| To the Christian who realizes something of the awfulness of sin before a holy God, and how we were spiritually “dead in trespasses and sins,” there is nothing for which we thank God more than for the knowledge that “Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back.” When man forgives man, he excuses the penalty; when God forgives, He executes the penalty. This He did, when “Christ … suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.” The believer’s sins, with the condemnation that went with them, are gone forever. “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us,” and He says that “I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.” “Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea,” “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” Dear believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, rejoice in sins forgiven forever, and in Him who said that “I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions … and will not remember thy sins.” |
