Thursday, April 19, 2018

To Love Is To Forgive.


Mat 6:14  For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: 
Mat 6:15  But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. 

Why won't God, our heavenly Father forgive us our sins if we don't forgive others their sins?

Because forgiveness is unconditional love, and if we don't have love we have nothing.

1Co 13:13  And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.  KJV
1Co 13:13  But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.  RV

1Co 13:2  And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.  RV

We need faith, hope, and love and the greatest is LOVE.

We can have the gift of prophecy, we can know all mysteries, we can have all knowledge, we can have fait to remove mountains-  but without LOVE we are NOTHING.

Our faith must be in the LOVE of our Savior- Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ the living definition of forgiveness.

We need to believe in Jesus Christ and that means having faith in our Savior and ALL He is. If our faith is simply in Jesus saving us we are lost, because it's so much more than that. We need to have faith in Jesus saving ALL who are lost, forgiving ALL who come to Him seeking forgiveness!  Jesus did not refuse forgiveness to any seeking forgiveness.

Why won't we be forgiven if we don't forgive? Because forgiving is love, forgiving is having faith in our Savior, a true faith that accepts forgiveness offered not only to us but to all. If we cannot love others, we cannot love our Savior.

Let us forgive, let us love, let us believe, all through Jesus Christ our LORD and SAVIOR, now and forever!!!!!!!

No comments: