 1:18
But we need to realize that God is a God of forgiveness.
to God makes me clean- oh, the situation is no longer hopeless.
As sad v. 16 and 17 is; Notice the wonderful truth found at v. 17.
”16-17
If left to ourselves,
we are no more able to
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From this text, may I boldly proclaim -
PROP: God is ready to forgive you.
>>>> God’s love and mercy is not out of reach;
TRANS: And this text gives us 4 Character truths of God that teach us why we should look to God for forgiveness.
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First, lets look at,
1) God’s Response to Our Sin: He is Ready to Forgive.
Israel was:
1. God’s Response to Our Sin.
(a) Proud and Presumptious.
(b) Rebellious.
Oh sin, can feel like God is a million miles away.
That you are unworthy of his love.
In fact you might wish this.
(From a letter by Gary Gilmore [executed by State of Utah] to his girlfriend.)626
“It seems that I know evil more intimately than I know goodness and that’s not a good thing either.
I want to get even, to be made even, whole, my debts paid (whatever it may take!), to have no blemish, no reason to feel guilt or fear.…
I’d like to stand in the sight of God.
To know that I’m just and right and clean.
When you’re this way, you know it.
And when you’re not, you know that, too.
It’s all inside of us, each of us.”
That is a letter from a man in Utah who requested the Death penalty for murdering two people.
But you don’t have to be a murder - to feel this way.
We all have felt like that.
Maybe you still do.
However, our text gives us a wonderful message of hope this morning.
(c) Disobedient.
“But you are a God ready to forgive”.
(d) Indifferent.
The Old KJV says - “A God ready to pardon”.
The Old KJV says - “A God ready to pardon”.
(1) Blessings of God.
Oh, now that is wonderful news!
(Barrowed from Charles Spurgeon Sermon)
Not a God who may possibly pardon,
neither a God who upon strong persuasion and earnest pleadings may, at length, be induced to forgive,
not one who, perchance, at some remote period after we have undergone a long purgatory may manifest a mercy of forgiveness,
But a God ready to pardon.
What does it mean that God is ready to forgive?
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Forgiveness topically can refer to many things.
Forgiveness could mean he is making an EXCUSE for us.
Or It could mean he CONDONES are sinful behavior.
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