“In Your lovingkindness You have led the people whom You have redeemed; in Your strength You have guided them to Your holy habitation.” Exodus 15:13.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
When the world turned away from Me, the designs of My heart were to win every soul back to Me by love. All designs that I form in My heart are love because I am love. I think, talk and walk in love. Everything else is foreign to me and cannot enter Me or My realm. That is why there is fullness of joy in My presence and delights at My right hand forever. Everything I do is done in love and love gives you joy. You must understand this to enjoy Me and your life. I only deal with you with love and all good things come from Me. Evil has no part in Me. Darkness has no part in Me. If it is evil, then it is not from Me. I am righteous and I am just, and yet I am slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; lovingkindness and truth go before You. Psalm 89:14.
And My loving and merciful way of righteousness and judgment manifests to you in Jesus. All My divine justice and wrath for sin fell upon Him and thus legally and justly spared you.
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:37-39.
In Him, you have redemption by His blood, the forgiveness of your sins. Ephesians 1:7.
“I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud and your sins like a heavy mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.” Isaiah 44:22.
Many of you, even those who know that in Jesus you have forgiveness of your sins, are still caught up in remorse, sorrow, shame, and grief over past and present sins. Many regret their lives and wish they could be born over again and start with an entirely clean slate. They do not know they already have this wish granted in Christ. They are caught in the never-ending cycle of self-condemnation for sin.
When you keep tormenting and grieving your soul in this way it grieves Me, for I so loved the world that I gave My Son so that you would never grieve over these things again. He took your ills and grief, He took your pains and sorrows, and He lifted them off you when He lifted off the burden of your sins and put it on His own shoulders and that burden crushed Him under its weight. It was too heavy for you to carry, so I took it off you and put it on Jesus. And He so loved you that He bore it for you. He released you from your sins by His blood and made you a kingdom, priests unto Me. In Him, I made you a royal priesthood of the same anointing He has, the order of Melchizedek.
People do not see forgiveness the way I do. When they forgive they do not forget. It is still there between you and the offender though smoothed over and tucked in the back. But every once in a while, it lifts its ugly head again and can reopen the wound. But it is not like that with Me. For Me, forgiveness means a total cancelation of sin as if it had never been committed. It is gone as if it had never happened, wiped out by the Blood of Jesus, a divine roll-back like happened with the River Jordan when the priests carrying the ark of the Covenant stepped into the Jordan River that starts in the heights of Mt. Hermon but descends into the Dead Sea. If you recall it rolled back past Adam, stopping the flow to the Dead Sea.
People generally do not understand what I did for you in Jesus. And My question is, “Do you?” He is the resurrection and the life. He is the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world. He is the One who became sin for you so that in Him you become righteous with My righteousness. And there is no sin in Me.
In Him, you are not just forgiven, your sins are gone as if you had NEVER sinned. Borne by Him who knew no sin but became sin for you all. It is a rewind in time of sin. It is a restoration of the years the cankerworm stole. It is not just redeeming you from sin but also redeeming the unfruitful time wasted therein.
Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, redeeming your time, because the days are evil. So then do not be foolish but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father. Ephesians 5:15-20.
In Jesus your heart’s desire for sinless perfection has come true. Think about that for a moment if you have not being seeing it in that light. But that is the truth that will set you free.
I took all your faults, failures, sins, and impurities and I accounted them to Jesus’ account and took them out of yours. Now, let Me ask you, “If He took all your faults, is it still your fault?” I want you to say about your sins now, “It is not my fault.” You did it, that is true, Jesus did not do it, that is true, but He took it away from you as if it were His own and He paid the price for it. It was your punishment that fell on Him and by His chastisement you are made whole.
If you look back at the shadow of the good things to come that was in the Law of Moses, you will understand the substance by the shadow it cast. Under the Mosaic Covenant, the sinner would bring an unblemished lamb as a burnt offering to the gate of the outer court of the tabernacle and would enter before the bronze altar of sacrifice. The priest would examine the lamb, not the sinner. The priest knew the sinner had sinned, no use looking at him for help, instead he examined the lamb, and if he found it perfect, the repentant sinner would lay his hand on the head of the pure lamb and the sin of the sinner would transfer from him to the spotless lamb and the spotless purity of the lamb would transfer to the sinner. The sinner would then cut the throat of the lamb and the blood would run out and the priest would splash it on the altar and then offer the lamb by burning it to ashes over the fire on the bronze altar, a pleasing aroma of justice satisfied without the stroke falling on My precious people as a type of the good things to come in Christ.
