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THE FORGIVENESS OF GOD
sermon by
Lester Hutson
July 1997

That’s beautiful. And aren’t we all there - all who’ve been saved, that is, who’ve come to the Savior. I have a message of hope for you today. I want you to look in your Bibles. Find the 7th chapter of Luke please. The 7th chapter of Luke and locate verse 36. I will be reading from that place in just a bit. I want to talk to you about forgiveness. The forgiveness of God. I love to preach about the forgiveness of God. I love to preach about hope for sinners because I know we are all sinners. Hopefully, you’re saved by grace, but I realize you may not be. You may never have trusted the Lord as your personal Savior. Let me just remind you if you don’t know that the Bible is a pretty good size book. No doubt, if you have one there in your hand or the side of you, you’ll know that it’s a pretty good size book. It’s really made up of 66 separate books. There are 1189 chapters in the Bible. They’re pretty long. Most of them are. Do you realize the first 3 chapters of your Bible talk about man, how he got here, God creating the heaven and the earth and putting people on the earth, and the third chapter particularly talks about what man did and how he was made free, how he went from God and did what God said not to do and how he fell into condemnation. So the first 3 chapters talk about man, his coming here and how he immediately got himself into trouble and under the curse of God. Do you realize that all the other chapters in the Bible - 1186 out of 1189 chapters of the Bible - are all talking about the forgiveness of God? Boy, that tells you something about God, doesn’t it? That tells you something about God’s care and about His love for us. He is not only interested in what we did was wrong, but He’s more interested in what He can do to get us right - what He can do to set us straight, what He can do to help us. That’s what Luke is talking about. In fact, when he records here the words of Jesus along with some editorial starting in verse 36 in chapter 7. Look at it with me as I’ll read more than ordinary verses than you’re hearing. Luke 7:36--

And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisees’ house and sat down to meet and behold, a woman in the city which was a sinner which she knew Jesus was that meet in the Pharisees or sat at meet in the Pharisees’ house, brought an alabaster box of ointment.

Boy, when I read this verse, verse 37, about a woman in the city who was a sinner, I realize this woman was a sinner in the city is a picture of all of us. Here’s the Bible talking about sinners. Here’s the Bible talking about you and here’s the Bible talking about me. And she was pretty rank. This one was. You’ll see that.

"And stood at his feet behind him weeping and began to wash his feet with tears and did wipe them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. And when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself saying, "This man if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that touched him; for she is a sinner."

You see, the Pharisee didn’t recognize that he was in the same condemnation that this woman was in. Some of us don’t think that. Sometimes because we have not been a prostitute, maybe because we’ve never robbed a bank, maybe because we’ve never got stoned out on coke or some other terrible thing happened in our lives, we think that I’m not bad like that person under the bridge. I’m not really bad like that person who’s down there in the Harris County jail right now because I never did so many bad things. I’m not in the same condemnation. But I am here to assure you today upon the strength of the Bible and upon your own testimony of your own self that you are a sinner and all of us are in the same condemnation really. Listen to the next verse.

Jesus answering said unto him, "Simon, I have somewhat to say unto Thee."

And I am sure that what Jesus said unto Simon was not limited to just him; it’s to all of us. The Bible is God’s word to you and to me. It’s God’s word to sinners.

And he saith, "Master, say on."

Now listen to Jesus’ story in verse 41 and onward.

There was a certain creditor which had two debtors. The one owed him five hundred pence and the other fifty. And when he had nothing to pay, he forgave them both. Tell me therefore which of them will love him most? Simon answered and said, "I suppose that he to whom he forgave most." And He said unto him, "Thou hast rightly judged."

Now I want you to listen to the rest of the logic here. He turned to the woman and said to Simon,

Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house. Thou gave me no water for my feet. But she hast washed my feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss but this woman since the time that I came in hast not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint; but this woman hast anointed my feet with ointment. Wherefore, I say unto thee, "Her sins which are many are forgiven." For she loves much but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. And he sayeth unto her, "Thy sins are forgiven." They that sat at meet with him began to say within themselves, "Who is this that hath power to forgive sins also?" And he said to the woman, "Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace."

