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Devotional: December 14th

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1 John 3:5

‘He was manifested to take away our sins’

Read Leviticus 16:1-34

The Lord Jesus Christ bore all our sin in his own body on the cross (1 Peter 2:24). Whatever my sins are, that I have committed in the past, that I am committing now, or that I ever shall commit in the future, Christ bore them all in his own body on the cursed tree. The blood of Christ is infinite. It is a boundless ocean, which swallows up and drowns all our sins. Many seem to think that some of our sins are under the blood, but others must be answered for by us at some future judgment. It is not so. All our sins were judged, condemned, punished and washed away at the cross.

Christ so completely bore our sins that he bore them away. He carried them up to the cross on his mighty shoulders and bore them until he bore them away. When his great work of redemption was done, our Lord had effectually put away the sins of his elect people. He annihilated them, so that they ceased to be. It is written: Christ has ‘forgiven you all trespasses, blotting out the handwriting of the ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross’ (Colossians 2:13-14). ‘And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins: and in him is no sin’ (1 John 3:5).

The Lord Jesus Christ bore our sins alone. It was Christ alone, ‘who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree’. In order to redeem his elect and make atonement for our sins, Christ took our sins upon himself and bore them until he cried with a loud voice, ‘It is finished!’ Then and there our souls were redeemed. When the Son of God had finished his work, he had put away the sins of his people by the sacrifice of himself. ‘This man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified’ (Hebrews 10:11-14). Our sins were put away. And Christ had done it all alone. Nothing is needed and nothing can be added to the finished work of Christ. His one sacrifice for sin is sufficient and effectual.

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