Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember your sins. There is one thing that God always does with sin. He removes it out of His presence. God cannot dwell with sin. When He casts away the guilty soul into an unapproachable distance, and when He pardons a penitent soul, He is doing the same thing in both cases — removing sin. I. THE AUTHOR OF FORGIVENESS. The expression, "I, even I," is not a very unfrequent one in Scripture; but wherever it occurs — whether in reference to justice or mercy — it is the mark of the Almighty, at that moment taking to Himself, in some special degree, some sovereign prerogative. Here, the magnificent repetition of that Name, first given in the bush, was evidently intended to show one characteristic feature of God's love. He forgives like a sovereign. All His attributes are brought to bear upon our peace. II. THE NATURE OF FORGIVENESS. 1. As to time. The verb runs in the present tense — "blotteth out." 2. As to degree. You could not read — Satan could not read — a trace where God's obliterating hand has once passed. 3. As to continuance. The present swells out into the future. "Will not remember" III. THE REASON OF FORGIVENESS. (J. Vaughan, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. |
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