Jesus The Remitter of Sin
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Matthew 1:21 "And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins."
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Jesus has come to save people from their sin. Sin is disobedience to God. Adam and Eve sinned and brought sin into the human race. We have all sinned and there is none right before God, no not one!
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Mark 1:14 Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God , 15 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel."
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Jesus' beginning message is repent and believe in the gospel. Repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is imperative. Jesus' message of repentance is a timeless message! Some have erroneously preached after coming to Jesus repentance is no longer needed. It is not what the Apostle Paul preached!
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2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.
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Paul was preaching to the church about godly sorrow that produces repentance leading to salvation. They had been walking in error and Paul rebuked and they repented.
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Acts 20:20 "how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house, 21 "testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Repentance can not be skipped over! If one has not repented of their sin they can not have true faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Matthew 9:2 Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, "Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you." 3 And at once some of the scribes said within themselves, "This Man blasphemes!" 4 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts? 5 "For which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Arise and walk'? 6 "But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins"; then He said to the paralytic, "Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house." 7 And he arose and departed to his house.
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Jesus, in His earthly ministry, had power to forgive sins which he demonstrated many times in His earthly ministry.
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John 8:1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives . 2 Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. 3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, 4 they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 "Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?" 6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear. 7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, "Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?" 11 She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more."
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Jesus exercised His power to forgive sins and to offer no condemnation to the sinner!
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Acts 5:29 But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: "We ought to obey God rather than men. 30 "The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. 31 "Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
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The heart of the gospel is to preach that Jesus brings remission of sin. At the name of Jesus sin is remitted
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Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.
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“What can wash away my sin; nothing but the blood of Jesus” We sing it in some of our songs but forget to preach it in our life styles.
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Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,
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Through the blood of Jesus the enmity and hostility between God and man has been ended. Jesus brought peace through the blood of the cross.
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Colossians 1:13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
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We were born in sin and shaped in iniquity but God made provision through His Son Jesus Christ. We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins!
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Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
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Jesus wiped out the handwriting of requirement that was against us! Jesus nailed sin to the cross; Jesus won the victory from the devil who deceived Adam and Eve at the beginning!
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1 John 3:8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
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Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil; Jesus did not fail!
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John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
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Failing to put faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is a man’s damnation!
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Luke 24:46 Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 47 "and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem .
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After His death on the cross Jesus told the disciples that repentance and remission of sins should be preached to all nations! Jesus can forgive you all your sins. I have recently read a book “As Easy As Drinking Water”. God used it to remind me of the simplicity of gospel. It was how God radically saved a young Muslim man and called him to preach this wonderful message of forgiveness of sins.
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Acts 2:38 Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 "For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."
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On the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit was poured out. After Peter preached Jesus to the utmost men were pricked in their heart asking what must we do? Peter's simple reply speaks volumes.
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Acts 3:19 "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 "and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, 21 "whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.
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We find the message of repentance preached over and over in the book of Acts. It is still a great message today. Repent and be made whole!
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Hebrews 9:22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission. 23 Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 25 not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another; 26 He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
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Jesus faced the judgment of sin for you! Repentance and remission of sin is found in Jesus Christ alone. When you call on His name you can wait for His next appearing apart from sin and for salvation.
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Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
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