Jesus said much love forgives sins:
Luk 7:47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much.
And asking forgive sins
in the Lord's Prayer we are told to ask the father to forgive our sins.
Luk 11:4 And forgive us our sins.
And forgiving others forgives sins
Mat 6:14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
In fact if you don't forgive others, no amount of faith, or blood can forgive your sins.
Mat 6:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Repentance is part of it
Luk 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Repentance means you go to those whom you have offended and try to make things right.
Mat 5:24 first be reconciled to thy brother.
Two things that Jesus specifically told his disciples to preach were repentance and how to remove sins.
Luk 24:47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Do you see any blood so far? Nor do I, but Jesus made one comment at the last supper that has been misunderstood. People have mistaken the finger pointing for the thing pointed at. He held up a cup of (juice/wine) and to paraphrase said the contents of this cup is my blood.
So he is not talking about his blood, but the juice/wine. What is the juice/wine of Jesus? His teaching, his words, his logos, his wisdom. We learn how to remove our sins by doing what he said above.
Wisdom said Pro 9:5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. The blood of Jesus is wisdom. He was never talking about red and white corpuscles.
It is in obeying his words that we remove our own sins. Can we take credit for it? Of course not. We were only doing what our savior told us to do.
Friday, April 18, 2008
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About Me
- Robert Roberg
- Gainesville, Florida, United States
- I want to do a Gospel walking tour up to Alaska, over the Bearing Staits into Russia, drop down to China, and proceed west towards Europe.
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