The extent of this forgiveness is mindboggling. God said, “Their sin I will remember no more” (Jer. 31:34). David wrote, “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us” (Ps. 103:12). And Isaiah gave the reason: “The LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him [Christ]” (Isa. 53:6; cf. 1 Peter 2:24). God could not pass by our sin unless He placed the punishment for it on someone else, and that is why Christ died. God has forgiven us (in essence eliminated) our sins based on that onetime sacrifice of Christ on the cross.
