GOD ALONE CAN FORGIVE

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GOD ALONE CAN FORGIVE
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God Alone Can Forgive

• Luke 521
• And the scribes and the Pharisees began to
  reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh
  blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God
  alone?
• Christ had healed a man by saying
• Luke 520 Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• Where does forgiveness take place?
• Think of where forgiveness takes place on our
  part.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• God Is A Forgiving God
• He did not drive Adam Eve from the garden
  without hope.
• Gen. 315
• And I will put enmity between thee and the
  woman, and between thy seed and her seed it
  shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
  heel.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• God Is A Forgiving God
• God so describes Himself
• Ex. 346-7
• And the LORD passed by before him, and
  proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and
  gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness
  and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving
  iniquity and transgression and sin

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God Alone Can Forgive

• God Is A Forgiving God
• God give complete cleansing
• Isa. 118
• Come now, and let us reason together, saith
  the LORD though your sins be as scarlet, they
  shall be as white as snow though they be red
  like crimson, they shall be as wool.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• God Is A Forgiving God
• God blots out sins
• Isa. 4325
• I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy
  transgressions for mine own sake, and will not
  remember thy sins.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• God Is A Forgiving God
• Forgiveness is complete under N.T. Law
• Heb. 812
• For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,
  and their sins and their iniquities will I
  remember no more.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• II. Only God Can Forgive
• Our text was stated by Scribes Pharisees, but
  the question was true.
• Luke 521
• Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

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God Alone Can Forgive

• II. Only God Can Forgive
• Jesus stated this principle
• Matt. 1926
• But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With
  men this is impossible but with God all things
  are possible.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• II. Only God Can Forgive
• Notice the wages of sin
• Rom. 623
• For the wages of sin is death but the gift of
  God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our
  Lord.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• II. Only God Can Forgive
• For forgiveness someone had to pay the penalty.
• John 316
• For God so loved the world, that he gave his
  only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
  him should not perish, but have everlasting
  life.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• II. Only God Can Forgive
• God could not die, so Christ had to come as a man
  to die.
• Phil. 27-8
• But made himself of no reputation, and took upon
  him the form of a servant, and was made in the
  likeness of men And being found in fashion as a
  man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto
  death, even the death of the cross.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• II. Only God Can Forgive
• He tasted death for everyone
• Heb. 29
• But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower
  than the angels for the suffering of death,
  crowned with glory and honor that he by the
  grace of God should taste death for every man.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• II. Only God Can Forgive
• Gods love is amazing
• Rom. 58-9
• But God commendeth his love toward us, in that,
  while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
  Much more then, being now justified by his blood,
  we shall be saved from wrath through him.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• III. God Is Impartial
• Rom. 211
• For there is no respect of persons with God.
• Acts 1034-35 Then Peter opened his mouth, and
  said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no
  respecter of persons But in every nation he that
  feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is
  accepted with him.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• III. God Is Impartial
• He has declared all under sin
• Rom. 323
• For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
  of God.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• III. God Is Impartial
• All are invited to come to Him.
• Matt.1128
• Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy
  laden, and I will give you rest.
• Another way of saying, I will save you!

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• III. God Is Impartial
• There is one common church for all
• Gal. 326-28
• For ye are all the children of God by faith in
  Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been
  baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is
  neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor
  free, there is neither male nor female for ye
  are all one in Christ Jesus.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• III. God Is Impartial
• He has declared all under sin
• Rom. 323
• For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
  of God.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• III. God Is Impartial
• Same matters of judgment
• Rom. 1411-12
• For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord,
  every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue
  shall confess to God. So then every one of us
  shall give account of himself to God.

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• III. God Is Impartial
• Same matters of judgment
• Rev. 2012
• And I saw the dead, small and great, stand
  before God and the books were opened and
  another book was opened, which is the book of
  life and the dead were judged out of those
  things which were written in the books, according
  to their works.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• Since God Only can forgive sins,
• Why not come to Him today, and receive the
  forgiveness He stands ready to give?
• For Him to Forgive, we must obey.

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God Alone Can Forgive

• To obey the gospel of Christ, one must
• Hear Rom 1016
• Believe Heb 116
• Repent Luke 133
• Confess Acts 836-37
• Be Baptized Acts 238
• Remain Faithful Rev 210

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