The Heart of God to Forgive
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🗓️ 7 April 2021
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As we near the end of our week, creating space every day to simply have our affections stirred up for God, we’re going to take time today to look at God’s heart to forgive us. God’s forgiveness is as constant as our need for his forgiveness. And today, I hope and pray that he reveals his heart to forgive us completely and immediately when we confess our sin to him, and his heart to constantly restore us to intimacy with him.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 John 1:9, and today's worship is Kyrie Eleison by Vineyard Worship.
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to take time today to look at God's heart to forgive us. |
| 0:09.0 | God's forgiveness is as constant as our need for his forgiveness. |
| 0:14.0 | And today, I hope and pray that He reveals his heart to forgive us completely and immediately |
| 0:20.0 | when we confess our sin to him and his heart to forgive us completely and immediately when we confess our sin to him and his heart |
| 0:23.1 | to constantly restore us to intimacy with him. Welcome to the first of teen podcast. Our verse of today comes with 1 John 1, verse 9. |
| 0:48.5 | Scripture says, |
| 0:49.9 | If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from |
| 0:57.7 | all unrighteousness. As much as God hates sin because of its destructive effects on us and |
| 1:06.9 | others, he hates even more that something could come between our relationship with him. Because he |
| 1:14.5 | desired a relationship with us, God sent his son to be the price for our restoration. And it's because of his |
| 1:23.1 | continued love for us that he forgives us the very moment we repent of our sin. |
| 1:29.9 | There's no price to pay. |
| 1:32.6 | There's no time we have to spend outside of his perfect love. |
| 1:37.4 | Jesus paid the price for every sin you and I will ever commit. |
| 1:44.0 | Think for a moment about your normal routine after you sin. |
| 1:49.5 | What process do you usually go through before you feel restored to God? How long do you wait to |
| 1:57.0 | repent? How much time do you usually let pass before you feel you can open your heart to God and enjoy |
| 2:05.3 | him? |
| 2:06.6 | It's true that the consequences of sin can linger even after we ask forgiveness. |
| 2:13.1 | But an obstacle in our relationship with God is not one of them. |
| 2:18.9 | Jesus paid the highest price, his own life, |
| 2:22.8 | so that nothing could ever come between us and God again. |
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