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The Ministry of Reconciliation: Forgetting Our Sins
During Advent, we reflect on the arrival of Jesus Christ and his mi… (visit YouTube for more)
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At Advent time, we focus on the coming of Jesus. What did he come for? Well, one of his primary reasons for arriving on this earth was to reconcile us back to God, and today’s verse focuses on that ministry of reconciliation. Hebrews chapter 10, verse 17. Then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
The writer of Hebrews is presenting this as something the Holy Spirit is saying to us: that God is not going to remember our sins. He’s not going to remember the vile things that we have done or thought.
This is super encouraging, isn’t it for us, because we have a tendency, if we are conscientious at all, to go back to our sins, to chew over them, to feel guilty all over again. But no scripture tells us this is God’s intention with respect to our sins. He’s not going to remember them. He’s putting them out of his sight, out of his mind.
And if you think that God is omniscient, he knows everything, this is actually a really, really huge deal for God to say, I’m not gonna remember that sin. And this is what Jesus achieves for us by coming in the form of man, by bearing all of our sins and casting them away so that God will not have sight or memory of them. This is his ministry of reconciliation to us.
My friends, I don’t where we’d be without this. We’d be constantly reminded of our sin and constantly trying to atone for it and knowing that we can’t because we can never fully atone for our sins. No, that took a perfect once for all sacrifice. That’s what Jesus did for us.
This is something we focus on again and again as Christians because it’s important that we live and remember this truth. God says, I will remember your sin and your lawless deeds no more.
