RESTORATIVE FORGIVENESS-3

Romans 5;6-10--[Turn]. In Verse 10, both EVERLASTING and RESTORATIVE FORGIVENESS are
taught.
NOW, I want to say that Everlasting Forgiveness MUST BE ASSOCIATED with RECONCILIATION.
The Person,who has been everlastingly forgiven, has been reconciled to The Father,
and saved by Christ's Life.
THE SINNER IS FORGIVEN IN JUSTIFICATION.
THE SAINT IS FORGIVEN IN SANCTIFICATION.

Sin cannot make its way in to God's Presence. Jesus Christ prevents THAT.
If it were possible, for a person's sin to enter God's Presence, that person would be banished in judgment.
Sin does make way into the believer's presence, causing him, to lose fellowship with
The LORD,and severing The Joy of his Salvation.

Enjoyment of the things of The Lord is experienced through Restorative
Forgiveness.

Sins in the saint's life, AFFECTS HIS THOUGHTS, about God and Sin. He begins to look
lightly upon sin, and loses sight of God's Holiness.

Now, Get this truth; REAL CHRISTIANS DESIRE NOT TO SIN. . . When they do sin, they
should avoid despair,for Jesus Christ is their Advocate--GALATIANS 6;1--[Turn].

They are kept safe by Christ's Advocacy, and are kept in fellowship by
confession.

A believer's failure to confess sin HINDERS The Testimony of both The Christian, and
the local Church--
Proverbs 28;13--''he that covereth his sins shall not prosper; but whoso
confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.''

Nothing can hinder A Christian's Standing in The LORD;
His State, however, is imperfect.

He should pray with profound sincerity, that The Lord forgive his trespasses.
He needs to reflect on his abiding need for cleansing from all sin, by Christ's Blood.

Jesus Christ cleanses the believer from all sin. Not one of a believer's sins can
enter God's Presence;
Jesus Christ is There, pleading His own merit.

Satan stands at the believer's side. He does his work at The Court of Conscience, at
The Bar of public opinion.
However, he also APPEARS before The Divine Judge.

THE BELIEVER'S ADVOCATE requits Satan, alleges God's Election, AND POINTS TO THE
BELIEVER, AS A TROPHY OF GOD'S MERCY.
EVERY TIME A CHRISTIAN SINS, CHRIST'S BLOOD IS THERE, TO CLEANSE HIM.

Conversely, the sins of the lost are credited to their accounts. All the sins they commit, are treasured up for punishment--
Romans 2;5--''But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.''

''after thy hardness''--According to your hardness will God's Judgment be.
''and impenitent heart''--your unconstructed heart with no change of attitude.
''treasurest up for thyself wrath''--for the Jews, as already sated for the GGentiles [1;18].

There is a revelation of God's Wrath for both, on The Day of Wrath, and Righteous
Judgment, which Paul looks to, as a certainty.


When unbelievers stand before The Lord, at The Great White Throne Judgment, all their
sins will be reviewed, and judged by The Wrath of God.
REVELATION 20;11-15--TURN
Verse 11--''A Great White Thhrone''--Here, the scene is prepared for the last judgment, mentioned in the Bible.
The absolute purity of The Supreme Court of Heaven of The Universe is symbolized by the color of the THRONE.
Daniel 7;9--''I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and The Ancient of Days did
sit, whose garment was as white as snow; and the hair of his head like the pure wool;
his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.''

The Name of God is not mentioned, but The Almighty Father sits on the Throne--
Revelation 4;2,9;5;1,7,13--[Turn].
6;16--''And said to the mountains and rocks, Fallon us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.''
7;10, 15--''And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth
upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and
serve him day and night in his temple; and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.''
19;4--''And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped
God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.''
21;5--''And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all thongs new. And he said unto me, Write; for these words are true and faithful.''

The Son sits There, with The FATHER--Hebrews 1;3-[turn].

The Son works with The Father--John 5;19-21--[TURN].
Acts 17;31--''Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in
righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto
all men; in that he hath raised him from the dead.''
I Timothy 4;1--''I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge
the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom.''

''From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away.'' The non-eternity of
matter is commonly taught in The Old Testament
Psalm 97;5--''The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.''
Psalm 102;27--''But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.''
Isaiah 51;6--[TURN].

It is also taught in the New Testament--
MARK 13;31--''Heaven and Earth shall pass away; but my words shall not pass away.''
2 PETER 3;10--''But the Day of the LORD shall come as a thief in the night; in the which the heaven shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.''

''WAS FOUND''--All now is Spiritual.

VERSE 12-[read].
''The Dead, The Great, and The Small''
The Ressurrection of The Damned in Verse 13 is pictured by anticipation as already
over.
No living are mentioned, after the battle of verses 7-10, though some will be living
when Jesus comes to judge The Quick and The Dead--II TIMOTHY 4;1--[TURN].

All classes and conditions John saw ''standing before the throne''--REVELATION 11;18
[TURN].
REVELATION 13;16--''And he caused all both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark, or the name of the Beast, or the number of his name.''

19;5,18--''And a voice camme out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his
servants; and ye that fear him, both small and great. . .That ye may eat the flesh of
kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond,
both small and great.''

''Books were opened''--The record of each human being has been kept, in God''s Books.
''were judged''--The sentence upon each, rests upon written evidence.
''Another book which is The Book of Life''--This Book, has already been mentioned in
3;5; 13;8 and 17;8.
It is the roll of the living citizens of New Jerusalem, The Church of The Firstborn in
Heaven--HEBREWS 12;23--[TURN].

We are saved by grace; works demonstrate we lack absolute righteousness of God, and
need Jesus' Work.

VERSE 13--[READ]
''gave up''-The Earth gave up the lost dead; The Sea gave up fallen angels.
''Death and Hell''--An inseparable Pair
1;18--''I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore,
Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.''
6;8a--''And I looked, and behold a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was
Death, and Hell followed him.''
20;14--''And Death and Hell were cast into The LAKE OF FIRE, This is The Second
Death.''
The Gates of Hell in MATTHEW 16;18 refers to THE POWER OF DEATH.

VERSE 14--[READ]
''were cast''--As The Devil [20;10] followed Beast and False Prophet [19;;20] into
The Lake of Fire.

Death is personified and disposed of, ''The Last Enemy'' [1 Corinthians 15;26].
Paul sings the victory over death--1 Corinthiians 15;54 Quote from Hosea 13;14--[Turn].

HELL HAS NO MORE TERROR, for The Saints are in Heaven.
There is no more fear of death, for it is no more--Hebrews 2;15;Revelation 21;4-
[TURN].

VERSE 15-[READ]--The Doom is told for all out of Christ-Lake of Fire-MATTHEW 5;22-
[TURN].

2 THESSALONIANS 1;7--[TURN]
''rest with us''--Let up, release from troubles here. 2 CORINTHIANS 2;13; 7;;5;
8;13--[TURN]. They shared sufferiing with Paul, and will share the rest.
''at the revelation of The Lord Jesus''--Revelation=unveiling of The Messiah. At
this unveiling there will come The Recompence [V. 6] to The Persecutors, and The Rest
from the persecutions.
This Revelation will be from Heaven, as to place, and with the angels of His Power, and in FLAMING FIRE, in a fire of flame.

VERSE 8-[READ]
''rendering'''= to give
''vengeance''= to vindicate those knowing God.

VERSE 9--Eternal Destruction is eternal separation from The Face of The Lord, and
from The Glory of Hiis Might.

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