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If you want to glorify Christ in your dying, you must experience death as gain. Which means Christ must be your prize, your treasure, your joy. He must be a satisfaction so deep that when death rakes away everything you love – but gives you more of Christ – you count it gain. When you are satisfied with Christ in dying, He is gloried in your dying.
John Piper

Conversion occurs when sinners turn to God in repentance and faith for salvation. Paul describes the conversion of the Thessalonians, “For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God” (1 Thes. 1:9). Sinners are converted when they repent of their sins and turn in faith to Jesus Christ, trusting in him for the forgiveness of their sins on the Day of Judgment.
Thomas Schreiner

    • Forgiveness

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    Forgiveness

    From: Jimmy Woolford
    Subject: Forgiveness

    I think the list of what the word forgiveness encompasses is worth our taking another look at in our daily lives.

    What forgiveness ISN’T:
    1. Approval
    2. Treansference of responsibility
    3. Excusing
    4. Saying the offense is of no importance 5. Saying you are of no importance
    6. Commitment to relate in the future
    7. It is not ceasing to being appalled that it happened 8. It is automatically forgotten
    9. That it wasn’t painful and still hurts 10. Does not have its consequences
    11. It was okay to God that it happened 12. You aren’t justified in being very angry 13. That you shouldn’t tell the other how angry you are 14. That you’ll feel better about the event or feel better period

    What forgiveness DOES encompass:
    1. Our sinfulness
    2. Our need for forgiveness
    3. Our forgiven-ness
    4. That unforgiveness provides a gateway to the demonic 5. That vengeance is the Lord’s
    6. Need to focus upon the Lord and His faithfulness 7. Need to live today
    8. Relinquish wrath toward the person
    9. Give up hate – (desire to hurt/kill the person) 10. You will know you’ve done what God has asked you to do 11. Transfers what happens next to God
    12. Releases supernatural healing power – the more awful the offense the

    more we need this
    13. Will decrease self condemnation
    14. Releases thankfulness so you can live with the conscious knowledge of God’s protection and love

    I hope that this helps someone as much as it has me. The words come easy, but the faith and beliefs behind them are the heart of the matter.

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