READ: PSALM
103:8-14
Jesus is
simply wonderful. I owe everything I am and ever will be to him. The same
applies for every genuine Christian whose sins have been washed away by the
blood of Christ. We shall be eternally grateful to him. After the fall of Adam,
men became sinners. Sin had brought a deadlock in man’s relationship with God.
But the love of God prevailed, and he sought out a way to relate with man. In
the Garden of Eden, God had to shed blood to obtain animal skins to cover Adam
and Eve (Genesis 3:21). But this was not enough.
While seeking a perfect solution to the problem of sin, God had an idea to extend forgiveness by covering his children’s sins. If you cover coins with a stone, and you remove the stone years later, the coins will still be there. Although Old Testament believers could sacrifice animals to atone for their sins, it was still not the final solution. In Psalm 32:1 David said: “BLESSED whose is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.” However, God thought of a better way. David said of this method in Psalm 103:12 “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgression from us.” But even this separation from sin was not good enough for God.
Since sin is a terrible stain on one’s robe of righteousness, it is better to wash it away. That is what David asked for in Psalm 51. Under the old covenant God used the blood of animals as a spiritual detergent to wash away the stains of his children’s sins. But ultimately, that was not the solution. So God came to his last option: he sent Jesus Christ, his own Son, to shed his righteous blood on Calvary. When Jesus was resurrected and returned to his Father in heaven, all the sins to which his blood was applied, disappeared completely. Praise God! Any sin which has been washed away by the blood of Jesus has been forgiven forever. The record of that sin is wiped. Are you truly saved? If you are, you can rest assured that the records of your past sin have been erased completely. Do not let the devil accuse you. He has no records on which to base his accusations! But make sure that you do not fall back in sin. If you do, ask Jesus to wash your sins away immediately.
While seeking a perfect solution to the problem of sin, God had an idea to extend forgiveness by covering his children’s sins. If you cover coins with a stone, and you remove the stone years later, the coins will still be there. Although Old Testament believers could sacrifice animals to atone for their sins, it was still not the final solution. In Psalm 32:1 David said: “BLESSED whose is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.” However, God thought of a better way. David said of this method in Psalm 103:12 “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgression from us.” But even this separation from sin was not good enough for God.
Since sin is a terrible stain on one’s robe of righteousness, it is better to wash it away. That is what David asked for in Psalm 51. Under the old covenant God used the blood of animals as a spiritual detergent to wash away the stains of his children’s sins. But ultimately, that was not the solution. So God came to his last option: he sent Jesus Christ, his own Son, to shed his righteous blood on Calvary. When Jesus was resurrected and returned to his Father in heaven, all the sins to which his blood was applied, disappeared completely. Praise God! Any sin which has been washed away by the blood of Jesus has been forgiven forever. The record of that sin is wiped. Are you truly saved? If you are, you can rest assured that the records of your past sin have been erased completely. Do not let the devil accuse you. He has no records on which to base his accusations! But make sure that you do not fall back in sin. If you do, ask Jesus to wash your sins away immediately.
MEMORIZE:
PSALM 103:12 –As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our
transgression from us.
