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Hebrews 10:17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” |
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When I was a young Christian growing up in Singapore, I read a little tract entitled This Was Your Life.
In that tract, it said that when you get to heaven, God will replay
your entire life, including all your sins, on a huge video screen for
all the angels and other saints to watch!
The idea that God was making such a video of my life with the intention
of screening it for everyone to watch used to make me feel awful and
condemned before God. How could I ever stand boldly in His presence? And
how was I going to face my loved ones and Christian friends in heaven?
I was a nervous wreck, thinking about all my sins that God was
recording down, until I read this in the Bible: “Blessed is the man to
whom the Lord shall not impute sin.” (Romans 4:8)
Hallelujah! I jumped for joy when I found out that God was not counting
my sins against me, and that He has given me something called
“non-imputation of sins”!
My friend, the reason that God does not impute any of our sins to us is
that He has already imputed all of them to the body of His Son Jesus
when He hung on the cross 2,000 years ago. Not only that, when God
punished His Son for our sins, He caused the curse of the law to fall
stroke by stroke upon Jesus’ entire body until every curse had been
fully satisfied. That is why we have been redeemed from the curse of the
law. (Galatians 3:13) That is why, instead of imputing sin to us, God
imputes righteousness!
God wants us to know that our sins and lawless deeds He will remember no more.
The words “no more” in the original Greek text carry a strong
double-negative meaning. In other words, God is saying, “No way, by no
means, will I ever remember your sins again!”
Beloved, since God says that He will remember your sins no more, why do
you still remember them? Or for that matter, your spouse’s or
neighbor’s sins? God does not want you to be conscious of sins because
He is not. So rejoice! Come to Him boldly and expect Him to show you
mercy and grace because He remembers your sins no more!
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Sunday, 4 December 2016
YOUR SINS WILL NOT BE SCREENED IN HEAVEN - Joseph Prince
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