GOD’S UNCONDITIONAL FORGIVENESS FOR ALL BELIEVERS

It was sin that separated man from God. It was sin that brought death. It was sin that turned man against his Creator, man against man, and man against his environment. It was sin that made man love himself above God and declare war against the One who cherished him. Man has always tried to either rationalize his sin away or ignore it. Man refuses to see himself as evil. In his own mind and in his own way, man has become his own god, a god who is powerless to deal with his own sin. Great religions have been created by man, yet none of them deal with man's most basic problem of Sin.

As incomprehensible as it seems, God in one decisive moment in history, took man’s sin - the sins of the world - and put them upon His Son, Jesus. There on the Cross, the penalty of sin, death was removed, the power of sin is broken, and God’s righteousness was freely given to man. Consequently, as our Lord Jesus dealt once and for all with the issue of sin, so He also made possible the free gift of God’s forgiveness. At the Cross, forgiveness becomes not ours to seek but ours to possess!