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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

When Does God Forgive Sins?

Lift up the trumpet and loudly ring. Jesus is calming again. Cheer up Pils. Be joyful and sing. Jesus is calming Again. This is the voice of prophecy, a voice crying in the wilderness of these modern days. Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Call again again. Jesus is again From our voice of Prophecy Studios in Los Angeles, California. We welcome you to this half hour of inspiration and music again. Today you'll hear the music of the King's heroes, Dell Delker and Brad Braley. The voice of prophecy speaker is eight Gems Richards. There's another. There's a battle and the Captain calls for you. Volunteers tears. The shout the word. We come. We come. Volunteers, volunteers, volunteers. Christ before us. Christ behind Christ on every. For the rescued volunteer glory. Volunteers. Volunteers be the foreman's. Shout, see his coho route. Nevermore the volunteers. Volunteers. We are our winner. Fight. Shout for Victor. Inside volunteers, volunteers, volunteers. Christ before us. Christ behind Christ on every side. For the rescue, OFD Glory Volunteers, volunteers, Our Father, which art in heaven. We thank the for thy mercies, for thy truth, for th forgiveness and guidance. Bless us today, we pray in this broadcast and may everyone who listens find blessing too. In Christ's name. We ask it Love rest near to the heart. Seeing to God Oh Jesus. Blessed Redeemer sent from the heart of God hold us who bow before the near to the Hu of God. We have a special treat for you now. Alfred Walters violinist at Orchestra Conductor at La Sierra College Arlington, California Del Delk In presenting the beautiful prayer in song Hold thou my hand Comes on my My Goes on. Some days are good. Dear Lord, The save hallelu wanna save your when he comes home to bring this song, we'll Sing Hallelu. Mr. Richards and the King's Heralds are continuing their itinerary of public appearances. They will be in Grandly, Michigan at the seventh, the Adventist campgrounds Tonight, August nine through the 11th, Ashaw Ontario, Canada at the Ashaw Missionary College is Tuesday evening, August 12th, union Springs, New York at Union Springs Academy on Wednesday evening, August 13, Washington, New Hampshire at the seventh, the Adventist Church on Saturday, August 16. We would like to encourage all of our friends in these areas to attend the Voice of Prophecy Rally nearest you. And now here is h hm s Richards. To answer the question, when does God forgive Sins? Friends, it's summertime and the Voice of Prophecy broadcasting group is making public appearances all over the country, but the office work must go on. The broadcasting must go on in spite of rising costs. So we hope you'll not forget to write to the voice of privacy box 55 losers California. Now our subject for today, when does God forgive sins? We often hear ministers say, when we ask God to forgive us, he forgives us. Now that statement's true and it's not true. That is, it's true at sometimes and not true at other times. Why? Because of the conditions. God's forgiveness does not come merely for the asking. It depends upon the conditions that go along with the asking. Remember this talk is cheap. There are some people who sins God will never forgive because they never ask him for proof of that statement. Read James four verse two, and there are others who ask and receive not because they ask Amis. That's the third verse of James four. Yes, some people may repent of their sins and still God does not forgive them. Why? Because the conditions of forgiveness are not fully met. Jesus said, not everyone that say a unto me, Lord, Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doth the will of my father, which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not in thy named, done many wonderful works and then will I profess unto them? I never knew you depart from me. E, that work iniquity Matthew 7 21 and onward. Yes, these people were real religious, very religious, extremely religious. They did great works in Christ's name. He did not deny that, but still they will be rejected in the day of judgment. You see, words are real in God's sight. Only when they express the true meaning of our hearts, we may use good words before God and not get good results because our hearts are not sincere, not truly repentant. There was the apostate bled and old prophet Baum. We read about him in numbers the 22nd chapter. Finally, when his sin was found out, he confessed. I have sinned. Verse 34 tells us that, but there was no repentance with it and he went on to destruction and eternal loss. We read about that in numbers 31 verse eight. David said these very same words, I have sinned, second Samuel 12, 13, but David sins were forgiven. His words were the same, but his heart was not the same as baums. David's heart was right and immediately the word of assurance came to him from God's servant, the prophet. The Lord has put away thy sin, thou shall not die. Sometime ago the Christian Digest carried an article saying There is a vast difference between being sorry for sin and being sorry. You're caught between confessing your sins and confessing some other fellows between seeing your own faults and seeing some other persons between conversion of the head and conversion of the heart, between being led by the Holy Spirit and being led by your own imagination between being persecuted for righteousness sake and being persecuted for foolishness sake. And so there is a great difference. Yes, friend, we may be religious, very religious, and yet be rejected in the day of judgment words, even good words, religious words, ceremonies, sacraments, church membership, church office, church recognition. All these things will be cheap, very cheap, even worse than cheap if we put them in place of repentance and depend upon them for salvation. God forgave David sin because he truly repented and showed it by meeting the conditions of forgiveness. The conditions of forgiveness are two, first repentance and the confession. Real genuine repentance being sorry for the sin itself. Here are David's own words. In Psalm 32, 3, when I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long for day and night, my hand was heavy upon me. I acknowledged my sin of the and my iniquity. Have I not heard? I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgave us the iniquity of my sin. So we see here that David both confessed and repented. As a result, he was forgiven. Thou forgave us the iniquity of my sin. Then happiness came to him. As we