Love that covers multitude of sins

The Holy Scriptures tells us that God’s love poured out on us in Christ covered the multitude of our sins.

A very basic truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ our Redeemer and Lord.

“God’s love” a profound mystery for the unsaved, yet a common grounds of salvation for all who would receive the truth about God’s abundant mercy on behalf of all sinners.

The Bible says while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. We were yet in our habitual and sinful state of our former being when God’s love embraced us in the death of His Son. His appropriation of our sins through His blood brought us into the family of God through His love demonstrated through His love.

His eternal love by the sacrifice of His only begotten Son brought us out of guilt and shame of our sin. He through His love gave us His righteous standing with God.

This supernatural act of grace covered the soiled cloths of our own self righteousness and gave us a new identity with the Father and all the heavenly hosts. His blood washed robe of righteousness shining as white as snow covered the multitude of our sins inherited from Adam. Besides the resurrection of Christ this is the second best good news of our hope in Him. This concept of our hope in Him is the greatest testimony we can have about our right standing in Him.

In this hope many live and continue their being in Him. They know that their sins how bad they were are covered by the washing of Christ’s blood. Most of all other privileges received from Him this robe represent the sign of our heavenly justified standing with God. This is called the blessed assurance the love divine. It is through this divine love that many of us are justified before God in His righteousness.

Many remain in awe of such grace extended to them in total amazement. They are gazing on Christ’s unfathomable love that had completely covered the nakedness of their sin.

Just like the woman who was going to be stoned for her adulterous acts was shocked by this grace extended to her so are we amazed today. We according to our old nature in Adam are all men and women of condemnation and fault finders by nature, however coming face to face with God’s love we all come short.

We cannot understand the measure of His love in forgiving us of our iniquities and some of us even having been recipients of this great love forget to extend it to others. We all are very quick to judge and threw stones of condemnation at the guilty. By birth we are all deceived having been recipients of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

We all have forgotten the smoothing remedies of God’s love for us as sinners saved only by His grace. We soon forget the Band-Aid of his love that had covered the multitudes of our own sins. Some like Peter who probably had a very hard time forgiving people go to Jesus as Him even now, Lord how many times should I forgive my brother who sinned against me, seven times Lord?

But we are surprised to hear Him say “I tell you not seven times, but seven times seventy”. You see we are many times very easy to receive forgiveness for ourselves no matter how many times we need it, but very ungraceful to give what we have  received freely to others.

Apostle Peter was a man who had to experience his own depravity of betraying His Lord and being forgiven, before he too could extend this mercy to others around him.

Jesus seeing the motives of the wicked hearts of the religious crowed demonstrated His covering love for this adulterous woman in order to make them realize the heart of the Law and not the law itself.

The heart of the law being “I want mercy, meaning extension of His covenant love not sacrifice”. The law came out to point out to sin and the necessity of forgiveness through a higher source called the divine love demonstrated by the sacrifice of one man and that the Son of God.

The law of sin and death only was demonstrated so the higher need of the heart of the law of spirit and life would be manifested and that through love.

The sin of this one woman was publicly exposed so that the urgency of forgiveness through love would be revealed to the heart of all men.

Jesus said that “I have come not to do away or abolish your law, but to fulfill it.”

This meant to say that Jesus Christ was fulfilling the heart of the law by what He said to the Pharisees “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites. For you pay the tithe of mint and anise and cumin and you have neglected the weightier matters of the law; justice and mercy and faith, these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone”. Hear you see the Lord rebukes them of their outward religious piety by saying the heart of the law is to show compassion, mercy and justice and faith, things they did not possess

Jesus was showing that through the divine love portrayed by Him, He fulfilled the necessity of the heart of the law.

He wanted to tell them then and to us now that the law only exposes transgressions and sins, so it would be covered by a higher demand which is the love of forgiveness.

This was the end of the law and the prophets His Son.

In the book of Genesis we read the story of Noah a righteouss man whom God saw worthy of praise who after when the floods were subsided came out and offered a sacrifice unto His God. A man whom God praised for His faith. A man who found grace in the sight of God. A man who rose up three sons and had them saved with his wife from the judgment of the first world through their faith.

Noah was a godly man who worshipped God and the author of book of Hebrews says the first world was condemned through his righteousness. However this man after his successful journey over the earth the Bibles says planted a vineyard and drank from its fruit and became naked in his drunken state.

The scriptures in genesis says that soon after he became drunk he was found naked by his son Cannon and he seeing the nakedness of his father after having gazed at his father’s sinful state ran to his other two brothers and exposed the nakedness of their father.

However the word tells us his other two brothers went in backward with a sheet to cover the nakedness of their father without even wanting to look over to see it. This part of the book of genesis is very interesting for me brethren, since it exposes both sin in a righteous man’s life before there was any law written or given to mankind. Also it to me represents the righteousness of God covering this man’s sin through his other two sons. I believe in this story we are clearly seeing the understanding of forgiveness of sins by covering of the divine love of God offered by Noah’s other sons.

I trust the two sons of Noah understood the meaning of the sacrificial Lamb of God through the eyes of the spirit and refused to gaze at their father’s sin by offering their elderly father the same forgiveness that he had received from God by being called a man who found favor with God.

They understood the meaning of the Blood of Calvary that was slained before the foundations of the earth and made a decision to cover the nakedness of their father the same way the Lord had covered theirs. They did not expose their father’s shame. They understood the heavier matters of the law before it was even presented to mankind. This is why upon awakening from his sleep after Noah found out what happened he cursed his son Canaan, because he did not offer the same grace they had received by being saved from flood that destroyed that generation.

May we receive grace to escape this trap