God is Forgiveness
God is Forgiveness
(God is Forgiveness)
David Wilkerson
It’s a name by which God chooses to be known.
God himself said, “This is the way I want you to know me.”
God is forgiveness.
When Moses ask for revelation of His name and His glory,
This is the revelation He gave.
Exodus 34:6,7
The Lord God
(This is God speaking
God describing His nature)
Merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth,
keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin
“Moses, you want to know my name. This is my name. This is how I describe myself.
Here’s how I want you to know and understand me.”
“I’m merciful. I am a forgiving God. That is my nature. Call me the God of pardons,
the God of forgiveness of all iniquity, all transgression and all sin.”
Jesus Christ went to the cross and at the first drop of blood that fountain was open at the cross of Jesus.
Out of Calvary came that cleansing, sanctifying blood of Jesus Christ.
We are people today appropriating forgiveness of sin who have no desire, have no inner striving with the Holy Spirit about sin. They do not intend to give up their sins. But they have tried to appropriate the forgiveness of almighty God without allowing the Holy Ghost to complete His work of conviction.
When you really understand and discover the true forgiveness of God and where there’s true forgiveness you’re always going to find a love for Jesus growing. And you are going to find obedient people. They’re going to obey God. You will find a great devotion, a great love for Jesus, and ever-increasing love for Christ. If you don’t have that, you don’t understand forgiveness.
Let’s move on unfolding of this name God who forgives. Now His name was revealed in the Old Testament through animal sacrifices. There was one sacrifice most solemn among all the sacrifices, sin sacrifices, sin offering (in the Day of Atonement) in the Old Testament.
Go to the solemn assembly (Leviticus 16). Two goats were led to the door where the high priest waited. One of those goats were sacrificed on the altar. The other goat was the scapegoat. Many of you heard of the scapegoat. This was instituted by God. This is God explaining who He is. The high priest lays his hands on one of the goats.
Leviticus 16:21
And Aron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
And it gets to outside of camp, then over the hill and it’s just about over the hill. It’s about to disappear.
The Bible says it’s going to be taken to a land not inhabited. That means deep valley where is no escape so that the goat will never come back and hunt them. You will cast all their sins to sea never to be remembered again (Micah 7:19).
And that goat goes over the hill there would be a shout go up. “There go our sins.”
Folks, Jesus was both the lamb and He was the scapegoat. Both represent Jesus. His sacrifice and the taking of sins.
God forgets them when He forgives them. Whey are you holding on to them? Why do you remember them? Lay them down.
God’s call to repentance itself is proof that there’s forgiveness in His name. In other words, prescription of repentance is revelation of forgiveness. He said, “If you repent I will forgive. And then you repent, the very act of repentance infers or insists upon forgiveness.”
That’s the proof. No repentance is accepted by God if it’s not accompanied by faith in His forgiveness. Many of you’ve been convicted of sins. They’ve been troubled by the sins. They are sorry for committing them. They weep and they cry. They acknowledge sin. They even ask for deliverance. They make confession, even restitution, but never come into forgiveness.
Consider Judas. The Bible says of him He repented himself, next he cried out, “I have sinned.” (Mathew 27:4) He acknowledged sin. He named the sin.
“I have betrayed one innocent man. I am guilty of innocent blood. I am guilty. I have sinned. I repent …”
He made restitution. He bought again 30 pieces of silver, the Scripture says. (Matthew 27:5)
So why didn’t he find repentance? He didn’t find repentance because he believed his sin was too grievous to be forgiven. He couldn’t believe God was forgiveness. He couldn’t believe it. He couldn’t accept it.
The Bible says, Judas went out and hung himself (Matthew 27:5)
‘I have betrayed innocent blood. How could God forgive a man who betrayed Him? I betrayed the Son of living God. It’s too ugly… It’s too hopeless …’
And we have multitude in world today who have gone out and hung themselves in the tree of hopelessness. They hung themselves. They are still living, but they hung themselves. As far as forgiveness concerns, they believe there is no hope for them.
I don’t believe that God will give up on anybody. He said He is not willing that any should perish, none should perish. Your condition is not hopeless. Some of yo sitting here now saying, “Pastor David, if you only knew I’ve been through, if you only knew the things I do in secret, if you only knew how filthy my heart is, if you only knew what a blasphemy person I’ve been …”
It is not hopeless. There is forgiveness.
There is power of the Holy Ghost to deliver you just as written in the New Testament of ours. God’s given me new hope.
Don’t go out and give up!
That’s what the devil wants you to do saying there is no forgiveness for you.
There is forgiveness!
There is healing!
There’s power in the blood of Jesus Christ to deliver you!