When you have that attitude, it’s not hard to forgive because your focus isn’t on yourself. It’s on God and His purposes, God and His love.
If you really want to discover the secret of real forgiveness, that’s where your focus has to be—on God. For as we read earlier, we are instructed to forgive others in the same way, or on the same basis, that God has forgiven us.
Because of the Blood
Just what is the basis for the forgiveness God has extended to us? First John 2:12 tells us He has forgiven us “for his name’s sake.” In other words, God has put His Name on an agreement. He has given us His oath that, because Jesus poured out His blood and paid the price for sin, all men are forgiven in His sight. He has put His name to a document which says He has reconciled the whole world to Himself by Jesus the Anointed, and He is no longer holding anyone’s sins against them. (See 2 Corinthians 5:18-19.)
Why did God put His Name on that document? Because of the blood of Jesus. God forgives our sin because He honors the blood. He has said, “I will accept any man, any woman, any child from any place in the world regardless of any sin they have committed. I swore it in the blood and I will do it because of My Name.”
Romans 3 puts it this way:
"The righteousness of God [righteousness simply means right-standing, or being right with God] which is by faith of Jesus Christ [the Anointed] unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ [the Anointed] Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God" (verses 22-25).
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“Every problem that we, as believers, face in life can be conquered if we will do this one thing: Take time to hear from heaven.”—Gloria Copeland
1. By staying in communion with the Lord you can walk every day in His rest and His BLESSING. Acts 9:31
2. Developing your fellowship with Him requires some effort on your part. Hebrews 4:11
3. You walk with God not by relying on the strength of your own flesh but by walking in the spirit. Philippians 2:13
4. You’re born again to walk and talk with God. John 10:27
5. The Holy Spirit has come to live in you to serve as your personal Counselor. John 16:7
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