The Removal of Sin

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“Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:2929The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)). This statement is very little appreciated in its fullness. Atonement or forgiveness through the knowledge of the blood shed on Calvary is not here the point. From the fall downwards, sin had been upon the whole system of this world. And whenever the world or anything connected with it came before the divine mind, sin was the first thought; Adam and Eve, to whom it had all been entrusted, had rebelled against God and sold themselves and creation under sin. Now it is the redemption of this system as a whole which is referred to here. Some will here, in time of the redemption, prize and rejoice in forgiveness; others may hear of the blood of God’s Son and trample it under foot. But the system, as a whole, is claimed by God, and quite apart from the believer’s joy in forgiveness, the system will be set free from sin. The wicked will be cast out of it into the lake of fire prepared for the devil and his angels. The world will be set free; there will be “a new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness” (2 Peter 3:1313Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (2 Peter 3:13)). The Lamb once slain, alive again upon the throne, though sin may yet remain in detail, is the guarantee of this. And the scope of redemption is seen in this: The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent’s head. Now this is the work the Lamb of God had to do—to introduce the world to God in another connection than as of sin being upon it, and eventually to remove every mark of sin from it.
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