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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Doing Away With Sin, #5
Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. (Romans 8:23—NIV)
Finally, at the return of the Lord, our physical body will be raised from the dead (or changed if we are alive at the time) and adopted by the Father. Our body no longer will be filled with sin and death but with eternal, indestructible resurrection life. It shall be immortal!
It is clear from the New Testament that our great salvation includes our total transformation into the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. In no way is the new covenant limited to forgiveness. God has said He intends to do away with sin and that is precisely what will take place for each person who believes and obeys Him.
The Biblical Basis for Deliverance From Sin
That the actual removal of sin from us is included in the atonement is portrayed by the ceremonies included in the Old Testament Day of Atonement.
The Day of Atonement comes after Pentecost in the sequence of the feasts of the Lord. Therefore we can expect the spiritual fulfillment of the Day of Atonement to be presented to us after we have been at Pentecost, so to speak.
Notice carefully the following passage:
Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. He is to cast lots for the two goats—one lot for the LORD and the other for the scapegoat. Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the LORD and sacrifice it for a sin offering. But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to be used for making atonement by sending it into the desert as a scapegoat. (Leviticus 16:7-10—NIV)
On the Day of Atonement two goats were selected. The "Lord's goat" was sacrificed as a sin offering. The other goat was kept alive. Be sure to observe (above) that an atonement was made by the scapegoat as well as by the slain goat. This tells us something very important: the atonement made by the Lord Jesus Christ includes not only the forgiveness of our sins through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, but also the removal of our sin from us—not the guilt of our sins only, but the sinful behavior itself. God is faithful and righteous to forgive our sins and then to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull's blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it. (Leviticus 16:15—NIV)
The above verse speaks of the forgiveness of our sins by means of the offering of the blood of Christ on the cross of Calvary.
Then follows the portrayal of the actual removal of the presence of sinful tendencies from our personality.
To be continued.