Sunday, February 8, 2009

What Wonderous Love!

The vilest offender who truly believes
That moment from Jesus a pardon receives

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord!
Let the earth hear his voice.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord!
Let the people rejoice.
Oh come to the Father through Jesus the son,
And give Him the glory great things he has done!

We sang this song in church this morning, and this verse really got to me. "The vilest offender"...it truly does not matter what someone has done. "Who truly belives" if someone believes in Jesus in their heart...TRULY..."that moment" instantly. "From Jesus a pardon receives" His debt is wiped away. Just like someone who is in jail and receives a pardon from the judge, so a sinner receives a pardon from Jesus. Jesus wipes the slate clean, and the sins are forgiven.

Praise the Lord!! God has done more for us than we could ever begin to understand or thank him for.

"And to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." Ephesians 3:19

We'll never fully understand God's love for us until we see Him in Heaven, but what we can understand here on earth is so capturing. Praise the Lord!!

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, a that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16
"This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins." 1 John 4:9-10
"We love him, because he first loved us." 1 John 4:19

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