Praise the Lord, God is propitious to our unrighteousnesses and He forgives and forgets our sins according to the new covenant, based on the blood of Christ! And the more He forgives us, the more we love Him and fear Him, for He forgives and forgets our sins, erasing them from His memory! Praise the Lord!
Forgiveness of sins is the procedure by which God achieves His purpose, it is the base for Him to come in to dispense His life into us.
According to the order of the blessings of the new covenant both in Hebrews and in Jeremiah, the forgiveness of sins is last, but in our experience, it is the first item, for we need to confess our sins, apply the Lord’s blood, and receive the Lord’s forgiveness of sins before we can come forward to enjoy Him.
God’s intention is related to man, and He wants man to come into a covenant with Him; He has made a new covenant in which all those who believe into Him enter to enjoy all its bequests.
According to the new covenant, we have forgiveness of sins, the imparting of the law of life in our inner being, having God as our God and being His people, and knowing God inwardly in the way of life.
No one can force God to do anything, but He has made a new covenant and enacted it through the Lord’s blood shed on the cross; now in His resurrection and ascension, Christ is the Mediator and Executor of the new covenant, making sure that all those who believe into Him enjoy all the riches, all the blessings, all the bequests of the new covenant.
Christ in His heavenly ministry makes sure that we know, enjoy, and receive forgiveness of sins; He leads us to realize that God is propitious to our unrighteousnesses, and He forgives and forgets our sins, remembering them no more!
Christ imparts Himself as the divine life into us, and this life has a law – the law of the divine life, which shapes us and conforms us to the image of Christ, the Firstborn Son of God. Christ causes us to be the people of God and to fellowship with God inwardly through the exercise of our spirit.
Christ as the divine life in us with its life function enables us to know God in the way of life; we can know God in the inward way of life. And all these are based on the forgiveness of sins, which God freely gives us according to His covenant. Praise the Lord!
Christ made propitiation for our Sins to Appease God’s Righteousness and Reconcile us to God through His Blood
According to the new covenant, God will be propitious to our unrighteousnesses, and our sins He shall by no means remember anymore (Heb. 8:12; Jer. 31:34).
Before we can receive the divine life, we need to receive the forgiveness of sins.
According to Micah 7:18-19, our God is pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of His people; He doesn’t retain His anger forever, for He delights in lovingkindness, and He will again have compassion on us, He will tread our iniquities underfoot, and He will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
This reveals how willing our God is to forgive our iniquities (cf. Psa. 103:12; Isa. 1:18; Heb. 8:12; 1 John 1:9); this is a word of comfort to us.
What does it mean to propitiate? Simply speaking, to propitiate is to conciliate two parties and make them one; it is to appease, to reconcile one by satisfying the other’s demands.
Praise the Lord, we were reconciled to God because Christ satisfied the demands of God’s righteousness on the cross!
In His eyes, the verdict for sinning is death (Exo. 18:20); God cannot tolerate unrighteousness.
Thank the Lord that He became a man and died in our place; He died a vicarious death; yes, the wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23), but thank the Lord that Christ paid those wages on the cross, and now we can enjoy the free gift of life from God today!
Christ made propitiation for our sins to appease God’s righteousness, to reconcile us by satisfying the demands of God’s righteousness (Heb. 2:17).
Based upon this propitiation, God forgives our sins, and even more, He does not even remember them.
God will forgive and forget our sins; without forgetting, there is no real forgiveness.
The new covenant has as its primary blessing the imparting of the divine life which brings in the inner law of life, the blessing of having God and of being His people, and the inward ability to know the Lord.
For us to enjoy such a blessing, God had to be propitious to our unrighteousness and forget and forgive our sins.
Such a propitiation issuing in His forgiveness gives God the ground to impart His life into us. A charge has been made against us before God, because of our sins, and we were condemned by God (John 3:18; 5:24).
But Christ came, He shed His blood and died on the cross according to God’s righteousness; He suffered God’s righteous punishment in our place (Heb. 9:22), thus satisfying God’s righteous requirement.
Now whoever believes into the Lord and repents and confesses their sins, God can and will forgive their sins, and He cancels the charges of sin against them, delivering them from the penalty.
The Greek word for “forgiveness” in the New Testament means, “causing (it) to leave”, and “sending away” (Matt. 12:31; Rom. 4:7; Acts 5:31; 13:38).
God forgives our sins, and He causes the sins which we have committed to depart from us, for Jesus was made an offering for sin on the cross, and all our sins were laid on Him so that He might carry them up in His body for us (John 1:29; Isa. 53:6; 1 Pet. 2:24).
Also, God caused all our sins to be laid on Satan so that he should bear them forever; according to the type in the atonement recorded in Lev. 16, the goat for Azazel bore the sins of the children of Israel – this is a type of Satan, who will bear the sins, all of which came from him.
Praise the Lord, God forgives our sins, He exempts us from suffering the penalty of sin, He causes our sins to depart from us, and He also forgets our sins!
