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       Faith's Checkbook

      Not Forgotten
      Charles H. Spurgeon
      Apr 4, 2007




April 5

"Thou art My servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of Me" (Isaiah
44:21).

Our Jehovah cannot so forget His servants as to cease to love them. He chose
them not for a time but forever. He knew what they would be when He called them
into the divine family. He blots out their sins like a cloud; and we may be
sure that He will not turn them out of doors for iniquities which He has
blotted out. It would be blasphemy to imagine such a thing.

He will not forget them so as to cease to think of them. One forgetful moment
on the part of our God would be our ruin. Therefore He says, "Thou shalt not be
forgotten of me." Men forget us; those whom we have benefited turn against us.
We have no abiding place in the fickle hearts of men; but God will never forget
one of His true servants. He binds Himself to us not by what we do for Him but
by what He has done for us. We have been loved too long and bought at too great
a price to be now forgotten. Jesus sees in us His soul's travail, and that He
never can forget. The Father sees in us the spouse of His Son, and the Spirit
sees in us His own effectual work. The LORD thinketh upon us. This day we shall
be succored and sustained. Oh, that the LORD may never be forgotten of us!

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  "It is finished"

Here we see the end of our sins

by A.W. Pink




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The sins of the believer - all of them - were transferred to the Saviour. As
saith the scripture, "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all" (Isa.
53:6). If then God laid my iniquities on Christ, they are no longer on me. Sin
there is in me, for the old Adamic nature remains in the believer till death or
till Christ's return, should he come before I die, but there is no sin on me.
This distinction between sin IN and sin ON is a vital one, and there should be
little difficulty in apprehending it. Were I to say the judge passed sentence
on a criminal, and that he is now under sentence of death, everyone would
understand what I meant. In like manner, everyone out of Christ has the
sentence of God's condemnation resting upon him. But when a sinner believes in
the Lord Jesus, receives him as his Lord and Master, he is no longer "under
condemnation" - sin is no longer on him, that is, the guilt, the condemnation,
the penalty of sin, is no longer upon him. And why? Because Christ bore our
sins in his own body on the tree (1 Pet. 2:24). The guilt, condemnation and
penalty of our sins, was transferred to our substitute. Hence, because my sins
were transferred to Christ, they are no more upon me.

This precious truth was strikingly illustrated in Old Testament times in
connection with Israel's annual Day of Atonement. On that day, Aaron, the high
priest (a type of Christ), made satisfaction to God for the sins which Israel
had committed during the previous year. The manner in which this was done is
described in Leviticus 16. Two goats were taken and presented before the Lord
at the door of the tabernacle: this was before anything was done with them: it
represented Christ presenting himself to God, offering to come into this world,
and be the Saviour of sinners. One of the goats was then taken and killed, and
its blood was carried into the tabernacle. within the veil, into the Holy of
Holies. and there it was sprinkled before and upon the mercy-seat -
foreshadowing Christ offering himself as a sacrifice to God, to meet the
demands of his justice and satisfy the requirements of his holiness.

Then we read that Aaron came out of the tabernacle and laid both his hands upon
the head of the second (living) goat - signifying an act of identification by
which Aaron, the representative of the whole nation, identified the people with
it, acknowledging that its doom was what their sins merited, and which, today,
corresponds with the hands of faith laying hold of Christ and identifying
ourselves with him in his death. Having laid his hands on the head of the live
goat, Aaron now confessed over him "all the iniquities of the children of
Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the
head of the goat" (Lev. 16:21). Thus were Israel's sins transferred to their
substitute. Finally we are told, "And the goat shall bear upon him all their
iniquities into a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the
wilderness" (Lev. 16:22). The goat bearing Israel's sins was taken into an
uninhabited wilderness, and the people of God saw him and their sins no more!
In type this was Christ taking our sins into that desolate land where God was
not, and there making an end of them. The cross of Christ then is the grave of
our sins!

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