He forgave her sin. This really wicked woman. This one who had done so many things who was obviously known as a street woman and who was scorned by the religious crowd, by the better folks of the town, here. This guy Simon even looked down his nose at her. And Jesus forgave her sin. He would have forgiven Simon’s sins too because Simon had a whole lot just like the lady did. But, of course, Simon in his heart was rebellious. Simon didn’t think he needed it. Simon was not willing to repent and come to the Savior. He was not willing to be forgiven and so, therefore, he was not forgiven. Do you know what the word "forgive" literally means? It’s from a big long Greek word, and it means "to send forth." Literally means "to send forth, to get rid of." To sort of cancel out. And it has a lot of different applications. For example, it means applications such as forsake, to lay aside, to leave, to let, let alone, to let be, to let go, to let how. I mean, to turn something loose, to be free of that thing. It literally is applied to omit, to put or to send away, remit, to suffer, to yield up, to get rid of fully. Boy, I tell you today that forgive is a wonderful concept. It’s a wonderful idea. And it’s really the idea of God. I cannot begin to adequately describe to you the full scope of God’s forgiveness. The fact is, as I have indicated already, we are all sinners. Everybody who is in this room, and everybody who is not in this room. All the people who are living and all the people who have died. All the people who will ever be. All the people of the world are sinners save one - the Lord Jesus Christ who was without sin and without blemish. All the rest of us have gone astray. Isaiah put it this way:

All we like sheep have gone astray.

You all know that. The Bible says, "For all have sinned and have short of the glory of God," in Romans 3:23. We just read in the responsive reading from I John 1:8, "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." If we say we have no sin, we just sinned because we lied. And there are lots and lots of ways to sin. Lying is certainly one of them. It’s one of the easier ways to sin. Lying is not just hatching up some blatant thing we say that it is totally false and telling it on somebody. Lying is also telling half the truth. Lying is also withholding information that ought to be told or that ought to be dealt with. There are lots and lots of ways to lie.

Lots of ways to sin sexually. Sex sins are rampant in our society. I’m talking about sex before marriage. I’m talking about sex outside of marriage. I’m talking about all the various perversions, the homosexual activity, and the various other perversions that are so rampant in our world. I mean sex sins - lots of ways to do it. Lust. You see, it doesn’t have to actually be carried out in a physical sense. Just in the heart. I mean lusting. Jesus talks about that in Matthew. He said if you look after a woman to lust after her, you’ve committed adultery in your heart already with her. Hey, there are a lot of ways to lust not just after women or men but lusting after material goods, lusting after things that really become covetousness - clothes, and a better house, and a better car and things that are material in nature.

Crime - I think all the criminals are not in jail. I think most people if the truth were known on them and all the facts were really out, there’s probably enough evidence on both of them to put us behind bars. The fact is that every one of us is a crook at heart. We’re all sinners. That’s what the Bible is saying here. Injustices. We sin by doing wrong - unjust things. Taking that which isn’t right to take. Shafting somebody in a business deal. I mean taking advantage of folks. Justice doesn’t prevail much in our nation anymore, does it? I see the Supreme Court of the United States ruling, and ruling good to be evil and evil to be good. I’ll tell you this insidious abortions of children in the nation that has the backing of our government and our president is a rot and an insidious sin upon this nation. Not only to people that are involved in it, but to the citizens like you and me who will stand by and allow it to happen in this country. Forty million babies killed since 1973 - Roe v Wade. I’m talking about injustice that can be done individually and can be done on a national scale or level as well.

Addiction. My, how many there are. Addiction to cocaine. Addiction to other types of drugs including tobacco. There are an awful lot of addictions and there are a lot of ways to sin with addiction. Not only being addicted but addicting others - selling it, being one of those who distributes it or passes it on to other folks in this society.

