What Are You Talking About?

If you’re a Christian and tried to talk to God about some sin from years ago, that’s what God would say to you. “What are you talking about? You are a righteous person in My eyes. Why would you spend time bringing up something from the past if I’ve deleted it?”

When Jesus came to earth as a human being and was crucified upon the cross, when He endured complete separation from God the Father and rose from the dead proving His power over life and death, He made provision for the removal of your sins and mine.

Only God can do that.
Only Jesus can forgive your sins.

And when He does, they are gone baby, gone. The Bible tells us that when we accept Jesus as our Saviour, Creator God blots out our sins completely, past, present and future. He says that even if we look for them they will not be found. They are gone as far as the east is from the west. It’s as though they’ve been buried in the Mariana Trench. In words from the old movie Deliverance, “You can’t get more buried than that.”

And why would your Creator do that? Because you’re such a fine upstanding individual? Not hardly! There is only one reason and that is God’s mercy, and love and goodness and grace. Since before the creation of the universe your God and mine has provide a way to take your sins, and though they be like scarlet, He will make them as white as new snow. He promises that when we accept His offer of salvation, “I will not remember your sins.”

“Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgressions. You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us; You will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.”
Micah 7:18,19