Deleting the past

Good morning and welcome in today. Before we begin, I wanted to ask you a question…

Have you ever recorded something that was on TV? What do you do when you come to the commercials? You push the pause button and you delete them. I’m sure that many advertisers really don’t want to hear that, but that’s the truth. The reason why is so the next time you watch the recorded movie, you can watch it all the way through without any interruptions.

Imagine taking a lot of time and you’re writing a letter on the computer. When you finalize and proofread the letter what happens? There’s a bunch of things that you need to delete and get rid of it. When you are done correcting all the mistakes and the faults, there’s nothing left but perfection. In order for perfection to come, there are some things that needed to be deleted otherwise it would be imperfect when you published it.

A recording artist or a painter goes through numerous versions of a song or painting before it is perfected into what he wants it to sound or look like. In order to become perfected a lot of things had to be corrected and deleted never to be seen in the final version.

Through God’s grace, we can someday become the final version of what He wants us to be through His deletion process of our past sins.

God can delete our sins that we have committed in the past. When we confess our sins to God, He frankly forgives us and then he covers up those issues of sin in our lives never to be seen again. That’s the only way that we could ever become blameless before God is because he deletes those parts of our lives that we have made mistakes in.

On a computer, there is a key that will erase text, it’s called the delete button. The word delete means to eliminate especially by blotting out , cutting out, erasing and deleting a passage in a manuscript completely.

Delete means to strike out or to remove something written or printed, or to cancel to erase or to expunge.

A lot of judges and people in earthy courtrooms understand what this word expunge means. To expunge is to erase or to remove completely something that is unwanted or unpleasant in a person’s past. In a courtroom on the Earth, a judge has the ability to do that. They have the ability to completely delete the things that have been done in your past as Christ does for us who claim to be Christian.

The Lord Jesus Christ as a merciful judge expunges our past misdeeds. The truth is this, whether it’s a judge, or a religious leader, whether it’s a person in the church, the poor man or rich, young and old, each of us need to have our record expunged in order to inherit eternal life someday. And that is what a pastor or Minister provides to the people.

How many of your kids are out there have been in school and you’re writing with your pencil and you’re taking notes, and then you flip your pencil over and there’s an eraser on the top. What do you do with it?You erase the part that you made a mistake on and then you write over it.

That is exactly what God does for us when we come to him and simply admit our sin in our faults. He pulls out his pencil eraser and erases the parts of our lives that we made a mistake in.

On a computer you, you delete things so that the only thing that is left is the finished product.

The only way that we can become blameless before Him is because of God’s grace and forgiveness. God simply wants us to confess our sin and admit our fault so that He can forgive us completely. Does that sound too simple? God just wants us to say we are sorry to Him. God wants to forgive and to justify us.

God wants to erase our sin out of our lives so they’re not in our conscience anymore. He wants us to attempt to try again to do what is right in our lives and gives us grace for that purpose. He gives us grace to grow. There is nobody on this Earth that God wants to perish. If you really believe that you’re believing a lie.

God wants to save each of us and wants each of us to come to repentance. He wants us to change our mind. He wants us to accept the truth of the error of our way. He wants us to accept the truth about how much he wants to forgive us. God yearns to forgive us. That is His divine nature. The thing that prevents that forgiveness from happening is our hard-heartedness.

Jesus wants to free us from our sins . The truth is we are in bondage to our own sinful condition. He wants to free us from our guilty conscience. He wants to take away those things in our hearts that we have done wrong in our lives. That is about the truest Liberty that you will ever find.

When you erase something you eliminate or delete it often by physically wiping it out.

When I was a student in elementary school one of the students was talking in class. His punishment was to write ” I will not talk in Class” 500 times on a chalkboard. Although he was being shamed in front of the entire class for what he had done Jesus takes our shame away for what we have done at the cross.

At the end of the day, my job was to take the erasers and clean the blackboard at the end of the day.

Looking back at it, I think to myself how Jesus erases my sins from the blackboard. He wipes it away, until there is no recollection of what was even written there in the past.

I would take that bucket full of erasers outside, and throw those erasers against the side of the school building until I beat all that chalk dust out of them. No matter how hard my arm hurt I kept throwing them harder and harder against the building until they were cleansed from the dust of sin.

Jesus suffered greatly at the cross to cleanse us of our sin.

When somebody sins against you it’s not always easy to forgive because it hurts. If that time in your life that you have to understand what Jesus has done for you. We have all hurt Jesus. Each of us have hurt God. God wants us to admit our faults so that he can erase the blackboard of our sins. It’s just an admission of truth. The Apostle gave a giant admission of Truth when he said I’m the chief of sinners. Are you capable of doing that?

Would you agree with me today that perfection can only come in our lives if certain things in our past are deleted?

Would you agree with me today that the path to a better life can only come when Jesus completely expunges and forgives our past.

How can any of us become a better person unless we are extended a portion of Grace?

You wil find in his life that the people who needed the most grace are the most graceful people you will ever meet. The reason why is the more that you have been forgiven, the more forgiving you are with others. As the Apostle taught, you were all partakers of my grace.

God completely expunges and deletes our sins when we confess them unto to Him.

Are you deleting the sins of others? Are you banging those erasers against the wall?

That’s where I’m at stop for right now but Lord willing we’ll talk some more tomorrow till then bye-bye everybody.