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No matter what you've done, God stands ready to forgive you and cleanse you, if you will only turn to Christ and trust Him alone for your salvation.

How can God forgive us, even when we have committed the worst kinds of sin? The reason is simply because God loves us, despite our sin, and sent His Son into the world to make our salvation possible. Jesus was perfect and without sin -- but on the cross every sin you and I ever committed was placed on Him, and He took the punishment we deserved.

We take for granted how easily God forgives us while we will not forgive others who sin against us. Yet we are to forgive in the same manner that God forgave us. Stephen was stoned to death only because he was a Christian. His dying words were, "Lord do not hold this sin against them." Acts 7:60. In the parable of the unforgiving servant (Matthew 18:21-35) A king forgave a servants debt of $10 million dollars. This servant then went out and threw into jail a friend who owed him about $100 dollars. When the king heard of it he said to him, "You wicked slave, I forgave you all that debt because you entreated me. Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave, even as I had mercy on you? And his lord, moved with anger, handed him over to the torturers until he should repay all that was owed him. So shall My heavenly Father also do to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart." You see, the manner that we dish out forgiveness to others, it will be dished back to us in exactly the same way by God.

ACTS 13:38-39 NKJ
38 "Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins;
39 "and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

ISAIAH 43:25 NKJ
25 "I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

HEBREWS 8:12 NKJ
12 "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

LUKE 7:48 NKJ
48 And He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."

No matter what you have done -- God has already forgiven you!