THE CROSS OF CHRIST - 5

YOUR SINS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, ETERNALLY!

This is where law-minded and religious people used to miss it. There seem to be an explosion in their indoctrinated minds when they hear us proclaim the wonderful love of the father and God of the universe as a reason of the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

That the death of Jesus Christ has FULLY PAID for the sins of the world and that everyone who believes in his finished work receives the benefits of the finished work of which one of the benefit is ETERNAL FORGIVENESS.

That God offered his son on the cross for the payment of our sins and that our sins are forgiven in him by the reason of his sacrifice not by the reason of our own confession of sins.

PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE SINS! NONE IS LEFT UNFORGIVEN!

The blood of Jesus was offered once for all eternity!

In the Old Testament, the high priest was the only one worthy to offer a sin sacrifice for the atonement of the sins of the people. However, the first sacrifice he must make must strictly be for himself. He must first atone for the sins of himself before he begins to atone for the sins of the people. This made him an imperfect high priest. Imagine a sinner atoning for the sins of a sinner? So he must first be forgiven before he asks for the forgiveness of others.

Again, the high priest does the atonement using the blood of animals that are without blemish. The animal is sacrifice by the shedding of its blood. This is a typology of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

However in the case of Jesus Christ, the high Priest was Jesus, the lamb was also Jesus….ayayaya!

He is the High Priest as well as the lamb!

Our own High Priest needs not to first atone for his own sins before he offers sacrifice for his people. Our own High Priest is alive up till now, eternally in the holies of holies offered as an eternal sacrifice. Our own High Priest is the lamb who needs not to be offered yearly as do the Israelites under the Law of Moses. He has offered himself once and after that there is no more sacrifice of sins!

The whole sacrifice has been done! No other sacrifice needed to be done for anybody!

You didn’t get it?

You see, if you had existed before under the old covenant, whenever you commit any sin, you have to take an animal to the High Priest, who will then offer a sacrifice for your sins using the animal. If you commit another sin, you will have to take another animal to the high priest who will also make another sacrifice for you with the animal. This will continue like that like that….

But as per the forgiveness of sins under the dispensation of grace, there is no need for the sacrifice of any cattle or bull or whatever to any high priest.  Jesus Christ is our high priest and he is our sacrifice! He has offered himself for our sins! All our sins have been atoned for when he died on the cross!

He is now sited in the heavens having wiped away all our sins forever! None is left!

All, I mean ALL YOUR SINS have been forgiven in Christ!

You may say but that should just be some past sins, and some present sins, but not the future ones?

Okay, when did Jesus die? More than two thousand years ago right? Were you there? So if truly he has offered one sacrifice for all who believes in him and there is no other sacrifice, the sins you committed yesterday, was it a present sin to him then? No! The sins you committed yesterday, maybe past to you, but to him it is a future sin when he was crucified.

Maybe you didn’t get it! ...follow closely…

When Jesus Christ died for your sins, he died for your past, present and future sins. You were forgiven before you were born, what was just left for you to do is to accept the forgiveness of sins which you did upon salvation. Whosoever believes in him is forgiven eternally. No matter the magnitude or weight of sin he or she might have committed.

When Jesus Christ died, everyone alive today had not been born let alone to commit any sin. So the sins of this generation were a future sin to Jesus Christ as at the time he was been crucified. At that time, he was seen to be offering a sacrifice that will span all through eternity. So there is no past, present and future in him. He is the beginning and the end of all things. His sacrifice is eternal and nothing can change that.

Some persons are always offended when we say that a believer is forgiven eternally! But this is exactly the truth of God’s word and no one can change that. If you are born again, your sins have been paid for.

Your future sins inclusive! You are not going to pay for any sin again, all payment have been made on the cross. He became your sins, you have become his righteousness.

No more condemnation for you as a believer! Jesus became your condemnation!

No more guilt for you as a believer! You are justified in him!

Your sins are forever forgiven! There is no remembrance of your sins again! God has wiped them off eternally! Don’t ever harbor the thought that God will hold you responsible for any sin, it is a thought from the devil!

We have peace and rest in the finished works of the cross.

This is the main clause of the new covenant! The eternal forgiveness of sins! Salvation by Grace through faith!

You may say, but what if a believer commits sins in the future? My friend, the sacrifice of Jesus is once for all eternity. The sins any believer will commit in the future has been forgiven through the sacrifice of Jesus before the believer was born at all. So it is all history to God, it is future to you. Also know this - For a believer, there is no more sin, a believer cannot sin. A believer is a saint. A believer is righteous and holy as God. A believer cannot be called a sinner anymore. This is because the believer has been identified with Christ’s death and resurrection and has been imputed with everything that is Christ’s. Peter calls us a Holy Nation, A Peculiar People. Never will a believer be regarded as a sinner again in this life! Never! The day a believer becomes a sinner, that is the day he or she falls away from the faith in Christ Jesus and then he is doomed forever.

But as long as the believer is a believer, he or she has been forgiven eternally. This is exactly what the bible says. Do not let anyone scare you with hell. A believer cannot go to hell. Sin to the believer is not the same to the unbeliever. Unbelievers can go to hell because they have not accepted the sacrifice and the finished works of the cross. A believer cannot go to hell, the keys of hell are now with Christ Jesus, those who believe in him will not perish, and they possess eternal life.

YOU CANNOT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE AND HAVE A TEMPORARY FORGIVENESS OF SINS.

Your sins are forgiven eternally in Christ Jesus, but in Christ Jesus only!

Whatever sins you commit as a believer are the motions of sins in your body as a result of the imperfections of the soul and body of man since the fall. The forgiveness of sins you received as a reason of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is evident in your spirit man. It needs time to be made manifest in your soul and body. So your soul and body are still prone to committing sins, and that is what we see all over the Churches today. The Holy Spirit is given to this end.

Your spirit man, which is the real you, have been saved and sealed with the Holy Ghost forever

You have been forgiven, not for some time but ETERNALLY!

Amen.