Our Transgressions Blotted Out
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 8/8/2010 AM |
Text: | Isaiah 43:25 |
Psalters: | 76, 143, 363, 83 |
Sacrament of the Lord's Supper |
- The transgressions.
- “I” refers to Jehovah.
- Previous verses (22-24) show how the church had not served God correctly, which show what we do.
- God’s people are not able to worship God properly, even when we try our best.
- What Israel and we do (even when striving to do our best) is “transgressions” and “sins.”
- The former speaks of sin as rebellion and the latter speaks of sin as a deliberate missing of God’s glory.
- The failure to meet our obligations incurs guilt, a debt we are to pay.
- God “blotteth out” and “will not remember.”
- The wonder is not the presence of sin and guilt, but that they are forgiven!! Again and again!!
- To “blot out” is to destroy, to wipe out, obliterate, exterminate, abolish.
- By faith lay hold of what God declares about you!
- The reason we can be so sure is because of “I, even I.”
- It is impossible for us to remove our transgressions and sins – we only add to it!
- God blots out our sins by taking them and their guilt on Himself: “I, even I.”
- He assumed our guilt when His Son came in the likeness of our sinful flesh.
- God’s own Son bore the punishment completely, and His suffering was of infinite value that it blotted out every sin.
- The motive and the purpose is “for mine own sake” – look at verse 21.
- Everything is ultimately for God’s sake, not for our sake.
- He saves us so we can declare His praise.