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Used by God

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Daniel Vander Klok
on December 26, 2009
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1 Thess 1:9

9 For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, ESV

-          Ps 103:12; Prov 28:13; 1 Cor 6:11; 2 Cor 5:17; 1 John 1:9;  The church is the forgiving community of forgiven sinners. As we read through the Word you see that the key people are forgiven sinners. Paul used to persecute the church. He writes in 1 Cor 6:11 of awful things, ending the list with the phrase, “such WERE some of you”, and here indicates that they TURNED. The power of God’s forgiveness is outstanding. He truly does make us a new creation (2 Cor 5:17). God promises his forgiveness to those who ask (1 John 1:9). Let us ask and receive. God forgives and wants to use us as demonstrated in his word, but we need to let him. In Phil 3:13 Paul says, “this one thing I do forgetting those things that are behind and reaching forward”. God, help me to receive your forgiveness and let go of my past, and live a life that you can use.

Forgiven and Redeemed!!

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on April 27, 2009
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Col 2:13-14

13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. NKJV

- This is one of my favorite pictures in the whole bible. There is a written requirement against us that he wiped clean he paid our debt upon the cross, Satan no longer has anything on us, the debt has been paid. All his valid claims are no longer valid. Were debt free, (Rom 8:1). 1 John 1:9;