Do I Know The Lord?

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Do I know the Lord?
How does God reveal Himself?
What do God's people say about Him?
In the New Covenant, "They shall all know me."
God's glory is that He forgives sin
Believers know God in this way first and foremost: "He has forgiven my sins."
God has forgiven us freely, sovereignly, unreservedly and according to His holiness. He laid our sins on Jesus.
Christ has received us to the glory of God, enduring the guilt and filth and shame and punishment of our sins.
Joseph shows that Christ's love for His own was the love of a sovereign, love that forgives, love the endures their sin against himself and a love that covers and forgives all our sins. Proverbs 10:12; 1 Corinthians 13.
Several implications if we do not forgive others:
a.) An evil heart of unbelief, Gen. 50:15-21. In spite of all that we profess to believe God has done for us. Psalm 50:21.
b.) Seeking judgment where Christ's blood has made full satisfaction for sin.
c.) Seeking justice on enemies with whom God has made peace and let go. Ex: David and Saul; Joab and Abner, Philemon and Onesimus.
d.) Judging in God's place; asserting right over God to show sovereign mercy, Romans 9:15.
e.) Opposition to the prayers and words and heart of our Lord Jesus Christ.
f.) Complete lack of understanding that salvation is all of grace.
g.) We hypocritically deny by our actions what we profess to believe, that God has forgiven me frankly, fully, for Christ's sake.