| I once read a comic book which showed how a man
lusted after a woman, then died of a heart attack and went to heaven. In
heaven, he saw a big screen showing everyone present a recording of all
the sins which he had committed while on earth, including the last one.
How embarrassing! |
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| Don’t worry, that is not going to happen to you
in heaven. There is no big screen with front-row and circle seats for
everyone to sit and watch your past sins. There is no video recorder in
heaven recording your sins right now. Because your lifetime of sins has
already been punished in the body of Jesus, God declares to you, “Your
sins and lawless deeds, I will by no means ever remember!” |
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| This is true even
for the Old Testament heroes of faith such as Abraham, Moses and David.
If you read Hebrews 11, which was written after the cross of Jesus, you
will notice that there is no record of their sins or failures. Yet,
their life stories tell us that they were far from perfect. |
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| Abraham lied twice
about his wife Sarah. He told Pharaoh, and later, King Abimelech, that
she was his sister to protect his own life. Moses killed an Egyptian who
was beating a Hebrew, and hid the body in the sand. David committed
adultery with Bathsheba and later arranged for her husband to be killed
in battle. Yet, their sins were not recorded in Hebrews 11, only their
deeds done in faith! |
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| God is showing you that He does not record your
sins or failures today. Instead, He records your faith confessions and
deeds done in response to what His Son has done for you. Every time you
sin, every time you waver in your faith, God does not record it. But
every time you believe Him and respond in faith, He records it! That
should not make you want to sin more. It should free you to love God
more! |
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| So don’t be conscious of your failures. If God Himself
does not remember them, who are you to remember them? Be conscious
instead of your righteousness in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21), and you
will reign in life! (Romans 5:17) |
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