GOD’S TWO LAWS OF PARDON

MEANING OF PARDON

• MEANING #1 an act of officially saying that someone who was judged to be guilty of a crime will be allowed to go free and will not be punished. : forgiveness for something.

• • MEANING #2

To allow (an offense or fault) to pass without • punishment or disfavor.

GUILTY, INNOCENT OR NOT GUILTY

• WE ARE GUILTY • ROMANS 3:23 “ For all have sinned, and come

short of the glory of God”• ROMANS 6:23 For the wages of sin is death;

but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

AT THE JUDGMENT, THE TRIAL IS OVER

• HEBREWS 9:27 “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:”

• II CORINTHIANS 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

APPLYING GOD’S TWO LAWS OF PARDON

• INNOCENT WHEN BORN• (MATTHEW 18:3), “EXCEPT YE BECOME AS LITTLE

CHILDREN”

• (EZEKIEL 18:20) “The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.”

APPLYING GOD’S TWO LAWS CONTINUED

• WHEN AND HOW DO WE BECOME GUILTY?• 1. BORN SAFE AND NEED NO SALVATION• 2. TODDLERS ARE NOT SINNERS NEED NO

SALVATION.• 3. WHEN A CHILD STARTS TO SCHOOL NEEDS• NO SALVATION• 4. WHEN GRADUATION COMES THERE IS

CONCERN

GOD’S FIRST LAW OF PARDON

• A. TO THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER KNOW HIM.1. HEAR, BELIEVE, REPENT, CONFESS, BE BAPTIZED(ROMANS 10:17, JOHN 3:16, ACTS 8:37, 38)

HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN THE TIME COMES?

• NO PARTICULAR AGE:• WHEN GUILTY OF SIN:• BAPTISM IS FOR REMISSION OF SINS: (ACTS 2:38)• DO YOU KNOW WHAT SIN IS?• HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY?• CAN YOU IDENTIFY SIN IN YOUR LIFE?

DO YOU UNDERSTAND JESUS?

• BORN OF A VIRGIN (MATTHEW 1:23)

• LIVED A SINLESS LIFE (HEBREWS 4:15)

• DIED AND RAISED FROM THE DEAD

• DO YOU BELIEVE THE ABOVE?

IF OLD ENOUGH TO BE BAPTIZED

• YOU ARE…• OLD ENOUGH TO LIVE THE CHRISTIAN LIFE• OLD ENOUGH TO SAY NO TO THINGS WRONG• OLD ENOUGH TO ACT LIKE A CHRISTIAN

DURING WORSHIP.• LISTEN TO THE SERMON, LISTEN TO THE

PRAYERS, THINK ABOUT THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS.

IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN BAPTIZEDYOU MUST BE PARDONED

• MARK 16:16 “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned”.

• BUT TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED…

GOD’S SECOND LAW OF PARDON

• REPENT AND PRAY:

• (ACTS 8:22) Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.