Ultimate Liberation: Beyond Forgiveness
Pilkington Jr, ClydeMany people labor under a heavy weight of guilt and shame. The answer is to be found only in the total provision that God Himself has already provided!
Forgiveness is at the core of religious teaching and activity, and at the root of forgive- ness is guilt. The followers of religion seek to obtain for- giveness through some means – concerted effort, confessions, prayers, penance, resolutions, etc.
What the God of Scripture offers is freedom from sins!
In Whom we have redemption through His blood, the freedom
from sins, ac- cording to the riches of His grace (Ephesians 1:7).
Ultimate freedom from sin is far more than forgiveness or pardon. What Paul taught went well beyond that. The revelation given to him involved justification, which, instead of being rooted in guilt, is rooted in right- eousness.