This week we have been enjoying and diving deeper into the new covenant, which was prophesied by Jeremiah, quoted in Hebrews, and applied to us as believers in Christ today.
The primary blessing of the new covenant is the imparting of the divine into us, which brings into us God’s life with the inner law of life, the blessing of having God as our God and of being His People, and the inward ability to know the Lord personally and subjectively How wonderful it is that today we believers have God’s life in us, and the law of life operates in us constantly to dispense the element of God in us, conform us to the image of Christ, and cause us to become functioning members of the Body of Christ!
Even more, we have God as our God, and we are His people; as God’s people, we have His life in us, and have the inward ability of knowing the Lord. We all can know God inwardly by the law of life operating in us. All these are based on the fact that Christ came and made propitiation for us.
The reason today we can receive Christ and have God’s life with its law operating in us is that God is propitious to our unrighteousnesses, and as we confess our sins, God forgives our sins and even forgets them – never remembering them anymore! Hallelujah! Today we want to see more concerning the last blessing of the new covenant, the fact that God is propitious to our unrighteousnesses, and our sins He will by no means remember anymore.
Christ made Propitiation for our Sins so that we may Remain in Fellowship with God
In order for us to experience and enjoy the inner law of life and for us to know God inwardly and subjectively, God in Christ became a man and died for us on the cross in order to fulfill all of God’s requirements. This is the procedure for us to enjoy the subjective knowledge of God so that we may be God’s people.
In the new covenant God is propitious to our unrighteousness, that is, we become favorable to God; He is not only “merciful to us” but He is propitious to us. God in Christ came and paid our debt, becoming the propitiatory sacrifice, and He became the propitiation cover – the place where God can freely meet with man, the mercy-seat, the throne of grace. What a mercy that God can tell us, the sinful men, that He is propitious to us…
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). All our problems toward God were resolved by the precious and all-efficacious blood of Christ, so that we may remain constantly in fellowship with God to continually enjoy His organic salvation.
If we sin, we can confess our sins, and He cleanses us from our sin, removes any unrighteousness, and Jesus Christ is our Advocate with the Father, taking our case before Him (see 1 John 1:7-9; 2:1-2).
Before God, the redeeming blood of Christ has cleansed us once and for all eternally (Heb. 9:12, 14), and the efficacy of that cleansing doesn’t need to be repeated. However, in our daily experience we need to have the instant application 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.
Christ died for us as the Lamb of God, taking away the sin of the world (John 1:29); now all we have to do is believe into Him and apply His precious blood. We are now reconciled to God through the death of Christ on the cross, and we have peace toward God; He is appeased, and we can enjoy God, know God, and enjoy the inward operation of the law of life in us.
Praise the Lord, through Christ’s propitiation we now can remain in a constant fellowship with God, and whenever we sin we can repent and confess our sins so that the fellowship would be restored!
Thank You Lord for making propitiation for our sins on the cross to appease God’s righteousness and to reconcile us to God. Lord, thank You for Your precious and all-efficacious blood which resolves all our problems so that we may remain constantly in fellowship with God and continually enjoy His organic salvation! Keep us turning to You and confessing our sins whenever Your light shines on our conscience. Lord, we believe in You, we take You in, and we apply the blood whenever Your light exposes a sin or a stain on our conscience!
In His New Covenant God Forgives our Sins and by No Means Remembers them Anymore!
What does it mean that God forgives our sins? When we sin, a charge is made against us before God, and this brings in God’s condemnation; forgiveness of sins means 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 3:18; 5:24).
The Lord Jesus shed His blood and died on the cross according to God’s righteousness to suffer God’s righteous punishment in our place (Heb. 9:22) to satisfy God’s righteous requirements. Because of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, God now can and He does forgive our sins whenever we believe into Christ and confess our sins. Whenever we believe into Christ and confess our sins, God cancels the charge of sin against us and delivers us from the penalty.
Furthermore, God not only forgives our sins but He also causes our sins to depart from us – He sends them away! In God’s eyes, whenever we believe in Christ we have NO SIN because all our sins have been put on Christ on the cross, and He carried them on His body for us (John 1:29; Isa. 53:6; 1 Pet. 2:24). Also, our sins have been laid on Satan (who is the reality of the type of the goat for Azazel in Lev. 16); sin came from Satan, and when we believe into the Lord, God puts our sins back on Satan and sends him away!
Once God forgives us, He erases our sins from His memory and remembers them no longer; we may prepare a repentance speech to give to the Lord (as the prodigal son did), but the Lord doesn’t remember our sins at all! Since God doesn’t remember our sins after He forgives us, we should not dig out our past but forget them! When God forgives our sins, He causes the sins that we have committed to depart from us (see Psa. 103:12; Lev. 16:7-10, 15-22). Furthermore, God’s forgiveness of our sins results in our fearing Him and loving Him in our restored fellowship with Him (Psa. 103:4; Luke 7:47).
Some people may think that God’s forgiveness causes us to be reckless, that is, we may sin knowing that God will forgive us when we confess our sins. But our experience tells us clearly that, the more we believe into the Lord and confess our sins, the more we fear Him and love Him, having a proper reverence before God. The more we receive the grace of God’s forgiveness, the more we fear God and love Him; the one who is forgiven much, loves much (see Luke 7:47).
How wonderful it is to be forgiven by the Lord and to know that He does not remember your sins anymore! This keeps us in a proper fellowship with the Lord and causes us to be at peace before Him as we open to Him and “switch on” the law of life in our being.
Eventually, the new covenant issues in the New Jerusalem, which is the consummation and embodiment of God’s new covenant to express God in a corporate way to the uttermost for eternity (see Gal. 4:26-28, 31). The new covenant consummates in the New Jerusalem where we see the Triune God processed and consummated flowing as a river of water of life, God fully mingled with man, man in God and God in man, and the full consummation and fulfillment of God’s new covenant.
Lord, thank You we can always come to You to confess our sins knowing that You forgive us and You erase our sins from Your memory, remembering them no longer! Lord, we love You so much because we have been forgiven by You much. We love to have a restored fellowship with You in which we enjoy You and we know You in an inward and personal way. Hallelujah, there is no more charges of sin against us before God, and we are delivered from the penalty of God’s righteousness! Praise the Lord, when God forgives our sins, He also forgets them!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration: the Word of God, my Christian experience, brother James Lee’s sharing in the message for this week, and Truth Lessons—Level One, vol. 3, lsn. 36 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on,Crystallization-Study of Exodus (2) week 7 / msg 7, The Covenanting God and His Covenants (2) – The Contents of the New Covenant.
- All Bible verses are taken from, Holy Bible Recovery Version.
- Hymns on this topic to strengthen this burden:
# Redemption full the Lord has made, / And all my debts has fully paid, / From law to set me free. / I fear not for the wrath of God, / For I’ve been sprinkled with His blood, / It wholly covers me. (Hymns #1003)
# Propitiation made by the blood, / Jesus’ redemption bought us for God! / No condemnation, justification! / We have peace toward God! (Hymns #1131)
# He’ll forgive your transgressions, / And remember them no more; / He’ll forgive your transgressions, / And remember them no more; / “Look unto Me, ye people,” / Saith the Lord your God! (Hymns #1037)
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