No More – No More – No More

There is one promise in God’s Word that I think is the most amazing promise. It is also one that we tend to forget rather quickly. We forget it because the enemy, that old devil Satan, constantly tries to bring it back to our remembrance. Always trying to convict us all over again. Trying to bring false conviction and self condemnation into our daily lives.

I believe this trait has brought about one of the most pointless trends in Christian circles right now – repentance for the deeds and acts of our forefathers. We cannot repent for someone else’s sin – we can only repent for our own sins. We cannot be held to account for things we would never dream of doing now. We can regret such things and pray healing into the situation, but we cannot repent for someone else’s actions – they alone will answer for whatever they did.

So what is this wonderful promise? Well, it is something so important that it is made in four different places in the Word of God.

Hebrews 8:12 “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."

Hebrews 10:17 "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."

Jeremiah 31:34 "For I will forgive their wickedness and I will remember their sins no more."

Isaiah 43:25 "I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.”

How can God remember the unholy? He is a holy God and nothing unholy can pass His way – except on our confession and repentance. Jesus stood between us and God at Calvary. He bore every sin we have done and are ever going to do. God cannot bear sin because He is holy. Therefore He cannot remember sin either because even the memory of the unholy cannot exist alongside the Holy. This is why in Isaiah the Lord says "I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.” Jesus Blood redeems us from all sin once and for all time so that when we repent we place our sin, all of it, under His redeeming Blood.

So, when Satan lies to us and tries to condemn us, we need to remember these scriptures. If we go back to God and confess our sins all over again, He doesn’t remember them and He says to us, “What sin are you talking about. Is this something that I have forgotten and forgiven you already.” There is now no condemnation because Jesus did it all at Calvary. Oh, we still need to repent and confess in order to acknowledge our sin and receive forgiveness – but we only need to do it once. When we stand before the judgement seat, we will answer for every thought, word, or deed of which we have not repented.

Our repentance and forgiveness wipes the books clean again because God, for His own sake, “remembers them no more.”

Isn’t that wonderful? What a promise !!!