God forgives sinners--part 1

Sinners are at enmity with God, Whose Name is ''Holy and Reverend'' [Psalm 111;9].

Now, I want to say, that as Omnipotence is the power of God's Attributes, Holiness is their beauty.
Holiness is self-affirming purity.
God's Omnipotence declares Him Mighty, and His Holiness declares Him Glorious. Just as The
Sun's loss of light would cause it, to lose its heat and quickening virtue, God's loss of Holiness would cause Him to lose His Quickening Power.

Sinners want God, to satisfy their lusts on Earth;
They would dethrone God, and degrade His Character.
Holiness is God's chief attribute, and it can never be attained by any man--[Who can equal God/]

Now, God's Love is important, but it is not His Fundamental Attribute. Love requires a standard, and its standard is Holiness.
God's love is regulated not by sentiment, but by Principle.

Grace reigns, not at the expense of Righteousness, but through Righteousness.
Romans 5;21--''That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ, our Lord.''
You see, God's Grace stems from His Love, and God's Love never conflicts with His Holiness.

God is The God of Order. There is order in The Godhead, in Salvation, in Service, and in the local church, and the home.
The Order in The Godhead is God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That Order does not imply The Father's Character is greater to those of The Son, or The Holy Spirit.
Order in The Godhead is revealed in Authority.

The Father so loved His Own Elect among sinners, that He sent His Son into The World--Jesus came.
The Lord Jesus Christ ascended after His Death, and Resurrection, and sent The Holy Spirit--
The Spirit came.
The One sent, was not less in Character, but in Authority.

The Father planned eternal salvation for the elect in Eternity Past;
The Son purchased The Elects' Salvation, when He died, on the cross;
The Holy Spirit applies The Salvation, that The Father planned, and The Son purchased, to the hearts, of The Elect, in Time.

There is Order also, in the application of Salvation, to The Elect.
First comes Regeneration, then Conversion.
Regeneration, which comes from God alone, occurs when The Holy Spirit enters the heart of A
Person, and gives him, a desire for Spiritual Things.
Regeneration is identical in every individual sinner, Conversion experiences vary.

There is Order also, in the true Conversion experience of a man, Who has been Regenerated,
We see that his mind, emotions and will, are affected.

His Regeneration by The Holy Spirit gives him a disposition for the things of God.
When such a person hears The Gospel, his mind is set into motion, he hears and understands.

In this way the intellectual part of man is engaged in a true conversion experience.
His God-given disposition enables him to recognize truth, when he hears it.
John 10;4-5-[Turn].

God's Forgiveness falls into 3 categories;
1. Everlasting Forgiveness
2. Restorative Forgiveness
3. Governmental Forgiveness