Sinclair Ferguson

We can be paralyzed with shame.

And it can be a frightening thing to experience.

We're like Joshua, the high priest in Zechariah chapter 3, you remember.

There we are before God, clothed with filthy garments, and Satan is standing at our side, accusing us.

Well, we need to remember what happens next, how the Lord says to Satan, The Lord rebuke you, O Satan, and how the angel of the Lord took off Joshua's filthy garments and then said these beautiful heart-melting words, Behold, I have taken your iniquity from you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments.

What a picture that is of the believer, clothed in the filthy garments of sin, but now through Jesus Christ clothed in the pure vestments from head to toe.

I wonder if you can see yourself standing before the throne of God and hearing God say, but I don't see any sin.

I see only purity.

I've covered your sin with the blood of Christ and clothed you in Christ's righteousness.

Does God really forget your sin as you trust Him?

Yes, indeed.

He tells us He removes our sin as far as the east is from the west.

I wonder if you have forgotten what God says He will forget.

God remembers our sins no more.

So, perhaps the thing we need to remember most of all is the one thing the Lord tells us He remembers no more.

There is nothing more glorious than to be living a paralysis-free Christian life in the presence of the Heavenly Father.

knowing that He loves you more than you will ever know, that He has given His Son to cover your sins.

And He says to you, your sins I remember no more.

I do hope you know the peace that that brings.

We've been thinking all week about the importance of remembering in the Christian life.