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Below are selected promises of God from 1st Peter compiled by Kenneth Boa: We have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by his blood (1:2). In God’s great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade (1:3-4). It was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that we were redeemed from the empty way of life we previously knew, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect (1:18-19). We are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that we may declare the praises of him who called us out of darkness into his wonderful light (2:9). Christ bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds we have been healed ...

I am continuing posts of pictures from Ft. Lauderdale, FL as Liberate 2015 is coming up soon.  I have included verses that connect with the image. He will again have compassion on us;      he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins      into the depths of the sea. (Micah 7:19)

Feeling guilty today?  Wondering how God can forgive you for committing that same sin again? How does God view your sin? Listen to these word pictures about our sin from Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges: Our condition was hopeless, but God intervened in grace. So when God says He removes our transgressions from us as far as the east is from the west, He is saying they have been removed an infinite distance from us. In His relationship, to us as the moral Governor and Judge of mankind, God has put our sins behind His back. So it is with our sins. God has hurled them into the depths of the sea to be lost forever, never to be recovered, never to be held against us. It has been blotted out, never to be seen again. This is what God does with our sins. When you trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior, God removes your record from the file. He doesn't keep it there or daily add the long list of sins you continue to commit even as a Christian. The blotting out of our transgressions is a le...