THINGS I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS: FORGIVENESS
VARIOUS SCRIPTURES

THERE ARE A MENU OF THINGS WE WOULD LIKE FOR CHRISTMAS, BUT WHAT DO WE REALLY NEED AND FOR WHAT WERE WE BORN?

2 CORINTHIANS.9:15, "THANKS BE TO GOD FOR HIS INDESCRIBABLE GIFT."

*WE ALL NEED THE FORGIVENESS OF GOD.

   THE LAW OF GOD HAS BEEN VIOLATED BY EVERYONE OF US ...

   FORGIVENESS AND MERCY EMBRACE THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND THEIR NEED OF IT ...

*JESUS WAS BORN TO REMOVE OUR SINS,

   MATT.1:21, "... FOR IT IS HE WHO SHALL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS."
   JOHN 1:29, "... BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD."

   OUR SINS REQUIRE A SACRIFICE

   OLD TESTAMENT SACRIFICES WERE TEMPORARY ...
   HEBREWS 9:13-14; ROMANS 5:6

   WE CAN DO NOTHING TO CHANGE OUR CONDITION

*JESUS DIED TO SET US FREE,

   COLOSSIANS 2:13-14

   OBSERVATION #1, JESUS CANCELED OUR DEBT TO THE LAW ...

  OBSERVATION #2, OUR DEBT WAS TRANSFERRED TO JESUS ...

*JESUS REPRESENTS US TO THE FATHER RIGHT NOW,
I JOHN 2:2

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