Forgiveness

Joy Hindering Faith

Luke 24:41-45

… He understands that— "The moment a sinner believes, And trusts in His crucified God, His pardon at once he receives, Redemption in full through His blood." He has …

Praise Comely to the Upright

Psalm 33:1

… But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared. If there were no mercy, there would be no love in any human heart—and there would …

Araunah's Threshing Floor

1 Chronicles 22:1

… Your sins, which are many, are all forgiven. No angel can kill you—you are exempt from the commission of the Destroyer—you are saved! Such, I think …

Who Can Tell?

Jonah 3:9

… You will remember well the pardon given to David! Surely you have not forgotten the mercy which God had on that chief of sinners, Manasseh! As for the …

A Christmas Question

Isaiah 9:6

… All your confession cannot merit forgiveness, though God has promised to pardon the man who confesses his sin and forsakes it. Imagine that some creditor had a debtor …

God's Overtaking Mercy

Genesis 16:8

… In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches ofHis Grace. Notice how the Apostle keeps on insisting that we have …

“Through Much Tribulation”

… Well can I remember, when coming to Jesus myself, that for years I sought pardon, and found it not. Often, in the deep anguish of my spirit, did …

A Test for True Seekers

Jeremiah 50:5

… I know they are forgiven, But still their pain to me Is all the grief and anguish They laid, my Lord, on Thee." Now, with all this by …

Peter's Shortest Prayer

Matthew 14:30

… I have sinned against Heaven, and before You," and ask for His forgiveness, and His forgiveness you shall receive! Keep on praying in such a fashion as this …

Christ the Creator

Colossians 1:16

… in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins. And now Paul, having mentioned his Master's great work—redemption by blood and the …

Mistakes Concerning God

Psalm 1:21

… It is immediate salvation, instantaneous pardon that God delights to give! He speaks and it is done. He commands and it stands fast. There stands the sinner in …

Psalm 143

Psalm 143

… This is the voice that speaks pardon . Pardon is through Jesus the medium of this kindness. Apart from this there is no hope of forgiveness. We plead this …

To Souls In Agony

Psalm 116:3

… I am determined to get forgiveness or die on my knees." He cried and groaned and won the day! We should not have liked to have heard his …

The Turning Point

Luke 15:20

… If you were wise you would not give sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids, till you had found your God and been forgiven. Oh, when …

The Peacemaker

Matthew 5:9

… For your sake he shall be forgiven. I trust he will not do the like again." So the peacemaker always thinks that it is best for him, as …

The Unknown Giver and the Misused Gifts

Hosea 2:8

… alive, you are pardoned—can you pardon yourselves? From where can forgiveness come but from God? You have more than pardon if you are a child of God …

Prayer 12 — On Holy Ground

… Seal our pardon upon our consciences and make us feel that as we truly forgive them that trespass against us, so hast Thou forgiven us all our iniquities …

The Way of Salvation

Acts 4:12

… that my tears needed to be wept over, and that my very prayers needed God’s forgiveness. I discovered that I was seeking after salvation by the works …

The Blessings of Public Worship

Luke 18:10

… We should come as rebels craving pardon. We should come as pardoned ones still asking renewed tokens of forgiveness—as men, once washed, who still come, that their …

The One and the Many

Romans 5:16

… I have read that Queen Elizabeth was once asked to pardon a person who had made an attempt upon her life, but who had done it out of …

Intercession and Supplication

Jeremiah 14:22

… There is forgiveness—there is mercy—to be obtained from God through Jesus Christ. But He has not given to any man the power to forgive sins. He …

Good News for the Lost

Luke 19:10

… says, "I have come to pardon her, and to restore her, and she shall love Me much because much has been forgiven her!" There are other cases in …

Prayer 21 — Boldness at The Throne of Grace

… every believer here that full and free, that perfect and irreversible charter of forgiveness which Thou gavest to all them that put their trust in Jesus Christ. Lord …

Where to Find Fruit

Hosea 14:8

… Pray to be forgiven, but ask also to be sanctified. Sing with Toplady— “Let the water and the blood, From thy river side which flowed, Be of sin …

An All-important Question

John 9:35

… O my Master, enable these poor souls to trust in You! Father, call the prodigal home! Welcome him now! Give him the kiss of forgiveness now! Clothe him …

Beauty for Ashes

Isaiah 61:3

… When does that happen to us? Do you recollect when you first obtained a sense of forgiveness? How gloriously were you then arrayed! When the father said of …

A Warrant for Your Apprehension

Zephaniah 2:5

… It will never beg your pardon—you must beg its pardon, or, rather, seek forgiveness from the Lord whose Word is against you, and who is, Himself, also …

One War Over and Another Begun

Judges 6:22-24

… He does not take the trouble to show a man his sin and reveal to him his transgression, unless He means to pardon and save him. If the …

The Filling of Empty Vessels

2 Kings 4:3

… They that are sinful will come to Christ for pardon but they that think they are righteous never will." The full oil jar can hold no more. A …

Paul's Doxology

Ephesians 3:20

… He is able to give you great forgiveness for the greatest possible sin! Sins that you have not yet thought of, He can pardon! Do but come to …

Psalm 137

Psalm 137

… of pardon that gives its sweetest tones to the song of the Christian. But when a believer is in captivity he loses this sweet sense of forgiveness, and …

A Bold Challenge Justified

Romans 8:34

… as you are forgiven, what does anything else matter? Go to a man in Newgate, condemned to die, and take him a free pardon. Tell him that by …

The Old, Old Story

Romans 5:6

… Kilpin was once preaching a very good and earnest sermon, he used the word "Deity," and a sailor sitting down below leaned forward and said, "Beg your pardon …

The Honored Guest

Luke 19:6

… Jesus Christ comes to save— comes with pardon in His hands, with messages of love, with tokens of favor—yet most men bar the doors of their hearts …

A Word with those who Wait for Signs and Wonders

Luke 11:29

… What sign had he, I say? There does not appear to have been even an invitation sent, but he sought his father and he found forgiveness. Take another …

Seeking the Souls of Men

… When I told her that whosoever believeth on Jesus is perfectly forgiven, and that I knew I was forgiven, — that I was as sure of it as of …

Dangerous Lingering

Genesis 19:16

… ear of the Great Elder Brother, and sought pardon from your God through Christ your Savior. There is forgiveness, there is mercy to be had—to be had …

Good News For You

Luke 10:33

… He must not only forgive His enemies but they must be enemies of such an atrocious character that no man would have forgiven them— "Who is a pardoning …

Christ's Prayer for Peter

Luke 22:32

… And if there had not been, within his heart, faith that his Master could yet pardon and restore him, he might, in his despair, have done precisely what …

Christ's Crowning Glory

Psalm 21:5

… and trusting the great Sin-Bearer, you shall receive assurance of pardon. "Your sins are forgiven." 49, 50. And they that sat at meat with Him began to …