Hatred. Greed. Bitterness. Revenge. Neglect. Slothfulness or laziness. Gluttony. I know it’s easy to say "You were doing pretty good, Preacher, until you started meddling!" I’m here to tell you something. There are lots of sins. I told you about the ways to die. I read that there are a million ways to die, and every one of them works. Folks, there are enough sins to go around. You may say, "Well, I didn’t do that one." While you are pointing out there, remember that you got about three or fingers pointing back here. There are a lot pointing back. There are plenty of sins over there, but there are plenty of sins here too, folks. And all we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone of us is a sinner. Everyone of us deserves the scorn of God. Boy, I’ll tell ya’. We are so full of regrets, aren’t we? I imagine if I took a microphone here - what we’re going to do in the rest of this service. Turn on this yellow microphone and we’re going to start right here with Elvin, and we’re going to ask about the bones in your closet. You’d say, "Hey, I’m leaving, Preacher." Yeah, and I’d imagine that if I went around the audience here, everybody would say, "I can’t stand this; I’m not going to be exposed like that." But you know that no doubt somewhere in your closet there’s a bone or a whole skeleton of bones hanging in there. Everyone of us has some things that we regret. I have talked to a lot of folks, had opportunities at serious moments to get into people’s lives and hear them start talking about themselves, and so many times I’ve had people, as we really begin to talk about the things of God, would say to me, "Preacher, boy, I regret this, and I regret that, and there are some things I can’t tell you that I wish hadn’t happened in my life." I can say that. Boy, there are some things that I look back on that I wished to God somehow they hadn’t have been. I wish I could just wipe them away; I wish I could take an eraser to my past and erase some of those things that have occurred - some of the thoughts I’ve had, some of the words I said, some of the reactions that have been mine. I wish I could just wipe them away. Perhaps, some moral spots in your youth. So many people while they’re young - so many people - especially in those teenage years, do things that they live a life after that regretting. Things that they wish somehow they had enough wisdom at the moment to say "no" to it, or wished that it hadn’t happened in my life. Maybe an illegitimate child. Maybe a shameful drunken beast and something that happened really bad - something that the moral spot hurt forever happened while a person was inebriated thinking, "Boy, it doesn’t matter what I do." Maybe an abortion. There may very well be in this very room, listening to this tape who’s had an abortion and you say to yourself, "I wish you hadn’t have brought that up. It pains me. You can’t imagine what regret I have - how it hurts and how it hurts my mother and how it hurts my daddy and how it embarrassed my whole family and how I feel rotten and guilty and shameful before God in view of this thing that happened in my life. I wish somehow I could take it back."

Maybe you were involved with prostitution. A lot of folks come to church who were. I wish they’d all come to church. I wish they’d all come to hear about the Lord Jesus Christ who could forgive prostitutes.

Maybe you were involved in dealing drugs or doing drugs. You say, "I wish that I hadn’t. I dealt drugs, and I sold one to somebody that killed himself. I saw it happen. The person that I put it in his life and in his hands and made it possible and I saw him die. As a result of what I know, I introduced into his or her life."

Maybe sodomy. Maybe it’s been in your life. Maybe it still is. Maybe it’s been in your past. You’d say, "I wish I could just wipe that thing out." You know, there are a lot of things in the Bible that are not clear-cut. I mean there are some things that you can look at and you could see there’s a little room here and a little here maybe for some understanding. It’s not real easy for me to understand. Folks, in the Bible, nothing is more clear-cut than that sodomy is wrong. I mean it’s not one of those areas where there’s any gray. It’s just black and white as can be. And the Bible says it’s wrong and you say, "Yes, I know that, and yet I’ve been guilty, and yet I’m infected with this kind of thinking and this kind of attitude," and you say, "I’m not happy about; I’m sorry before God."

