Sin and condemnation will make you feel so far from the God you love.

Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth explains there is a way back.

You know what, the same way you come to Christ for salvation,

realizing it's his blood, his sacrifice, his payment that enables you to get forgiveness of sin,

that's how you go back to him.

That's how you can pray the Lord's

prayer, forgive us our deaths. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Wednesday, September 7th,

2016. This week, we've been analyzing the phrase,

Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.

Nancy's in a series called The Lord's Prayer.

I don't know that there's any subject anywhere that is more important than the subject of forgiveness

as it relates to our eternal destiny.

And I want us to look at two passages today, one in the Old Testament and one in the new,

that give us understanding and insight into the thinking of God, the heart of God as it relates to forgiveness.

Let me ask you first to turn in your Bible to the book of Leviticus chapter 4.

Leviticus, that's the part of your Bible, maybe where the pages still stick together

because you may not have read it recently.

Genesis Exodus, Leviticus.

And in Leviticus 4, we find the first use of the primary root word for forgiveness in the Old Testament.

The first time this word appears is found in Leviticus chapter 4.

That word that's translated, forgive, or forgiveness has to do with pardon, with being washed.

It has to do with having our sins washed away.

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