June 26 – Conditional Forgiveness. Psalm 103:12; “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.”
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This verse denotes the largest measure of grace available to us. Barnes’ Notes on the Bible has stayed on my mind, and brought comfort to me many times already.
It says God has put our sins far from us, and now we are ‘safe’. What an awesome God we have! What a tremendous load has been taken from this weary soul!
If you do nothing else today, please, be sure you share this with yourself. Take it, and let God’s mercy soak into your being. You’ll be a better witness for Him when you share this beautiful news with the Mormon you know.
It’ll be an almost impossible situation to think upon for the Mormon when they’ve been told forgiveness is dependent upon their obedience and compliance to the ordinances and laws of their gospel. The lie they’ve been told is as far from truth, as the Christian’s sin is with God’s forgiveness.
Also remember King David’s cry in Psalm 3. If we fret ourselves all the time, we’ll never be able to accept what it says in vs. 3; ‘…Thou o Lord art a shield for me, my glory, and the lifter of up of mine head.’
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Articles of Faith, p. 90; “…personal sins. As these sins are the result of individual acts, it is just that forgiveness for them should be conditioned on individual compliance with prescribed requirements,–“obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel.” – James Talmage
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