read in verse seven, notice in verse six that David repented in time, in a time when thou mayest be found. As he put it, he didn't wait too long. When Dr. Evans, a well-known preacher, was a student at the Moody Institute in Chicago. He used to go down to the Pacific Garden mission there. One night he was talking to a man about his soul. The man argued against him. He said, I don't believe the Bible. I'm an atheist. Evans repeated verse, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish. Luke 13, three. Then the fellow ridiculed him. I told you I didn't believe it. Again, Evans quoted, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish. The unbeliever stubbornly said, you disgusting fellow. What's the use of telling me that again? Heavens repeated the verse, angered the man, struck him between the eyes and knocked him down. His Bible flew one way, the young preacher of the other, but God sustained him. He got up and said, my friend, God loves you and accept you, repent. You shall all. Likewise, the very next night, that man was in the mission before meeting time, he said, I couldn't sleep last night. All over the wall I read, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish. I saw it on my pillow in the morning when I got up, I saw, except you repent at the breakfast table and all through the day it was been there before me. Now I've come back to settle it and he did and so should we. Everywhere the apostle Paul went, he preached that they should repent and turn to God. Acts 26 20, the very foundation of the gospel is described in Hebrews six, one as repentance from dead works and of faith toward God to the great crowd. In the day of Pentecost, the apostle Peter said, repent you therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out. Acts three. That's the only way to meet the judgment by confession and repentance in a time when God can be found true repentance means a turning of the life round in the opposite direction to turn away from evil. If our present direction through sin leads to destruction, we must turn around. A motor is about 50 miles outside Washington DC once asked a young farmer by the roadside how far it was to Washington in the way you're headed. The farmer said it's about 25,000 miles, but if you turn around it'll be about 53. The Greek word translated repent literally means change your mind. Other words, get a new point of view. That's what Jesus was saying, change your mind for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. You see, Jesus was looking not merely at the words but at the motive, looking at the inside of a man's mind. The Bible says, man, look it on the outward appearance, but the Lord look it on the heart. Verse Samuel 16, seven, it was Royal Smith who said that no man is ever more than four steps from God and those steps are conviction, repentance, consecration, and faith. Repentance is the sorrow under clear life ensuing as Shakespeare put it and good Martin Luther said to do so. No more is the truest repentance. Here it is in plain words that anyone can understand. In Proverbs 28 13, he that covereth his sin shall not prosper, but who so confess with and forsake of them shall have mercy and the judgment, it's God's pardon that counts and only God's pardon. It is said that in the reign of Charles, the first a prisoner was brought to trial and the jury found him guilty. Throughout all the proceedings, a man seemed calm and unconcerned. Even when the judge pronounced sentence upon him, he didn't say a word, just took a paper from his pocket and handed it to the judge. It was the king's full pardon, which a messenger had brought just in time to set him free with that pardon In his pocket, he feared nothing and so it will be in the day of judgment. If we have Christ's free pardon for sin, we shall not be afraid of anything. If we have come to God in true repentance and have confessed and forsaken our sins, we can have the blessed assurance that our sins are forgiven and that there's nothing against us. The blood of Jesus Christ himself covers all our sins. So we read in one John one, nine, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins. If we confess, he will forgive. But some who know what the holy word of God says about sin seem to say to themselves, what's the use? There's no use trying. God hates me because I'm a sinner, and that's the end of it. They go on into the darkness. They're like the wayward young fellow who ran away from home, was not heard from for years. Then in some way, word got to him that his father had died and he returned home. His mother received him kindly. The whole family was gathered together for the reading of the will by the lawyer. Everyone was surprised for the will went on in great detail telling of the wayward career of this runaway boy. He became disturbed then angry. Finally, he stamped out of the room, left the house and was not heard from for three years. When he came back, he was informed that the will, after telling about his stubbornness and waywardness went on to bequeath him $15,000. Just think of the sorrow. He would've saved himself if he had only stayed until the lawyer had finished reading the will. There are some people who only half read the Bible. They go away from it, dissatisfied. They read only part of it. Remember the book of God says the wages of sin is death. That's true enough. There's the condemnation, there's the bitterness. But the very same book, the very same chapter and the very same verse also says, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Roman 6 23. So you see God does forgive sin. The scripture says so. Jesus says so and he forgives our sins not merely for the asking, but for the asking. When the conditions are meant. When we repent, when we confess, when we turn away from our sins. It's a simple, clear, reasonable offer by the Lord. Come now and let us reason together says the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red, light crimson, they shall be as wool. Hellos shall likeon. They shall be. They shall be as white as they shall be as white as he'll. Forgive your trans and them more. He'll forgive your trans and remember them no more. Look, Lord your God, you forgive your trans. Forgive your trans and more. Until this same time next week when the voice of prophecy will again bring you this inspirational broadcast. May I urge you to keep looking up Ever going forward in faith, have faith in God above earth's rush and in have faith in God to bring salvation in. Have faith in God for giving all our sin. Have faith, dear friend in God.

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