GOD FORGIVES SINNERS--PART 2

To study God's Forgiveness, we must first examine The Biblical Concept of Sin;
Its Origin and Its Consequences.
A Person cannot fully appreciate forgiveness unless he knows Who has forgiven him, and of What he has been forgiven.

Now, I want you to notice carefully this first main point;
SIN DECREED BY THE FORGIVER

God DOES NOT have 2 Wills;
Job 23;13-''But he is in one mind, and who can turn him/ and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.''

There is in God's one will, a revealed and a concealed hemisphere;
Deuteronomy 29;29--''The secret things belong unto the LORD our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever; that we may do all the words of this law.''
God has seen fit, not to reveal His Complete Will to men.
He reveals only what is needed by Man, while they are Pilgrims on The Earth.

When the saints stand before the Lord, in their new bodies, they shall learn more about The Mysteries, associated with The Godhead.
There, they shall understand Predestination, Imputation, and every Bible Doctrine.
Throughout the ceaseless ages of Eternity, The LORD will continue to reveal, unto His Own,
The Exceeding Riches of His Grace.

But Now, we can't know, or, see, all of God''s Will.
God's Will can be compared to a sphere.
One can only see part of a sphere, at a time.

We can only see one side of The Moon.
The same is true, with The Sun and Earth.

Truth is like A Sphere.
No One sees, or knows, All The Truth.

Men are responsible to know and obey the revealed part of Truth, but, they are not responsible, for that which is concealed.

God is Omniscient;
His Understanding is Infinite;
Psalm 147;5--''Great is our LORD, and of great power; his understanding is infinite,''
God's Will, or, Purpose, or, Decree, is one sphere.
God's Decree to permit Sin, was included, in the secret part of His Will.
But Man's Sin, in a sense, was necessary to God's Purpose in Christ.
God did allow Sin, but that, DOES NOT make Him, Its Author.

Now, Get This Truth; YOU CANNOT BELIEVE THAT, GOD IS SOVEREIGN, WITHOUT ALSO BELIEVING, THAT HE ALLOWED SIN.
You see, If God had not allowed Adam's Fall, It could not have occurred.

He also purposed that, Jesus Christ should come, and die for sin.
The Lord Jesus Christ is The Lamb, that was slain, from The Foundation of The World--
Revelation 13;8--''And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world.''
Jesus Christ died for the sins of The Elect, according to The Purpose of God.

God created Man, Upright. Adam had no sin within, but he was capable of sinning.
His uprightness was finite.
Ecclesiastes 7;29--''Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought many inventions.''

Now, the apparent inconsistency of God decreeing Sin, yet not being The Author of Sin, is
explained, when one realizes that, God's Purpose, is not The Originating Cause of Man's Sin.

Since God created Man, in His Own Image, and after His Likeness, Sin could not have been a part of Man's Nature. If Sin had been a part, Adam as a being, didn't have God, as his Author.

Since Sin came into the world, It has become The Motive, for all thoughts and actions of Men.
The Bible describes Man's Condition as Personal--Each individual is responsible for his own sin-
Hosea 7;2--''. . .their own doings have beset them about.'' Sin is Personal, and blame for it, cannot be shifted to Parents, Environment, or anything, but One's Self.
Sin proceeds from within individual hearts--Mark 7;21-23--[Turn].

Man needs to be reconciled to God--Reconciliation is The Act of God--
2 Corinthians 5;19--''To wit, God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.''
THE NECESSITY for Reconciliation attests Man's Guilt before God.

Jesus Christ became The Surety for The Elect.
The Elect become reconciled to God, through His Son, and God, in His Grace, forgives them for their sins.

The LORD controls every move and heartbeat, on Earth--
Acts 17;28A--''For in him we live, and move, and have our being;''

God allows Man, to commit sin, but, HE DOES NOT CO-OPERATE in The Evil, committed by any person;
He only allows it.

All things work according to God's Plan;
Providence is God's Plan in execution.
The Lord is working out, His Own Purpose in Time, for The Believer's Good, and God's Own
Glory.

Now, the fact that all things work according to God's Pleasure, is frequently misunderstood.
We see many, who appear to be masters of their own conduct, acting by their knowledge and choice.
They are governed, sometimes by principle, sometimes by example, sometimes by pride,
and sometimes, by peer pressure.

Since Man cannot distinguish The First Cause from The Subordinate Issue, The Chief Agent from The Instrument, The Creator's Perfection from The Creature's Weakness, they attribute Man's
Action to himself, without acknowledging that, God presides over All.

Wicked Governments and Rulers have risen, and shall rise;
Yet God is on the throne, governing everything;
Revelation 17;17--''For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his word, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.''
Although Sin is very Real, God is actively governing The World.

God did not just create The Heavens and The Earth, and then step back, to watch The World run by The Laws of Nature, that He instituted.
God is not A Balcony Observer, sitting on the sidelines, waiting to see, What will happen.
But God, actively and in sovereignty, governs The World--
Proverbs 21;1--''The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water; he turneth it whithersoever he will.''

Kings are ruled and overruled by Him--
Ecclesiastes 5;6--''If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for he that is highest than the highest regardeth; and there is higher than they.''