Our Sin Cast Into The Sea

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You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. – Micah 7:19

As soon as a person believes in Christ Jesus, their sins are gone from them, and gone away for ever.

They are blotted out now. What if a man owes a hundred dollars? If he has a receipt for it, he is free, it is blotted out, there is an erasure made in the book, and the debt is gone.

Though the person committed sin the debt has been paid before the debt was even acquired, he is no more a debtor to the law of God. Doesn’t Scripture say, that God has cast his people’s sins into the depths of the sea?

Now, if they are in the depths of the sea, they cannot be on his people too. Blessed be his name, in the day when he casts our sins into the depth of the sea, he views us as pure in his sight, and we stand accepted in the beloved.

Then he says, “As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.” (Psalm 103:12) They cannot be removed and be here still. Then if you believe in Christ, you are no more in the sight of God a sinner, you are accepted as though you were perfect, as though you had at kept the law, for Christ has kept it, and his righteousness is yours. You have broken it, but your sin is his, he has been punished for it and you have been pardoned from it.

- Charles Spurgeon