▪︎ We all fall short – Rom 3:23;
▪︎ No one is perfect – Eccl 7:20;
▪︎ Saying we are sinless makes God a liar – 1John 1:8, 10;
▪︎ But God forgives sin – 1John 1:9;
▪︎ 1Kings 8:46; 2Chron 6:35;
(full text- 1Kings_8:46-52
46“When they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and deiver them to an enemy, so that they take them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near; 47if they take thought in the land where they have been taken captive, and repent and make supplication to You in the land of those who have taken them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly’; 48if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name; 49then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause, 50and forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You, and make them objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, that they may have compassion on them 51(for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forth from Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace), 52that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You.
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