For I will be merciful to
their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember
no more.
Hebrews 8:12
Today,
because of the cross, you are under the new covenant of grace. Now, what does
the new covenant hinge on? Beloved, God is so good. The new covenant that God
has made is not dependent on anything that you and I must do because He knows
that we will always fail. Listen carefully. The new covenant works because of
one thing only, and it is the last clause of the new covenant—“For I
will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless
deeds I will remember no more.” To the measure that you have a revelation of
this clause and all its blessings, to that measure you will walk in it.
Note the
word “For.” It means “because.” The new covenant works because God
says that He will be merciful to our unrighteousness, and our sins and lawless deeds
He will remember no more! “No more” means that there was a time God remembered
our sins, even to punish them to the third and fourth generations (Exodus
20:5). This is found in the Ten Commandments. However, today, God says
emphatically, “No more!” (It is the double negative that is used in the Greek.)
“No more” means that God will never again remember our sins against us because
He remembered (to punish) all our sins in the body of His Son. Jesus bore God’s
punishment of our sins on the cross. Now, we can walk in the new covenant and
hear God say, “Your sins and lawless deeds I remember no more.”
My friend, the new covenant works because of the last clause. In
other words, because of Hebrews 8:12, God can put His laws in our minds and
write them on our hearts, and all of us can know Him and be led by Him. It is
His mercy toward us that enables us to hear Him and be led by Him to victory in
every situation! (Article & Picture;
courtesy of Joseph Prince Ministries, used with kind permission)
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