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. Ephesians 5:1-2.
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. 2 Corinthians 2:14.
The ashes would then be collected at the east side of the altar and then carried outside the camp. The sinner now was forgiven and was given beauty for the ashes of his sins.
The Spirit of the Lord LORD is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners; to proclaim the favorable year of the LORD and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, to grant those who mourn in Zion, giving them beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified. Isaiah 61:1-3.
It was impossible, however, for the blood of mere creatures with no spirit and no eternal life to give to take away sins. It was merely a credit payment, like a credit card, until Jesus came and shed His eternal blood for the life you murdered in Adam. He gave His eternal life in the flesh for the one Adam lost. Jesus paid it all so that all that was wrong was made right. I sent Him to undo the works of the devil.
Adam made you all dead to Me and alive to sin. But Jesus turned it around and brought you back to Me with your spirits born again as alive to Me and dead to sin. He redeemed you from the curse of the law, which is sickness, poverty, and eternal death, and brought to you the Blessing of Abraham (righteousness by faith and increase in every area of your life) and the promise of the Spirit (My Spirit in you and on you!).
Have you been with Me all this time and still do not understand what I have done for you in Jesus? I so loved the world I gave you Jesus so all who believe in Him will never perish but have eternal life. And I did it with joy. My delight (My Will for you) prospered in His pierced hands and wounded body, Isaiah 53:10, for by His stripes you were healed and in His pierced hands all your debts for sin were nailed to the cross and paid in full. This is not a cause for mourning but a cause for rejoicing that all is accomplished for your redemption.
So for you that are going about downcast because of your sins and unwise decisions and things done in the past that keep haunting you and hindering your joy, let Me be the lifter of your countenance, let Me put more joy in your heart than when grain and wine abound, for your sins are gone! Gone as if never done. You are reconciled to Me. My Son removed the dividing wall of sin, demolished it by grace, and He became the foundation, the cornerstone of all you will build your life upon from now on.
In the future live the truth of who you really are—holy, blameless and beyond reproach. Awake to righteousness. I have turned your darkness to light, your night into day for I have taken ALL your sins away. As far as the east is from the west, so far have I removed them from you. Though your sins were crimson as scarlet, white as snow they now be.
In Jesus I worked singular justice. I justly forgave your sins for He willingly took your sins on Himself and paid the death penalty for them in your place. Justice has been satisfied and you have come out justified and made righteous in My sight.
Jesus came in the flesh in the fullness of time but being also divine He died outside of time for an eternal and everlasting redemption. Everyone born receives this redemption as a gift that they must receive or reject once the age of reason is reached. But all begin in the Lamb’s Book of Life. He died once for all.
Let Me go over this again, for many of you have been told that you are forgiven in Jesus but you think it with only applied to when you initially came to Him or at your baptism, but it is a continual cleansing in the blood as you walk with Me in the light. Be quick to repent and quick to confess and then I am faithful and just to forgive. You must understand if He died for you when you were rejecting Him and living in sin, much more now that you follow Him and are trying to walk in a worthy manner of life does His death and resurrection give you new life continually.
Let Me repeat: When you are in Christ and have received Him as Lord, no matter what you did, it is not YOUR fault. It was your fault, your sin, your debt, your mistake, your illness, your shame, your pain, but when you took Jesus as your Lord, He took your fault, your sin, your debt, your mistake, your illness, your shame, and your pain. It was no longer YOUR fault, it became HIS. And then He took care of it. It was your sin but when you received Jesus as Lord it became HIS. He took ownership though He had never sinned, and then He took care of it.
Again, please note this does not mean He is to blame or that He caused it. No, it means that He took it away from you and He took care of it, so it is over and gone as if it had never been before Me. So now He presents you holy, blameless, and beyond reproach before Me. Colossians 1:22. Get it out of your head that you are forgiven but your guilt remains. Go to the mirror right now, stare in your eyes, and tell yourself out loud, “It is not YOUR fault. He took it and He took care of it.” You do not own it anymore.
Now, please go deeper with Me. If someone told you they took your debt, but they never paid it, then you still owe the creditor and the creditor has not been made whole. And neither have you. You would still avoid him if you could not pay. But if someone took your debt and paid it, your creditor is whole and so are you. You do not avoid your creditor; it is like it never happened because it is all paid in full. And what if the one who took over your debt even paid more than you owed? Then the creditor is blessed beyond merely what was owed.
