Embracing God's Forgiveness: Hope and Transformation

Then did God Arise when the worst had come to the worst he laid bare his arm and brought Deliverance for his people, is not this a general rule with God is it not a truth fraught with Comfort to any of you whose day has darken down into a Sevenfold midnight when nothing else is left you God remains and God Appears when all your own strength fails you your strength shall be to sit still while God arises and becomes your arm every morning your salvation in the time of trouble. [00:54:32]

The great result of God's gracious dealings with his afflicted people is that they glorify his holy name observe how in this chapter God Is Spoken of as being exalted for he dwelleth on high he is called The Glorious Lord truly our Lord never appear more glorious than in the eyes of those who are brought low and humbled in their own esteem their distresses out of which they are graciously delivered call upon them to exalt their savior they hear a voice saying oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wife wonderful Works to the children of men. [02:50:56]

There must be a present conscious enjoyable pardon of sin else there would be no joy in the world for thoughtful Minds to the Thoughtless and careless there might be a flash in the pan a noisy mirth as the crackling of thorns under a pot but to the penitent to the serious to the careful where could there be a spark of Joy if sin were Unforgiven when we once begin to feel what sin is to discern its true nature and to understand the just punishment which must follow upon it we cannot rest under its condemnation. [07:50:68]

Forgiveness begets gratitude gratitude creates love and love brings forth Holiness she that wash the savior's feet with tears and wipe them with the hairs of her head would she have done it if she had not loved much because she felt that much had been forgiven her the Motive Power of action to a believing Man Lies hard by the realization that God for Christ's sake ha forgiven his iniquities when I see my Lord his own self bearing my sins in his own body on the tree and blotting out my faults Forever by his death then my spirit glows with love. [10:42:76]

There must be a consciousness of forgiveness or our lies will be limp we weak purposeless it must be so that sin can be pardoned and that we can know it else we should be always in bondage through fear of death in what Jeopardy should we stand every hour since we might at once sink into hell the prospect of death how terrible would it be to us if sin still accused us unto God many of us now contemplate the approach of death with a calm quiet patient of Hope as our years Advance we are not distressed with the thought that the time of our departure draws daily nearer. [12:46:83]

There is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared there is a city whose inhabitants are forgiven their iniquities blessed be the Lord who passeth by the trespasses of his people once more there must be forgiveness for else the whole system of Grace would be a dead letter and its glorious privileges would be mere shells without a kernel where would be salvation itself without pardon how could we be saved from our sins if not forgiven what glorious gospel could there be if sin could not be cancelled. [15:36:60]

God grants pardon when men are humbled see the seventh verse their Valiant ones shall cry without the ambassadors of Peace shall weep bitterly crying and weeping are good preparations for pardon in the dust of self-abasement is the place for Hope Jeremiah saith of The Afflicted he putteth his mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope God never pardons the proud he knows them a far off and has enough of them at a distance with the humble and contrite he dwells delighting to hear them honor his Lord by bemoaning their breaches of it. [20:45:48]

When we begin to examine ourselves to fear because of sin and to turn from all hypocrisy then the Lord will accept us there must be a laying aside of all insincerity a dealing with God in truth before the gracious God can put away our iniquity sincerity is is indispensable to Mercy how can the Lord be other than a devouring fire to Hypocrites God will also pardon us when he is acknowledged to be our ruler and Lord look at the 22nd verse the Lord is our judge the Lord is our lawgiver the Lord is our King. [22:30:64]

The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil he shall preserve thy Soul the Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in in answer to your morning prayer lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil you shall be preserved ER D in Purity and uprightness and from all the devices of the devil for that evil one toucheth you not here again is another point the inhabitant could not say I am sick and yet the Assyrians died in a single night they laid themselves down to Slumber in their tents expecting speedily to divide the spoil. [36:41:04]

The joy of Pardon makes us ignore the sorrow of the past Thou shalt not remember the reproach of thy Widow hood anymore since their enemies were all gone the citizens of Jerusalem rejoiced in their safety and said nothing about what they had suffered many of the sick quitted their couches crowded the battlements and looked out with pleasure towards the quarter where the foe had been the Assyrian power was broken the great king had fled the men of Jerusalem forgot they had been half starved and that the plague had been among them. [41:50:13]

When the Lord pardons our sin the weakest the feeblest the most despondent the most Des sparing Among Us will not say we are sick but our souls shall magnify the Lord pardon impels us to duty and stimulates us to praise we no longer mourn and murmur but we sing because the might of the enemy has melted like snow in the glance of the Lord yet once again and I have done pardoned people shall not say they are sick for by a little anticipation they shall declare the very contrary in a little time how little a Time none of us can tell. [45:31:36]

We are on our way to Eternal Health we have the life within us which is to be perfect forever and ever why should we then say I am sick if a man could be quite sure that he would be in perfect health tomorrow he would say little about the sickness of an hour a blind man who will see tomorrow hardly numbers himself with the blind before another Sabbath comes round some of you may be with the angels yay before tomorrow Sun shall rise you may be where they need no candle neither light of the sun happy men to be so nearly well. [47:24:44]