DAVID A. MCMILLEN

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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.

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"JESUS FORGAVE ALL SIN" BY DAVID MCMILLEN

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By: DAVID A. MCMILLEN
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JESUS FORGAVE ALL SIN
 

I THINK THIS IS THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD MESSAGE I HAVE PUT OUT AND I DON'T SEE WHY.  ALL THAT I HAVE SAID IS IN GOD'S WORD.  HOWEVER, I AM GOING TO TRY TO PUT IT INTO A BETTER FRAME OF REFERENCE.  

 

WHEN YOU ARE WITNESSING TO NON-BELIEVERS, DO YOU EVER TELL THEM THAT ALL SIN HAS BEEN FORGIVEN?  A LOT OF PEOPLE START OFF BY TELLING THEM HOW MUCH OF A SINNER THEY ARE.  DON'T YOU THINK THAT THEY KNOW THIS.  THEY ARE NOT LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO TELL THEM HOW BAD THEY ARE, THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT.  SOME PEOPLE THINK THEY HAVE SINNED SO BAD THAT GOD WOULD NEVER FORGIVE THEM.  AT THIS POINT WE CAN TELL THEM THAT THEIR SINS HAVE ALREADY BEEN TAKEN CARE OF AND  ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS ACCEPT JESUS AND WHAT HE DID FOR THEM AND THEY WILL BE SAVED.













NOW LET ME TRY TO EXPLAIN.  I HAVE BEEN ASKED HOW JESUS COULD HAVE DIED FOR SINS THAT WE HAVE NOT YET COMMITTED.  DO THEY THINK HE IS GOING TO DIE EVERY TIME SOMEONE SINS?  THE BIBLE SAYS IN 1ST JOHN 2:2 THAT "And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only,  but also for the sins of the whole world ."  

 

THAT MEANS EVERYONE'S SINS, EVEN HITLER'S, HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN AND IF HE HAD ACCEPTED JESUS BEFORE HE DIED, YOU WILL SEE HIM IN HEAVEN.  PROPITIATION IS THE ACT OF APPEASING WRATH AND CONCILIATING THE FAVOR OF AN OFFENDED PERSON.  IN THEOLOGY, THE ATONEMENT OR ATONING SACRIFICE, OFFERED TO GOD TO ASSUAGE HIS WRATH AND RENDER HIM PROPITIOUS TO SINNERS.  JESUS IS THE PROPITIATION FOR THE SINS OF ALL MEN.



A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK THAT LUKE 2:13-14 (And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.)  MEANS THAT GOD BROUGHT PEACE AMONG MEN BUT WE KNOW THAT IS NOT TRUE.  JESUS, HIMSELF, SAID IN MATTHEW 10:34 THAT "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword."  

 

THE PEACE JESUS WAS TALKING ABOUT WAS PEACE BETWEEN GOD AND MAN.  WE DID NOT HAVE THAT PEACE BEFORE JESUS AND COULD NOT EVEN GO DIRECTLY TO GOD IN PRAYER BECAUSE OF OUR SINS.  JESUS TOOK CARE OF THAT FOR US AND IT TELLS US THIS IN EPHESIANS 2:13-14 WHERE IT SAYS "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us".



SO WHEN YOU ARE WITNESSING, TELL THE PERSON OF THE GREAT LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM AND HOW HE SHOWED THAT LOVE BY DYING ON THE CROSS FOR THEM TO FORGIVE THEM FOR THEIR SINS.  YOU MIGHT BE THE ONLY ONE THAT THEY WILL LISTEN TO SO DON'T LET THEM DOWN. 



GOD BLESS YOU ALL.





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