It may be that you’ve committed a crime. Maybe last night you stole somebody’s car and you sold it. Could be that last night you were a party to some robbery that occurred at somebody’s house. Maybe, just maybe you were out there dealing drugs. And you know it’s wrong and you’ve committed something. Maybe a murder, and you say, "I wish I hadn’t have done that." And you live in fear that somehow you’re going to be found out. They’re going to catch you one day, and they’re going to nail you to the wall with this. And you’re going to spend time, maybe a lot of time. Maybe even you’re going to the chamber and you’re going to be put to death as a result - lethally injected, as a result of that thing that you know that you’ve done in your life. I imagine that if I kept talking I could cover your sin and my own, and I may already have. Injustices that you’ve done. Things you’ve said that you wish you hadn’t. Hearts that you’ve crushed that you know you’ve just destroyed somebody - party to a nasty fight. You’ve got in on something that you shouldn’t have got in. You became a party to something that was wrong and somebody got ground up in it. Do you know what the consequences of sin and guilt are? They’re really, really bad. For sinners who have never come to Jesus Christ as personal Savior, the consequences of sin is eternity in the Lake of Fire. I do not have the adequate vocabulary to explain to you what it is to die without Jesus Christ as a sinner and to end up in the Lake of Fire - to have judgment without mercy, to go to Hell where the worm never dies and the fire is not quenched, to spend eternity where there is not a natural body, but where there is some spiritual being and where the flames are just as real and living to that spiritual being as natural flames would be to your natural body and to be as a spirit where you are tormented from the presence of God in the Lake of Fire in the flames where there is no rest and from which there is no escape forever and ever. I’m talking about the eternal consequences of sin. So many times I have shown you from the Word of God that the death penalty is upon sinners. I’m not talking about just the grave. I’m talking about eternal separation from God. For Revelation 20:14 & 15 says, "This is the second death." I’m talking about what it is to banished from heaven where there is no hope. I’m not talking about a consequence where you just sort of live and you maybe you get old and you say, "Boy, I’ve got all these aches and pains and whatever, misery I’ve suffered. I had it coming, and I’m gonna one day go to the grave, and that’s my punishment. The punishment for sinners is not just a debilitated body and physical suffering and anguish and ultimate death physically. The punishment for sinners before God, the death penalty, is separation from God in the Lake of Fire where people are conscious in the spirit from which there is no escape and where there is eternal misery forever and forever and forever. I’m talking about the consequences eternally of sin.

Did you know that there are even consequences while we live? Not only for people who die without Christ but for people who are saved who get involved in sin. That sin can have no bearing on a person’s standing. Just like Jeff, Arnie’s boy here, born of he and Karen. Jeff’s good or bad could never have, or Janna’s good or bad, could never have any bearing on whether they are Arnie and Karen’s daughter and son. But I tell you their good or bad could have a lot of influence on the fellowship, can’t they? Did you know that in the family of God when you’re born into it, you’re in it forever. And you can’t put your sin ever be effected as to your eternal standing. But I will tell you, what we do, what I do, what you do, as a child of God can have an awful lot of bearing upon how well you get along with the heavenly Father. And when we sin against God as the children of God we lose our fellowship. We hurt ourselves. Emptiness comes in our life. Guilt begins to take over. Hardships and discipline and wasted lives occur. The Bible’s talking in Isaiah 59, verses 1 and 2 about it:

Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened that it cannot help. Neither is his ears heavy that they cannot hear. But you sins have separated between you and your God so that He will not hear and He will not help.

Listen the Bible is talking about believers, about we who know Christ and about what happens when we let sin get controlling of our lives. We do not listen to God, but we let self rule. And we do our own thing many a time which is wrong before God and as children of God get involved with crime. Children of God get involved with sex sins. Children of God get involved with drugs. Children of God get involved with gossip. Children of God get involved with all kinds of hideous terrible things. And they’re not going to hell as a result of it. But I’ll tell you. They are going to live a life of misery while they’re here of guilt and emptiness and wastedness as a result of it. James talks about it in chapter 5, verses 1, 2, & 3.

But you know something? God in love introduced this great concept called forgiveness. He didn’t just talk and the Bible doesn’t just talk about sin. God knows ahead of time - He knew ahead of time that we would sin. Everyone of us does and will do it. And so He knew there would be this need for forgiveness. And so God introduced forgiveness, and I’ll remind you that it is God’s concept, and it is not mine. Do you know something? God loves to forgive sinners. He enjoys forgiving sinners. He delights to forgive sinners. I want you to listen to the Bible in the book of Jeremiah. I’m going to read chapter 29. If you’ve never underlined this one in your Bible, you ought to highlight it and you just look at it carefully. Jeremiah 29 and listen to verse 11:

"For I know the thoughts that I think towards you", saith the Lord, "thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected end."

