My Sins Are Gone

Today’s Bible readings are Judges 15:1-16:31, John 2:1-25, Psalm 103:1-22, & Proverbs 14:17-19

Psalm 103:11-12

¹¹ For his unfailing love toward those who fear him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth. ¹² He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.

How many times have you stood feeling condemned? How many times has something from your past come up to accuse you? How many times have you beat yourself up over a mistake that you made? How many times have you thought that something in your past is unforgivable? How many times has the thought came that God could never forgive you for something that you have done?

These are the kind of thoughts that plague so many in the body of Christ. We all are way too familiar with our past failures & sins. The memory of past failures & sins keep us stuck. They even keep us sinning.

I want to clarify that last statement. Some people may wonder how that is possible. When we continue to carry the past sins & failures around with us in our minds, it kills our right standing with God. As long as we see ourselves as failing sinners, we don’t think we have the right to go to God for help. This kills our confidence. So we live in a defeated state of mind. This leads to us being weak & defeated in life, which is where sin gets it power. All this leads to a cycle of us failing & sinning continually.

The Good News is this: 

 1.      God’s love is greater than any of our failures.

2.      God has removed our sins from us.

 

This is so awesome when we get a revelation of it. God has truly removed our sins from us. When He looks at us He doesn’t see our past failures & sins. He sees us clothed in the righteousness of His Son Jesus, in whom He is entirely pleased!  There is no hint or trace of our past in God’s mind. He has cast it into the sea of forgetfulness. He remembers it no more. Our problem is not that God remembers our past, it is that we do.

Satan is a master at bringing up the past. He does it in such a way that we don’t even realize it is him. As he sets those thoughts of the past up in our mind, we have to make sure to cast them down. We MUST confess that we are removed from our sins & sin is removed from us. It is like my pastor, George Edgerly, use to say, “When satan reminds you of your past, remind him of his future.”

There is this old song that we use to sing in church when I was younger that speaks about this topic very well.

When Satan comes to tempt me and tries to make me doubt,
I say, "My sins are gone;
You got me into trouble but Jesus got me out,
I'm glad my sins are gone."

Chorus
They're underneath the blood on the cross of Calvary,
As far removed as darkness is from dawn;
In the sea of God's forgetfulness, that's good enough for me,
Praise God, my sins are gone.

God wants you to know that you are released from your past. You are released from sin. Now go & be the new creature He has saved you to be. You no longer have to believe the accusations that come about your past. God says:  “Your sins are gone!”

Pastor Richard Schlotter