Author: Senyo Cudjoe

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?” Matthew 18:21 (NIV)


One of the things we learn after salvation is how to relate with other people whether they are believers or not. In our relationship with others, we must demonstrate the love of God. We must love people as Christ loved us. In loving people, we must forgive them of any offense against us. Jesus bore our sin on himself and paid the full penalty of our sins so we could be declared eternally forgiven. We no longer have any debt of sin to pay. Jesus purchased our forgiveness with his blood without a single plea from us. Now that God has demonstrated unconditional forgiveness to us, how are we to relate with our fellow-men when they offend us? Colossians 2:13, “And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses”. We are to extend this same unconditional forgiveness to others in love.

We must choose to forgive those who offend us even without an apology from them. From our opening text, Peter thought forgiveness should have a limit, a limit of forgiving a brother seven continuous times. The answer from Jesus indicates that our forgiveness must be countless, there should not come a time where you refuse forgiveness to somebody. There are many wrong things we do but God does not hold it against us. Under the law of Moses, men get punished for the wrong things they did. However, when Christ came, he revealed the character of our Father as one who does not wait for you to forgive others before he forgives you. The Psalmist said in Psalms 130:3-4, “If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared”. There is forgiveness with God all the time. He is faithful and just to forgive sins.

The motivation to forgive others is because we have also been forgiven by Christ not because the person has apologized. When we understand how God has forgiven us in Christ, we shall be willing to forgive others. You have the ability to forgive. Forgive that brother or sister from your heart. It is true that what he or she did to you was very painful. It is true that your image is bruised by that false allegation. It is true that he denied you when you needed his help. It is true you were disappointed. You have the power and opportunity to retaliate but remember how you have been forgiven in Christ and forgive him or her. We have the responsibility to demonstrate the love of God we have received to others. Anytime we refuse to forgive others, we are falsely telling ourselves that we have not been forgiven by God. As the Father has forgiven us, we must also forgive others.

CONFESSION: As a child of God, I forgive without conditions just as my heavenly Father does.

“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:14 – 16

O Lord, make me a channel of love where there is hatred.

O Lord, make me a channel of hope where there is despair.

Lord Jesus, make me a channel of shining light where there is darkness.

O Holy Spirit, make me a channel joy happiness where there is misery and sadness

Everlasting Father, make me a channel of peace and fellow feeling where there is conflict and wickedness

Heavenly Father, make a channel of unity where there is disunity and mistrust.

And he said unto them, go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. Mark 16:15-16 (KJV)

The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is called the good news. It comes from the Greek word “euaggelion” which means, the good message. It is this good news that Jesus instructed us to go and preach. It is this good news that when men express faith or believe it, they are saved. Men are condemned by their unbelief in this good news. There is many news that can be termed as good in a different context but none of this good news has eternal value or saves a man from eternal destruction. There is only one message or news that saves men. This good news or message is called the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is also called the gospel of peace. It is the desire of God that all men hear this good news. The question then is, what is this good news, which is also called, the gospel of Christ?

The gospel of Christ is not the eradication of unemployment or poverty. It is not the achievement of universal health care. It is not raising the best politicians and businessmen. It is not becoming a good wife or husband. It is not about raising morally perfect people. Though all these are good, they are not the gospel of Christ. The gospel of Christ is universal. This means it’s not for some selected disadvantaged people in life. It is the good news everybody needs. The rich and the poor, the young and the old, the European and the African, the educated and the none educated, the healthy and the sick, the morally upright and the evil person. It is a universal solution to a universal problem of man. Money, health, employment, and family life are not the universal problem of men. Some people are without these problems.

The good news is that man can receive forgiveness of sins, man can have eternal life, man can be a child of God, and the Spirit of God can live in a man. These things were made available freely by the work Jesus did in His death and resurrection for us. All that is required of men is to receive them by believing on Jesus as the Christ who was crucified and resurrected for us according to what the prophets said from the beginning of time and was documented in the scriptures. Faith in what Christ has done is receiving all that was made available for us. This is the best news and the good news all men must hear. The greatest blessing in life is to receive forgiveness of sins. The most important experience in life is to be born again and the best decision any man can make while alive is to believe the gospel of Christ. This is over the top good news of all time, the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

CONFESSION: I have heard and believed the gospel of Christ. I am therefore saved from sin.

Fountain! Stay connected to Jesus the Ultimate Source of Life to bear much fruits today and forever. The journey continues and the MISSION is still the SAME. Engaging in Compelling OPPORTUNITIES to make the world a different place:- a better place.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

There is nothing – absolutely NOTHING that we can do to redeem ourselves from the penalty of sin and be set free from the curse of the Law. And there is nothing that we can add to the price that Jesus paid on the Cross. Only God, Himself, in the Person of Jesus Christ is able to redeem us (by faith) and He did this by dying on a tree and becoming a curse in our place. And the price that Christ paid is sufficient.

Christ redeemed us by dying in our place and He had the undiluted wrath of God poured out upon Him in our stead. God’s wrath was poured out upon Jesus to pay the price for your sins and for mine instead of God’s wrath being poured out on you and on me. Christ bore the full weight of the curse of the Law for you and did it for me too – and without the death of the holy Son of God there could be no redemption from the terrible curse of the Law. The curse of Law is death and we are incapable of escaping its curse – and death is the birthright of every man and every woman.

But Christ paid the price in our stead.

It was Moses who wrote that the penalty for condemned criminals was to hang upon a tree as a sign that they were cursed of God… and by being lifted up and hung on Calvary’s Tree, Christ was made a curse for us – redeeming us from the curse of the Law. No wonder the apostle Paul was able to write: “We preach Christ crucified – to the Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, CHRIST the POWER of God and Christ the WISDOM of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:23-24

LET’S PRAY
Heavenly Father, connect my heart to Your Word to know Your heart desires for revelation to guide me live everyday of my according to Your purpose in Jesus Name! Amen Amen Amen 😇

“Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” John 1:16-17

The Law of God is perfect, but the penalty for breaking any part of God’s law, however insignificant in our own eyes, is death – eternal separation from God. The curse of the Law is death and there is nothing that we can do to lift that curse or to pay the redemption price for our sin. The penalty for our sin is death, and this is a death-penalty that we justly deserve.

All have sinned and fallen short of the glory and perfection of God… and the wages of sin is death. But God, in His grace, ordained that there is one way that the price of breaking God’s perfect Law can be paid. There is one way that the curse of the Law can be lifted and that is through the sacrifice of His dearly beloved Son, in our place.

Trusting in the death, burial, and Resurrection of the only begotten and sinless Son of God, is the one and only price that is acceptable by a righteous God as payment for our sins. And all who have trusted in Christ as Saviour can say with certainty and eternally, “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.'” Galatians 3:13

LET’S PRAY.
Heavenly Father, thank You that Christ redeemed me from the curse of the Law by hanging on the Tree at Calvary. My Saviour Who knew no sin, became sin for me so that in Him I might be made righteous. I may never understand the enormity of what Jesus did, but I will give Him all the honour and glory, might and majesty, power and praise, both now and in the eternal ages to come in the glorious name of Jesus Christ. Amen Amen Amen 😇.