 Welcome to all my God ministries. I am your host Reverend Anita Morris And I won't be before you long, but this is a significant week It is the week of holy week and also on good Friday Sometimes we say it's good Friday, but it's not so good when we know that an innocent man Fully man fully God who was crucified buried for our sins who was giving a A totally devastation of horrific death And so it's hard to grasp that something devastation Just like what you can think about the devastation of fires devastation of shootings that has happened in recent years of Celebration of this holy week of such Forgiveness given to humanity and which rock our hearts rock our world So just think of the goodness of Jesus and the totality of his Blood shed for you in the forgiveness of your sins our sins the sins up for all So let us pray heavenly father. We thank you. We thank you for giving up your son for us all There's not an easy thing when a father can give up a son for the entire saving of the world and this is not a myth this is our faith that we have received and we have accepted by an act of our own belief and That that faith is proven and tested as we walk our daily lives and as Jesus spoke to a lot of Witnesses when he walked the earth and said too many of those Souls that were being saved souls that were being restored souls that were being healed saying your foot your faith has healed you and also There's forgiveness of your sins So I want to thank you Lord most of all for the faith that you have given me to believe to have forgiveness of sins and to also to thank you for healing our nations healing our Families healing our infirmities and all of those things that you have done That we don't take note every day We thank you. I thank you and all these things. I give you And Jesus mighty name. Thank God Amen, so I made a little note here and The title of this message today is forgiving is the greatest of the passionate acts of Jesus forgiving or forgiveness of sins or forgiving is The greatest of The passionate acts you can look at that within yourself. You can look at the when we look at the gospel of Luke and We will read from the gospel of Luke chapter 23 Verse 38 through 54 Gospel of Luke 23 38 through 54 And this is again to recognize the passionate week of Jesus as we embark on Easter Sunday, we call it Resurrection Sunday as we approach Good Friday and also go into Resurrection Sunday in celebration, but right now it's the Grimification that surrounded The death of our Christ our Lord and Savior Luke 23 verse 38 through 54 And it reads for there was also an inscription above him, which is Christ In the letters of Greek and Latin in Hebrew This is the king of the Jews One of the criminals who was suspended Kept up railing at him saying are you not the Christ the Messiah Rescue yourself and us from death Isn't that mindful of many when they know that you have been sent? But they refuse and reject your your calling reject the forgiveness of sins but they see you suffering and They mock you and say save yourself and this what was happening to Jesus right on the cross But the other one who was on the cross also Another insurrectionist who was with Jesus in the other person He said the other one proved him saying Do you not even fear God because he was mocking Christ Jesus our God in Christ Jesus Says do you not even fear God seeing you yourself are under the same sentence of condemnation and Suffering the same penalty although our Christ our Lord was not in insurrection was not a criminal but Had to die a criminal's death and so This person who was edifying Christ and saying you should not have done that and It says we indeed suffer he continued to say We indeed suffer it justly receiving the due reward of our actions So he admitted that this is was the consequences of our sins of our own actions But this man who was Christ has done nothing out of the way nothing strange eccentric or perverse or unreasonable Then he said to Jesus Lord remember Zakaar in Hebrew means remember Zakaar remember me when you come in Your kingly glory and he answered him Jesus answered him Truly I tell you today You shall be with me in paradise Isn't that remarkable the forgiveness right instantly today? You will be with me in paradise It was a now about the sixth hour midday and darkness enveloped the whole land and earth until the ninth hour about three o'clock in the afternoon Being supposed to be as bright as ever at that time was all filled with darkness and Jesus crying out with a loud voice said father Into your hands I commit my spirit and with these words he expired he died or someone said he gave up the ghost His life his soul his spirit to God and verse 47 Now the satirian haven't seen what had taken place recognize God and thanked and praised him and Said indeed without question This man was uprights just and innocent and All the throngs that had gathered to see This spectacle when they saw what had taken place Return to their homes beating their breasts Of all that guilt for what had happened what took place beating their breasts And all the acquaintances of Jesus and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance and watch these things Now notice there was a man named Joseph from the Jewish town of Aramecia He was a member of the Council of the Sanhedrin and a good upright an advantageous man in the sight of God Who had not agreed or assented to the purpose and action of the others and He was expecting and waiting for the kingdom of God the Sanhedrin always disagreed with Jesus We call them the religious sect but Joseph was not Part of that he never assented to that but he was a private follower of Jesus This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus our Lord And then he took it down and rolled it up and a linen cloth For