Josimar Salum
God did not say He will forget our sins. God said He will not remember our sins.
The verb remember means properly, recall, bring to mind, remind oneself actively (purposefully); to remember, have in mind and “be mindful of."
When the blood of Jesus cleansed all of our sins does it means we still have our sins hidden under His blood or does it means He removed our sins completely like we have never committed any of them?
Has His Blood cleansed our sins only in our future and present or equally has cleansed our past and even before the ages?
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5)
If our forgiven sins were never committed because of the Blood of Jesus the signs of His sufferings and His crucifixion cannot be a reminding to God of our sins, instead they are the eternal marks of our Sonship, Holiness, Righteousness and Purity in Him.
I do believe that the mystery of the Cross fully involves the fact that God can’t remember anything that He doesn’t have knowledge about it.
Is He not Omniscient? Yes, His is, but not towards our sins.
We perfectly know that we were sinners and we have practiced all kind of sins. Jesus died exactly to save us from our sins. No doubt about it.
We were cleansed and forgiven through the blood of Jesus in time and throughout eternity. Also, there is no doubt about it.
Certainly for us always God will forgive and cleanse our sins, though yet for Him, He already did even before the foundation of the world when His Lamb was beforehand known.
If our forgiven sins were never committed because of the cleansing power of the Blood of Jesus the signs of His sufferings and His crucifixion cannot be an eternal remembrance that we were sinners, instead they are eternal marks of our Sonship, Holiness, Righteousness and Purity in Him.
In order for us to become like Jesus is (I John 3:1-3) and He has never sinned, we also should not. But, how is that possible? It is because of His blood.
The failure in believing that the atonement of Jesus was not sufficiently able to remove all of our sins and in making us really like He is, Pure, Holy, Righteous and Son of God, it is downsize the Gospel of Grace and Love into a religion of men and His sacrifice on the Cross a mere staging.
I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins
like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.”
Isaiah 44:22
When God
did sweep away our sins, now at the present time, or before eternity?
In Jeremiah
31:34 “declares the Lord: “For I will forgive their
wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”
In
Hebrews 10:16-17 “the Holy Spirit also testifies to
us about this. First He says: “This is the Covenant I will make with them after
that time, says the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts, and I will write
them on their minds.” Then
He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”
God did not say He will forget our sins. God said He will not remember our sins.
If God
had a registry of our sins before eternity, He is not an unchangeable God.
The words in Hebrew and in Greek for “no more” can be also
translated “since that time, yet more, even
now, yet, still and in addition.”
The verb remember means properly, recall, bring to mind, remind oneself actively (purposefully); to remember, have in mind and “be mindful of."
When the blood of Jesus cleansed all of our sins does it means we still have our sins hidden under His blood or does it means He removed our sins completely like we have never committed any of them?
Has His Blood cleansed our sins only in our future and present or equally has cleansed our past and even before the ages?
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5)
If our forgiven sins were never committed because of the Blood of Jesus the signs of His sufferings and His crucifixion cannot be a reminding to God of our sins, instead they are the eternal marks of our Sonship, Holiness, Righteousness and Purity in Him.
I do believe that the mystery of the Cross fully involves the fact that God can’t remember anything that He doesn’t have knowledge about it.
Is He not Omniscient? Yes, His is, but not towards our sins.
We perfectly know that we were sinners and we have practiced all kind of sins. Jesus died exactly to save us from our sins. No doubt about it.
We were cleansed and forgiven through the blood of Jesus in time and throughout eternity. Also, there is no doubt about it.
Certainly for us always God will forgive and cleanse our sins, though yet for Him, He already did even before the foundation of the world when His Lamb was beforehand known.
If our forgiven sins were never committed because of the cleansing power of the Blood of Jesus the signs of His sufferings and His crucifixion cannot be an eternal remembrance that we were sinners, instead they are eternal marks of our Sonship, Holiness, Righteousness and Purity in Him.
In order for us to become like Jesus is (I John 3:1-3) and He has never sinned, we also should not. But, how is that possible? It is because of His blood.
The failure in believing that the atonement of Jesus was not sufficiently able to remove all of our sins and in making us really like He is, Pure, Holy, Righteous and Son of God, it is downsize the Gospel of Grace and Love into a religion of men and His sacrifice on the Cross a mere staging.
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