I underlined that or highlighted that in my Bible in pink (ha-ha) just to sort of emphasize the love of God. God says, "I know what I think towards sinners. I don’t have evil thoughts. I do not have bad thoughts towards sinners. I know that they’ve done wrong. I know that there’s a judgment for sinners," but He said, "I am more interested in forgiving sinners than in punishing sinners. I’m more interested in taking care of their evil than I am in banishing them forever from Me." Listen to this:

Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness. - Nehemiah 9:17

I want to also read in your hearing in Isaiah, in the 55th chapter of Isaiah. I’m gonna let you hear verse 7.

Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteousness man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and He will have mercy upon him and to are God for He will abundantly pardon.

That’s Isaiah 55; the verse 7. I just wanted to let you see these. Right out of the Bible to give you an idea of the attitude of God. God loves to forgive sinners. He loves to cancel the debt. He loves to level the playing field, so to speak. God loves to send away, as the definition of forgive means. To send away or let loose or turn away from, or get away from those sins of sinners. And so He says, "I’ll do it. You’re in trouble, but I can forgive you. You’ve done wrong; I want to cancel it. You’ve turned from me; turn to me and I will pardon you. I will abundantly pardon you." And he does it on the strength of what personally did in His Son upon the cross of Calvary by shedding His own blood. Listen to the Bible say it. I Peter 2:24:

He in His own self bare our sins. [Do you hear that?] He in His own self [God] bare our sins in His own body on the tree so that we being dead to sins should live until righteousness.

It’s Hebrews 9:12 which says,

Neither by the blood of goats and calves but by His own blood He entered in once into the Holy Place having to pay the eternal redemption for us.

He literally offered Himself without spot to God according to verse 14 of Hebrews chapter 9.

And He was wounded for our transgressions. He [personally] was bruised for our iniquities and the chastisement of our peace was upon Him... Isaiah 53:5

Yes, on the cross Jesus Christ who was God in flesh did what was necessary to forgive sinners. And I say to you dear ones today: there is power in the blood. We sing it here. There is power, power, wondrous working power in the precious blood of the Lamb and that’s not just a song, folks. That’s a reality. That’s the way it is. That’s the truth of God to sinners. By His blood He can forgive your sins and my sins. But I’m here to say: He’s the only one who can do it. Do you know what? Forgiveness says, "There is hope for everybody." Boy, I’m so glad Jesus when He came in the world said that the Son of Man did not come to save those which are whole, but He’s come to call sinners to righteousness. He didn’t just come to help people who were already okay. He came to save sinners. Most of us are laboring under some sort of enormous guilt - heavy guilt. Man, if you’re lost, man, you think you’re too bad. You think, "Maybe I’m too hopeless. You don’t know me, Preacher. I’ve done too many wrong things for too long. I’m too deep in it. I don’t believe God can do anything for me." Maybe you’re a saved person and you’re so ashamed. You say, "Man, as a child of God, I’ve become entangled in some things. I’ve let my mind become negative and critical and vicious and I’m so ashamed of myself. Boy, I’m discouraged," you say, "and I’m embarrassed about what I’ve done and I’ve destroyed so much and I’m pretty far down the road. I’m getting close to the end of my life and look at how I’ve lived and look at how it’s gone, at the life that’s wasted." Let me say to you, "Take hope, my Friend. Take hope." Because of Calvary, God can and He will forgive your sin whatever they are - whoever you are. Do you know something? God knew ahead of time where you’d be. God knew ahead of time what you’d do. He knew ahead of time all these things in your heart and how you’d feel. In spite of that, we read it a while ago in the responsive reading. God says, "Come now. Let us reason together." Come on. God says this. God could say, "Man, you, I’ll never speak to you. I’ll banish you forever into hell and you’re gonna spend eternity there." But God says, "while you’re living on this earth come here. Come on. Let us reason together," saith the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet - man, red like crimson - they shall be as wool. That’s the promise of God. Matthew 11:28, Jesus said, "Come unto all ye who labor and are heavy-laden and I will give you rest." Come. Come and trust Me. Come and lean on Me. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me and I shall be whiter as snow. Psalm 51:7. Isn’t that a beautiful promise? Double dyed. Dirty. Ugly. All spotted with sin. And yet God says, "Come and I’ll make you whiter than snow." The greater your sin, the more precious the forgiveness of God. You know, that’s the story of the lady and the Simon, the Pharisee. Jesus, talking to Simon, He said, "Simon, to whom much is forgiven, they are very grateful." He said, "This lady - I forgave her prostitution and she’s come in here with weeping, washing my feet with the hairs of her head." I’m talking about a lady who’s grateful because she had much sin. She recognized that she’s been forgiven a lot. She was real grateful about it. "Simon, you’re so smug. You’re so into your self that you’re not very grateful and Simon, there’s not any gratitude in your heart because you have not let your sins be forgiven."

