Post on 14-Apr-2017
MEANING OF PARDON
• MEANING #1 an act of officially saying that someone who was judged to be guilty of a crime will be allowed to go free and will not be punished. : forgiveness for something.
• • MEANING #2
To allow (an offense or fault) to pass without • punishment or disfavor.
GUILTY, INNOCENT OR NOT GUILTY
• WE ARE GUILTY • ROMANS 3:23 “ For all have sinned, and come
short of the glory of God”• ROMANS 6:23 For the wages of sin is death;
but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
AT THE JUDGMENT, THE TRIAL IS OVER
• HEBREWS 9:27 “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:”
• II CORINTHIANS 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
APPLYING GOD’S TWO LAWS OF PARDON
• INNOCENT WHEN BORN• (MATTHEW 18:3), “EXCEPT YE BECOME AS LITTLE
CHILDREN”
• (EZEKIEL 18:20) “The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.”
APPLYING GOD’S TWO LAWS CONTINUED
• WHEN AND HOW DO WE BECOME GUILTY?• 1. BORN SAFE AND NEED NO SALVATION• 2. TODDLERS ARE NOT SINNERS NEED NO
SALVATION.• 3. WHEN A CHILD STARTS TO SCHOOL NEEDS• NO SALVATION• 4. WHEN GRADUATION COMES THERE IS
CONCERN
GOD’S FIRST LAW OF PARDON
• A. TO THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER KNOW HIM.1. HEAR, BELIEVE, REPENT, CONFESS, BE BAPTIZED(ROMANS 10:17, JOHN 3:16, ACTS 8:37, 38)
HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN THE TIME COMES?
• NO PARTICULAR AGE:• WHEN GUILTY OF SIN:• BAPTISM IS FOR REMISSION OF SINS: (ACTS 2:38)• DO YOU KNOW WHAT SIN IS?• HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY?• CAN YOU IDENTIFY SIN IN YOUR LIFE?
DO YOU UNDERSTAND JESUS?
• BORN OF A VIRGIN (MATTHEW 1:23)
• LIVED A SINLESS LIFE (HEBREWS 4:15)
• DIED AND RAISED FROM THE DEAD
• DO YOU BELIEVE THE ABOVE?
IF OLD ENOUGH TO BE BAPTIZED
• YOU ARE…• OLD ENOUGH TO LIVE THE CHRISTIAN LIFE• OLD ENOUGH TO SAY NO TO THINGS WRONG• OLD ENOUGH TO ACT LIKE A CHRISTIAN
DURING WORSHIP.• LISTEN TO THE SERMON, LISTEN TO THE
PRAYERS, THINK ABOUT THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS.
IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN BAPTIZEDYOU MUST BE PARDONED
• MARK 16:16 “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned”.
• BUT TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED…