Big Thought: Because of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, we have the absolute and assurance of .
1. What is ?
a. To from something.
Hebrews 12:2b (HCSB) – …Let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us, and run with endurance the race that is set before us.
2 Timothy 2:3-4 (HCSB) – Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. To please the recruiter, no one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of everyday life.
b. To put away or ; .
Psalm 103:12 (ESV) – As far as the east is from the west, so far does He remove our transgressions from us.
Colossians 2:13-14 (ESV) – And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by cancelling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This He set aside, nailing it to the cross.
John 1:29 (ESV) – The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
1 John 2:12 (ESV) – I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for His name’s sake.
c. God also us.
Ephesians 1:7 (ESV) – In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace.
Hebrews 9:22 (ESV) – Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin.
The Resurrection life is about living in a state of .
2. We have hope because of the of forgiveness.
a. of our sin.
Colossians 2:13 (ESV) – And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
b. All of our .
c. We’re to not only forgiveness but to it.
Ephesians 4:32 (HCSB) – And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.
3. We have hope because of we are forgiven.
a. We are forgiven because of God’s .
Psalm 89:24a (ESV) – My faithfulness and My steadfast love will be with him…
Isaiah 55:3 (ESV) – Incline your ear, and come to Me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
b. We are forgiven because our God is .
Romans 2:2, 6-8 (ESV) – We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who do such things… He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, He will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV) – For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
Romans 3:26 (ESV) – It was to show His righteousness at the present time, so that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
1 Peter 3:18 (ESV) – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.
c. We are forgiven because of .