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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005
1:55 PM
Subject: REMISSION OF SINS
[08/18--2005]
THE REMISSION OF SINS
MADE
PLAIN [08/18--2005]
The "remission of sins" refers
to everything that is involved in pardon, forgiveness, and cleansing from the
condemnation and penalty for sins.
Remission of sins is enjoyed thru
faith in Christ whose substitutionary sacrifice is the basis on which it is
possible for God to remit sins (Romans 3:24-26; Hebrews 9:28). Christ is the end
of the law for righteousness to every one that believes (Romans 10:4).
By receiving Christ by faith the believer immediately enjoys the benefit
of freedom from all legal guilt and punishment for sin. And in place of a record
of unrighteousness, the righteousness of Christ Himself, Who fulfilled all
aspects of the Law of God, is imputed or reckoned to the account of the believer
and he is justified, or declared righteous, before the Divine law of God.
The remission of sins is referred in Scripture to three distinct
sources:
(1) Christ's Blood, or Death -- Matthew 26:28; Romans
3:25; Hebrews 9:22
(2) Repentance / Faith -- Luke 24:47; Acts
10:43; Hebrews 10:16-22.
(3) Baptism -- Acts
2:38
CHRIST'S DEATH was "for our sins," and answers to the demands
of Divine justice, or the "curse of the law: (1 Cor. 15:3; Galatians 3:13). We
are accounted "dead to the law by the body of Christ" which was sacrificed for
us (Romans 6:6-11; Hebrews 10:10-14). Thus, our sins are remitted thru the death
of Christ.
REPENTANCE / FAITH is the means or channel by which a
person "receives" the remission of sins in his own experience in his mind and
conscience. By believing on Christ, he passes "from death to life." He now
enjoys peace with God thru his relationship to Christ, the Mediator. This
blessing has the effect of renewing the mind and cleansing the conscience, and
brings rejoicing in the heart.
BAPTISM is the visible
representation which refers to the remission of sins obtained by Christ in His
death and received by faith (Acts 2:38; Romans 6:4-6). Baptism neither
accomplishes what Christ already has done in His death, nor does baptism
"receive" remission, which is the place of faith; rather, baptism symbolically
represents that which is the basis for remission and that which is enjoyed
through faith.
This is the sense in which baptism is "for the remission
of sins." Regardless of how one may translate "eis" in Acts 2:38, baptism can do
no more than what it is capable of doing -- and that is, it is a representation
of remission that is secured by Christ and received by faith. It is neither
capable of dying for our sins, nor receiving remission of sins; it can only
profess or represent remission.
Don't be misled by sacramentalists and
baptismal remissionists who would have you to think that you do not receive
remission of sins before baptism. Faith is the only act which is said to
"receive" remission (Acts 10:43), and it is an act which takes place BEFORE
baptism. One is not even qualified for baptism until he has, in experience,
received the remission of sins that comes only by faith. -- Bob L. Ross
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