- Birthdays: We've had 3 birthdays in our family to celebrate: our daughter-in-love, our grand-daughter, and my mom. Mom passed on two years ago in July 2013; I miss her. Gain and loss! Mourning and rejoicing!
- Half-birthdays: Yes! We celebrate them! We've had 3 of those, too: our daughter, our son, and our grand-daughter. Rejoicing!
- Anniversary: Thursday was the 2nd year anniversary of Papa Sikes' passing on; we miss him! Gain and loss! Mourning and rejoicing!
- Yesterday's death of our friend, Sam Holdeman: Gain! Loss! Mourning! Rejoicing!
- the forgiveness that HE gives us
- the forgiveness, HE wants us us to accept, so that we will be blessed and comforted
- the forgiveness HE expects us to offer to others
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In HIS Sermon on the Mount, JESUS says that we are blessed and comforted when we mourn. HE is speaking of:
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HIS gift is ready... it's the repentance HE's waiting for... It's a mark of our faith in HIM.
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IN LUKE 5 JESUS said,
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“It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
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HIS gift is ready... it's the repentance HE's waiting for... It's a mark of our faith in HIM.
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IN LUKE 5 JESUS said,
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“It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
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IN LUKE 17 Jesus said to His disciples,
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"Be on your guard!
If your brother sins, rebuke him;
and if he repents, forgive him.
And if he sins against you seven times a day,
and returns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’
forgive him.”
If your brother sins, rebuke him;
and if he repents, forgive him.
And if he sins against you seven times a day,
and returns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’
forgive him.”
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As I shared in my last post, as christians,
you and I are SINNERS, SAVED BY GRACE!
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Let's be willing to:
1) Mourn over our sins!
(That means grieve that we've disobeyed GOD!)
2) Repent of our sins!
(That means turn to JESUS and turn away from those sins!)
3) Accept JESUS' forgiveness and salvation extended in grace!
4) Be comforted that we are forgiven and saved children of GOD!
5) Not keep beating ourselves up by not forgiving ourselves!
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I leave you with this thought from Hebrews 10 to consider:
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"For by one sacrifice HE has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. The HOLY SPIRIT also testifies to us about this."
As I shared in my last post, as christians,
you and I are SINNERS, SAVED BY GRACE!
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Let's be willing to:
1) Mourn over our sins!
(That means grieve that we've disobeyed GOD!)
2) Repent of our sins!
(That means turn to JESUS and turn away from those sins!)
3) Accept JESUS' forgiveness and salvation extended in grace!
4) Be comforted that we are forgiven and saved children of GOD!
5) Not keep beating ourselves up by not forgiving ourselves!
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I leave you with this thought from Hebrews 10 to consider:
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"For by one sacrifice HE has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. The HOLY SPIRIT also testifies to us about this."
GIGATTAATTGIG!
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