Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear, but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear. Isaiah 59:1.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלוהים) says:
My eyes are too pure to behold evil or to look upon wickedness, Habakkuk 1:13, when Jesus became sin for you and took your punishment upon the Cross, I turned My face away from Him and He cried out to Me. Matthew 27:46. What was He doing? Taking your place so that you would never have My face turn away from you.
O God, restore us and cause Your face to shine upon us, and we will be saved. Psalm 80:3.
Sin had created a separation, a dividing wall, between you and Me, and there was no way you could cross that line. The price of sin, that is, of the eternal life that your sin destroyed, for the wages of sin is death, you could not pay. But I did not create you for there to be any division between us, I created you to be My family of love, in My image and according to My likeness, as one with Me, and I am love and I am light. To be close to Me in the continuum of life, you must walk in the light.
This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:5-7.
Sin is the outer darkness and must hide from the light, for if sin gets in the light, the light will reveal and overcome it. But I rescued you from the realm of darkness and brought you into My own marvelous light.
For He rescued us from the realm of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:13-14.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 1 Peter 2:9-10.
And that is what forgiveness means to you. I forgave all that divided us and reconciled you to Myself in My Son. There is now no condemnation, that is, no separation, between Me and those who are in Christ Jesus your Lord.
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. Romans 8:1.
You are with Me forever. I will never turn My face away from you again.
“For this is like the days of Noah to Me, when I swore that the waters of Noah would not flood the earth again; so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you nor will I rebuke you. For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, but My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, and My covenant of peace (shalom) will not be shaken,” says the LORD who has compassion on you. Isaiah 54:9-10.
My Spirit will no longer strive with you for in Jesus we have become of one Spirit.
But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 1 Corinthians 6:17.
Jesus took care of your sin nature and through Him makes you a partaker of the divine nature. In Him you can be full of My Spirit and again walk with Me in the light of life, in the light of My love. And there, I give you everything in our everlasting Covenant of love.
I forgive all your sins; I remember them no more. This is a gift to you, but it is a gift of total justification, not just of amnesty, it was legally bought by the eternal blood of My Son. Amnesty is a decision by a government to forgive people who have committed particular illegal acts or crimes, and not to punish them. The crime or offense is overlooked and right status is granted to someone who is there illegally and could otherwise be deported or imprisoned. But that is not what I do for you in My Son. I punish all your lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness, in Him and make your presence legal in My Kingdom. I do not overlook your sins, I cannot have sin with Me at all, so I put it on My Son and fully punished your sin to the satisfaction of divine justice. Your forgiveness is legal and that means there is no sin in you anymore that the accuser of the brethren can bring before Me in the court of Heaven to make Me look at your sin and deport you from My Kingdom. In Jesus, you are there legally. And that is mercy extended in justice. You have been justified, sanctified, and glorified in Jesus.
But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption. 1 Corinthians 1:30.
Forgiveness of your sins and offenses fulfills My Covenant Names of promise, for all My magnificent promises, as many as they be, are “yes” to you in Christ Jesus your Lord. Forgiveness fulfills My Names of the LORD your redeemer (Yahweh Go’el), in Jesus you have redemption, the forgiveness of your sins by His blood. Ephesians 1:7. The LORD who sanctifies you (Yahweh Maccaddeshem), I sanctify you, make you holy, I set you apart from the world by My Word. The LORD your provider (Yahweh Yireh). I see ahead and provide. This is what Abraham named Me when He went to sacrifice his son and he told Isaac, “God Himself will provide the Lamb for the burnt offering (the offering that removed sin).” Abraham saw the day of Jesus ahead of time on that holy mountain and he rejoiced in so great a salvation. For he had been given the gift of righteousness by faith in My promises. And that leads to the next Name fulfilled in forgiveness of your sins, the LORD your righteousness (Yahweh Tsidkenu). I made Jesus who knew no sin to be sin on your behalf so that you would become righteous with My own righteousness in Him. The divine exchange, your sins gone on Jesus and My righteousness clothing you. The LORD your refuge (Yahweh Machsi). In Jesus you are shielded from the wrath to come upon the earth for the sins of those who have not come under the protecting tabernacle of Jesus. Those who have rejected so great and salvation and chosen to remain in their own sins. The LORD your deliverer (Yahweh Mepalti) for in Jesus I have delivered you from the law of sin and death and from all that would harm you. And the LORD your peace (Yahweh Shalom), for Jesus has broken down the dividing wall and made peace between us by the blood of His cross and made you holy, blameless and beyond reproach in My sight. Sin is no longer an issue between us. He took it away. As far as the east is from the west so far have I put away your sins from you for they are no more. I have given you beauty out of the ashes of the burnt offering.
And I am the LORD your salvation (Yahweh Yeshuahti). For those who delight in Me and cling to Me in love, I show them My Salvation, yes, that is the name of Jesus, Yeshuah. Salvation. When you have Him you have everything of Mine and all My magnificent covenant promises to you are fulfilled in Him who knew no sin but became sin for you all.
