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

Read the chapter (Ephesians 1), and carefully note how the apostle goes to the back of everything and commences with those primeval blessings which were ours before time began. He dwells on the divine love of old, and the predestination which came out of it; and all that blessed purpose of making us holy and without blame before Him in love, which was comprehended in the covenant of grace. It does us good to get back to these antiquities-to these eternal things…”In whom we have redemption.” Whether others have it or not, we have “redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.” We do not hope for it, but we have it. We do not merely think so, but we know that we have it. We are redeemed; we are free from bondage; we are forgiven and are no longer under condemnation. The apostle has mentioned it, if you notice, amongst the great things of God-His electing love, His adoption of us by Jesus Christ, His acceptance of us in the Beloved. Side by side with these colossal mercies He puts this one, that we have “the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” This is a blessing of no mean stature, for it marches with the giants of election and adoption…It would not be possible for God to forgive, and yet to punish. That would be a forgiveness quite unworthy of God. It would, indeed, be no forgiveness at all. We are certain that the everlasting punishment of sin declared in Scripture, will never happen to the man who is forgiven. When transgression is removed the soul stands clear at the bar of God, and there can be no further penalty. “I absolve thee,” says the great Judge; and that carries with it weight, so that a man that is forgiven is cleared of the punishment which he must otherwise have borne. “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.” “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth; who is he that condemneth? It is Christ Jesus that died, yea rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. – Romans 8:33,34

I look at the attributes of God, and though to me, as a sinner, they all seem bristling as with sharp points, thrusting themselves upon me; yet when I know that Jesus died for me, and did literally take my sin, what fear I the attributes of God? There is justice, sharp and bright, like a lance; but justice is my friend. If God be just, He cannot punish me for sin for which Jesus has offered satisfaction. As long as there is justice in the heart of Deity, it cannot be that a soul justly claiming Christ as his substitute can himself be punished. As for mercy, love, truth, honor, everything matchless, Godlike and divine about Deity, I say of all these, “You are my friends; you are all guarantees that Jesus died for me, I cannot die.” How grandly does the apostle put it! It seems to me as if he never was worked up by the Holy Spirit to such a pitch of eloquence as when speaking about the death and resurrection of the Savior. He propounds that splendid question, “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?” There, where eternal justice sits upon a flaming throne, the apostle gazes with eye undimmed into the ineffable splendor, and though some one seems to say, “The Judge will condemn,” he replies, “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.” Can He justify and then condemn us? He justifies those for whom Christ died, for we are justified by His resurrection. How then shall He condemn? And then he lifts up his voice yet again-“Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again, who sitteth at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” On other grounds a man must feel unsafe, but here he may know himself sure. I know that I have no cause for fear since Jesus died for me. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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