“And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.” (Heb 8:11-12 AV)
If verse twelve doesn’t motivate you to shout, then there is something wrong! This promise is to wayward Israel upon their acceptance of Jesus as their Messiah. One might ponder why the LORD would be merciful to the unrighteous. Why not punish the unrighteous? Are not iniquities to be visited by the judgment of a Holy God? The thing is, they have been! When Jesus cried from the cross, “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me”, the Son of God testified that the wrath of God the Father was satisfied. The wrath we deserve was wrought out on the Son of God that we might have forgiveness of sin. The statement above is a proof that all that God requires for our sin is paid in full by the blood of Jesus Christ. Furthermore, the passage above is a great verse for eternal security. The statement above is a prophetical one regarding the future redemption of Israel and the Gentiles. Note there are no exceptions. All will come to know Jesus as Messiah and Savior and thus all will be forgiven. This happens only once in all of human history. At the beginning of the millennial reign of Christ, all who enter will have trusted in Christ as Savior. There will be no need to evangelize at the inception of the millennial reign, for all will know Him! Why does this prove eternal security? Because those who trusted in Christ prior to His second coming are secure at His coming. None are lost.
There is no greater sound than a judge’s gavel striking his desk with the words, “Case dismissed” uttered from his mouth! I know of what I speak. Praise the LORD, I have only had to do this twice. Both were traffic tickets. The first time I was not so lucky. The judge was offended that I had brought a lawyer for a moving violation. Had I not, he might have let me off. The second time was a bit more serious. I was charged with running a red light even though it was yellow at the time. The person in front of me stopped in the middle of the intersection, thinking she would be cited for running a red light. I was following her too close and rear-ended her. The police came and confiscated my license. I drove on the ticket until my court date. I arrived promptly at 9am. Sitting there all day, I was the last case called. There were no witnesses present. The policeman never showed. So, with no witnesses, the judge had no choice but to dismiss the case. All I had to do was pay the court fees. There was no lovelier sound that the striking of the gavel and the declaration of those words! It was like I got saved all over again.
Imagine when we arrive in heaven. Some of us will try to answer for our sins. We will offer some excuses. We will try to give some reasons. The thing is, the LORD will simply testify that He has no idea to what we are referring. He has no recollection of our past sins. None. Only the LORD can have selective memory loss like that! All our accounts will not exist. There will be no record of what we have done or failed to do. It will all be washed away by the blood of His cross. Even if we try to bring it up, the LORD will deny the existence of such a record. “Yeah, but I did this, and I am asking You to forgive me” might be our statement. To which He will reply, “I have no idea what you are talking about, and if you had done such a thing, it is already forgiven and expunged”. Our sin and any record of it simply do not exist. The LORD is not holding over our heads the things we have done just in case He needs to play that card for some other reason. All transgression is remembered no more. It is gone. Hallelujah!
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