202. God will Pardon
Jeremiah 5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
“If you can find a man, then I will pardon the Church, the city of God.” This is a conditional promise of pardon for God’s people, the condition being if there would be one man who executes judgment and seeks the truth. The problem is that there is no one, no one who will execute judgment and seek truth. Thus there is no pardon. The solution is that God Himself will come to earth and be the man who will execute judgment and seek truth. His name is Jesus. Thus there will be pardon.
The goal is pardon: it is a goal for God, for He desires to pardon His people and bring them to heaven with Him; it is a goal for us humans also for we need pardon desperately. The promise is that the Lord will pardon because He found a man, His own Son. This solution was a surprise for Sin, Death and Satan, who continued to rule because there was no man. God confounded the enemy by accomplishing the impossible. This is how He loved us: He sent His Son. Because of the innocent death and resurrection of this one man, who is also God, God can justly, fully, graciously and absolutely pardon those He loves. We have the fulfillment of this promise by believing in Jesus Christ, The Man.
If God could find a way to do the impossible and pardon us, we can also believe our God to do the impossible and find solutions for all of our problems. Very often the Lord will make a way where there is no way. Jesus is The Way. God pardons, and when He does he does a complete job, and He goes on to restore what was lost, fix up what is broken, and rebuild what is destroyed. Pardon not only frees but it also gives back to us what was in God’s original design for each of His people.