No More Remembered (P3)

Part 3: the curse removed

Now, we need to confirm our Redeemer. By whose blood was purchase made and now the owner of the debt?  We find the answer in much of Scripture, also the Psalms, where the circumstances are described; and in Isaiah where we first meet the LORD and His Christ.

I, I am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. (Isaiah 43:11)

And all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. (Isaiah 49:26)

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels (Psa 22:14); the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. (Psa 22:16) For thou will not leave my soul in hell; neither will thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption: (Psa 16:10) which speaks of the Resurrection.

He will swallow up death (sin) in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces, and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken. (Isaiah 25:8)

Paul speaks to this often, and in Hebrews and Romans highlights the LORD’S promise to His Israel given through the Prophet Jeremiah: for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more: (Jeremiah 31:24)

For sin shall not have dominion over you, as you are not under the law, but under Grace. (Romans 6:14) For the Law of the Spirit of Life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2)

Watch now! When he said you have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings (these are offered according to the law) then he added, behold, I have come to do your will; He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ ‘once.’ (Hebrews 10:8-10; ESV)

In the Greek text, verse 10 ends with the word ‘ephapax’ translated on-once or once, which means on one occasion, or one time only. In the pure eternal sacrifice of Christ, our sin was redeemed and atonement made; where there is forgiveness of these is there is no longer any offing for sin. (Hebrews 10:18) Jesus has satisfied the requirement He placed upon Himself to remove sin’s debt under the New Covenant, which came into force with His act of Redemption. Having purchased its burden by the shedding of Blood, Jesus now owns sin’s debt, it being taken away so He can be with us. Jesus has divided flesh and spirit by removing the law of sacrifice, creating faith without arrears.

Guided by His Comforter Spirit, those under the Law of the Spirit of Life believe through Scriptural proof, Jesus is both LORD and Christ. As Paul states, One LORD, One Faith, One Baptism wherein they keep the Commandments of Jesus (Mark 12:29) and Faith in Him only. Under His promise, sin is now put aside as they worship the LORD in Spirit and Truth; (John 4:24) He in us, we in Him, a spiritual union of sinless perfection through Grace and Mercy under the Blood.

As in the Flood of Noah’s day, the sacrifice of Christ only happens once. Jesus said

….it is finished. (John 19:30)

His work is done. The redeeming of our sin has broken the chains of the law, sacrificial works and attendance. All that remains is faith in Jesus only. As Jesus declared; he who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not will be condemned. (Mark 16:16) And that condemnation is the sin we hold on to. But Mercy is greater than pride, and His Blood greater than sin. And in our belief, repentance and baptism in Christ, our sins are remembered no more…

In love and peace as always,

James