My Great Sins are Forgiven

Prologue

               Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
               Psalm 32:1 NIV

               No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’

               because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares 

               the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” 

               Jeremiah 31:34 NIV

I have seen the goodwill of God. Surely, He has seen my past sins and in spite of them He has the big heart to forgive me. To be sure, He cast them all into the bottomless sea.

God Forgives the Much Evil
That King Manasseh Did

2 Chronicles 33:1-13 NIV

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, following the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites. He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had demolished; he also erected altars to the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.  He built altars in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.” In both courts of the temple of the Lord, he built altars to all the starry hosts. He sacrificed his children in the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, practiced divination and witchcraft, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. HE DID MUCH EVIL IN THE EYES OF THE LORD, AROUSING HIS ANGER.

He took the image he had made and put it in God’s temple, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever. I will not again make the feet of the Israelites leave the land I assigned to your ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them concerning all the laws, decrees and regulations given through Moses.” But Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention. So the Lord brought against them the army commanders of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh prisoner, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon. In his distress he sought the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors. AND WHEN HE PRAYED TO HIM, THE LORD WAS MOVED BY HIS ENTREATY AND LISTENED TO HIS PLEA; so he brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. THEN MANASSEH KNEW THAT THE LORD IS GOD.

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