The Great Sin Expunger

Expunge means to blot out, erase, wipe out, cancel out, or delete from your record. Expungement is the process by which the record of criminal conviction is destroyed or sealed from the state or Federal repository. If you ever visit a jail or prison, you will often hear the inmates speaking of their crimes being expunged. Most of the inmates are hoping and wishing that the Judge will have mercy on them and expunge their crimes from their record, so they can be clear of their guilt. When an expungement is granted, the guilty person whose record is expunged may treat the crime as it never occurred. An expungement can only be granted by a judge. In the Bible, only the Judge (Christ Jesus Himself) can grant a guilty sinner an eternal Expungement for all of His crimes against God's Law. Jesus is the Great Expunger. Nothing but the Blood of Jesus Christ can expunge your sins against your Maker. True Faith goes directly to Jesus Christ for mercy, forgiveness, and redemption from sin.

You may look at yourself in the mirror sometimes and say, "How could God possibly ever love me, and forgive me for all that I have done against Him?" Remember this, no matter how many times you've sinned, God's hand of mercy is still stretched out to you. No matter how many times you have run away from Him, He is still seeks after you. No matter how many times you prove daily that you deserve hell, Jesus still offers you Heaven. There's nothing free in this world but the Grace of God through the atoning Blood of Jesus Christ.

The Bible says in John 1:29, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." Jesus was the eternal Scapegoat who died and then took our sins away into the wilderness of Eternity. He bore our sins away on the Cross and took them away forever when He died. In the world, when someone commits a crime and someone else falls for it, that person is the Scapegoat for that crime. That person was innocent, but they paid the penalty for someone else's offense. Christ Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree. Jesus was the final and ultimate Scapegoat. Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. God caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Christ. Jesus carried away the blame accredited to our account. Christ is innnocent, but we are guilty. Jesus had our sins and its guilt and punishment laid on Him.

The blame for our sins was placed on the Scapegoat, the Redeemer, The Lamb of God, as He hung on Calvary's Cross dying in agony, suffering the wrath of God due to our sins. He was innocent, but He took our sins, and now we are allowed to go free if we simply trust Him alone. Simple Faith in Jesus' Precious Blood is the only way to be forgiven freely. All our sinful deeds are carried away by our Heavenly Scapegoat, Christ Jesus. This is undeserved kindness, unearned mercy, and unmerited grace - eternal life can only be received as a gift from God through His Son. The sinner is eternally blessed that has had his sin and guilt carried away and forgiven forever by the Lamb of God.

Your sin must be covered. If you try to hide your sin, God will not cover it. But if you uncover your sins and confess them to God, Christ will take the blame for them, and cover them all with His Precious Blood -- All of your sins, the entirety of your sins, past-present-future. When Jesus died, He knew all the sins you would commit 2,000 years later, but He still loved you, and gave Himself for your sins. Jesus, God manifest in the flesh, bled for your sins, and satisfied the wrath of God for you. God does not keep an account for sin that is atoned for by the blood of Christ. So in the terms of the record of your life, God removes all of your sin through the blood of Christ and reckons none of it to your account. But God places on your account all of the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. In plenty words, the ledger (the record book) of the believer's soul has every sin erased (expunged) and every page covered with the Righteousness of Christ. God doesn't reckon your sin to you anymore, He reckons it to His Son and you are free forever.

There will come a day when all of the lost and unbelieving world will stand before God at the judgment. All of those sinners standing before God will be willing to give anything and everything away that they earned or could have earned, they would give it all away in exchange for having their sinful slate cleaned. But it will be too late. Justice will have closed the door of mercy. The light of hope will have burned out for them.

But right now, Grace is available to you, blessed is the sinner that trusts the Finished Work of Christ alone. You must simply trust the One that bore sins away, the One that covers sin with His blood-atoning work on Calvary's Cross. Christ's work allows no sinful work of your own to be charged to your account. If you trust Christ, you will stand before God one day and He will say this to you, "Oh yes, I remember you, I have already forgiven all of your wickedness, I will remember your sins no more, I have removed your transgressions as far as the east is from the west, I have forgotten all your sins only because my Precious Son paid for them ALL."

