God's Instant Forgiveness
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🗓️ 24 August 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In our third day looking at Jesus’ story of the prodigal son, we’re going to take time today to look at how quickly, how instantly God forgives us.
May regret, and fear over God’s judgement be washed away as we see an incredible picture of how quickly and easily God forgives our sins.
Our Scripture for today comes from Luke 15:20, and today's worship is O Come To The Altar by Elevation Worship.
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| 0:00.0 | In our third podcast, looking at Jesus' story of the prodigal son, we're going to take |
| 0:09.4 | time today to look at how quickly, how instantly God forgives us. |
| 0:13.9 | May your regret and fear over God's judgment be washed away as we see an incredible picture |
| 0:20.7 | how quickly and easily God forgives our sins. |
| 0:23.9 | Welcome to the first-of-team podcast. |
| 0:28.9 | Our verse for today comes from Luke 15 verse 20. |
| 0:41.3 | Jesus says, and He arose and came to His Father, but while He was still a long way off, His |
| 0:47.5 | Father saw Him and felt compassion and ran and embraced Him and kissed Him. |
| 0:56.6 | One of the most powerful verses in Scripture is found in Luke 15-20. |
| 1:01.7 | Take a minute this morning to reflect on the forgiving heart of your Heavenly Father as |
| 1:06.7 | you hear this verse again. |
| 1:09.2 | And He arose and came to His Father, but while He was still a long way off, His Father saw |
| 1:14.5 | Him and felt compassion and ran and embraced Him and kissed Him. |
| 1:21.2 | Our Heavenly Father is quick to forgive us no matter how great our sin. |
| 1:26.5 | He longs for us to turn our hearts toward Him so that He can run out to meet us and our |
| 1:31.5 | brokenness and weakness and draws back into total communion with Him. |
| 1:37.9 | Too often we wait to turn our hearts toward the Father. |
| 1:42.3 | Too often we allow the lack of grace in others to instill in us a belief that God will be |
| 1:48.6 | mad and slow to forgive us if we confess to Him, but the truth is that God is constantly |
| 1:56.2 | aware of our sin and yet He longs for intimacy with us in every moment. |
| 2:03.3 | You are never too dirty to be wrapped up in the loving arms of your Father. |
| 2:08.8 | You are never too broken to be clothed with His righteousness and honor. |
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