October 23
Our Heavenly Father does not want His people to be encumbered by the burden of sin. He knows that is the one weight we cannot bear. We wrestle with the struggles of life—and we often handle them sufficiently on our own—but the burden of our iniquity cannot be endured—it can only be covered over by us or borne away by Jesus.
From the earliest pages of His wondrous love letter to man, God has been revealing to His errant but beloved creation the provision He has in His heart for our deliverance from transgression. He tells man in Genesis 3:15 that there will be enmity between evil and humanity, and the perfect seed of man (Jesus) will be bruised by evil for mankind’s sake, but HE (Jesus) will crush the power of evil over fallen man!
Throughout the Old Testament, which lays the groundwork for the plan of salvation that Jesus will fulfill in the New Testament, there are nuggets of this glorious truth. Words such as those written by David in Psalm 103:12 assure us, “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our sin from us.” Our sin is not ‘our’ sin because it is washed away! We are made new as Isaiah 1:18 tells us, “…though your sins be scarlet, they shall be white as snow…”
And into the closing books of the New Testament the promise of deliverance from sin is yet being proclaimed! In I John 2:1 the beloved Apostle tells believers in Christ, “My dear children, I write this letter to you so you will not sin. But if any of you does sin, you have an advocate (attorney) with the Father—Jesus Christ the Righteous. Jesus is your attorney before God, the One who declares you righteous because you are washed in the blood of the Lamb.
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