The Howe Enterprise (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1964 Page: 2 of 4
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The Howe Enterprise
THIS WEEK’S SERMONETTE
THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS
By Claude Cone, Pastor
First Baptist Church
This sermon is for sinners only. If there
is any reader with no uneasy stirrings of
conscience about his attitude toward anything
or his relationship with anybody, this sermon
in not for him. We are going to talk about
the forgiveness of sins. But wait a minute!
Before you turn to see what’s on the back
page of this paper, let’s make sure you kn-'*w
what we mean by “sin.” So often we use
that word we have in the background of our
minds a spicific list of gross iniquities-mur-
der, robbery, adultery, drunkenness. Those
plainly are sins. But before any of us endea-
vor to avoid our share in the need of forgive-
ness, let us add at least two more categories
to that carnal list. How about the sins of
temperment—sullenness, peevishness, jealousy
and bad temper. How much more prevelent
they are; how much more harm they do;
how much more hidden evil they reveal than,
even passionate sins? In Jesus’ great parable,
the prodigal represents sins of passion, and,
runious as they are, he did come home again.
But the elder brother represents sins of tem-
per. With the prodigal home, the house alight
music playing, it is written of the elder bro-
ther that “he was angry, and would not go
in.” Bad temper, sullen, envious, bitter—that
as Jesus saw, keeps some people from the
Father’s house more hopelessly than sins of
passion do.
If anyone seeks to avoid his share in the
need of forgiveness, let him add also sins of
neglect. It is not alone the things we do; it
is the things we leave undone that haunt us
--the words we did not speak, the sick we did
- not visit, the opportunity we did not take.
How insistently Jesus stressed the blackness
of this type of evil! What was the matter
(With the man who hid his one talent in the
ground? What did he do? What was the
trouble? He did nothing. He missed his
chance. What was the trouble with the
priest and the Levite who left the victim on
the road? What did they do? What was the
difficulty ? They did nothing. They went by
on the other side.
Sins of the flesh, sins of temper, sins of
neglect—there must be others, but this ought
to take in most of us. We realize what Paul
meant when he said, “All have sinned and
come short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23).
We are all sinners. God hates sin. God
does not hate the sinner but He hates sin.
Our chief relation in life is our relation with
God. This is the most important thing about
all of us. If we are wrong with God every-
thing else is wrong. In essence it isn’t the
main thing in life to have a body free of
disease. The main thng is to have a soul free
of the disease of sin. This makes us right
with God.
We are directly and individually responsi-
ble to God. He created us. He created us in
His own image. He breathed into us the
breath of life. He sustains us. He provides
the air we breathe, the water we drink, the
bread we eat. Because we are God’s creation
We are' directly responsible to Him. This is
true whether we want to accept it or not.
We are going to face Him some day and
give an account of this life. WTe will answer
to Him even if we don’t want to. The need of
being in the right relation with God is then
double important. We need to be right with
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God today so we can have the glory of His
presence in our lives. We need to be right
today so we can be ready to stand in His
presence tomorrow. If life comes to a close on
us, or if time itself comes to a close. The apex
of a man’s life is his relationship to God.
Since it is a certainty that we must all
stand before God, how important it is that
we stand with our sins forgiven. We all quirk-
ly ask, “How can I have my sins forgiven?”
The question receives an immediate answer.
The forgiveness of sins is something that only
God can do. Forgiveness is an exclusively
divine act. Only God can wash our souls and
make them white as snow. Only God can for-
give sins. Only God has all power. Only God
can perform the operation on the soul that
takes out the cancer of sin. All sin is against
God. Every sin, large or small, open or secret,
done or undone is directly against God. Only
the one offended can forgive. All our sin
offends God. Only God can forgive our sin.
All the right living, giving, or resolutions in
this world cannot begin to forgive sin. All
the apologizes to wife, mother, neighbor,
children or preacher can cause your sins to
be forgiven.. Forgiveness of sin begins with
God. It is Him we have sinned against first
and foremost.
The forgiveness of sins is a reality when
you trust Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.
The forgiveness of sins begins at the foot of
the cross. Jesus spent His ministry seeking
sinners. To a precious woman He said, “Nei-
ther do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.”
To the thief on the cross, He said, “Today
shalt thou be with me in paradise.” Zaach -
aeus, a cheating, sneaky, little thief found
forgiveness. A woman with five husbands, a
good present day movie star, found forgive-
ness.
Peter was right when he said of Jesus,
“Him hath God exalted with, His right hand
to be a Prince and Saviour, for to give repent-
ance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins” (Acts
5:31). Paul must have been trembling with
the power of His presence when he wrote,
“In whom we have redemption through His
blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to
the riches of His grace” (Ephesians 1:7).
John gave us one of the greatest promises
in God’s Word when he wrote, “If we confess
our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us
our sins, and to cleanse us from all unright-
eousness” (1 John 1:9). In the seventh verse
of £his chapter, John tells us “The blood of
Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all
sin.”
We can know if our sins are forgiven and
We are ready to stand before God. We can
know because we can know if we have asked
Jesus to forgive us of our sins and be our
Saviour. Have you asked Him? Are your sins
forgiven? If your sins are forgiven then you
should sing with the Psalmist, “Blessed, is he
whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin-
is covered.”
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