I'm very tempted to remind you that these past few days we've been thinking about things that we tend to forget.

But I think it's a good idea to round out the week by thinking about something that we actually need to forget.

Yesterday we were thinking about remembering God's covenant with us because he remembers that covenant with us,

and he promises that he will never forget it.

But I find it intriguing that in that covenant he actually promises that there is something he will forget.

Remember the promise of the new covenant made in Jeremiah 31, 34, and cited in the New Testament in Hebrews 8, verse 12, because it's fulfilled in Jesus Christ, where God says,

in the new covenant, I will remember their sins no more. He makes a similar promise in Isaiah

43, verse 25. I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember

your sins.

You can think about it this way.

The only thing that God says he forgets is your sins.

He has blotted them out with the blood of his son, Jesus Christ.

That's a very important promise to remember.

Because some of us, I suspect more of us than might be prepared to admit it certainly in public.

Many of us are haunted by the memory of our past

sins. Remember how that was true of King David? He wrote, you remember, that his sins were

ever before him. And obviously he could be paralyzed by the memory of them. Perhaps there were days when he didn't reflect and then all of a sudden out of nowhere

the memory of his sins would be like a fiery dart in his mind and paralyze his sense of fellowship with God.

So he needed to know day by day that his sins were blotted out and that the Lord remembered

them no more.

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