73. Take Away Sins
Romans 11:27 For this is my covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins.
The covenant God made with the people of Israel was completed and fulfilled in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, for in Christ God has taken away their sins. When God takes away our sins He places us in a covenant relationship with Himself; that covenant is sealed in the blood of Christ and it cannot be broken by anyone or anything. It is solid and sure.
The promise for us in this New Covenant is that He shall take away our sins. Jesus of Nazareth was pointed out as “The Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.” Jesus took the sins off of us, placed them upon Himself, and died the death that our sins deserved: in doing so, Jesus took our sins away. He took the sins away from us in order that we will not suffer the just punishment of our sins since our sins are no longer upon us, that is, they are taken away.
When the blood of Christ takes our sins away then we are innocent, pure, clean and fresh. But that’s not all: we are made more than innocent; we are made righteous. We are not just neutral; we are positively good and holy, doing, deciding and saying all just and good and kind and right things. That is what the Holy Spirit is doing within us as we live our lives by faith.
By faith and promise our sins are gone. By life and in reality our sins remain and continue to infest and infect us. We see our sins and their effects on life and relationships every day, if we are honest. But we live by faith: faith does not see our sins; faith sees that the sins are taken away. This is not easy to believe since it contradicts our experience; therefore, we need this promise. The Truth: sins are taken away.