The Complete Fulness of Salvation
By T.
THROUGH the prophet Jeremiah the Lord gives to the children of men the assuring promise that “I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against Me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against Me.” Jer. 33:8. The Lord promises to do this great thing. It is not for us to try to figure out how the Lord may be able to do this. All we need to do is to accept the promise our never-failing Father has made, and be thankful that He is able to do all He has promised. The fulness and the completeness of this forgiveness and cleansing is summed up in the words, “I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” Jer. 31:34. Think of what this text means to the repentant sinner. The Lord so completely cleanses away the sin, that He remembers it no more. In other words, the sin is destroyed. Expressing the matter in another form through His prophet Isaiah, the Lord tells us: “Thou shalt not be forgotten of Me. I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee.” Isa. 44:21, 22. The sins of the redeemed one are “blotted out;” they are entirely removed. And this work is done so completely that the Lord says their sin is not even remembered. What a full and complete salvation that brings! The soul is redeemed from his sin. The mind is freed from the remorse that sin had left; and then God Himself drives the sin that His redeemed one had committed, entirely from His own divine memory. Then no marvel that in this other text, He promises to His redeemed sons and daughters that “they shall see His face.” Rev. 22:4. The Lord proposes that His children shall be permitted to behold His face. And when the glad time for this arrives, there will not be a single tremor of shame, because all the sin has been blotted out, and even the memory of it is gone. The Father has gone so far as to put it all away from His own blessed memory; and instead of the sins they had committed, He has given His redeemed ones the robes of His own perfect righteousness. Then they stand in His presence in the confidence of holy joy, and in the assurances of perfect righteousness. His salvation is complete, and it brings indescribable joy to the heart. Then why not accept it in all its fulness?