Last Sunday
I preached about the need for repentance. If you understand grace, you are glad
for an opportunity to repent. Another very important part of being a Christian
is understanding forgiveness, or at least walking in its victory. The Lord
wants us to be humble and repent and the reason that He wants this is because
it is His desire to bless us, to fill us with joy, to grant us His peace, to
enable us to stand before Him free from the fear of wrath.
Needing to repent regularly does not
mean that we live in a state of despair or desperation. It means that we
continually get to hear the Father’s gracious words of forgiveness to us in
Jesus.
We need to learn to hear those words,
arise to those words, stand up in those words and walk in those words. This is
why we stand before the Lord after we confess our sins.
In a liturgical church, everyone wants to comply so everybody stands up.
But are you standing, really, even on the inside? Do you know the grace of
forgiveness? Are you relieved? Joyful? At peace?
Hear God’s gracious words to you. Believe Him. Believe me when I tell
you the Father forgives you. Now stand up!
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