Friday, July 23, 2021

Digging Deeper into the "Blotting Out"

"The blotting out of sin is the erasing of it from the nature, the being of man. 
The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin. 
 
Our bodies are but the channel, the border, the sand upon the shore.... Impressions have been made upon us by sin.
 
---At the seashore, when you see a smooth piece of sand, your first
impulse is to make some mark on it, to write the characters upon it.  
---Then the sea comes up, and each wave that passes over it helps to obliterate the impression until it is entirely blotted out. Even so the stream of life from the throne of God will wash away and blot out the impressions of sin upon us.

The erasing of sin is the blotting of it from our natures, so that we shall know it no more.

Hebrews 10
2 …the worshippers once purged [actually purged by the blood of Christ, have] …no more conscience of sins.

…because the way of sin is gone from them. Their iniquity may be sought for, but it will not be found. It is for ever gone from them,—it is foreign to their new natures, and even though they may be able to recall the fact that they have committed certain sins, they have forgotten the sin itself—they do not think of doing it any more.

This is the work of Christ in the true sanctuary, which the Lord pitched, and not man, the sanctuary not made with hands, but brought into existence by the thought of God." E.J. Waggoner