WELCOME TO STEPS IN CHRIST

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WELCOME TOSTEPS IN CHRIST

• A Ministry of the Navigators

Paul Drake entered the U.S Marine Corps
after high school where he served from coast to
coast in the U.S. and overseas in Europe and
Asia. He retired as an officer after 20 years
active duty. Paul then attended Campbell College
in NC for formal Bible training and then came on
staff with the Navigators where he has ministered
from coast to coast in the U.S. and overseas in
East Asia and Europe. Paul was ordained a
minister in 1976 and from 1979 to 1981 served as
Executive Director of the San Diego Evangelical
Association. He presently serves as
Elder/Shepherd to the Navigators Military
Missionaries and Field Leader of the California
Military Ministry. Paul and his wife, Georgia,
live in San Diego and have four married sons and
twelve GRAND children.
Paul Georgia Drake
Pauls life verse is Galatians 329(NLT), And
now that you belong to Christ, you are the true
children of Abraham. You are his heirs and now
all the promises God gave to him belong to you.
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ACCEPTANCE

• Paul Drake

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ACCEPTANCE

• Introduction
• I. Our Need for Gods Love Forgiveness
• II. The Basis for Gods Love Forgiveness
• III. Experiencing Gods Love Forgiveness
• IV. Assignment in Gods Love Forgiveness

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INTRODUCTION
1. 1 John 511-12 And this is the
testimony that God has given us eternal life,
and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son
has life He who does not have the Son of God
does not have life. NKJV (437)
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INTRODUCTION

• 2. Example The Prodigal Son
• Luke 1511-24 (141-142)

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INTRODUCTION

• 3. RELATIONSHIP vs. FELLOWSHIP
• Relationship
• You Have Christ or Not - 1 John 511-13 (437)
• Permanent - 1 Peter 13-4 (420)
• God-Controlled - John 1027-29 (190)
• Never Changes - 1 Thessolonians 523-24 (376)

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INTRODUCTION

• 3. RELATIONSHIP vs. FELLOWSHIP
• Fellowship Colossians 26-7 (368)
• Sin Hinders - Psalms 323-5 (495)
• Man-Controlled - 1 John 19 (432)
• Sin Interrupts - Psalms 6618 (521)

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I. Our Need for Gods Love and Forgiveness

• A. Definition of Sin

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I. Our Need for Gods Love and Forgiveness

• A. Definition of Sin
• B. Sins Results
• Isaiah 591-2

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II. The Basis for Gods Love and Forgiveness

• A. On What Basis are Your Sins Forgiven?
• Ephesians 17 (352)
• Hebrews 922 (405)
• 1 Peter 318 (424)
• Colossians 213-14 (368)
• B. Illustration Bow Arrow

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III. Experiencing Gods Love and Forgiveness

• A. Fellowship with God - Col. 26-7 (368)
• B. Father Mother
• C. Personal Story
• D. How do I experience Gods love and
  forgiveness?

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III. Experiencing Gods Love and Forgiveness

• D. How do I experience Gods love and
  forgiveness?
• 1. Agree with God
• 2. Thank God
• 3. Turn Away

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IV. Assignment in Experiencing Gods Love and
Forgiveness

• Ask God, Psalms 51 (511-512)
• Make a List
• Write on top - 1 John 19 (432)
• Tear it up
• THANK GOD

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Key Question From what you have learned
today, what will happen if you fail to confess
your sin when God points it out?
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Summary An intimate relationship with God is the
privilege of every believer who confesses his sin
whenever God makes him aware of it.
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• Closing Challenge