You owed Me a huge debt for your sins. But My Son took that debt away from you as if it were His own debt and He paid it in full, plus a bonus to Me. He paid it by nailing it to the Cross and shedding every drop of His Blood to redeem you from your debts. One drop would have done it, but He gave it all.
But keep going along with Me. If I had not raised Him from the dead, debt, sin, disease, and pain free, as I revealed to My apostle Paul, “if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.” 1 Corinthians 15:17. Why? Because that would mean I had not accepted the payment as sufficient. But I raised Him as your receipt for payment in full. He was delivered over because of your transgressions and was raised because of your justification. Romans 4:25.
Do you see why His death was your death, and His resurrection is your victory? It is not just His private death and His victory. He did it bearing your faults, sins, debts, failures, diseases, and any other evil work in your life, and when I raised Him, I raised you with Him, free and whole. Like if sin had never been. Not just forgiven, but as pure as the whitest snow. Pure light. Though your sins were as scarlet, I made them white as snow. How? My Son took them on Himself and gave you His purity, and when He paid the divine sentence for your sins and offenses, I accepted the payment, and raised Him up to My throne from the depths of hell. And you came up in Him. I accepted His payment of your sins and everything else that enslaved you and divided you from Me. It is gone. And in Him by substitution, identification, and Covenant you share in His reward as My children and joint heirs of Christ.
Do not stop at the Cross and wallow in your sins, go on to the Resurrection, with all that gone, but do not stop there. Go on to Pentecost, for as Peter told the astonished crowd, what they heard and saw meant Jesus was no longer forsaken, as He cried carrying your sins on the Cross, He was home in Glory with all sins gone and paid. Acts 2:32-33. And then what happened? All those who had been freed from the slavery of sin and led out to freedom got filled with My Holy Spirit! Acts 2:38. But do not stop there! Where do you get access to by the Spirit through the new and living way that Jesus paved by His Blood? Into the Holy of Holies in fellowship with Me! Ephesians 2:18; Hebrews 10:19-22. Jesus took your faults and sins to not just get you free, holy, blameless, and without reproach, but to bring you into intimate fellowship with Me in the secret place of the Most High, My very throne room, and seated you with Me there. Ephesians 2:6; Hebrews 4:14-16.
Are you understanding? You must understand this to never again torment yourself with fear of rejection by Me due to your sins, faults, omissions, and whatever else you have done or do on any particular day through weakness or by walking in the flesh instead of the spirit for a moment. Like David. Try to avoid these things and stay close to Me and you will, but if you do fall into fault, confess your sins to Me and I am faithful and true to cleanse you of all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9. And how do I do that? I take them off you and put them on Jesus. My apostle Paul wrote this message to you, “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Corinthians 5:21. He is the scapegoat. It is as if you were innocent and He is guilty. He gets punished, because He took your fault, your sin, your failing, your unrighteousness, and every other evil deed or thing.
If He took all your sins but was never punished, they would still be running around, but they were punished severely in Him and He was raised up sinless. He got rid of them and when He did, they were gone completely. No longer on Him, they are no longer on you. They are gone. Blown away like the ashes from the burnt offering. You have beauty now instead of ashes. Because He lives, you live.
I told My prophet Malachi, “And for you who revere My Name, the Sun of Righteousness (the Light of the world, the LORD your righteousness) will rise (I raised Him from the dead) with healing in His wings and you shall go forth and skip like calves from the stall!” Malachi 4:2 (Malachi 3:20). For I, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” am the One who has shone in your hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of My glory in the face of Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6.
I want to discuss with you the prophecy I spoke to Malachi about My Son. You who revere My Name. I gave Jesus My Name, but I gave Him a very particular Name also, “Jesus,” which means “Salvation.” In Hebrew, it is Yeshuah. And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which you must be saved. Acts 4:12. Do you see why? He is the only sinless man since Adam so He alone is qualified to take your faults and sins and give you His purity. For He knew no sin, never did a sin, and never broke one of My Commandments.
