In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace… – Ephesians 1:7

This forgiveness of sins is enjoyed by us now. “In whom we have”-we have-“redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” I remember the astonishment with which I sat in a ministers’ meeting, and heard one, who professed to be a preacher of the gospel, assert that he did not think that any one of us could be sure that we were forgiven. I ventured at once to say that I was sure; and I was pleased, but by no means surprised, to find that others dared to say the same. I hope I have hundreds before me who enjoy the same assurance.

Brethren, if there be no consciousness of the forgiveness of sins possible, how can there be any rest for the conscience? Yet Jesus says, “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” What rest is possible to the condemned? Can you go to bed to-night with your sins unforgiven? Some of you may have the foolhardiness to do that, but I would not dare to do it. See where you are. Within a moment you may be dead. Within that moment you will be in hell, past all hope. In a single instant you may be eternally lost: can you endure the thought? Our breath has but to stop, or the heart to cease beating, and instantly life is over. How can you be at peace, while sin is unforgiven? Unless sin had made men mad, they would never rest till they were cleared from their sins. There cannot be any true rest without a consciousness of forgiveness. Yet that rest is promised; therefore, the present enjoyment of an assurance of forgiveness must be possible. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace… – Ephesians 1:7

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God…- Ephesians 2:8

Beloved, be this always remembered, that it is in the application of redemption, and the personal pardon of any sinner, through the blood of Jesus, that the grace of God is best seen by that sinner. To each one pardon through the Lord Jesus comes, not only according to grace, but “according to the riches of His grace.” I can understand that God should forgive you, all of you. I could hear it with full belief, and it would not astonish me. But that He should pardon me-that I should have the forgiveness of sins, and redemption by blood-that does astonish me. And I believe that any person, under a sense of sin, sees more of the grace of God in his own salvation than in the salvation of anybody else. He may be quite conscious that he has never been a thief, or a drunkard, or a murderer; and yet, when he comes to look at it, he may see reasons why the pardon of sin in his case should be more remarkable than even in the case of a drunkard, or a thief, or a murderer. There may be elements in his own case which may make him seem to have sinned even more grievously than open transgressors, because he transgressed against greater light, with less temptation thereto, and with a direr presumption of rebellion against the Most High. That Jesus died, is unutterable grace; but that He loved me, and gave Himself for me, this is overwhelming grace, and makes the heir of heaven say with emphasis, Blessed be God that, in Jesus, I have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace! ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace… – Ephesians 1:7

The forgiveness of sin is still a matter of grace, and of rich grace. “We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” I admit that the forgiveness of sins, on God’s part, is a matter of justice, now that the redemption by blood has been completed. The man believes; the man confesses his sin; and it is written, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.” The sacrifice is so great that it justly puts away the sin, and it is righteously forgiven…Beloved, it is only by grace that we are justified; yet that this grace is exercised in a way of justice causes the grace to be not less, but even manifestly more gracious. The death of Christ, the redemption by blood, instead of veiling the grace of God, only manifests it. Oh, if it be so, that God, the Divine Ruler, the Judge of all the earth, says to guilty man, “I will pardon you, but it is imperative that My law be carried out; and this cannot be done except by the death of My dear Son, who is one with Me, who is very God of very God, who Himself wills to stand in your stead, and vindicate My justice, by suffering the penalty due to you”-then I say that the grace of God is a thousand-fold more clearly shown than by the free forgiveness which “modern thought” pleads for! Pardon which has cost God more than it cost Him to make all worlds-which has cost Him more than to manage all the empires of His providence-which has cost Him His only-begotten Son and has cost that only-begotten Son a life of sorrow and a death of unutterable and immeasurable anguish-I say that this pardon is pre-eminently gracious. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins… – Ephesians 1:7

“Redemption through His blood.” Observe, it is not redemption through His power, it is through His blood. It is not redemption through His love, it is through His blood. This is insisted upon emphatically, since in order for the forgiveness of sins it is redemption through His blood, as you have it over and over again in Scripture. “Without shedding of blood is no remission.” But they say-they say-that substitution is not just. They say, “Let God simply forgive the sin, and have done with it.” But where, then, were His justice? “Shall not the Judge of the earth do right?” He threatened sin with punishment. If He does not execute His threatening, what then? Can we be sure that He will fulfill His promise? If He break His word one way might He not break it another? If the Lord should not execute the penalty which He has threatened to sin, would it not look as if He made a mistake in threatening a penalty at all? Would it not seem as if He had been too severe at the first, and then had to catch Himself up, and revise His own judgment afterwards? And shall that be? Might it not be supposed that, after all, God made much ado about nothing, and that He was really jesting with men when He threatened them with fearful punishment on account of sin? Shall God say, “Yea,” and “Nay”? Shall He speak and unspeak? This is according to the folly of man. Sometimes it may even be wisdom in a fallible man to reverse his word and retract his declaration; but with God this cannot be. It is needful for the vindication of His own justice, His wisdom, and His holiness, that He shall not forego one of His threatenings, any more than one of His promises; and, since it is just that sin should be punished, and that, though the sinner should in wondrous mercy be permitted to go free, it is wise and just that Another should step in-God’s own Self should step in-and bear for the sinner what is due to the justice of the Most High. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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