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July 4, 2023 11:17 am

Daily E3 Mercy and Grace Part 2 of 5 ... View MoreDaily E3 Mercy and Grace Part 2 of 5 I don’t know about you, but I was raised to understand that God did not wink at sin. On the contrary, I was taught that He did not tolerate sin. We see this demonstrated starkly in the account of the great flood when God destroyed every living thing on earth that was not in the Ark. Or we might recall the rescue of righteous Abraham and Lot and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning sulfur. So, what can these verses that speak of God having overlooked past sins mean? The answer is provided in Hebrews 10:1–4 where we read that, “the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.” Animal sacrifices provided atonement. They were a covering of sins until the time when sin would be taken away by the sacrifice of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. This is what is meant when the texts we read earlier in Acts 17:30 and Romans 3:25 say that God winked at, or overlooked, the sins of the past. In His great mercy He did not give the Hebrew people what they deserved. He refrained from giving them the wages their sin had earned them. Lamentations 3:22 speaks directly to this. It tells us that “It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.” It is this mercy that we celebrate with the writer of Lamentations (probably the prophet Jeremiah) when in the very next verse he says, “They (God’s mercies) are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:23 It is the death of Jesus that provides forgiveness. To say that Jesus died for our sins means that the blood of Jesus was the sacrifice to end all sacrifices. More than simply covering sin, His blood took sin away completely. Indeed, this complete forgiveness of sin is in view in 2 Corinthians 5:19, which says, “that God was, in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.” But if forgiveness is all Jesus accomplished at the cross, then we are of all people most to be pitied. As Holy Spirit explained through the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:14 “if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.” Then in verse 17 He said, “if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.” Two verses later in 1 Corinthians 15:19 we find this, “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” If forgiveness through the death of Christ is all the good news there is, then we get to live our mortal lives as forgiven people who remain spiritually dead. Grace and peace to you. Larry LarryEiss.com

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