What Does it Mean to Have Your Sins Forgiven?

What does it mean to have your sins forgiven?

Well, we first have to understand what sin is. Sin is when we break God's law and that is punishable by an eternal death.

It is appointed unto man once to die and then a judgment, and when we find that we sit at that judgment,

God will judge us based on His law. If we've broken His law, that is what a sin is.

It means to miss the mark. So to be forgiven means that we are forgiven of the crimes that we've committed against Him.

That means that though we deserve rightly an eternity in a lake of fire, now that might seem like a lot.

Why do we deserve that? Because God is infinite and therefore when we break His law, it has an infinite consequence.

And so that forgiveness can only be paid by an eternal being because it has an eternal consequence.

So God alone can pay the forgiveness of sins. But what did it take? Well, He has to suffer that consequence.

So when Jesus Christ went to the cross, He suffered an eternal consequence for the sins that I committed.

Therefore I can be forgiven. This is something that only God can do, and we see that in Mark chapter 2 when

Jesus says to the paralytic man, your sins are forgiven. And the

Jews are outraged because they realize only God can forgive sins. Forgiveness of sins means to be set free of the consequence.

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