the kingdoms of heaven and hell. He
blots out our transgressions. From his decision there can be no
appeal. With such a work as this, who shall lay anything to the charge
of God's elect? Would God that justifieth do it, or Christ that died
consent to it? In the light of such a thought the Apostle Paul says,
"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us
from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans
8:38-39).

III

Our sins are blotted out for his sake. God saves the sinner not alone
because of pity for the sinner, and certainly not simply because he is
in danger of hell, but in order that he may glorify himself; and this
is no selfish glorification, but rather in order that he may show to us
now and throughout all the ages what he really is. God has made
different revelations of himself. We have beheld his wisdom in
creation, in his providences and in his word. We have seen his justice
in that he gave his only begotten Son to die for poor lost men. We
have seen his power in the working of miracles and the transforming
effect of his grace. It remains for us to see his love in the story of
salvation, for until we behold him as the Savior of the sinner we do
not know him. It is this that shall make us not only rejoice here in
time but rejoice with joy unspeakable in eternity. The Apostle Paul
writes in Ephesians 2:7-8, "That in the ages to come he might shew the
exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ
Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God."

IV

Our sins are blotted out from God's memory. The last of this wonderful
text is the best. When we detect a failure of memory here in this
world among our friends it is an evidence of weakness, but it is no
weakness in God to forget. This is but another one of those
expressions descriptive of God in which human language is used to
describe a thought and in which human language is too poor an agency to
convey all the depth of the meaning. It is just another picture of God
stooping down to meet our weakness and it is God assuring us that our
sins are gone completely. It is as if they never had existed, for they
shall never stand against us and in the day of judgment they shall not
even b