👺Forgiven😇

 Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Billy Graham

Psalms 23:6 (KJV) Surely goodness and mercy 

• Did you notice the first word? “Surely” Webster says it means “Certainly; infallibly; undoubtedly”  
• Certainly goodness and mercy shall
• infallibly goodness and mercy shall
• undoubtedly goodness and mercy shall
• Notice the very next word in that verse 
• It’ A Huge Statement:
• shall follow For how long? “all the days of my life” God’s Word gives such comfort. Look how it didn’t read. “goodness and mercy shall follow all the days” that I am good. That’s impossible! Know why? If you know what your Bible says you do.  
• Romans 3:12 (KJV) They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
• ”goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days” that I am seeking after God. No, that's wrong too. 
• Romans 3:11 (KJV) There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. Is that not what we read in the book of Luke? 
• Luke 19:10 (KJV) For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. He’s seeking us. I was talking with a young man one afternoon and I asked him if had been saved? He told me that he had done too many bad things for God to ever consider saving him. Now I’m not always this sharp. I then said I’m so sorry may I ask you who you killed? He quickly said no one! I then said you are in good shape then. Do you know that there was a man who became King over all Israel and God even calls him a man after God’s own heart. Well that King let his lust overtake him that resulted in another man’s wife getting pregnant. That King thought he had solved the problem when he had her husband killed. That King asked God to forgive him and you know what God did? He forgave him. So my friend God will forgive you too. That man’s name was David. He was the King  of Israel, read how he prayed.
• Psalms 51:1 (KJV) Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
• Psalms 51:2 (KJV) Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin
• Psalms 51:3 (KJV) For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
• Psalms 51:6 (KJV) Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
• Psalms 51:10 (KJV) Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
• Psalms 51:17 (KJV) The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
• God is not interested in our good works, our righteousness which we have done. God saves us, forgives us by His Mercy. 
• Titus 3:5 (KJV) Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
• We might think that God is sitting on His throne ruling but that’s not what we read here. Oh no God is doing what? Following! God wants the best so He follows us with His Goodness and His Mercy. It’s not our performance that will bring God’s Goodness and Mercy. No a Good and Merciful God came to save us not because we pleased Him, because we haven’t. It’s because He loves us, because He does. Genesis chapter 3 we read of the first ones God ever went seeking after, remember their names? Sure you do Adam and Eve. God didn’t wait for them to come to Him. Why is that? They did wrong and covered it up the best they knew how and all looked good until God came seeking. John 4:23 (KJV) But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
• I never had a desire to come to God until God first came to where I was.  1 John 4:19 (KJV) We love him, because he first loved us.
• 1 John 4:10 (KJV) Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation (payment) for our sins.  
• Here’s a secret which is plainly right out in the open that will restore a marriage if it is practiced. 
• Ephesians 5:25 (KJV) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
• If a husband will love his wife like that his wife will without doubt love her husband. Husbands don’t marry a wife to divorce her later in life. (Husbands, love your wives) then as husbands we are given an example. I like examples they teach us how to solve the problem (even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;) My wife's name is Judy and she loves going to the beach. I on the other hand could care less about the beach. So why do I go? Because Judy likes the beach and I love Judy and I want to be where she is. I wrote all this to say that no amount of money will buy love.  1 John 4:10 (KJV) Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.