swaving bead for swaving dead bodies and Laid him in a rock hoon-toon Where no one had ever yet been laid before It was the day of preparation the Sabbath and the Sabbath was dawning quickly approaching Okay, so even though he was a private follower follower of Jesus he still was able to show his reference for the Lord Jesus now forgiveness of Sin when we think of the aspects of the giveness we relate in terms of Removal or liberation of guilt We also think in terms of reconciliation of people To God into each other We also can think about restoration of renewed or the effects of starting off Onto a fresh start or being let go from the offenses One may have cost through sin So think of some times in your life where you fully grass and you fully was rewarded by Your own actions of forgiving someone or some person or Or an Act Your very own actions demonstrated forgiveness and you reconciled Did it bring forth a liberation of a freedom to that other person? Did it reconcile your hearts to God to each other? did it restore or renew a relationship and Just beloved to know that Jesus God in Christ Jesus fully God fully man is always Seekin to save which is lost That which we find the gospel of Matthew 1811 and Also when you think about when Jesus spoke to the disciples and parables He gave them an What do you call it a parable of the lost sheep and they said out of 100 sheep one went missing and And there remained 99. Would you not go after that one? and so even God said I see that which is lost And we would read that from the book of Luke Chapter 15 and That is three through five Again the gospel of Luke 15 three through five So he told them this parable What man of you if he has a hundred sheep and should lose one of them Does not leave the 99 in the wilderness? Desert and go after the one that is lost until he finds it and When he has found it he lays it on his own shoulders Rejoicing because he found that one lost sheep and When he gets home he summons together his friends his neighbors saying to them rejoice with me because I have found My sheep which was lost Thus, I tell you there will be more joy in heaven over one especially wicked person who repents changes his mind abhorring his eras and misdeeds and Determines to enter upon a better course of life Then over 99 righteous persons as a Syneedron who have no need of repentance That's not my word. That's the gospel y'all That is what God is seeking to save that which is lost and have and minutes of need for Christ And those whom God seeks will embrace His arms and say Here I am Thank you Lord for saving me. I have not sought you I had to not seek you out, but you came to save which I was lost deep in sin In the what they call it Mary clay dirt and sin thick God rescued you freed you liberate you from yolks and Sin causing disease What man is this what God is this Jesus Christ our Lord? Hallelujah. Hallelujah to God be the glory Who but God can do this? So remember I'm gonna iterate Luke Chapter 15 verse 7 thus I tell you there will be more joy in heaven over one especially wicked person who repents changes his mind Hating his errors and misdeeds and Determines fixed focus determined To enter upon a better course of life than over 99 righteous persons who have no need of Repentance and that my beloved is Forgiveness of our sins all have come short of the glory of God All have sinned. There's not one that is good and sins not God says no not one that does good and sin not And as Good Friday approaches this to want this year of 2019 What are some things to be thankful? That we ourselves or our community at large or even our nation should be appreciative for receiving reconciliation or Forgiveness being free from many offenses Caused by our humankind Destructiveness, can you think of some of the things things which we know our communities delayed or Some things that we have not attended to ourselves or some things that we was just stubborn and We just gave a deaf ear And we didn't we did not listen with our whole heart because we had to deal and was working with our own issues couldn't get ourselves out the way so therefore we were What do you call it deliberately being disobedient and Not able to operate in God's love for others and for our nation for the communities at large So let us think about the things that we see on the news at large or we have seen in the past of Flint, Michigan Is one of the areas that we may have delayed health as a nation? Puerto Rico Which have been? despised in certain areas in arenas or delayed care or lack of care within our communities of Massachusetts or what have you of Maybe could be relation to Disapportionate of Education or privilege those that are less than or are those that are Could be hindered by other tax situations or what have you or Whatever may be the findings in certain communities through corruptions of of the unknown That I'm not really in that field of political realm But whatever you see that it's injustice being done and no one's saying anything about it That my beloved that's something that's a working of God's grace to give communities opportunity to reconcile Themselves to God and to work for the harmony and to unity of The betterment of the whole for the entire community at large So only you know what's particular in your community your state your local town that has been affected by any areas of Injustices Now in marriage and relationships God asks And require us to forgive one another even as we have been forgiven And that's found in Ephesians 4 32 We will read from Ephesians chapter 4 32 so this is a good passage When you are embarking on Conflict in relationships whether it's marriage whether it's Partnership or whether it's a business You guys don't agree don't see eye to eye Or you know your boss don't see eye to eye, but