Focus on Jesus AS THOUGH YOU HAD NEVER SINNED
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33.
God's kind of forgiveness is far more than the simple forgiveness that we know. When you forgive me, you can still have memories of my horse running through your petunias! But when God forgives me, I stand before Him as though I had never even sinned! Steps to Christ, page 62, shares the promise, "He died for us, and now He offers to take our sins and give us His righteousness. If you give yourself to Him, and accept Him as your Saviour, then, sinful as your life may have been, for His sake you are accounted righteous. Christ's character stands in place of your character, and you are accepted before God just as if you had not sinned."
Jesus said to His disciples in the upper room, before Peter denied Him and before they all forsook Him and fled, "Now ye are clean" (John 15:3). Ye areclean. Did that mean that they would never fall again? No, but at that moment they stood before God as though they had never sinned. They were clean through what Jesus had done and was doing for them. We can have this peace with Godtoday. Jesus said, "In me ye might have peace" (chap. 16:33). "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed" (John 8:36). Peace with God? No question about it.
This seems to many of us a truth almost too good to be accepted. But it's still the truth, whether we accept it or not. Is there someone who says, "It sounds good, but it's not for me; I've gone too far"? Then notice these encouraging words: "Put away the suspicion that God's promises are not meant for you. They are for every repentant transgressor. Strength and grace have been provided through Christ to be brought by ministering angels to every believing soul. None are so sinful that they cannot find strength, purity, and righteousness in Jesus, who died for them. He is waiting to strip them of their garments stained and polluted with sin, and to put upon them the white robes of righteousness; He bids them live and not die."--Ibid., pp. 52, 53. This peace and acceptance and forgiveness by Jesus is yours today, if you accept it.
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33.
God's kind of forgiveness is far more than the simple forgiveness that we know. When you forgive me, you can still have memories of my horse running through your petunias! But when God forgives me, I stand before Him as though I had never even sinned! Steps to Christ, page 62, shares the promise, "He died for us, and now He offers to take our sins and give us His righteousness. If you give yourself to Him, and accept Him as your Saviour, then, sinful as your life may have been, for His sake you are accounted righteous. Christ's character stands in place of your character, and you are accepted before God just as if you had not sinned."
Jesus said to His disciples in the upper room, before Peter denied Him and before they all forsook Him and fled, "Now ye are clean" (John 15:3). Ye areclean. Did that mean that they would never fall again? No, but at that moment they stood before God as though they had never sinned. They were clean through what Jesus had done and was doing for them. We can have this peace with Godtoday. Jesus said, "In me ye might have peace" (chap. 16:33). "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed" (John 8:36). Peace with God? No question about it.
This seems to many of us a truth almost too good to be accepted. But it's still the truth, whether we accept it or not. Is there someone who says, "It sounds good, but it's not for me; I've gone too far"? Then notice these encouraging words: "Put away the suspicion that God's promises are not meant for you. They are for every repentant transgressor. Strength and grace have been provided through Christ to be brought by ministering angels to every believing soul. None are so sinful that they cannot find strength, purity, and righteousness in Jesus, who died for them. He is waiting to strip them of their garments stained and polluted with sin, and to put upon them the white robes of righteousness; He bids them live and not die."--Ibid., pp. 52, 53. This peace and acceptance and forgiveness by Jesus is yours today, if you accept it.
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