Bible Gateway 9 - Forgiveness as a Bible Gateway

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Bible Gateway 9 - Forgiveness is a Bible Gateway
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Just as the Ten Commandments are NOT the Ten Suggestions ... God is serious about forgiveness.

People get hurt every day out in the world (sad.)

People get hurt every day in churches (tragic.)

You have to forgive others, and you have to forgive yourself.

To embrace the various Bible Gateways, there are certain principles you have to embrace through faith. God reveals what He wants revealed ... as we're able to embrace it.

He also keeps things hidden for reasons He calls His own.


Forgiveness is mentioned in the first Book of the Bible:

Genesis 50:16-18 NKJV:
16 So they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, “Before your father died he commanded, saying, 17 ‘Thus you shall say to Joseph: “I beg you, please forgive the trespass of your brothers and their sin; for they did evil to you.”’ Now, please, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 18 Then his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

(and 98 more times in the NKJV ... 47 in the Old Testament and 42 times in the New Testament)


Here's the first mention in the New Testament ...

Matthew 6: 11-13 NKJV:
11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. 13 And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.


Here's and the last time in the New Testament:

1 John 2:11-13:
11 But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. 12 I write to you, little children, Because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake. 13 I write to you, fathers, Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, Because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, Because you have known the Father.


So - it apprenty worked. Look at the verb tenses in 1 John above ... are forgiven (present) ... have known and have overcome (past.)

As I said at the onset of this post, there are certain principles you have to embrace through faith. If God mentions forgiveness 99 times, starting at the first Book of the Bible, do you think forgiveness is pretty important to Him?

It's another Bible Gateway.

God Bless you –
Chip Tarver
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