"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all

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Biblical Forgiveness

• "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just
  to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from
  all unrighteousness." 1 John 19
• "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy
  transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins return
  unto me for I have redeemed thee." Isaiah 4422

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Biblical Forgiveness

• "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath
  he removed our transgressions from us." Psalm
  10312
• " He will turn again, he will have compassion
  upon us he will subdue our iniquities and thou
  wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the
  sea." Micah 719
• "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN
  FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED."
  Romans 47

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Biblical Forgiveness-How Many times must God
repeat Himself?

• "...for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will
  remember their sin no more." Jeremiah 3134
• For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,
  and their sins and their iniquities will I
  remember no more. Hebrews 812
• And their sins and iniquities will I remember no
  more. Hebrew 1017

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Biblical Forgiveness-How Many times must God
repeat Himself?

• "In whom we have redemption through his blood,
  the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches
  of his grace" Isaiah 4325
• "In whom we have redemption through his blood,
  the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches
  of his grace" Ephesians 17

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1 Peter 315

• Be ready always to give an answer to every man
  that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in
  you with meekness and fear

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Works-Grace

• "Since the Savior paid for our sins and satisfied
  justice for us, we become debtors to Him rather
  than to justice. We must therefore meet the
  stipulations He has established for forgiveness
  and cleansing. Otherwise, He withdraws His
  proffered mediation, and we are left to deal
  alone with the demands of justice, lacking the
  means to become pure. One must choose Christ to
  receive what Christ offers." ELDER D. TODD
  CHRISTOFFERSON Of the Presidency of the Seventy,
  Ensign, June 2001, 18-25
• 3rd Article of Faith "We believe that through
  the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be
  saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of
  the Gospel.

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Works-Grace

• "It is clear that our acceptance of the gift of
  grace is not a single act occurring at a single
  moment in time, but is instead an ongoing process
  and obligation." Ensign, June 2001, 18-25
• "And it shall come to pass, that whoso repenteth
  and is baptized in my name shall be filled and
  if he endureth to the end, behold, him will I
  hold guiltless before my Father at that day when
  I shall stand to judge the world.And he that
  endureth not unto the end, the same is he that is
  also hewn down and cast into the fire, from
  whence they can no more return, because of the
  justice of the Father." 3 Nephi, 2716-17

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Works-Grace

• For behold, justice exerciseth all his demands,
  and also mercy claimeth all which is her own and
  thus, none but the truly penitent are saved Alma
  422224
• Grace is granted to men proportionately as they
  conform to the standards of personal
  righteousness that are part of the gospel plan
  (Mormon Doctrine, McConkie, p 339)

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Works-Grace

• if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness
  and love god with all your, might, mind and
  strength, then is his grace sufficient for you
  (Moroni 1032)
• for we know it is by grace we are saved, after
  all we can do (2 Nephi 2523)

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Can Salvation be earned?

• "Now to him that worketh is the reward not
  reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that
  worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth
  the ungodly, his faith is counted for
  righteousness." Romans 44-5

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Can Salvation be earned?

• "Now to him that worketh is the reward not
  reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that
  worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth
  the ungodly, his faith is counted for
  righteousness." Romans 44-5

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Grace-WorksCan the Law make us Righteous?

• "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no
  flesh be justified in his sight for by the law
  is the knowledge of sin." Romans 320
• "Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what
  law? of works? Nay but by the law of faith."
  Romans 327
• "And if by grace, then is it no more of works
  otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of
  works, then it is no more grace otherwise work
  is no more work." Romans 116

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Grace-WorksCan the Law make us Righteous?

• "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works
  of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ,
  even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we
  might be justified by the faith of Christ, and
  not by the works of the law for by the works of
  the law shall no flesh be justified." Galatians
  216
• "I do not frustrate the grace of God for if
  righteousness come by the law, then Christ is
  dead in vain." Galatians 221
• Is the law then against the promises of God? God
  forbid for if there had been a law given which
  could have given life, verily righteousness
  should have been by the law. Galatians 321

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Grace-Works

• "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy
  calling, not according to our works, but
  according to his own purpose and grace, which was
  given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,"
  2 Timothy 19
• "But after that the kindness and love of God our
  Saviour toward man appeared, 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"
  Titus 34-5

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Grace-WorksIt is by Grace

• "For by grace are ye saved through faith and
  that not of yourselves it is the gift of God
  Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we
  are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto
  good works, which God hath before ordained that
  we should walk in them." Ephesians 28-10

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What is the requirement of the Law?

• For as many as are of the works of the law are
  under the curse for it is written, Cursed is
  every one that continueth not in all things which
  are written in the book of the law to do them.
  Galatians 310
• For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet
  offend in one point, he is guilty of all. James
  210
• For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet
  offend in one point, he is guilty of all. Deut
  2726

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What should we trust?

• Reliability of feelings
• Jeremiah 179
• Proverbs 2826
• Mark 720-23
• Demonic Spirits
• 1 John 41
• 2 John 17
• 2 Cor. 1113-15
• Gal. 18-9
• False Prophets
• Jeremiah 1414
• Jeremiah 2316
• Matthew 715
• Matthew 2424

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What should we trust?

• Testing our beliefs
• 1 Thes. 521
• Acts 1711
• 2 Timothy 215
• Reliability of Scripture
• 2 Timothy 316-17
• 2 Peter 121