No More

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more. 

Hebrews 8:12 

Will there ever come a time when God somehow calls our sins again before us? According to our text the answer is, ‘no.’ Is this the only place we find such a statement? In the mercy of God there are other blessed statements with which God assures us. David declares, ‘As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.’ If God has removed our sins from us as far as the east is from the west, how could He remember them against us anymore? Hezekiah, in the midst of his illness said, ‘For You have cast all my sins behind your back.’ He understood that once God is done with our sin, He is done with them forever. This brings us to dwell upon the permanent nature of the sacrifice of Christ. As the writer of Hebrews moves into the ninth chapter, he speaks of the sacrifice of Christ as the sacrifice far superior to any other ever offered by a High Priest of the house of Aaron. He says that if Christ had been an Aaronic priest, ‘He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.’ Thus, Christ is the ultimate High Priest Who has offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice, once for all. This is why God will remember our sins against us, no more.  

Our Glorious, Sovereign God, 
we rejoice that You deal with our sin. 
We praise You that because of Christ, 
You put them away forever.  

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning