| The closer the Christian walks in fellowship with the Lord, the more conscious he is of his own sinfulness and sins. What great joy it brings, then, to have God’s Word that “I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.” And, blessed be God, this perfect forgiveness is secured by the perfect, once-for-all sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, “in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” Not by effort, not by imagined righteousness, not by ordinances, not by church membership, but “according to the riches of His grace” we have “forgiveness of sins.” “I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake.” And though we, as Christians, need to deal constantly with the matter of sin in our lives, yet sin in the condemning sense is gone forever for the believer in Christ. “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin,” because Christ “His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree,” as “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” |
