Part IX: Scriptural Studies: Confession, Repentance, Forgiveness
I. Read and study 1 John 1:9:
A. What is your reason for confessing your sin(s)?
B. What is your hope in doing so?
C. What is John’s teaching?
D. What is your response to the verse?
E. How does God’s truth in verse 9 affect your thinking, desires, and action?
II. Read and study Romans 8:1, 32-34:
A. How is it possible that there is no condemnation or guilt?
B. How is possible that neither God nor Christ will bring charges against you?
III. Read the following passages regarding God’s forgiveness.
Psalms 51:1,9; 103:12
Micah 7:18-20
Isaiah 1:18; 38:17; 43:25; 44:22
Jeremiah 31:34
Acts 3:19
A. What do these verses teach about God’s forgiveness?
B. What does God do when He forgives? How is that possible?
C. What does the Bible teach about sins once forgiven?
IV. Believers are the most forgiven people on earth.
A. What was your condition prior to being saved? See Isaiah 59:1-2; Romans 5:6-10
B. Functioning as a believer means forgiving as you have been forgiven.
1. According to Ephesians 4:31-32 and Colossians 3:12-13, what is your model for forgiving?
2. How is that possible?
a. How does Matthew 18:21-35 help you answer that question?
b. How does Luke 7:36-50 help you answer that question?
3. What does Luke 17:3-10 teach about forgiveness and fruit, faith, and feeling?
V. Being forgiven and forgiving are great facts/truths, privileges, and blessings of all believers.
A. Keeping your promise of forgiveness is something that you can and must do.
B. What does Mark 11:25 say is one cause of unanswered prayer?