The Gospel and a Good Death, Part IV

    Last time we asked, “...where are your sins?” The answer came “He Himself (Jesus) has purged them!”

That means they are gone! Our sins and their filth have been effectively taken away, once for all! Look around you, where are your sins? —They don’t exist—they are purged—they have been, not merely forgiven, they have been paid for and put away by blood, the blood of the God/Man.  Because of the cross we have been rendered clean!

So where are your sins?

I’ll tell you where.

God said, “I will cast all their sins behind My back”  (Isaiah 38:17).

But where is that?  

Spurgeon, with his usual clarity tells us where.

He says “It is nowhere, for God is everywhere present, seeing everything. So that is where my sins have gone; I speak with the utmost reverence when I say that they have gone where Jehovah Himself can never see them. Christ has so purged them that they have ceased to be.”

Our sins are now done away with in Him. Believe this and you will have a good death.  Although we were guilty, vile, helpless and judged worthy of death, God Himself came alongside us in the Person of Jesus and stood up for us. (Romans 1:18-3:20). This is unspeakable mercy and immeasurable love. Christ Jesus, because of His great love for us, became our representative and bore our sins on the terrible cross. And He was glad to do it;

He was judged and found worthy of death, not for His own sins, but for ours. Believe this and you will have a good death.

God publicly placarded Christ as a wrath offering (Romans. 3:25; I John 2:2).

He really dealt with our sins. 

Our sins were really punished in Christ. 

The penalty due to our sins was really paid for by Christ.

Our sins were really put away by Christ.

If you embrace these truths you will have a good death.

Being justified, we are now accounted as innocent and free in the eyes of the Judge. Our sins have already been punished, and it is, therefore, not possible for God to find any sin in His people.

Also, in God’s courtroom the law of double jeopardy is honoured. A penalty cannot be legally demanded twice. No believer can be charged, therefore, for a debt that has already been fully paid on his behalf.

Rest in this and you will have a good death.

Christ has gone on to prepare a place for us that where He is we may be also. He is already in Heaven (John 14:2). His work is finished; His salvation is perfect, complete and all-sufficient. Do you, from your heart, believe this? The Lord Jesus Himself has personally removed every barrier that blocked our access to Glory. We will not perish; we have eternal life—this is a guaranteed gift to all believers (John 3:16). All that remains to happen is for the unveiling of the fullness of everything that has already been accomplished in Christ. Rest on these things and you will have a good death!

The Christ Who was crucified is risen from the grave.  Believers are reckoned in Him as perfect and righteous before God. That’s the way God sees it and who are we to argue?

We are free from the penalty of sin.

We are already judged righteous.

We are already judged as pure.

We are already judged as perfect. 

We are already judged as those who are sitting at God´s right hand in heavenly places.

The believer who, by faith, rests in these Gospel truths can face death in quiet confidence.

And that’s the Gospel Truth!

 

-preacher D.G. Miles McKee 

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