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WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR SINS?

When one believes in the Lord Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, trusting  in His substitutionary death, burial, and resurrection as the basis for his salvation and righteousness, and not his own good works, what does God do with his sins?  The Bible says that He takes them away (John 1:29);  He remembers them no more (Hebrews 10:17);  He washes them away (Isaiah 1:18);  He blots them out never to be seen again (Isaiah 43:25);  He covers them like a thick cloud (Isaiah 44:22);  He separates them from us as far as the east is from the west (Psalms 103:12);  He buries them in the depths of the sea (Micah 7:19) where they will never be brought up again.  How blessed it is that the Scriptures declare “There is now, therefore, no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1).  Moreover, we are fully accepted in Christ and clothed in His righteousness.  The Father accepts us just like He accepts His own dear Son, for when He sees us He sees Him.  Credited to our account is the full righteousness and obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ in all things.  No wonder the Psalmist wrote “I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever;  with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations” (Psalm 89:1).

LARRY WINDHAM