COSTLY PRICE FOR FREEDOM FROM SIN
   "with a great sum obtained freedom" Acts 22:28                           Edward Proffitt Th.D.  
     
Sin is the most expensive thing in all the world. But what about the costly value of cleansing sin. What a marvel it is that God is able to cleanse the sinner. When a person repents and trust Jesus Christ as savior God forgives that person. 

 

Psalm 103:12 tells us, "as far as the east is from the west so far hath he removed our transgressions from us". He buries them in the depths of the sea, He blots them completely out. In Psalm 32 David made a statement that Paul the apostle quoted in Romans 4:7-8 "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whom the Lord will not impute sin" 

 

Now what does that mean? It means that when we are saved we are forgiven, God wipes the record clean. As a Christian, God is keeping a record. Not of our sins for when a Christian sins the Holy Spirit convicts us of that sin and we repent and turn from that sin. But God is keeping a record of our works. The angel to 
the Emphasis Church said "I know thy works" (Revelation 2:2) One day, a Christian 
will stand before the judgement seat of Christ and give account of works.

 

In I Corinthians 3:12 we are told of work categories. They are "gold, silver, precious stones, wood and stubble"  In the next verse it tells of those six categories as "those works being manifest" and "tried by fire". In Psalm 51:13 the Psalmist says, "have mercy upon me o God", If I teach transgressors the way, sinners shall be converted unto thee". When a sinner gets his life straighten out, that is when God can use that person.  

 

Thinking upon the costly value of cleansing sin, God had to pay a price. The price was not a meager, cheap, inadequate price. To blot out a persons transgressions and cleanse a person, a debt had to be paid. Sin created a transgressor, God had to deal with the transgression.  Psalm 51:1 says "Have mercy 
upon me, O God". Don't give me WHAT I DESERVE.  

 

But how is it possible to "give us what we do not deserve"?  It is through the finished work on the cross. Jesus Christ died on the cross for one reason, He died for sinners sins. On Calvaries cross Jesus Christ dealt with our sins. Jesus Christ "was made sin for us" 2 Corinthians 5:21. If there is sin in a persons life, that sin put Jesus Christ on the cross.  

 

But, if that person confesses that sin it is forgiven. The forgiveness is not cheap, it cost God his Son and it cost the Son His life. Forgiveness is not cheap. 
              "WITH GREAT SUM OBTAINED                                  FREEDOM" ACTS 22:28
     LET ME ASK YOU  ---  ARE YOU FREE 
 

 

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