I want to show you this powerful liberating truth. From my heart of hearts I show you with tears what Christ brought and bought is in His redemption, the free gift of righteousness often ignored and unknown by many. I'm sure you want to know it. Alleluia.
Do you know that you have never been known by God as being in sin since you met Christ? Yes, since you became born again, it's not been a perfect thing. You may have come the journey so far with mistakes and roughness. Maybe there have been times you've lied before, sometimes it's lust, sometimes it's been greed, to mention but a few. But do you know you've never been seen before God with any of those sins? They've got no record! Before God, you've been sinless all the while.
Hey! Is this sounding unthinkable to you? But it shouldn't be unbelievable if you claim you believe that Jesus died to take your sins away. Christ paid it ALL!
Do you say you believe in the imputed righteousness by faith? Then you already believe this too! Otherwise righteousness is not righteousness. If you are righteous by faith before God and not a dependence on self righteousness, then it means you're without sin before God by the same faith and not by your works. If righteousness by faith is God not reckoning with your works but your belief in Christ (as Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him as righteousness Gal4:6); then you're without sin without your works too. (You can find our past topics on righteousness on this blog).
Our problem sometimes is that we claim to know somethings when we actually do not understand them. We're not giving room to more sin,don't take extremes, but provoking you to see the magnitude of Christ passion and gift and thus your more love and gratitude to him, because he that does not love, it's because he has not known God, for God is love (1 John 4:8).
Aren't these things in that same Bible of yours?
Heb 8:12
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
(KJV)
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
(KJV)
*[[Isa 43:25]] KJV* I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
A contentious mind might quickly say "that's talking of past sins. God will take afterwards sins more serious". So God will not forgive afterwards sins? That's a very wrong interpretation of that verse. See it...
...and will not remember thy sins...
Do you notice that's futuristic? So at that time, it was a promise. Sins were still remembered then. So rather than the verse talking about before or after salvation altar call when it says "I will...no more", it's a promise of the day of Christ. In the day of Christ (redemption), when there is now a perfect and real remission, I will remember people's sins no more. Otherwise there will be no difference between the times of the prophets and today, because even then they had an atonement which cannot stop them from still coming for another washing away of sins next time.
In case you still do not comprehend, what about this
*[[2Co 5:19]] BBE* That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace.
In Psalms 32, David speaks of the blessedness of the man God takes NO ACCOUNT of his sins showing you it's possible and very real even if it's unthinkable to you, that God says "innocent" to a man.
Rom 4:6-8
6 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
and whose sins are covered;
8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”
(ESV)
6 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
and whose sins are covered;
8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”
(ESV)
Today, the man in Christ is that blessed man, God accounts him righteous works-absent.
And this is our confidence before God in prayer. Everything we receive from the Father, it's in THE NAME AND RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS. We dare not trust the arm of flesh. So do you love Him more?
