Great Encouragement in Christ Jesus our LORD

How God Got Rid of Our Sins

D. G. Miles McKee

 

The gospel is wonderfully simple. It is the good news of the doing, dying and rising again of the God/Man. This gospel work was and is both finished and successful. As proof of this, we have, at this very moment, a glorified Saviour seated in the place of cosmic authority [HEBREWS 10:12].

So, let’s ask, how does God get rid of the believer’s sins? To answer this question, the Lord has taken great pains, in His Word, to show how completely He has done this. Watch how He employs word pictures that are so easily understood.

For example, (1) in Psalm 103:12, we read, "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us.” Where is the East? Where is the West? No matter where we are on the globe there is always an east and a west. But who can tell us their actual location? If we begin traveling west, we will still be westward bound after many days of journey.  Similarly, if we set out to discover the ultimate location of the east, we will never finally arrive.

As far as the east is from the west so far has He removed our transgressions from us. This is how God got rid of our sins.

2) In Isaiah 38:17, we read, "Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back." What a precious passage to assure us that God no longer sees our sins. Who can see behind his back? No one. The good news is that He no longer sees our sins. He Himself hurled them behind His back…. And not just some of our sins, … all of them.

All our sins;
Every sin in thought, word, or deed;
Every secret sin;
Every presumptuous sin;
All our sin!
He cast our sins behind His back. This is how God got rid of our sin!

3) In Micah 7:19, we read "Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." Again, we find it is His work. He Himself cast our sins there. Not simply into the sea, but into the depths of the sea. If a person on board a ship empties some coins over the ship's side, how much of it he will get back again? Not a red cent! All the coins would go down into the depths. So also with our sins. God cast them, great and small, into the depths of the sea, never to be brought back again.
This is how God got rid of our sins!

4) In Isaiah 44:22 we read, “I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins." Have you looked at the sky recently? There was a cloud there yesterday, an imposing one. Where is it today? … It is gone! And so it is with our sins. One day our sins rise up as a thick cloud between us and God, but God Himself blots them out because of the blood!
This is how God got rid of our sins!

5) In Isaiah 1:18, we read, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Scarlet and crimson are two of the most difficult colours to destroy, but God Himself took our scarlet sins, purges them, and, as it were, makes them white as snow.
This is how God gets rid of our sins!

It is our privilege to know, as David did, that we are, with reference to sin, made whiter than snow [PSALM 51:7]. God has gone to amazing lengths to get rid of our sin! [See also HEBREWS 10: 17, EPHESIANS 1:7 and ROMANS 4:7-8].

Is Jesus precious to you?  He remembers our sins no more. He forgives us according to the riches of His grace. Who can compute this kind of love and mercy?

And that’s the Gospel Truth!