Sin Put Away!
“Now
once in the end of the world has He appeared to put
away
sin by the sacrifice of Himself”
(Hebrews
9:26).
What
does it mean to put away sin? We can learn much about this from the
Feast of Unleavened Bread when the Israelites were commanded to put
away all leaven out of their houses (Exodus 12:15;19). Leaven is
usually a picture of sin and this ‘putting away’ was a thorough
job. The cupboards and drawers were emptied and their floors were
very carefully swept in case a crumb of leaven bread should remain
(see also Exodus 13:3-16; Leviticus 23:6-8; Deuteronomy
16:8; John 6:51).
In the New Testament, sin, not leaven,
was put away by Jesus. He, as it were, cleaned house. If it had
been left to us to clean our houses, we would have missed some of our
hidden sins. We don’t realise how great a mountain of sin and
lurking darkness we accumulated during our lifetime.
Question:
How did Jesus put away sin?
Answer: “He appeared to put
away
sin by the sacrifice of Himself” Hebrews 9:26.
Spurgeon
says, “All your sins—every size, shape, form, hue, degree, or
fashion, are altogether gone! Crimson sins, black sins, crying sins,
every sort of iniquity from your childhood until now, and right on
till you enter into the rest of the Beloved; they were all taken and
laid upon Christ. He made an end of them all when He offered up His
great sacrifice; He has put away sin as a whole for His chosen; this
is a glorious truth!” (C.H.
Spurgeon: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Volume 16 The Putting Away
Of Sin: Sermon No. 911)
If
our sins have been put away, why do we think we can be saved and then
lost? Can Jesus lose us? If He can, then Jesus didn’t put all
our sins away. If we think we can be saved and lost, far be it
from us to sing “Unto
Him who loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and
has made us kings and priests unto God and His Father, to Him be
glory and dominion for
ever and ever”
(Revelation 1:5-6).
Notice the words, “for
ever and ever!”
If Christ can lose us, we need to take that passage out of the
Bible.
To ‘put away’ means literally a disannulling, a
total abolition and an annihilation of sins. Christ has done
away with the sins of His people! “The
iniquities of Israel,”
He says, “shall
be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and
they shall not be found”
(Jerimiah 50:20). To fear that we as believers could eventually
perish is to look at Jesus with a heart of doubt. May we learn
to endorse the words of Augustus Toplady who wrote,
"Complete
atonement Thou hast made
And to the utmost farthing
paid
Whate'er Thy people owed.
How then can wrath on me
take place,
If sheltered in Thy righteousness
And sprinkled
with Thy blood?"
May
each of us know that Jesus Christ has put away our sin - all of
it. We are now accepted as though we are fully righteous.
Do
you mean we are innocent?
No! Much more than
innocent. He has clothed us in His righteousness. And, listen to
this, “The
gifts and calling of God are without repentance”
(Romans 11:29). The eternal God never says then unsays, never does
then undoes, never gives then un-gives. If we have been declared not
guilty, then we are indeed not guilty, and no one can ever condemn us
(see
Psalm 103:12).
This
is wonderful! Dear believer, we can never go down into the pit of
hell; God can never be so angry with us as to utterly forsake us! We
are both saved and safe!
And that’s the Gospel Truth!
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by preacher D. G. Miles Mckee
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