Hi everyone,
Last time I explained that the law wasn’t designed to make us righteous but to bring us to the need of a saviour, which we would attain in Christ Jesus, thus having a brand new life. I then posed a question which was that now that we have attained the true righteousness in Christ Jesus, did God forget our sins? And my answer was “Yes” and “No”, and today, I’ll tell you why both answers were given.
Romans 3:23-24 says, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” but it didn’t end there, verse 25 and 26 says, “whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.” So, the question of yesterday if God forgot our sins, I said “Yes” and “No”, looking at verse 25 and 26 of Romans 3, it says Jesus became a propitiation for our sins, in other words, God forgot our sins because the sin itself was handed over to Jesus. He Himself bore our sins, which is the spirit which Adam obtained which wasn’t from God, which the entire world was cursed with, that was what was placed on Jesus, as God gave us His righteousness, (ref.: 2 Corinthians 5:21).
So, yes, God forgot our sins as Hebrews 10:12 says, “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more” This was a quoted from the Prophecy of Jeremiah in Jeremiah 31:31-34. The reason why God said He would not remember our sins again, is because someone had to pay the price for the sin committed in order for the sin to be cleared, and this was what Jesus did by dying on the cross and His pure blood standing as a remission for all our sin, (ref.: Hebrews 9:22). And this is why I also said “No” to the question that God didn’t forget our sins. His words are ye and amen, which implies that whatever He says must come to pass or be fulfilled, thus, as Man carried the sinful spirit, someone had to pay for the sin in order for mankind as a whole to become clean or which is what Jesus did on our behalf. So, God didn’t forget the sins.
As Jesus became the propitiation for our sins, the sinful spirit is gone for good, but not all the job was done by God, we also need to complete the equation. We need to receive or accept what God has done for us through Jesus, in other words, just the way you were given a gift that you need, and it is left to us to receive it or reject it, because God cannot force a thing anything into our lives because He has given us free moral agency. But the good thing about God is that He gives us the question with the answer, still, it is left to us to receive His offer or try another path.
What Jesus for us on the cross is very deep and cannot be finished even in a year’s write-up, because it is as a result of what He did for us that we are alive today. With all that has been written, why do we still have issues of sin despite being born again, doesn’t that make us unholy and unacceptable before God, in other words going back to how we were before? I answered this question before, but I’ll elaborate further in tomorrow’s write-up same time.
May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.
Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!
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Unless otherwise stated, the following scriptures are gotten from New King James Version (NKJV)
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