ARE YOUR SINS COVERED? MINE AREN'T!!!

Yes, you read that title correctly!

My sins are NOT covered, and neither are yours if you're a bona fide born-again Christian!

Did you ever notice that if you cover something, you can remove the cover, and voila, the thing you covered is right there in plain sight for all to see? I sure don't want others to see my sins!

The believer is not covered by the blood of Christ; he is cleansed by it.

The word "remit" means to refrain from exacting a penalty. Ezekiel 18:20 tells us, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." But Christ became our substitute; He died in our place, and our sins were remitted, not covered.

Remit also means to forgive. Our sins were forgiven, not covered.

The word "atonement" means covered, and is an Old Testament word. The only time it appears in the New Testament is in Romans 5:11. The original Greek word used there means "reconciliation," which is what most versions use.

People living in Old Testament times had to make annual sacrifices for their sins. The blood of bulls and goats had to be shed each year as an atonement, a covering for their sins. THEY were covered by the blood from one year to the next. But when Christ gave His life on Calvary, it was a one-time offering. It was more than covering where the sacrifice needed to be renewed every year. It was remission.

Now we can understand that our sins are not covered, but remitted.

I don't want anyone uncovering my sins! No, they're gone -- gone forever!

Praise the Lord.

Preacher's Kid

P.S. I found something interesting along this line in Micah 5:18-20. Micah tells his people in verse 19 that God would "cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." That certainly beats covering them! A note in my Scofield Bible says that this Scripture is read in the synagogues once every year on the Day of Atonement. But the interesting thing is that an orthodox Jew will go to a river or stream of water and symbolically empty his pockets of his sins, casting them into the water.