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 S aviour 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 ha th H e 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. Similarl...