Forgiveness is the gift that opens the door to all My benefits that we spoke of in our prior Life Lesson, for My blessings are on the heads and in the homes of the righteous. And that is the blessing of Abraham, the gift of righteousness by faith that opens to you all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, of increase and prosperity, of healing and health. And in Jesus you are righteous with My own righteousness, which is the highest righteousness there is.
In Jesus I paid the debt you owed to Me that you would never have been able to pay. He paid to Me the sentence for the eternal life I had given you that your sin had destroyed, and He was the only one that again had an eternal life in the flesh with which to pay. Why? He was born of the imperishable seed of My Word as Adam had originally been, but Adam, when he submitted to the lies of the devil was born again of corruptible seed, for the wages of sin is death. And he no longer had an eternal life to offer for the eternal life he lost, so to dust he would return. And this sentence pertained to all his descendants for you were all born of the corrupted seed of Adam. Adam plunged you all into the realm of darkness when he submitted to the devil as his master and gave to him Adam’s own dominion authority on earth. Adam abdicated his seat of authority over the earth to the devil but Jesus, as the second Adam with an eternal life in the flesh to give, came and took it back. The devil no longer sits in the seat of Adam in Heaven, Jesus does, and all of you who believe in Him as Lord, I have raised up in the spirit to be seated there with Him. Take your dominion authority back, Jesus has won it for you.
It is all about the blood on the Mercy Seat in Heaven which speaks of eternal redemption for you who are in Christ Jesus, forever making intercession for you in the court of Heaven to prove you are released from your sins by the One who loved you and gave His eternal life in the flesh for you. And the life is in the blood to make atonement on the altar, on the Mercy Seat. That is why Jesus had to come in flesh and blood to redeem you.
Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives. Hebrews 1:14-15.
And I tell you that if you walk in My light the blood of My Son continually cleanses you from sin. How do you walk in My light? I should think you would want to know so you can walk in perfect righteousness.
What is the light of life? Let us go back to the beginning.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. John 1:1-5.
What do you see here? I am My Word, so replace the word “Him” with “The Word” in this passage.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through the Word, and apart from the Word nothing came into being that has come into being. In the Word was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. John 1:1-5.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among you, yes, Jesus (Yeshuah) your Lord.
And now you know how to walk in the light of My love: you walk according to My Word. For My Word is a light to your path and a lamp to your feet. The revelation of My Word gives light and understanding to the simple.
And I am not just light, I am love, love and light go together, for all done in pure love can stand the test of the light revealing all that is in it down to its core.
I am love, Jesus is love, and the Holy Spirit is love. And we are the Word, so the Word is love. Every Word that proceeds from My mouth, breathed by the Holy Spirit and taking flesh is Jesus, is a manifestation of love and writes a love letter. No letter, not the smallest of the letters, can be done away with until it all comes true. Matthew 5:17-18. In each Word every letter is an expression of My love for you. Every letter in the Hebrew language has a meaning, a pictograph, and a number. And in all words in Hebrew there are root words. Three letters together form roots of larger words. The three divine persons are in every Word spoken and written in My Book of Life, the Bible. My Word and My Name are established forever in Heaven and they take dominion on the earth. Use them, they are for you. My Words are not idle words to you, they are your very life. Love is stronger than death and love trumps death. It is My love that won you forgiveness and My love that raises you from the grave.
When I forgave you by paying the debt you owed Me that is love. You have been paid for in full, at a very great price, and your forgiveness is not just amnesty but total justification by redemption. You now belong and have full rights as a born again, blood bought, sanctified citizen of My Kingdom. Do not forget all your benefits.
My love saved you from hell, do you not know that I can and will take care of everything else that concerns you? I fixed the sin problem, the separation from Me, which was enormous and impossible for you to fix by your own efforts.
They were even more astonished and said to Him, “Then who can be saved?” Looking at them, Jesus said, “With people it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.” Mark 10:26-27.
The separation by sin was a dividing wall between you and My Kingdom. It was a division between us that could not be crossed by sinful man, but that did not stop Me. I sent My Son and He broke down the division and crossed the divide from Me to you and returned to prepare a place with Him for you. He put His blood on the Mercy Seat before Me and opened the veil to My throne of grace. It is in and through Him you enter My presence and become part of My household as a son—born again to the household of faith.
You have only to receive and embrace with love your new identity and walk in newness of life with Jesus, My gift to you, your great good Shepherd and great High Priest. You are no longer who you were, you are now a royal priesthood, citizens of My Kingdom, and my child and heir, joint heirs with Christ for the firstborn blessing (double portion). Everything of Mine is yours and you are Mine to care for, to protect, to raise up to Me, but, above all, to love with the pure love that never dies or changes.
You are righteous with My own righteousness in Christ, so walk in a manner worthy of the gifts and calling you have received. You are seated with the Prince of Peace (Shalom), so walk and live in that peace that passes all understanding and gives you wholeness of life.
I love you. And I prove this to you by forgiving ALL your sins—past, present and future. Jesus died in time as man, but He died outside of time for you as God. That is why every sin from the beginning to the Last Day when I raise you up to the eternal day, was forgiven as fully satisfied and paid from the one sacrifice that covers all and all time. He died once for all in time and eternity.