“I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins” Psalm 130:1-8

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Date: June 21, 2026 Author: Wayne J. Edwards

Somewhere over the years, we began treating repentance as a walk of shame. We picture repentance as the prodigal son returning home, head down, defeated and discouraged, expecting his father’s well-deserved anger for his rebellion. However, that is not how the Bible describes it. True repentance is not about shame; it is the road back home. Repentance is the intentional turning from our sin and running into the Father’s welcoming arms. Shame belongs to the sin that drew us from the Lord. Repentance is the doorway into God’s forgiveness, and the Bible says heaven rejoices when a sinner turns from sin to embrace the Savior, who has always been with them. The title of this Sunday’s sermon is: “I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins” Please review the attached study guide, reflect on its message, and share it with others who could benefit from it. We invite you to take this opportunity to engage more deeply with your faith. Thank you for your continued support. Please share these guides with anyone who may find them helpful.

Somewhere over the years, we began treating repentance as a walk of shame. We picture repentance as the prodigal son returning home, head down, defeated and discouraged, expecting his father’s well-deserved anger for his rebellion. However, that is not how the Bible describes it.

True repentance is not about shame; it is the road back home. Repentance is the intentional turning from our sin and running into the Father’s welcoming arms. Shame belongs to the sin that drew us from the Lord. Repentance is the doorway into God’s forgiveness, and the Bible says heaven rejoices when a sinner turns from sin to embrace the Savior, who has always been with them.

The title of this Sunday’s sermon is: “I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins”

Please review the attached study guide, reflect on its message, and share it with others who could benefit from it. We invite you to take this opportunity to engage more deeply with your faith.

Thank you for your continued support. Please share these guides with anyone who may find them helpful.

Download the following translated Sermon guides:

Old Testament Reading: Psalm 51:1-17 New Testament Reading: 1 John 1:1-10

The forgiveness of our sins is the core of the Christian faith. Unless our sins can be forgiven, we have no hope of our eternal home in heaven, the Christian faith is no better than the other false religions in the world today, and this life is all there is.

Because of the “cheap grace” that is being proclaimed today, rather than being humbled by God’s forgiveness of our sins, many believers simply take it for granted.

The concept of God’s willingness to forgive our sins is woven throughout the Old Testament.

But it was the Apostle Paul who formerly articulated the sacrificial death of Christ as the sufficient propitiation for man’s sin.

The fact that, as Christians, we believe our sins can be forgiven by our faith alone in Christ alone is a radical idea.

As he was studying the Book of Romans, Martin Luther, a Catholic Priest at the time, was convicted when he read Romans 1:17 where the Apostle Paul said, “The Just shall live by faith!” Luther said, for the first time in his life, he began to see clearly that God forgives our sin, not because of anything we do, but solely on the basis of what Jesus did for us when he died on the cross and rose from the dead. Luther called that truth the gate to heaven.

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