Will God Forgive Me?

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Will God Forgive Me?
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The unpardonable sin
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The unpardonable sin

• Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven
  the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they
  utter but whoever blasphemes against the Holy
  Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an
  eternal sin (Mark 328-29)

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There is a point of no return!

• For in the case of those who have once been
  enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift
  and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
  and have tasted the good word of God and the
  powers of the age to come, and then have fallen
  away, it is impossible to renew them again to
  repentance, since they again crucify to
  themselves the Son of God, and put Him to open
  shame. (Hebrews 64-6)

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Gods response to an angry child
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• Job's wife succumbed to the frustration,
  confusion, and doubt urging her husband to "curse
  God and die" (Job 19).
• Even Job, who did not sin in the face of the
  difficulties, responded to his friends with not
  only charges of his innocence, but with
  statements that appear to indict God's rule of
  the world.

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• Yet in spite of these things, God did not give up
  on them but made known to them His glory so that
  they could find their way through the doubt and
  confusion they had experienced. In addition, he
  restored to them all that had been lost, an
  evidence of His forgiveness of their rash
  statements.

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Is our love greater than Gods?

• Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his
  son for a fish he will not give him a snake
  instead of a fish, will he? Or if he is asked
  for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will
  he? If you then, being evil, know how to give
  good gifts to your children, how much more shall
  your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to
  those who ask Him? (Luke 1111-13)

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• But while he was still a long way off, his father
  saw him, and felt compassion for him, and ran and
  embraced him, and kissed him. (Lk. 1520)

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Applications

• For this reason I also suffer these things, but I
  am not ashamed for I know whom I have believed
  and I am convinced that He is able to guard what
  I have entrusted to Him until that day. (2
  Timothy 112)
• Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. (Job
  1315)