Long's Chapel Christian Church

Is there a Limit on God’s forgiveness?

Read: Mt 12:31-32,1 Cor. 6:9-11

Did you ever ask yourself: Have I committed the unpardonable sin?

Can I be ever be free of the weight of this guilt? Will God forgive every sin? What about the unpardonable sin mentioned in Mt. 12?

This incident involved Jesus healing a demon possessed man, blind and mute, Jesus healed Him and the man, both spoke and saw. The Pharisees accused Jesus of casting out demons by Beelzebub, the

Ruler of darkness. Blasphemy is to speak evil of, and the Pharisees attributed the work of the Holy Spirit as evil, no forgiveness for

This sin. This sin had to do with Jesus and the miracle of the demon

Possessed man. Speaking evil against the Holy Spirit is not forgiven.

He is the one that brings conviction, without the Holy Spirit, no salvation, no eternal life, it is a refusal the accept Jesus Christ as Savior.. This happens to day when a person refuses the conviction,

Of righteousness and judgment by the Holy Spirit.

How about past sins? How terrible, how horrendous, how malicious, can God forgive for those, murder, rape, terrorists, yes the

Blood of Jesus cleanses from all sin! Notice the sins of the Corinthians, theses sins are a life style, not an occasional sin. This passage holds three great messages for us:

1. It tells us that sin is sin. God doesn’t differentiate between one types of sin and another, all is sin In the sight of God.

2. It tell us that sin is a lifestyle, a state of being: Paul declared that sin had been the identity of the Corinthians, sin has been there character, Paul called them former thieves, there lifestyle had changed, did not mean perfection, not perfect, but different, a new creation in Christ Jesus, a change had taken place through a new birth.

3. It tells us that all sin can be forgiven: Paul said you use to be sinners bur now you have changed, but such were some of you.

A refusal to except Christ as Savior is the only way a person can be lost, when a person accepts Christ as Savior, the blood of Jesus cleanses them from all sin, no more remembrance of our sins, God has forgiven us of all sins, past, present, and future!

Have you experienced God’s forgiveness!

All of these people at Corinth that Paul mentioned had accepted

Christ as personal Savior, all their sins were forgiven, cleansed, by the blood of Jesus. Have you received Jesus as your personal Savior?

Why not do it today?

Jesus is Wonderful!!!!

Isaiah 9:6

We must realize how wonderful Jesus is and how we can praise Him. Isaiah knew this several years before the birth of Jesus. He writes: "For unto us a child is born, and unto us a child is given; and the goverment shall be upon his shoulder; His name shall be called Wonderful Councelor, Mighty God, the Everlasting Father , the Prince of Peace". All these names describe our wonderful Jesus. He is the Son of God, born of a virgin and the word became flesh and dwells among us. The religious leaders of the day could not find any sin in His life. He was sinless and always did those things that honored His Father. He was wonderful in His practice and would go around doing good. He refused no one and was always ready to heal and to encourage. He was wonderful in His preaching. Preaching is so powerful that it produces faith in the ears of the hearer. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. With His preaching also came the teaching of great parables, and earthly story with a heavenly meaning. What the common people loved to hear is great orations of truth. They would come miles to hear and to see him. Jesus was wonderful in His priorities. He went down in Samaria to meet a woman at Jacob's well. Jesus knew this women was immoral, and living with men who were not her husband. Jesus knew she would come to the well at the hottest time of the day. Jesus met her there and she believed in Him. She left the well to tell others about the Messiah. Jesus ministered to many people of the day, such as Nicodemus, the ruler who was very religious but not spiritual. He needed to be born again.

Jesus was wonderful in His power. He had supreme power as he demonstrated on many occasions. He came to the disciples on the Sea of Galilee during a great storm. He rebuked the wind and the waves. The disciples said ; "what manner of man is this that the wind and sea obey Him?" What a man indeed! The demons were subject to Him and Satan was defeated in the wilderness as He tempted Jesus. Jesus was the powerful one.

He was wonderful in his plan. You see, Jesus came to seek and to save which was lost. Mankind was in trouble with sin and Jesus came to be the sin-bearer of the world. Jesus came to give his life for us all. He came as a lamb to the slaughter as a substitute for sin. He died for our sins that we would be justified by faith and have peace with God. He was wonderful in His ressurection. Jesus died on the cross but arose the third day. Death could not hold Him, nor the grave. What a Savior we have. This means that you and I who know Him will also have a glorious ressurection.

Jesus came into this world to show us what God is like, to die for our sins, and to offer us eternal life. As many as received him to them, he gave the right to become children of God to those who believe in His Name. Have you received Jesus as your personal Savior? Why not do it today and get ready for a glorious adventure of New Life!!!

Rev. James Baughn