{"id":2907,"date":"2017-04-14T21:15:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T01:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2017-04-24T11:08:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:08:57","slug":"triumphant-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=2907","title":{"rendered":"TRIUMPHANT FORGIVENESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Message by Rev. Richard Jones<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rec0414-191831.mp3\">rec0414-191831<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Triumphant Forgiveness<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Romans 3:21-26 (ESV) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Romans 3:21-26 (ESV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">21 <\/span><\/sup><span class=\"ind\">\u00a0But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it\u201d\u201d<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">22 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">23 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">24 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">25 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God\u201d\u2122s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">26 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Colossians 2:13-15 (ESV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">13 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">14 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">15 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Psalm 103:12 (ESV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">12 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0as far as the east is from the west, <span class=\"poetry2\">so far does he remove our transgressions from us.<\/span> <span class=\"poetry1\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message by Rev. Richard Jones rec0414-191831 Triumphant Forgiveness Romans 3:21-26 (ESV) Romans 3:21-26 (ESV) 21 \u00a0But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it\u201d\u201d 22 \u00a0the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=2907\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages","category-sermons-by-rev-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2910,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}