BELIEVERS ARE FORGIVEN

PROCLAMATION

“Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins.  And by Him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses.”  Acts 13:38-39 (KJV)

 

EXPLANATION

These are the acts of the apostles of Jesus, The Christ, as written by Luke, the physician, under the influence of The Holy Spirit of God.  Luke records that The Holy Spirit directed Barnabas and Saul, who is later called Paul, to leave Antioch and go to Pisidian Antioch by way of Cyprus. (Acts 13:1-13)  There, on the Sabbath, they went to the synagogue and sat.  After the reading of the law, the leaders of the synagogue asked them to speak. (Acts 13:14-15)  Paul stood up and preached the gospel, and he ended with the above two versus. (Acts 13:16-39)  Afterwards, he was asked to speak again on the next Sabbath and Jews got jealous when almost everyone in the city gathered to hear him preach.  The Jewish leaders stirred up some of the honorable men and women of the city and they led a mob against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of the city. (Acts 13:42-50)

 

APPLICATION

Those of us who believe in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, The Christ, are forgiven of all of our sins, past, present, and future.  We are no longer under the Law of Moses; we are under the grace of God.  This forgiveness of sin applies not only to the Jewish believers, but to the Gentile believers also. (Acts 13:46-48)  The Law of Moses cannot save anyone.  It only serves to reveal our shortcomings.  Only those of us who are covered by the blood of Jesus can be saved.  We can have all of our sins forgiven if we confess them. (1 John 1:7-9)