Repentance and God’s Promised Forgiveness

First15 Devotional

First15

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Not one of us is without sin. And each of us lives with a need for consistent repentance and an active receiving of God’s forgiveness. This is so crucial to living poor in spirit. The beauty of our God is that his forgiveness is promised at our repentance. There is no fear or shame in God’s perfect love and mercy. May we learn to embrace this aspect of walking with the Lord rather than shy away from it.

Our Scripture for today comes from Ephesians 1:7, and today's worship is Hide and Seek by First15 Worship feat. Nikki Moltz.

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In God, repentance is a joyful thing, because in acknowledging our wrong we get to experience God’s incredible compassion and forgiveness. And in being forgiven, we’re freed from the weight sin brings on to our life.

I hope that your experience with God today gives you a true sense of that lightness in him throughout the rest of your day.

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0:00.0	Not one of us is without sin, and each of us lives with a need for consistent repentance
0:10.4	and an active receiving of God's forgiveness. This is so crucial to living poor in spirit.
0:16.6	The beauty of God is that His forgiveness is promised at our repentance.
0:22.7	There is no fear or shame in God's perfect love and mercy.
0:27.2	May we learn to embrace the aspect of walking with the Lord rather than shy away from it.
0:32.8	Welcome to the First 15 podcast.
0:35.5	In his book The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning makes an incredibly astute observation
0:41.5	of those who are poor in spirit.
0:44.1	He writes, The sinner is prostrate and adoration.
0:47.8	Lost in wonder and praise.
0:49.9	He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness.
0:55.8	It is what we do because we have been forgiven.
0:58.7	To be poor in spirit is to live in the constant state of repentance found on the already
1:03.7	promised forgiveness of the just and loving God.
1:08.5	Ephesians 1.9 says, In Him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our
1:13.3	trespasses, according to the riches of His grace. By the grace of God, you and I are promised forgiveness
1:19.5	every time we repent. We never have to question whether or not we have been forgiven. Every drop of
1:26.1	Jesus's blood proved God's commitment both to justice
1:29.7	and forgiveness by the powerful sacrifice of Jesus. You and I have received reconciliation to a
1:36.2	holy God, the greatest accomplishment of God's continual forgiveness. If we're going to experience
1:42.9	the fullness of life made available to us by God's
1:45.7	continual forgiveness, we must seek to be poor in spirit. When we live as though we have it
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