But to go on, He came into the world as its Light and I tell you I raised Him up with healing in His wings. The Word in Hebrew used in the original way I spoke it is “kanaph” which means “wings,” like the wings of a bird or of angels, but it has other meanings too. It has to do with extremities, extensions, like wings are. You do not recognize it in English as the same word, but it also is used for the corners of a garment, the end of a robe, or the robe itself. I told Moses, “Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them that they shall make for themselves tassels on the corners (kanaph) of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner (kanaph) a cord of blue. It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember אֶת all the commandments of the LORD, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes (feelings, the flesh), after which you played the harlot, so that you may remember to do all אֶת My commandments and be holy to your God. I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the LORD your God.” Numbers 15:38-40. Do you see the Aleph Tav (אֶת) in there? That is the sign of My Son, the alpha to the omega (the aleph to the tav). He kept all My commandments for you and now you keep His. John 15:10. Believe in His Name and love one another as He commanded you. 1 John 3:23.
But back to kanaph. You also see Me use this Word in the book of Ruth in the two ways. Boaz told Ruth she had come to seek refuge under My wings (kanaph), Ruth 2:12, but later I use the same Word when she comes in at night when he is threshing grain and lies at his feet. When he awakens and is surprised to see her there, she asks him to spread his covering (kanaph) over her. She is asking him to be her kinsman redeemer. Ruth 3:9. To pay for her freedom and make her his own responsibility.
And I use kanaph when David cuts off the end of Saul’s robe in the cave. 1 Samuel 24:4-5.
Do you see now why the woman with the issue of blood just wanted to touch the corner of Jesus’ garment? She knew that when the LORD your righteousness would rise there would be healing in His kanaph. And that was where the tassels of His garment would be in accordance with My instructions to Moses. And she know in those was the healing power of the Messiah.
And back to the Malachi prophecy. Once the Sun of Righteousness was raised up with healing in His wings, I tell you that you who revere My Name shall go forth and skip like calves from the stall! Your kinsman redeemer, your brother Jesus, has paid your debt and brought you out of slavery for your debts, Leviticus 25:47-49, to total freedom. He took responsibility, took on the obligation of your debt to Me. And His payment was counted as yours.
Do you see now why there is no condemnation now for those who are in Christ Jesus? Romans 8:1. Not only because He took your condemnation but because He actually took your faults, sins, debts, diseases, etc. as His own. They are not yours anymore. Take a good breath and relax. It is not YOUR fault. He took it and made it HIS. How can you ignore so great a salvation? Be overflowing with gratitude. And this will keep you from sin.
My Son once told the scribes and Pharisees, “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.” John 8:24. Do you see why now? Unless you take Him as your Lord, He cannot take your faults as His own. It is still YOUR fault, your sin, your debt, your disease, your shame, and your pain, but if you will receive Him, He will take all those things from you and take care of them for you. And you will have His righteousness, purity, and perfections as your own. In Him, I make you complete.
He is the “Lamb of God” who takes away the sins of the world. As Abraham told his son, Isaac when he asked where the sacrifice was, “God Himself will supply the Lamb.” No one else would do. Only a sinless one. And none of you born of Adam’s seed were. But Jesus was born not of perishable but imperishable seed, My living and enduring Word.
As My servant Peter, who understood having a fault taken away, wrote “Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same precious value as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins. Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.” 2 Peter 1:1-11.
You have been purified through and through by the blood of My Son by which He entered the Holy of Holies having paid eternal redemption once for all. And this alone can cleanse your conscious of dead works. If you recall, Paul had Christians put to death before He saw My Son, but he told you that his conscience was totally clear, though he called himself the greatest of all sinners. Why? He understood it was no longer HIS fault. I had so loved him, that I gave My Son to be his righteousness and take Paul’s faults to be HIS own.
In Christ, it is no longer YOUR fault, YOUR sin, YOUR debt, or YOUR disease. It is HIS and He took care of it. He took it out of the way completely. I made peace through the blood of His Cross.
Forget the shame and guilt you have, the regrets, the torment, the things that you ask Me to forgive you of but underneath you know it was your fault. But I tell you now, it is not YOUR fault any longer, when you took Jesus as Lord, though He did not do it or cause it, He took it as HIS fault and then He took care of it. Or should I say I took care of it in Him? Do you realize the wisest thing you ever did or can do is receive Jesus as your Lord? There is no other way you can join in fellowship with Me without your sins getting in the way. But once you are in Him, there is no sin in you anymore. It is not your sin. It becomes His, not because He did it, but because He took ownership of it for you. Say “amen” to that. It is a place of joy and celebration with no intimidation or regret. Gone. Free to skip like a calf out of the stall.
I love you. In Christ I came to reconcile all men to Myself not counting your sins against you. Why? I came to win the world by love.