WHAT IS AN ASSURANCE OF PARDON?

After responding to God’s Word delivered through the sermon, we read a promise from Scripture assuring the repentant sinner of God’s forgiveness and cleansing through Christ.

1 John 1:9: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

We celebrate justification by faith - getting right with God, being acquitted in his court, being forgiven for our sins, being declared righteous and having the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and our sins imputed to him, (not becoming righteous, but being counted as righteous while we are still sinners), and all this by faith alone.