One of the most frequently heard statements is that "Jesus Christ died on the Cross to save us from our sins. It is his death that makes forgiveness possible for us." God sent Jesus into the world to save the world by his sacrificial death on the Cross.
I am not sure where I have been all these years, but the question was raised this week as we looked at the Psalms, what made it possible for God to forgive David and the rest of the people in the Old Testament? If God forgave David his sins and God forgave the children of Israel when they repented and turned to him, where did that forgiveness come from? How was that possible before Jesus?
If Forgiveness was only made possible by the death of Christ on the Cross, how did God forgive before the Cross? Maybe the death of Jesus on the Cross is the clearest and best demonstration of the Forgiveness in the heart of God which Jesus shows to all the world? Maybe?
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