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In Whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:14

Of all spiritual blessings made known to the soul by the power of God “a knowledge of salvation by the remission of sins” is the hardest to be obtained, and most prized when acquired. How many poor tried, exercised, distressed souls are at this very moment sighing and crying for the manifestation of this one blessing. These well know, and some of them by the painful experience of many years’ hard bondage and travail, how hard it is to get forgiveness sealed on their heart.

Not that it is really hard on the part of God now to forgive, that is, in experimental manifestation; for it is already done to and for all the elect of God—“And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses” (Colossians 2:13); and again, “In Whom we have” (not “shall have,” but “have,” that is, now have) “redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.”

Though he may not be able to lay hold of it for himself, appropriate it as a personal blessing, and feel sweetly and blessedly assured, in his own heart and conscience, of the forgiveness of all his sins; yet every quickened soul is really forgiven all his trespasses, past, present, and to come. It is one of the spiritual blessings with which he has been blessed, already blessed, in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

To the reader…

Here is a word for those who have long been sighing for that one blessing: the forgiveness of sins sealed upon the heart. Perhaps there have been years of bondage and travail, of crying without an answer, and you sometimes fear it will never come for you. I know how hard this blessing is to obtain and how precious it is when it comes. This word does not flatter you, but it does point you to a precious text.

For it does not say: in Whom we shall have, but: in Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. The difficulty does not lie on God’s side; with Him it has been done. If you cannot yet appropriate it for yourself, the thing itself is no less true for every quickened soul. Go on sighing and crying, then, but with this hope: He has accomplished redemption through His blood, and in His time He will make it known to your conscience as well.

With warm regards,
The compilers of jcphilpot.nl