“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” - 1 John 1:9 (ESV)
Today we have a promise that is simple in structure and deep in truth. All who have, by faith, believed in God through Jesus Christ, our Savior are born again (John 3:3). Just as Jesus taught Nicodemus, that this new birth was a spiritual birth. And in like manner that each person has no role in their physical birth except being there at the event, we who have been born of the of the Spirit have no part in the working of that to happen (John 3:6). Even our faith is a gift from God. In the New Testament, the basis of all forgiveness of sins is revealed more clearly than it was in the Old Testament, but the basis, namely, God’s commitment to his name, does not change. Jesus died in such a way that our promised forgiveness is “for the sake of God’s name.” It is the faithfulness and justice of Jesus that brought him to the God-honoring sacrifice on the cross for us. His justice is vindicated in this very act so that He might be both just and the justifier of those who by faith trust in Jesus (Romans 3:26).
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