Words From the Cross! Luke 23:33-39
His Trials and Crucifixion! 1 Peter 2:21-25
1st Word: “Father Forgive Them, they Know Not what the do” Luke 23:34
Even in the Hardest Circumstances we Forgive Because We Have Been Forgiven!
• You Are Forgiven Repeatedly, Greatly and Completely!
• Forgiveness: The Crown of Love:
Ephesians 5:1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; 2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
2nd Word: “Today You Shall Be With Me In Paradise” V 36-39
The Way of Salvation!
Live this Word:
• By Receiving Forgiveness of Sins!
One Criminal Rejects Christ and Finds Death!
• Cares nothing about His hurling abuse!
• He Considers that Jesus is the Christ! I believe that He believes it!
• Cares more about his temporal state than His eternal state!
• He Has no fear of God!
• He Has No Sense of justness about His Punishment!
• Refuses Forgiveness and Misses The Salvation of God right before His Eyes!
One Criminal Confesses Christ and Finds Life:
• Has An Awareness of His sin!
• Has a Right Sense of Justice about His punishment!
• Has the Proper Belief in Who Jesus Is!
• He Knows That Jesus is Innocent!!
• He Believes that Heaven Is Real and that there is Eternal Life!
• He Believes in the kingdom of God and that Jesus indeed is King & Lord of His Kingdom!
• He has No interest in saving his own skin!
• He Is Ready for Salvation! Ready for the kingdom of God!
• He Has A Fear of God!
• He Cries Out: “Remember me when you come into Your Kingdom!
Today! You will Be with me in Paradise!
How Do we Find and Experience Forgiveness From God?
1st Know that You are a Sinner, Separated from God Deserving Eternal Death!
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 3:10 as it is written, “There is none righteous, not even one;
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is
eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2nd Believe That Jesus Loves You and Died for You!
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath {of God} through Him. 10 For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
Ephesians2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it’s the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, that no one should boast.
3rd Confess Jesus As Lord and Believe What He Did For You!
Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus {as} Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; 10 for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
4th Confess Your Sins!
1 John 1:9 If You Confess Your Sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness!
What Is Forgiveness of sins? Pardon sin, cancel the debt, to overlook and to take away sins! Giving a Clean Slate! Letting Go of wrong done to you. A decision not to hold something against another.
• By Being A Part of Filling Heaven W/ People You Love and Come in Contact With – With The People God Calls You To!
We Are Witnesses! Acts 1:8 You Shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the uttermost parts of the earth!
We Proclaim the Gospel! Isaiah 61:1-3
We Live the Gospel –
What do We Learn From This Word?
• As Long as you are alive its never too late to find Christ!
• Simple Belief in Christ is expressed in different ways!
• The Gospel must be lived not just spoken! Jesus lived the gospel when He hung in pain, crying out, Father forgive them they know not what they do!
• Forgiveness is Received and Lived!
• If You are forgiven, you are on the way to paradise!
• To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord – Today!
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