Where Do Blotted-Out Sins Go? S5e25 Acts3:19

Peter gets to the dramatic action-point of his sermon and charges his audience, "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be BLOTTED OUT.  You may ask along with me today, where exactly do these sins go?  Where might I find them?

First, know that we are not the first to sin or to be blotted.  David, one of the best sinners of all time, had his sins blotted.  Peter reminds his audience of this by using David's words from Psalm 51: "Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy BLOT OUT MY TRANSGRESSIONS." We are in good company with David.  We are in good company with a HESED-steadfast love God.

Second, the word is a pretty strong one.  Blotted is wiped away, erased, permanently eliminated.  You know the reference here to "God wiping away every tear" when we get to heaven?  Will there be tears in heaven? YES.  but only once.  Then they will be ELIMINATED.

Finally, so where do these CANCELLED (same Greek word BLOTTED) sin records go?  Where does your list of sins as long as your arm end up? Col 2:14, Forgiven, cancelled debts that stood against us. Set aside. NAILING IT TO THE CROSS.  This would be a good painting.  The Cross on Calvary with about a billion pieces of long paper nailed to it.  Every sin, of every REPENTED person, from every year and from every land.  Be one of them today. Write and tell me about it bewithme.us@gmail.com

Transcript

Michael Smith: 0:00

Good morning, my brothers and sisters, welcome to episode 25 In the book of Acts, and today we're going to ask a question and here's my title is where do blotted out sins go? So the story is we're Peter is giving a speech, it's actually his second speech, the first one result in 3000 converts. And he's getting to the same point in the speech where it's the peak moment of conviction for the people. He's gathered a crowd because he healed the lame guy who's been leaping around making a scene of himself. People have been astounded and wondering and curious, and they run to Peter, and John, and to this lame guy who's now clinging to them. And he just nails them and says, basically, you killed the killed Jesus, you, you convinced Pilate to kill them, you murdered him, you denied Jesus winning. When he was in trouble, you denied the Holy One, the Righteous One, you delivered him up to be crucified and really blames these people. So let's pick up the story. In verse 15, of Acts, chapter three, you killed the author of life whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses, and his name by faith, his name has made this man the leaper guy strong, whom you see, and know. And the faith that is through Jesus has given this man perfect health, in the presence of you all. And now brothers, I know that you act in ignorance, as did your rulers, but what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets that his his Christ would suffer, he has fulfilled, then pay attention to this first, because this is the verse of the day, repent, therefore, in turn, that your sins may be blotted out. And so I want to study a little bit what blotted out is, and where do blotted out sins go. So again, the people are likely cut to the heart, just like the previous group of Jews were. And he gets to the the action point, the previous group actually said, What shall we do? And Peter answered, repent, here, they don't actually say what shall we do, but he's getting to that same idea. And Peter says, Repent, therefore, turn again, that your sins may be blotted out. He's saying, you're at the same spiritual moment as his previous group of people. And basically, this blotted out thing is a direct reference to one of their spiritual heroes, one of their spiritual knucklehead heroes, which is David, member, Psalm 51. And the end the introduction to Psalm 51 says, it's a Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet went to him after he had gone into Bathsheba, coma and killed killed Uriah her husband. And here's what David says, Have mercy on me, oh, God, according to your steadfast love. hesed, according to Your abundant mercy, blocked out my transgressions, He also says in verse nine use of the same thing, same word again. So David is known for calling on the character of the Lord and asking him to blot out his sins. So when Peter refers to this, basically, he's lighting up, David from Psalm 51. And I think it's convenient and encouraging you saying, Hey, this is the this is your hero of the Old Testament was a bad guy as far as murder and abuse. But he had the best heart in history. How's that possible? Well, he had a heart after God. That's the characteristic that's going to be mentioned in Acts chapter 13. A man after my own heart, it was mentioned back in First Samuel, he pursued this relationship. And he claimed, requested that Lord, please blot out this and he's banking that on the character of God. Alright, so what is black mean? It means XL. LIFO is the Greek word it means to wipe away, eliminate, erase and really it's a powerful word. So it's an Obliteration word. Sometimes it's translated. Like in Revelation, chapter seven, it says, God will wipe away every tear. So if you want to ask the question, will there be Tears in Heaven? The answer is yes. But only once. Because once they're wiped away, they're gone forever. So that's the kind of idea here and it's there's this strength word about being canceled. So if you want to know where the blotted sins go, we have to turn toward to a Colossians. So here's the big answer for today. Today, in you who are dead in your trespasses, this is from Colossians, 213. and the uncircumcision of your flesh God made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses. So same moment in time for these people. God is forgiving sin. And here's how, by canceling blotting out same Greek word, it's translated in English, we're canceling, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. He has set it aside, pulled it away from you, and where is it, nailing it to the cross. So if you want to find out where blooded sins go, you have to go to the cross, because they're all nailed there. My sin list nailed there. every sinner you know, who has received Jesus, his sin list is obliterated from their lives, and is on the cross now. So he's reminding these people, you're having the same moment as David, you were having the same moment that I'm going to describe your Paul's gonna describe in the book of collage and that is, you are realizing your sin, the grievous pneus of your offense, and you're up a spiritual offense Creek and you need help. And the reference is, let's go back to David. Let's do the same thing as David which is realized the character of God, that he's faithful when you weren't while you were yet sinners, he died for you. Agree with the concept of sin, call us in the sin, agree with God, know that you are indebted beyond your ability to pay now or pay ever? You have a list as long as your arm of sin and what are you going to do about it? Well, let's be like David. Let's ask the Lord to block this out. And he does. How does he do that? How do how does the Lord blot it out? He takes that list is long as your arm he cancels it by nailing it to the cross. So there it is, ladies and gentlemen, if you want to find out where blotted sins, go, go to the cross. They're nailed there. I will see you tomorrow.