I Want to Be Forgiven. What Does the Bible Say?

pramsay posted on March 13, 2009 04:33

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This is not a story. The light grey colored words are verses from the Bible - the Word of God. Below the verses are some questions for you to think about and a few explanations as well. Take your time reading the verses and answering the questions. There is no reason why you couldn't be saved from your sins as you read the verses below.

The answer for your life and for eternity are found in the verses below.

If you still cannot find 'eternal life' and the forgiveness of sins, write: contact@heaven4sure.com

Your iniquities have separated between YOU and YOUR GOD, and YOUR SINS have hid His face from you… Isaiah 59:2

ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23

The soul that sinneth it shall die. Ezekiel 18:20

The wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23

The wicked shall be turned into Hell and all the nations that forget God. Psalm 9:17

What is your greatest problem right now?
Why are you not right with God? What will keep you from going to Heaven when you die?
Who are your sins against?
Are you personally guilty?

Romans 3:19 (You don’t have to understand ‘how’ dark your heart is. It’s not so much the sins you have already done or ever will do, it’s what you are by nature and what you have the potential to do. You may not appreciate the full extent of your sins, but can you accept the picture God paints of your heart in Romans 3 and in Isaiah 64:6? (Look up and read these verses in your Bible and see if they accurately describe you.)

What does the Bible say about the consequences of sin?
Would God be righteous (good) and fair if He sent you to Hell because of your sins?
Is Hell and eternal torment where you really should be forever?
Have you ever told God that?
If you died suddenly before you finished reading this, exactly where would you be?

While we were yet in weakness [powerless to help ourselves], at the fitting time Christ died for (on behalf of) the ungodly. Romans 5:6

How much strength do you have to save yourself from your sins and from Hell?
According to this verse do you qualify to have Christ save you?
Are you ‘ungodly’? God only sees two classes of people. Godly and the ungodly. Are you Godly? You are either/or.
What does ‘for’ mean?

But God commended (showed or proved) His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

What is the evidence that God loves you despite your awful sins? How do you know that God loves you?
Do you expect God to show you greater proof that He loves you?

Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. 1Peter 3:18

You are separated from God for ONE reason. What is the reason?
Do you want to meet God after you die with all your sins?
The suffering in this verse was for ONE reason. What was the reason?
Who did the suffering?
Who was the Just (Righteous) One?
Who is the unjust guilty sinner?
If Jesus took your sins out of the way, what is keeping you from God now?

Who His Own self bare our sins in His own body on the Tree. 1Peter 2:24

Who was on the Cross?
Why was He on the Cross?
Whose sins were laid on Him?
Were your sins placed upon Jesus?
How do you know?
Were your sins that terrible that they caused the death of Jesus?
Why did it have to be Jesus on the cross – why couldn’t it have been someone else?
Who should have suffered in Hell for your sins?
Why would Jesus want to die for your sins?

“When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said: “It is finished:” and He bowed His head and gave up His spirit” – He died. (John 19:30)

Three days later when they were looking for His body the angel said: “He is not here, but is risen.” (Luke 24:6).

“This Man, after He had offered ONE sacrifice for sins forever SAT DOWN on the right hand of God.” (Hebrews 10:12)

And now… “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from ALL sin.” (1John 1:7)

What is the one thing God has against you and His one reason for keeping you out of heaven?

What did Jesus mean when He said from the Cross just before He died: “It is Finished.” What did He finish? What was done?

If God hadn’t been satisfied that Jesus finished the work of paying for your sins, would He have raised Jesus from the dead on the third day?

When someone finishes their job what do they often do when it is all done? (clue: Hebrews 10:12)

Today how can your sins be washed away?

The resurrection of Christ is God’s stamp of approval and satisfaction that Jesus’ death paid for all your sins. God is satisfied that His death answered for all your sins. Nothing more is required – from God’s perspective.

Are you satisfied that Jesus’ death was enough to pay for your sins? Have you ever told God how you feel about that?

When someone pays your debt in full, how much is left owing? When a work is finished, what remains to be done? If a load has been lifted, how much weight remains? If a gift is free, how much can you pay for it?

By grace you are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God; Not of works, lest any one should boast.

Ephesians 2:8-9

The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:23

Grace means you did NOT deserve any kindness from God. Faith means trust.

What does a gift mean?
In this verse who is giving the gift?
Have you ever accepted it?
Why not?
What will happen when you accept the gift?

It’s your Birthday. Your friend saves up money to buy you a gift. He buys it. There is a distance between you and your friend so he packages it and sends it in the mail by special delivery. You will have to sign for it when it arrives. The mail delivery person walks up to your doorstep, knocks on the door. You answer it. He says: he has a parcel for you from a certain person. You have to make a choice as to whether or not you will accept it and sign your name as having received the package.

In this analogy – Your friend is God. The gift is His Son Jesus and eternal life through Him. The delivery man is the Holy Spirit. He knocks on the door of your life with a gift from God. You have a choice to make as to whether or not you will accept what the Holy Spirit has to give you – Christ Himself forever. Your simple acceptance of Christ is all God wants. Have you ever thanked God?

How many times is the word ‘gift’ found in Romans 5? What do you think God is trying to tell you by using this word ‘gift’ so often in just this one chapter?

