{"id":9136,"date":"2022-05-20T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/schaeffersghost\/?p=9136"},"modified":"2022-05-13T09:39:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:39:30","slug":"what-god-does-with-your-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/schaeffersghost\/2022\/05\/what-god-does-with-your-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"What God does with your sin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Just what does God do with our sin? Yes, we repent and believe and are forgiven, but what about all the terrible things we\u2019ve done, are doing, and will continue to do? Does God just ignore those? Does He get angrier and angrier as time goes on? Does He expect us to work those sins off, either now by good works or in some kind of Purgatory?<\/p>\n

The answers to these questions are explored in Sam Storms\u2019 new book\u00a0A Dozen Things God Did With Your Sin (And Three Things He\u2019ll Never Do<\/em>)<\/em><\/a>. Storms walks through twelve different perspectives on penal substitution drawn from Scripture. What we see as we dig into the depths of what Christ has done in bearing God\u2019s wrath against us in our place on the cross is that our sin is neither ignored nor continually held against us, it is forgiven as it is fully atoned for and propitiated on the cross. Because our sin is fully forgiven, God has blotted out our sin. He has cleansed us of our sin. And, yes, He has\u201dforgotten\u201d our sin, not in the sense of ignoring it (He is still omnipotent, after all), but rather:<\/p>\n

\u201cGod willingly chooses not to remember. Thus, it isn\u2019t so much that the knowledge of our sins and lawless deeds has been erased from God\u2019s mind. Rather, God promises us that he will not remember our shortcomings and sin. He will not remind\u00a0himself<\/em> of our failures. And he will not remind\u00a0us<\/em> of them. They play no part in determining or shaping our eternal relationship with him.\u201d (163)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is just one example of Storms\u2019 work. Overall, this book is excellent and absolutely worthwhile. My only objection is that somehow in a whole chapter about how God \u201chas passed over your sin\u201d, Storms turns to Micah as his text, rather than to, you know,\u00a0The Passover<\/em>. I\u2019m honestly a little surprised at that omission, but otherwise this is a solid devotional that should be on your shelf.<\/p>\n

Dr. Coyle Neal is co-host of the\u00a0City of Man Podcast<\/a> an Amazon Associate (which is linked in this blog), and an Associate Profess<\/em>or of Political Science at\u00a0Southwest Baptist University<\/a>\u00a0in Bolivar, MO<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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