Your case is hopeless without Christ - everyone's case is hopeless without the blessed Substitute - Christ Jesus the Lord! Christ didn't die for good, dignified people -- He died for His enemies, for ungodly and terrible sinners. What hope do you have before a holy God? We have all violated all of God's laws thousands upon thousands of times. Your case, and mine, is equally hopeless. You and I have a horrible record of sin. We know in our own minds and in our own memories, there is not a person living who hasn't done many things that they are ashamed of – not one of us! And you know, even today, the depths of the battle that you're facing in your own mind with the memory of those offenses you've committed against God; and you know the current struggle you have with the filth of your own thoughts, words, and deeds - the filth of your flesh.

None of us in our natural, sinful condition could ever merit, or earn, or deserve the Grace of God. We must simply, by faith, hand over to Christ, as it were the filthy ledger of our life. Page 1 of the black ledger would be the first sin you ever committed, and the last page would have recorded on it the last sin you ever committed in your life. You must go to Christ personally and hand over to Him the sinful ledger of your life. Remember - it pleased the Father to bruise the Son, and God laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all. When you believe and trust in Christ's finished work on the Cross on your behalf, then Jesus will hand back to you a snow-white ledger that is eternally wiped clean with His precious blood. And all you will ever find in your blood-washed ledger, all that you will ever be accountable for is Christ's Righteousness (His perfect life and Precious Blood). How magnificent is the grace of God! The library of Heaven is filled with countless stories of redeemed rebels. Incarnation - God was manifest in the flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth (I Timothy 3:16); Substitution - Christ Jesus offered up Himself in my place and paid the Atonement for all my sins (II Corinthians 5:21).

How blessed is the sinner whose sins have been forgiven, whose guilt has been covered, the one to whom God will not charge sin to His account. The blessed man has his sins forgiven. . . and . . . forgotten by God. Horatio Spafford, the author of the hymn, "It Is Well With My Soul", explained it this way: My sin – O, the bliss of this glorious thought, My sin – not in part, but the whole, Is nailed to the Cross, and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, O my soul! Only the sinner that trusts Christ's blood alone can sing, “My sin . . . is nailed to the Cross, and I bear it no more”! Are your sins forgiven . . . are your sins forgotten . . . forever?

Here's the old, old story of Jesus and His love for sinners - To obtain eternal life, you must believe in the dear Son of God who came to earth, took upon Himself our human nature. He took our sins, He was made a curse for us, suffered, bled, and died, “the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.” Your faith must be completely fixed on what He did, not on what you can do; and on what He suffered, not on what you can suffer. You must look away from anything there is within or about you, or anything you can possibly perform or achieve, look only to the ransom price paid by Christ Jesus Himself upon the cross of Calvary, for you must live eternally — and you can only live eternally — by faith in Jesus Christ's Precious Blood, for “by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in God's sight."

Go directly to Christ personally - away to the Cross, just as you are - filthy, naked, penniless, and lonely. Go to Him in your rags, without trying to make yourself better. Go straight away to Jesus, cry out to God for mercy through the blood of Christ. Cry out, "God, forgive me right now, for Christ's sake." Guilty sinner, fly to the Cross - Find shelter in Jesus' bleeding wounds, have done with yourself, you cannot help save yourself at all. Christ is both the Physician and the Medicine for your soul - He is the only Remedy for your sin problem. Lay hold on Him, whatever your condition may be. Come just now. Go personally, directly, and at once to Christ Jesus Himself, the one and only Mediator between God and sinful men. Come to Him, tell Him all about your sins, confess to Him, uncover your sin to Him, and He will expunge them with His blood. Jesus is the Great Sin Expunger. Run by the grace of God from your sins. You can't come too filthy - come just as your are.

The living and personal Savior is calling to you now. Bring Him your filthiness, sinfulness, and guilt - His blood can deliver, cleanse, and forgive you - He is waiting to pardon you freely by His grace. Find all you need in Christ. Only Jesus saves from the love of sin and hell fire. If you are full of guilt, dreading death, hardened in sin, Christ is very near to you and wants to save your soul now. Cry to Him, trust Him, cast your soul upon His mercy and blood, and God will wipe out all your sin. Religion teaches that salvation is earned, the Bible teaches that salvation is free by faith alone in the Blood of Jesus Christ. Salvation is free because Christ paid for it. Please trust Jesus with your guilty soul now.