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Hari Ke-3: Allah Memberikan Pengampunan dan Kebebasan - Matthew Slater

Pertama-tama, tontolah apa yang Matthew Slater sampaikan tentang Pengampunan dan Kebebasan yang Allah tawarkan.

Selanjutnya, bacalah pesan di bawah ini dari Randy Alcorn dan renungkan ayat yang mengikutinya.

Seperti yang Matthew sampaikan, sangat penting bagi kita untuk memahami siapa Tuhan dan apa yang Ia pikirkan tentang kita dan dosa kita. Gagal mencapai kemenangan di sebuah pertandingan itu mengecewakan, akan tetapi masalah kita jauh lebih besar: "Semua orang telah berdosa dan kehilangan kemuliaan Allah" (Roma 3:23). Ada kabar buruk dan kabar baik dibalik itu: "Sebab upah dosa ialah maut; tetapi karunia Allah ialah hidup yang kekal dalam Kristus Yesus, Tuhan kita." (Roma 6:23).

Karena Because Jesus Christ died sacrificially on the cross on our behalf, God freely offers us forgiveness. But forgiveness isn’t automatic. If we want to be forgiven, we must confess and repent of our sins: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).

There’s no righteous deed we can do that will earn us a place in Heaven (Titus 3:5). We come to Christ empty-handed. We can take no credit for salvation: “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9).

God’s greatest gift is Himself. We not only need salvation, we need the Savior, and he has a name: Jesus (which means “God saves”).

Scripture speaks of the “washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit” (Titus 3:5). Once believers are born again, we cannot continue to sin as a lifestyle because of our new natures (see 1 John 3:9). Sin is still present in our lives (see Romans 6:11-14; 1 John 1:8–2:2), but we have supernatural power to overcome it since we’ve died to sin (see Romans 6:6-9).

God’s Holy Spirit indwells us and helps us obey Him (see 2 Timothy 1:14). Christ grants believers new natures that free us from sin’s bondage (2 Corinthians 5:17). We’ll sometimes trip, but we don’t have to fall – and when we do, by His grace and strength, we can get back up. Because our hearts are changed when we’re born again, we want a better way. “You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you” (Romans 8:9).

Because of Christ’s work on our behalf, we’re free to reject sin and its misery, and instead embrace righteousness and its joy. When we do this, we’ll experience a flood of God’s grace in our lives, restoring us to the abundant life of walking with the One who is our Lord, King and best Friend (John 15:13, 15).