Psalm 32:2
2 Blessed ['esher] is the man ['adam] unto whom the LORD [Yahovah]
imputeth [chashab] not iniquity [`avon], and in whose spirit [ruwach] there is no guile [ramiyah]. KJV-Interlinear
2 How
blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, And in whose
spirit there is no deceit! NASB
All debts of sin were
settled at the Cross. Therefore, God
does not impute them again, to the individual.
There is no double jeopardy, no re-trying of guilt as far as the person
is concerned.
Not imputed, means not
assigned again. The person is not
charged again with the same crime, as it were.
All sins were paid for at
the Cross. None were left out. None were overlooked. None were missed.
There is no sin that can
be committed by a person that re-establishes guilt against that person, or
anyone.
There is only one
unpardonable decision, which is in itself not a sin, and that violation is
rejection of Christ. And when a person
rejects Christ throughout their entire life, then God is gracious and allows
them to retain that decision. That means
they are not going to be with God, ever.
The alternative is the Lake of Fire, or a place that is absent of Gods mercy
and grace and blessing and provision and power.
They will be on their own, alone, powerless, empty of any and all
contacts of every type. A situation
much, much worse that solitary confinement.
When Christ paid the
price for sin, He purchased our freedom and paid all our debts with regard to
sin and death. We were redeemed.
He covered our filth,
burying it deep into non-existence.
He set us apart from all
the filth of the world, making our corruption, incorruptible.
He obliterated forever,
all evidence and existence of sin as though it never existed.
And finally, all the
deceit, all of the self-deception, all of the fraud, delusion, and pretense are
gone. And this opens up the door for pardon,
for confession and therefore forgiveness.
The facts remain. You are
a sinner and you commit sins. Those
facts did not change. But God can
establish a criteria whereby, His having paid for the debt, allows Him to
pardon us and therefore forgive us.
As human beings, we have
debts, in the form of sin. This limits
us greatly.
But Christ took all of
those debt bills which we have and could never pay, and paid them off. We are no longer in debt. Who tries to pay a debt again after it has
already been paid in full? Only a fool.
Our crossing the line,
our disobedience, our refusal to follow instructions, our filthy pattern of life,
all of these things that relate to sin, are all paid off, in full and no longer
apply to us.
There is however, one thing
which was not paid at the Cross, and that was human good, or the idea of mans
efforts to do the same thing that God did.
And when unbelievers
reject Christ, they adopt a belief that they can get to heaven on their own and
make themselves equal with God. This,
human works, is the ultimate basis for their eternal condemnation. Their sins too, were paid, but they refuse to
recognize that payment. And this is the quintessence
of stubborn stupidity.