If you have read all the Bible verses above and you still have questions email: contact@heaven4sure.com

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# daniel philip

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 3:50 AM

i love the word u people have say to me infant when i read the word i full of holy spriti am from africa i live in europe spain pls i say may the peace of lord and his grace will allways be upon u people in jesuse name and i want u people to pray for me so that the plan that GOD have for me will come through in jesus name amen this is my email kendorlopez@yahoo.com

# Sandra Stotler

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:58 PM

Salvation comes through REPENTANCE. REPENTANCE requires a historical belief that Jesus is the Son of the Almighty God, the Saviour of the world, and that He died on your behalf; that He lived a pure, sinless existence on earth, where He came after being in glory with the Father. REPENTANCE is the heart's sincere cry of begging a king for mercy when you have nothing to offer; it is coming to the absolute end of yourself and throwing what dirty, filthy rags you have in return to Jesus, and begging Him with all your being to please, please save you. And when you do, HE WILL! He will remove the guilt, condemnation, and conviction, and replace it with "the peace that surpasses all understanding". He will make you a new creature in Christ Jesus, where old things will pass away and all things will become new. I KNOW, because this was my experience!

ACCEPTING CHRIST is nothing more than heresy. "SIMPLE ACCEPTANCE" is NOT all God wants. He wants REPENTANCE! The first sermon that Jesus ever preached contained 1 verb: "REPENT". The same holds true for John the Baptist.

The real question is not, "did you accept Jesus?", but, did He accept you?
"Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternally life".

# pramsay

Thursday, June 04, 2009 3:50 AM

Repentance is agreeing with God about your helpless condition in your sins. Repentance is when a person is 100% honest with God about their true spiritual condition - lost and unable to save themselves - bankrupt and unable to contribute anything to their own salvation.

Accepting Christ is a term based on the Scriptures. To quibble or argue over semantics while people are desperately in need of Christ, is wrong. John 1:12 says that those who receive Christ are given the right to become the children of God. Jesus said: 'Those who come to Me, I will never cast out.' John 6:37. Those who believe in Him receive eternal life. John 3:16,36; John 5:24.

Paul spoke words like these: "Through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins and by Him all that BELIEVE are justified from all things." Acts 13:38-39.

Whether the term in 'believe' or 'come' or 'accept' or 'trust' - the point is - not only does a sinner repent and fully acknowledge their sins before a holy God - there must also be a 'turning to God' - and when a rebel does that - isn't that a contrite acceptance of One who had been rejected in his life up until that time? That's salvation - when all resistance is gone and the person accepts the rescuer.

I do not plan to get into a debate over this. Another posting similar to the one above will be deleted. People are perishing in their sins. We can not waste people's time by continuing such a debate. Jesus simply said: "Come to me, all that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28. I assume that when He used that simple word 'COME' He meant salvation to be just that simple. Rather than run from Christ - come to Him and those who do, He saves.

# john

Friday, January 29, 2010 8:59 AM

It is truly absurd that people in this modern age can still make such assertions on absolutely no evidence. I think this is because Religion teaches people that it is a measure of integrity to have blind belief in something-because that's what it is, belief without evidence (and scribblings from the bronze-iron age don't count)- when it is the height of being naive. If one is a fundamentalist, they are a complete ignoramus and have to deny every shred of scientific and empirical understanding. The moderately faithful not only betray faith and reason equally, they harbour these dangerous fanatics. Humanity is doomed if we continue to maintain these primitive belief systems, as it is extremely divisive (perpetuates and us versus them mentality), restrictive, and in direct opposition to that which is solely responsible for our advancement, reason and science. Religion restricts our understanding of the universe, for every gap we have the theologian or even moderately faithful, jumps on it and calls it god (not to mention how much we do understand and have evidence for that they simply deny), and they are satisfied! End of story. You might as well replace "god" with "I don't know". The only reason the teachings of Christianity and Islam are the dominate religions of today, as opposed to the teachings of Apollo, Zeus or Thor, is not because they have more evidence, its because they are more dogmatic and utilize fear mongering effectively, thus having greater adherents. I'm not saying there isn't an after life of some kind or that I understand the origins of the universe but I am saying I do not know, and neither do you.

# pramsay

Sunday, January 31, 2010 7:22 PM

Didn't someone say: "Thou protesteth too loudly?" It is interesting that you accuse people of being dogmatic when it pertains to the Christian faith but you sound quite dogmatic about what you believe. Are you a fundamentalist as well?

It is a strange thing that you claim we can not know (when it comes to faith) and yet you sound 100% certain that you know someone cannot know. Isn't there something wrong with your logic?

What hope do agnostics or atheists or humanists offer this sad world? Just more of themselves? More of human behaviour? Is human behaviour really improving? Are movies less violent? Is the language on school buses cleaner? Is there less abuse?

The answer is Christ. And you can not argue against my personal experience. He changed my life. I do have peace. I am sure of Heaven.

The Bible clearly says you can be SURE you will be in Heaven after you die. Eternal life is not something that God gives to you AFTER you die IF He determines you have pleased Him sufficiently. If you are ever going to be in Heaven after you die, you must experience God's 'new birth' before you die.

You must be saved. You must have a personal relationship with God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Without God's salvation you will NEVER be in Heaven.

This section of the website clearly and graphically illustrates how you can be sure of Heaven.

I Want to Be Forgiven. What Does the Bible Say?

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