Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in images, song, and lyrics from Big Daddy Weave singing … Redeemed … powerfully singing of how, in Christ, we are fully redeemed and freed from our sins … FOREVER!
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Highlight Passage : … Psalm 130:7-8 [ESV] ... 7 O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption. 8 And He will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
… God’s promise in song of redemption for all the past sins of Israel.
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Highlight Passage [Context] : … Psalm 130 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… As God’s people ascended to Jerusalem annually for the Jewish festivals, as with Psalms 120-134, they would sing of their forgiveness, deliverance, and redemption by God.
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Reference Passage : … Micah 7:18-19 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s promise, thru Micah, of redemption for the remnant of those who fear and believe in God’s Messiah, casting their (our) sin into His “sea of forgetfulness” [see verse 19].
Reference Passage : … John 8:36 [ESV] … 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
… When Jesus sets us free from our past sins, we are free FOREVER.
Reference Passage : … Romans 8:1 [ESV] … 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
… God makes it clear that He does not condemn any who are fully surrendered to Christ for their (our) past sins.
Reference Passage : … Ephesians 1:7 [ESV] … 7 In him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, ...
… God, thru Paul, promises COMPLETE redemption and forgiveness for our past sins
Reference Passage : … 1John 1:9 [ESV] … 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness.
… When we confess (i.e., say and live in accordance with God word) our sins, God cleanses from ALL our sins.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Amy Boucher Pye, AT THIS LINK quotes Corrie Ten Boom about God’s complete forgiveness and redemption of our sins. Corrie said, “When we confess our sins, God casts them into the deepest ocean, … gone forever. . . . I believe God then places a sign out there that says No Fishing Allowed.” [see photo]
That concept - and ABSOLUTE TRUTH - is very important in my life personally and for Christian men who come to our ministry (SEE THIS LINK) seeking to walk free from past patterns of sexual sin. And as they confess their sins, they learn the truth of the scriptures of above … that God’s promise of eternal forgiveness and redemption is the REAL DEAL.
In Christ, as the Apostle Paul wrote to fellow Christians like us (see Rom 8:1), “There is NO CONDEMNATION!!” And when we realize and live under the truth of John 8:36 and 1John 1:9, the blood of Christ on the cross has cleansed us from all our sins … past, present, and future … i.e,. when we’re willing to confess and repent of them. And as Big Daddy Weave sings, … in Christ we are “REDEEMED.”
And today, I pray that all reading here know that our sins have been cast into God’s sea of forgetfulness.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for cleansing me and any born-again believer - of our sins.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me, to reach out and help any born-again Christian know that we have been set free from our sins in Christ … FOREVER! … Amen
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