God Does Not Bring Our Sins Back - Geoff Thomas

He was made a curse for us.

He had no personal connection with sin,

but He became connected to it

because He loved us.

That made Him a debtor.
That made Him a sinner.

Paul says it with a boldness:

"He made Him sin..."

That's why God recoiled.

That's why He sent Him
into the far country.

That's why He wouldn't listen
to Him when He cried.

That's why He wouldn't look

when the Savior bled and died.

It's a glorious thing
that little word: "for."

It is the "for" of substitution.

For us.

My Substitute.

My sin there.

In Christ

on the cross.

And God not sparing,

and we are redeemed

from the curse of the law.

Yea, wash Thou me,

and I shall be whiter than snow.

There is a fountain filled with blood,

drawn from Immanuel's veins,

and sinners plunged beneath that flood

lose all their guilty stains.

He casts our sins into the depths

of the sea of His own forgetfulness.

All my trespasses,

all my mean little sins,

all my sins against those

who love me the most.

All my trespasses.

And of the great mercy seat,

I live under the cover

of that sacrifice.

Once and for all.

It is finished.

Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.

Lord, give me a covering.

My sin needs to be covered.

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We have a great high priest.

Well, let's draw near.

Let's come with boldness

and let's find mercy.

All of us, everybody here
tonight, come now.

Come now to Christ for mercy.

Come for a covering.

There's a covering here.

It's available for you tonight.

This covering for your sin is here.

Don't leave without a covering.

It's been woven by the
agony and bloody sweat

of a Savior

who because of His love

wouldn't come down

until He redeemed you;

until He paid the price;

until He cleared the slate clean.

You go to Him tonight and you say:

Lord, I need a covering.

I need forgiveness.

I need my sin to be forgotten.

Put a veil over it.

And the veil is the
obedience of Jesus Christ

to death - even the death of the cross.

I don't believe God ever brings our sins

back to haunt us.

I believe the devil does.

And in our folly, we will go

and we will dive in and seek for them

and find them again in our folly.

The devil will bring them back.

We can often say, ah yes,

God forgives our sins,

but we don't forgive our own sins.

You must. You must.

If the blood of Christ

has satisfied God's righteousness,

it can satisfy your conscience.

I must put my past - my indefensible past,

the thing I am most ashamed of in my life,

I must put it behind me.

I must leave it there.

And sometimes perhaps when you

give your testimony,

you needn't even hint

at what you once were

because grace has changed you,

and the blood has cleansed you,

and the righteousness clothes you,

and the forgetfulness of God

has cast it from you,

and He will never bring
it before you again.

And the Judge, when you
stand in that great day

and give an account of your life,

that Judge will be the Savior

who gave His life and shed His blood

that you might be ransomed and healed.

Restored and forgiven.

There is therefore now no condemnation

to those who are in Christ Jesus.

You take Him tonight.