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Summary: The following sermon is going to trace the sins, discipline, repentance and God’s gracious forgiveness of King Manasseh in order to provoke hope in our hearts that God is full of grace and is always willing to forgive.

The second key to obtaining grace and mercy is to believe one can be forgiven. Sometimes we foolishly think that our sins are so heinous that they are unpardonable. We live day in and day out with the guilt and shame of our sin with the mistaken belief that God’s justice demands we are not to be forgiven but remain estranged forever from an intimate relationship with Him. From reading that God forgave the extensive sins of Manasseh hopefully one has rightly concluded that there is no sin that the blood of Christ cannot wash clean and make as whiter than snow (Isaiah 1:18)! Once one has repented the weeping and lamentation is to turn to pure joy of having been forgiven. Too often when God asks us to do something in His kingdom “those old sins rise up and slap us down, squashing our spirits flat as roadkill on the interstate.” Like the 2,000 pound elephant that can be held by a ten pound stake, remembered, forgiven sins are often a yoke that breaks our neck of service to a holy God. If God can forgive the evilest king of all Judah’s history and appoint him to serve in His kingdom then he certainly will do the same for you!

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