Good morning and welcome in today. Today we’re going to take a look at a passage of scripture, but before we do that I wanted to tell you a little story.
Many years ago when I was in elementary school I was pulled aside by my teacher in class who was pretty upset with me because I had the tendency to visit with the other children while we were trying to get our assignments done.
Because of this, the teacher gave me a box of chalk and denied me the ability to go out and play in the playground with the other children until I wrote on the chalkboard 100 times that I would not talk in class.
That was a pretty tall order considering that I was only seven or eight years old and I couldn’t write very well as it was. It might have been better just to have me drop to the ground and make me do 200 push-ups, (which probably would have taken the same amount of time anyway.)
As I look back now, I realize that God has a purpose for every event in our lives. This event was subtily teaching me about my future Christian faith.
All day long I wrote on that chalkboard that I would not talk during class. I wrote so much that my hand hurt. But I finally completed the task.
Some of my friends in the class had the responsibility to wash the blackboard with soapy water at the end of the day. As one of them got up to get a rag, he said, it’s time to wipe that slate clean.
Did you know that the Bible teaches us that each of us are sinners in the sight of God? Each of our hearts are like a blackboard that is filled with up with the mistakes and misdeeds that we have committed. Many of the things that people have done wrong are tucked away and hidden from view in the secret places of the heart.
Nobody is guiltless in the eyes of God no matter how much you attempt to be. The reason why is because each of us are sinners. The only way that any of us can get past the eternal judgment of God is to get forgiveness right now that is only available through the blood of Jesus Christ. Today is the day of salvation, don’t let it pass you by.
This world is filled with treachery and it fools and deceives you. Many people make a mistake and try to redeem themselves but in the eyes of God we cannot do that. The only way to be redeemed is through the blood of Christ in order to enter in to eternal life someday. No matter what good deeds that you feel you have done, just one unforgiven sin in your life will affect your eternal salvation.
Each of us are are the same, whether you are a fisherman, a priest, a sheriff, or even a judge, we all have make mistakes that we regret that are stored in our consciences on God’s blackboard.
Granted, it may have been just a single slip-up in your life, but it’s only one sin that can keep you out of heaven. There is no one on this planet that is perfect in the eyes of God because the Bible is clear that we’ve all come short of the glory of God. The only one who is, is God’s Son who He sent into this world To atone for our sins.
Coinsider blessed King David. He had sinned, but God forgave Him. Even a king in this world needed God’s forgiveness.
John the Baptist was a very poor man who lived in the wilderness and discreetly listen to the confessions of men. He was a man who was sent by God who you could confess privately your darkest secrets to. True men of God are ready to hear the confession of our sins, not to expose and reveal them to the world, but rather to extend God’s forgiveness and mercy unto them.
You might have only stole the milk money at school and at the time you never spoke about it because you didn’t want to get in trouble. Maybe you were committing fornication in your youth or stole something from your neighbor which you now regret. Sins will be punished by God in an eternal lake of fire unless you come to Christ Jesus and get forgiven them.
Psalms 25:7 – Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD.
At the end of the day, God wants to clean off our slate. He wants to wash off the blackboard of our sins and to never remember or bring them to mind again.
Isaiah 43:25 – I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Does that sound too good to true? God is both good and true. Instead of keeping a record of our sins and misdeeds God completely forgives us. This is why I’ve always said that the world’s form of forgiveness is very shallow. It is not the divine forgiveness that is found in Christ where he completely forgives and forgets our past.
Col 2:13-14 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
God blots our transgressions like cleaning the chalkboard. He is the God of mercy and grace. Law came by Moses, but like all laws, all of us have made a mistake one point or another in life. Instead of judging one another, can we learn to not be stumblingblocks to each other? Can we learn to help and love one another As God loves each of us?
It’s true, God loves sinners like me and you. He wants all men to repent so He can save them from wrath later, but remember, Jesus the righteous judge of all creation chose to die on the cross for our sins rather than punish us and our future families and generations. How merciful are you?.
Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Just like the blackboard at school got erased each day, God wants to erase our sins so that is there is no more remembrance of them in His sight. Never ending glory to our God of mercy and grace!
Let’s think about those things for today and Lord willing I’ll talk to you some more tomorrow. Till then, bye-bye everybody❤
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