This month of October, we have been working the subject of forgiveness. What will determine how powerful and confident you will walk, is realized in understanding and accepting what the Heavenly Father has done in forgiving your sins.
Jan Magiera recently shared with us about different words in the Hebrew and Aramaic which handles forgiveness in its varied details. She shared perhaps the most challenging part of dealing with forgiveness and God’s involvement with it is: We do not forgive ourselves. Many times we can forgive others, but we carry our own burdens and condemnations without letting them go. We also, realize the consequences of our sins and put up with them as it is the normal thing to do.
While the other words in her study dealt with, covering over sin, pardoning and restoring to favor, emptying the debt and dismissing it, one unique word is nasa. It literally means to lift off and carry away something. It infers the removal of sin. It is connected to the Old Testament when they would put all the sins of the people upon the goat and send him away. It is called a Scapegoat.
Another wonderful reality of this word is that the situation is over and there is no more debt owed. It is empty. The case is no more, totally shut down as it never happened!
When the devil goes to retrieve your sin to put it in your face, it is not there because it has been expunged! Only you, in your mind, will remember it and allow it to fester.
Expunged means, according to Webster, “To eliminate completely, destroy.” Legally when something is expunged it is taken off the record never to be returned. It is as if it never existed before. This is how big our remission of sins are when Jesus Christ fully and completely eliminated them!
Colossians 2:14 (ESV): by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
Hebrews 10:14 and 17: For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Now, it is our opportunity to confess the Word of God and believe it. Let’s expunge any negative thoughts Satan tries to use against us. Christ is our complete savior allowing us to serve the Heavenly Father.
Hebrews 9:14: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Agape, Bob
PS: Listen to Jan Magiera’s teaching on Oct. 21, 2018 at www.actsnowfellowship.net