My Christian Answers

In this blog I want to take you through a few verses and the conclusions we are forced to make by these verses about the forgiveness of God.

The first verse is Hebrews 1:3

“Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high”.

While looking through the verses in this article please keep in mind that cleanse, purge, remit, and forgive are all words that imply the same action, FORGIVENESS.

Hebrews 1:3 says that when Christ had PURGED our sins he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. By this we must admit that anyone who will ever be or has ever been granted the gracious gift of having their sins purged, or forgiven, had that gift granted and given when Christ sat down at the right hand of the Father. Therefore any sin ever to be purged by the blood of Calvary was purged about two thousand years ago. There are some other verses that prove, if you study them out, that sin was paid for in full by the blood of Christ. By saying paid in full, I am saying completely forgiven.

Read these verses and think for yourself. If Christ is God, the Bible is the Word of God, and God is inerrant and perfect in every way, then the things Christ came to do he did. With that in mind take these verses into consideration.

John 1:29 “…behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” Did he do that which was said that he would do?

Hebrews 9:26 “…but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” Did his sacrifice accomplish what it was supposed to accomplish?

If the answer to either of these questions is no, then Christ would be less than God, and God’s word would have no power. God is sovereign and all powerful, but God chose in his sovereignty to give us his word. In his word He tells us what will happen to man and what He is going to do. By giving us his word He put limitations on himself. To remain true and just God must abide by his word. After all he did put his word above his name (Psalm 138:2).

Hebrews 9 describes what happened when Christ died. The old testament was a shadow of things to come, a shadow of the work Christ would come to do. Christ was the owner of a will, or testament (vs17), he had to die for the inheritance of that testament to pass down to the beneficiaries. Just as the beneficiary of a will receives the covenant of that will immediately upon death, those whose sins were put away by Christ’s sacrifice on the cross were put away immediately upon the death of Christ and the application of the blood to the mercy seat in heaven (vss18, 24). For “…almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.” (Hebrews 9:22). If all things that are purged, are purged with blood, then you must ask yourself the questions, “When was the blood shed in order to put away sin?” and “When was it applied to the mercy seat in heaven?”. For, if by the law, the law having a shadow of things to come, the sin offering was completed when the blood was applied to the mercy seat, then the offering of Christ was complete and accomplished all it was intended to accomplish when the blood was applied to the mercy seat in heaven.

I end part 1 of “Forgiveness of God” with the answer that must be concluded from the above, forgiveness was given to man as Christ laid his blood on the mercy seat for us before he sat down on the right hand of the Father. Forgiveness of sins is finished, see who is forgiven in part two…