You know, I was reading this week about a guy. Guy who was 18. He kind of got rebellious and thought home was too rough and tough, and he wanted to get out as quick as he could so he had been saving his money as a growing up teenager. So when he got 18, he was leaving home. So he left the east coast and he headed to California where the action was- in his car with the money that he had saved up - was gonna make it on his own and find his fortune. And when he got into California, he stopped there to take a rest stop, and a guy put a gun to him and took his wallet and drove off in his car. He hadn’t been in California 15 minutes and he was already broke and on foot. So he started walking and the highway patrolman pulled him over, pulled over, and said, "Hey, you can’t hitchhike here. It’s against the law." And so he managed to make it to a truck stop, didn’t know what he was gonna do, and he talked a trucker into taking him on to LA. And he told his story to the trucker as he was going along, and the trucker felt sorry for him and gave him $20 and let him out in LA. He walked 32 blocks to the beach just so he could see the water coming in, and it was beautiful like he thought. He thought, "Well, it’s been a bad day." So he slept in a park that night and thought, "I’ll start over in the morning and everything will work out all right." One wrong - he spent all of his money and he was reduced to begging. His beard grew out. He got dirty and smelly and his clothes became rags and tags. Here he was in a terrible fix begging people for money. Sticking his hand out one after another. One day he decided after a while to buy a pictured postcard to dad and mom. He wrote on that postcard, he said, "Love it out here. It’s beautiful. I’ve got a good job. I’m doing just great!" because he didn’t want dad and mom to know where he really was. He wanted--his pride was in the way of saying, "Hey, here’s what happened to me. Here’s where I really am." So he wrote home. He kind of forgot about that, kept begging. One day he was going along San Monica Boulevard and he had asked, as he was everybody, for a hand-out and a lady had just given him some change. He was holding that and stuck his hand out to the next person and he said, "Would you help me with a little money?" And he just froze because when he looked up there was his dad. He said, "I couldn’t say a word. I realize I had lost weight. And I was dirty and he didn’t recognize me." And he just stood there while he reached to get something to put into my hand. And so he put it in my hand and he said, "Dad, it’s me." And he said his dad just looked at him and just reached out and hugged him and they just loved on each other. He said, "I’ve been looking for you, Son. I didn’t know where to look, but when we got the card, I came here, and I’ve been looking everywhere for you."

Boy, I read about that and it’s a true story! And I thought what a, just a good picture - not adequate to describe - but a picture of the God of heaven who in spite of our stiffness and stubbornness and rebellion and sin and turning from Him, He’s always looking and always ready to receive us and always willing to take us and restore like the dad did this boy. God is a God of love. God is a God of forgiveness. You may have talked yourself and listened to the devil into believing, "Man, he can’t do it for me. I’m too bad." But I’m talking today about the forgiveness of God who will take you where you are. God will forgive you when you come in your heart and repent. He will take you on the spot and save your soul. And if you’re a Christian and you’ve wandered and wandered away, when you come in your heart, yield in repentance and confession before God, do you know what he’ll do? He’ll restore you in the family of God to joy. He’ll begin to make something good out of your life. I wander where you are right now. I wander if you need a little hope. If you need God to do something to you, why don’t you just let him do it? Why don’t you just trust Him right here today? Let’s stand. Bro. Arnie, will you come. We’re going to sing this invitation, and I just plead with you to take advantage of the hope that offered by God through the Lord Jesus Christ. As a Christian, to get it right if you’ve wandered away. As a non-Christian, to let God deal with you today, take away your sin, forgive you. He wants to do it. Do you know how I know that? "Hereby perceive we the love of God in that He laid down His life for us." - I John 3:16. God demonstrated what He cares about you and me and how He wants to help. Would you let Him help you?

"It Does Make a Difference What You Believe"