Sin Which Is Not Seen

How can God, who sees all things, no longer see sin in believers? The Lord Jesus Christ is the answer. The Messiah (Hebrew word for Christ), of whom Daniel wrote, was “to finish the transgression, and make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness” (Daniel 9:24).

To make an end of sins! — The Lord Jesus Christ has so effectually redeemed his people, so perfectly reconciled his people, so absolutely propitiated God, so thoroughly removed the sins of his people – that God declares – the God who cannot change - “their sins and iniquities will I remember no more” (Hebrews 10:17). — “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us” (Psalm 103:12). “There is therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1). In Christ, he sees us in Christ, in the Beloved “in whom he is well pleased.”

Pastor David Pledger

God loved His people with an everlasting love (Jer 31:3), so before God ever created anything, He loved His people. But those people were lost in sin, so God sent His Son to be the sacrifice for their sin. Now those people rest in complete confidence and assurance because if God loved His people enough to send His Son to be the sacrifice for their sin, you can rest assured the sacrifice was sufficient to put their sin away!

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. (Rom. 8:33-34).

See, my soul, what a blessed security thou hast. Here is God justifying; Christ dying; the Holy Ghost raising the sinner’s surety from the grave, as an evidence that the debt of sin is cancelled; and Jesus ever living to see the travail of His soul, and be satisfied in the redemption of his people. What, then, shall rob thee of thy comfort, while thou art triumphing in thy Jesus? Sin shall not; for Jesus hath put it away by the sacrifice of himself. The law cannot; for thy Jesus hath answered all its just demands. Divine justice cannot; for God himself justifieth. Death and hell cannot; for Jesus hath conquered both. In short, all that stood in thy way, the Son of God hath removed. And wilt thou not, my soul, triumph in the great salvation of thy Jesus? Surely the poor debtor may walk as boldly before the prison door, as the king in his palace, when his debts are paid. No bailiff can touch him; no mittimus again confine him. “If the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.” Triumph then my soul in the liberty wherewith thy Jesus hath made thee free; only be sure that all thy triumphs are in him. Let him have all the glory who hath wrought the whole redemption.

Robert Hawker

The Lamb of God, once upon the cross, is now the Lamb upon the throne, possessing and exercising all power in heaven and in earth. Yet, He is still mindful of those for whom He suffered; His heart is made of tenderness; His bowels melt with love; He appears in the presence of God for them, as their great High Priest, Advocate, and Intercessor.