Thank You Lord Jesus for dying for us on the cross to bear our sins in Your body on the tree. Thank You for suffering the judgment of the righteous God on our behalf; You paid the wages of death and now by faith in You we can receive the free gift of life. Thank You for making propitiation for our sins to appease God’s righteousness. Thank You for reconciling us to God by satisfying the demands of God’s righteousness. Hallelujah, today we can receive God as life and we can enjoy God, fellowship with God, know God inwardly in the way of life, and even become the same as God in life and nature but not in the Godhead, all because of Christ’s death on the cross in our place!
The Precious Blood of Christ Resolves all our Problems so we can Fellowship with God and Enjoy His Salvation
We thank the Lord for dying for us on the cross, shedding His blood for the forgiveness of our sins, and paying the wages of death on our behalf.
The precious blood of Christ, whose blood is all-efficacious, resolves all our problems so that we can remain constantly in fellowship with God to continually enjoy His organic salvation (1 John 1:7-9; 2:1-2).
Christ died once for all; we have been forgiven once for all our sins, and His blood cleanses us whenever we confess our sins under His divine light.
We need to apply the blood of Christ to our continual experience; we need to enjoy the cleansing of the blood of Christ every day so that we can continue to enjoy His organic salvation.
Before God, the redeeming blood of the Lord has cleansed us once for all eternally (see Heb. 9:12, 14), and the efficacy of that cleansing doesn’t need to be repeated.
However, in our daily experience, we need the instant application in our conscience of the constant cleansing of the Lord’s precious blood again and again; whenever our conscience is enlightened by the divine light in our fellowship with God, we need to confess our sins and apply the Lord’s blood.
We need to maintain our fellowship with God every day, and the way to do this is to come to Him, be under His shining light, and as our conscience is enlightened, we confess the sins that the light exposes; then, we receive the instant application of His precious blood to our conscience.
In this way, we receive forgiveness of sins, and what we confess, He also forgets. Once God forgives us, He no longer remembers our sins – He erases our sins from His memory.
Hallelujah, forgiveness of sins is the removal of the charges of sin against us before God so that we may be delivered from the penalty of God’s righteousness (John 5:24).
When we confess, He forgives and forgets; we could say that in relation to our sins which we confess, God has amnesia – He will no longer remember them.
When God forgives us of our sins, He causes the sins we committed and confessed to depart from us (Psa. 103:12; Lev. 16:7-10, 15-22); as far as the east is from the west, so far He has removed our transgressions from us!
Some say, however, that knowing this may encourage man to sin and then confess; however, our enjoyment and experience of God’s forgiveness of our sins results in our fearing Him and loving Him, for our fellowship with Him is restored (Psa. 130:4; Luke 7:47).
With God there’s forgiveness of sins that He may be feared; when we receive the Lord’s forgiveness in a fresh way after the confession of our sins, we fear God.
To fear God is to revere God, to consider and regard God in everything, to trust God, and to honor God. Such a healthy fear of God will stop us from doing evil, and will cause us to be touched by the sufferings of others, showing them mercy and compassion.
May the Lord make our heart single in fearing His name (Psa. 86:11), and may we be filled with the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah (Isa. 11:2).
The Lord Jesus as a man feared God, revered God, honored God, and trusted in God to the uttermost.
What issues of our being forgiven by God is that we love Him to the uttermost; he who is forgiven much, loves much.
The more we confess our sins under the Lord’s light and enjoy the Lord’s forgiveness, the more we love Him and fear Him; we realize what great sinners we are, how great our sins are, and how much the Lord has forgiven us, so we love Him!
Praise the Lord, the redeeming blood of Jesus has cleansed us once for all eternally! Praise the Lord for the precious and all-efficacious blood of Christ which resolves all our problems so that we can remain constantly in fellowship with God to continually enjoy His organic salvation! Amen, Lord, we come to You again and again; shine on us, enlighten our conscience, and expose anything that doesn’t match You. We simply want to confess our sins under Your divine light and apply the precious blood of Christ to our conscience to be cleansed and washed from our sins. Amen, Lord Jesus, we love You! Thank You for forgiving us of our sins and causing them to depart from us. You have forgiven us so much, Lord, and we love You so much!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by Ed Marks for this week, and portions from, Truth Lessons—Level One, vol. 3, lsn. 36 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization Study of Jeremiah and Lamentations, week 12, Experiencing and Enjoying the Contents of the New Covenant according to Our Spiritual Experience for the Accomplishment of God’s Economy.
- Recommending via Bibles for America Blog this article, 3 Problems That Can Only Be Solved by the Blood of Jesus.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Propitiation made by the blood, / Jesus’ redemption bought us for God! / No condemnation, justification! / We have peace toward God! / We have peace toward God! (Hymns #1131)
– In His blood forgiveness shines; / Oh, ’tis glorious to find! / Israel just atonement knew, / We have that and cleansing too. / Heart and mind are now at peace / Rest! Our conscience has been reached. / Never more we blush in shame, / We are washed from every stain. (Hymns #1124)
– For me forgiveness He has gained, / And full acquittal was obtained, / All debts of sin are paid; / God would not have His claim on two, / First on His Son, my Surety true, / And then upon me laid. (Hymns #1003)
