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Come Down With Forgiveness

Isaiah 64:1-9

Pastor Bob Hiller
11/30/2014

Series: come-down

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YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/qtKQxKuUdKM

Isaiah 64:9 Do not be angry beyond measure, O LORD; do not remember our sins forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray, for we are all your people.

1. Advent reminds us that the life of the Christian is one of ____________ ____________.

2. Our prayer before God is that He would ____________ and ____________ our sinfulness.

3. On the cross, God chose to ____________ your ____________ sin.


Scripture Readings
Isaiah 64:1-9
1 Corinthians 1:3-9
Mark 11:1-10


Take It With You!

As we learn how to live as disciples of Jesus Christ, here helpful tools will be offered to aid in your study.

My friend Rod Rosenbladt told me a story once about a middle-aged woman who needed help from her pastor.

She went to her pastor and said, "Pastor, I had an abortion a number of years ago?" "OK," the Pastor replied. "Well, I need to talk to you about the man I've since married." "Alright," replied the Pastor.

"Well, we met a while back, and started dating and I thought, I need to tell him about the abortion. But I just couldn't. Then things got more serious between us and I thought, I need to tell him about the abortion. But I just couldn't. A while later we got engaged and I thought, I need to tell him about the abortion. But I just couldn't. Then we got married and I thought, I really need to tell him about the abortion. But I just couldn't. So I needed to talk to someone, Pastor, and you're it."

The Pastor replied, "You know, we have a service for this. Let's go through that together." So they did – a service of confession and absolution.

When they were finished, she said to him, "Thank-you, Pastor. Now I think I have the courage to tell my new husband about my abortion."

And the Pastor replied to her, "What abortion?"

The gospel is the good news that Jesus offers forgiveness full and free. This is the hardest thing for us to believe as Christians. We think it's a mark of spiritual maturity to hang onto our guilt and shame. We've sickly concluded that the worse we feel, the better we actually are. The declaration of Micah 7:19 (and Psalm 103:12) is the most difficult for us to grasp and embrace: "As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us." God practices a "forgetfulness" for the repentant persons sin.

-Tullian Tchividjian, http://www.pastortullian.com/2014/11/21/my-god-he-knoweth-none/

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