By Lisa Wilmore
My Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
I submit to you the love of Jesus Christ! The only One who forgives sins and never charges us with them again. As a matter of fact, He, according to His Word, cast them as far as the east is from the west. So far has He removed our wrongdoings (transgressions) from us” (Psalm 103:12 NASB). He forgave us, so why is it difficult for others to do the same?
Are you being held hostage by people? The term hostage, according to the Collins Dictionary means, “When someone has been captured by a person or organization and who may be killed or injured if people who do not do what that person or organization demands” (collinsdictionary.com). We were held hostage by our enemy with a punishment of death. The enemy demanded our life, but Jesus served as a substitute for us. He captured and delivered us through His death and resurrection. He died so that we may live. My friends, you have been freed! No one has the right to hold you hostage any longer for what you may have done in the past or any faults and failures to come.
Most importantly, if we are going to believe that God’s Word is inerrant and infallible (without error) then, we must hold to every word spoken from His mouth-His Holy Word. Paul wrote, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God…” (2 Tim. 16 KJV). Without a doubt, God inspired the words that we read in the Bible.
Clearly, when Jesus was on the cross, every sin that we have committed or will commit has been nailed to the cross. He took our sins, our guilt and shame and placed them on the cross. However, He did not stop there. After He died, He buried them in the heart of the earth where no one can find them. Because of His actions and His forgiveness, no one has the authority to hold you hostage of your past sins.
Paul recorded, “For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:6-8 KJV). Also, “He has delivered us from the power of darkness conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins” (Col. 1:13-14).
Jesus Saves!
