“I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins
and their lawless deeds I will remember no more” (Heb.8:12).
“We are blessed because we are righteous. Christ has
delivered us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us so that we
might experience the blessing of Abraham (see Gal.3:9-14). If we don’t
understand this, every time something goes wrong in our lives we will think
that God is catching up with us for some personal sin, or even a generational
sin. Many Christians live like this.
God does not impute sin to the righteous. In Romans chapter
4, where Paul discusses our righteousness in Christ, he quotes David who said: “Blessed
are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed
is the man to whom the LORD shall not impute sin” (Rom.4:7&8). Under
the New Covenant God promises: “I will be merciful to their
unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no
more” (Heb.8:12).
There may be consequences for wrong doing. If we sow to the
flesh, from the flesh we will reap corruption – not from God. God
does not impute our sins to us because they have been imputed to Christ.
Instead Christ’s righteousness is always imputed to us. That’s why there is no
condemnation for those who are in Christ – not now, not ever. We are blessed
because of Jesus! That’s the good news of the gospel of grace: “…God was
in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses
to them…” (2 Cor.5:19).”
Ken Legg
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