He Forgave Me!
Psalm 22:30-31 NIV
Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord. They will proclaim his righteousness, declaring to a people yet unborn: He has done it!
Psalm 107:1-2 NKJV
Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord SAY SO!
Psalm 145:4-13 NIV
One generation commends your works to another; they tell of your mighty acts. They speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty— and I will meditate on your wonderful works. They tell of the power of your awesome works— and I will proclaim your great deeds. They celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness. The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made. All your works praise you, Lord; your faithful people extol you. They tell of the glory of your Kingdom and speak of your might, so that all people may know of your mighty acts and the glorious splendor of your Kingdom. Your Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and your dominion endures through all generations. The Lord is trustworthy in all he promises and faithful in all he does.
WHAT GOD DOES is directly connected to WHO GOD IS.
Exodus 3:13-15 NIV
Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ” God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’
“THE LORD”
Y H W H
TETRAGRAMMATON
“THE FOUR LETTERS”
“I AM WHO I AM”
YeHoWaH
JEHOVAH
JEHOVAH TSIDKENU // the Lord is our RIGHTEOUSNESS!
Jeremiah 23:5-6 ESV
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: [JEHOVAH TSIDKENU] ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’
“No man knows how BAD he is till he has tried very hard to be GOOD.”
--C.S. Lewis
Hebrews 10:10–18 NIV
We have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. For by one sacrifice he has made PERFECT forever those who are being made holy. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: “This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.
"Christians believe that in and through Christ crucified God substituted Himself for us and bore our sins, dying in our place the death we deserved to die, in order that we might be restored to His favor and adopted into His family.”
--John Stott
Ephesians 1:3-4 NIV
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be HOLY and BLAMELESS in his sight.
Michah 7:19 NIV
You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!
Psalm 103:10-12 NIV
He does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
John 19:30 NIV
Jesus said, “IT IS FINISHED.” With that, He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
TETELESTAI – “Paid In Full”
Colossians 2:13-15 NLT
You were DEAD because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you ALIVE with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. He canceled THE RECORD OF THE CHARGES against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross.
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 NIV
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him WE MIGHT BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.
Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV
For it is by GRACE you have been saved, through FAITH—and this is not from yourselves, it is the GIFT of God— not by WORKS, so that no one can BOAST.
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