you guys made reconciliation And you guys are able to move forward in the common goal of the whole So in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 32 reads And become useful and helpful And kind to one another i'm reading for the amplified bible It says and become useful and helpful and kind to one another Tend to heart it compassionate understanding Loving hearted all of those right forgiving one another readily and freely as god in christ forgave you That is our requirement Become useful helpful kind to one another one another tend to hearted forgiving one another As god and christ forgave you And even jesus said this is what i give you the spirit and breathe on them the holy spirit He says those who you forgive they are forgiven those who you remember Forgiveness those that you do not want to have forgiveness. They're not forgiven So it's up to us beloved believers to continue to Exercise that as an act of grace to one another Act of grace of god and god's mercy and to know that god's been merciful upon us Can we also offer that to others? And some instances and some actions That are very severely harmful and traumatizing Sometimes you don't want to bring that into a foyer of complete Reconciliation back to right relationship back in that community It might be something between you and god that have to be repaired and may take a long A long or a lifetime to do of the heart But sometimes god can just remove that instantly by an act of his grace And his mercy towards the survivor who lived through it Only god knows how he affects change Of the severely harmed persons of great trauma And some people have encountered great Great release great liberty Having their sense forgiven and also being the the um What do you call it the person who? Gave the forgiveness Was released and said Hey, I wasn't able to be free until I forgave this person And I was liberated it helped them more so than the other person And I'm I marvel at times when I see people who Have done certain things in this world And the survivor have brought total forgiveness to the foyer And it's remarkable a total act of god's grace and only can be Demonstrated through god's grace finally beloved I'm going to read from the dictionary of jesus and the gospel By the general editor joe b green. Okay. This is a historical um Contemplation that we study in seminary biblical scholars the dictionary of jesus and the gospels and I will read from the theme of forgiveness of sins now The person who wrote this article in the dj tb dj tg of page 284 For forgiveness of sins his name is fs spencer, so we're going to credit this to him Forgiveness of sins Rendering terms closely associated with freedom A release Of letting go you ever hear somebody just let it go Just just let it go and like I mentioned certain things you just have to work through the process It's not easily to let go but as we read different passages of Ephesians 4 23 Be tender heart of forgiving one another sometimes it's The god's grace operates differently in other people to each one has been given a measure of grace a measure of faith For this we were saved by grace a gift of god not of ourselves. We cannot boast So we have begun been giving a gift of faith according to God's measure So I can't go ahead and say you have the same measure of god's faith as I do Everybody has their own measure of faith as god given to us by his holy spirit Okay, so everybody will operate in that unique Spiritual realm as god has allowed them to walk in the development of their spiritual house their spirituality And faith was god Rendering them terms closely so this these terms associated with the forgiveness of sins freedom release letting go forgiveness Those are all related to forgiveness of sin again freedom release letting go forgiveness and the gospels Represents less a static juridical concept of expunging a record of transgression as we read And the passionate week of jesus when he was on the cross and one of the criminals mentioned and said you are an innocent man And can I be with you or you know and jesus said you will be with me This day in paradise Immediately the forgiveness the expunging of his record was cleared And that's what god is seeking the same which is lost and this is what he's describing The expunging a record of transgression then a dynamic social psychological experience of being released from The deletious effects of guilt Okay, and sinful behavior and restoring broken relations between human beings and god and among themselves forgiveness thus most closely aligns with liberation Salvation reconciliation and restoration Because of humankind's deeply flawed nature forgiveness ultimately depends on the gracious love of god mediated through jesus christ but far from being passive recipients people respond to god's reconciling mercy in various ways how we respond to it especially repentance baptism or confession prior and forgiveness of others everyone will respond differently and uniquely But these practices appear intimately in gospel accounts and more as correlates in strict prerequisites of forgiveness So those are different things that some tradition embraced before you can have forgiveness a total forgiveness, but we know That once christ has forgiven you you are liberated you have set free but upon each other when you're working with each other, excuse me That rarely depends upon individuals but it is still excuse me an act of god's grace and his unique forgiveness operating in humankind god working with humankind so that is it for the resurrection and forgiveness of our sins and that is the greatest passionate one of the themes of the greatest passion of jesus to have forgiveness of our sins Amen and amen the lord be with you The lord smile upon you and keep you until we meet again god bless