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Luke 1511-24
11Then He said "A certain man had two
sons. 12And the younger of them said to his
father, 'Father, give me the portion of goods
that falls to me.' So he divided to them his
livelihood. 13And not many days after, the
younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a
far country, and there wasted his possessions
with prodigal living. 14But when he had spent
all, there arose a severe famine in that land,
and he began to be in want. 15Then he went and
joined himself to a citizen of that country, and
he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16And
he would gladly have filled his stomach with the
pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him
anything. 17But when he came to himself, he said,
'How many of my father's hired servants have
bread enough and to spare, and I perish with
hunger! NKJV (141-142)
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Luke 1511-24
18I will arise and go to my father, and will
say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven
and before you, 19and I am no longer worthy to be
called your son. Make me like one of your hired
servants." ' 20And he arose and came to his
father. But when he was still a great way off,
his father saw him and had compassion, and ran
and fell on his neck and kissed him. 21And the
son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against
heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy
to be called your son.' 22But the father said to
his servants, 'Bring out the best robe and put it
on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on
his feet. 23And bring the fatted calf here and
kill it, and let us eat and be merry 24for this
my son was dead and is alive again he was lost
and is found.' And they began to be merry. NKJV
(141-142)
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1 John 511-13
And this is the testimony that God has
given us eternal life, and this life is in His
Son. He who has the Son has life he who does not
have the Son of God does not have life. These
things I have written to you who believe in the
name of the Son of God, that you may know that
you have eternal life, and that you may continue
to believe in the name of the Son of God. NKJV
(437)
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1 Peter 13-4
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy
has begotten us again to a living hope through
the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled
and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven
for you, NKJV (420)
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John 1027-29
27My sheep hear My voice, and I know them,
and they follow Me. 28And I give them eternal
life, and they shall never perish neither shall
anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29My Father,
who has given them to Me, is greater than all
and no one is able to snatch them out of My
Father's hand. NKJV (190)
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1 Thessalonians 523-24
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you
completely and may your whole spirit, soul, and
body be preserved blameless at the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful,
who also will do it. NKJV (376)
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Colossians 26-7
As you have therefore received Christ Jesus
the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in
Him and established in the faith, as you have
been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
NKJV (368)
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Psalms 323-5
3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through
my groaning all the day long. 4 For day and
night Your hand was heavy upon me My vitality
was turned into the drought of summer. 5 I
acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I
have not hidden. I said, "I will confess my
transgressions to the LORD," And You forgave the
iniquity of my sin. NKJV (495)
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1 John 19
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness. NKJV (432)
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Psalms 6618
If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will
not hear. NKJV (521)
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Isaiah 591-2
Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened,
That it cannot save Nor His ear heavy, That
it cannot hear. But your iniquities have
separated you from your God And your sins
have hidden His face from you, So that He
will not hear. NKJV
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Ephesians 17
In Him we have redemption through His
blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the
riches of His grace NKJV (352)
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Hebrews 922
And according to the law almost all things
are purified with blood, and without shedding of
blood there is no remission. NKJV (405)
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1 Peter 318
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the
just for the unjust, that He might bring us to
God, being put to death in the flesh but made
alive by the Spirit, NKJV (424)
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Colossians 213-14
And you, being dead in your trespasses and
the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made
alive together with Him, having forgiven you all
trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of
requirements that was against us, which was
contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the
way, having nailed it to the cross. NKJV (368)
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Colossians 26-7
As you have therefore received Christ Jesus
the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in
Him and established in the faith, as you have
been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
NKJV (368)
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Psalms 51
1 Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your
lovingkindness According to the multitude of
Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And
cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I acknowledge my
transgressions, And my sin is always before me.
4 Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done
this evil in Your sight-- That You may be found
just when You speak, And blameless when You
judge. 5 Behold, I was brought forth in
iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me. 6
Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, And
in the hidden part You will make me to know
wisdom. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be
clean Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the
bones You have broken may rejoice. 9 Hide Your
face from my sins, And blot out all my
iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O
God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11
Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do
not take Your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to
me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by
Your generous Spirit. 13 Then I will teach
transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be
converted to You. 14 Deliver me from bloodshed,
O God, The God of my salvation, And my tongue
shall sing aloud of Your righteousness. 15 O
Lord, open my lips, And my mouth shall show forth
Your praise.
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Psalms 51
16 For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I
would give it You do not delight in burnt
offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken
spirit, A broken and a contrite heart-- These, O
God, You will not despise. 18 Do good in Your
good pleasure to Zion Build the walls of
Jerusalem. 19 Then You shall be pleased with the
sacrifices of righteousness, With burnt offering
and whole burnt offering Then they shall offer
bulls on Your altar. NKJV (511-512)
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1 John 19
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness. NKJV (432)