“Nothing more remains to be done” by Jerry Bridges

“It is not necessary in your Christian growth that you make expiation a part of your vocabulary, but it is necessary that you make the concept of sin’s removal, symbolized by the scapegoat, a part of your thinking and theology.

Only then, as we saw in Hebrews 9:14, will you be freed from your guilt so that you can serve God effectively.

Do you grasp in both your heart and mind what the message of the scapegoat says to you?

Do you believe that Jesus really has carried away your sin and that God has indeed removed it as far as the east is from the west?

Do you by faith lay hold of the glorious truth that God has put all your sin behind His back, that He has blotted it from His record and remembers it no more?

Do you rejoice in the fact that God has hurled your sin into the depths of the sea and will never count it against you?

Do you see God showing us in all these wonderful Old Testament metaphors that the work of Christ is infinitely greater than the greatest depth of your sin?

The work of Christ is finished. Nothing more remains to be done.

God’s wrath has been propitiated. Our sins have been removed.

The question is, will we appreciate it, not only at our initial moment of salvation, but for our day-to-day acceptance with God?

It is only as we do the latter that we will truly begin to appreciate the glory of the cross and the unsearchable riches of Christ.”

–Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2003), 67–68.