The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1909, Page 49

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Che Lutheran Pioneer.

A MISSIONARY MONTHLY.

PuBLIsuED BY THE EVANGELICAL LuTHERAN SyNoDICAL CONFERENCE OF Nortit AMERICA.
R. A. BISCHOFYF, Epiror.

Entered at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo., as second-class matter.

Vol. XXXI.

ST. LOULS, MO., JULY, 1909. No. 7.

The Happy Believer.

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin
is covered, Is. 32, 1.

I know that God forgets me not;
For whom the Lord doth love,
His name is written in the Book
Of Life in heaven above.

My faithful Savior comes to me,
Who all for me hath won,

And nothing shall be lost at all
But sin and guilt alone.

My sins are cast into the sea,
Where they cannot be found,
My God remembers them no more,

And grace and life abound.
M. C. Weisze.

Sins Not Remembered.

he believer’s sins are not remembered. By
faith in Christ he has God’s forgiveness, and God
is not like a man who says: “I will forgive, but I
cannot forget.” No. When God foxgives sins, He
remembers them no more. He Himself says that
He will not remember the sins of those who trust
in Elis Son for salvation: Jer. 31, 34; Hebr. 8, 12;
10,17.

When Christ, the Son of God, died upon the
cross, He died for us. By His death the claims of
God’s Law are fully and forever met; the demands
of God’s justice are perfectly and forever satisfied.
‘There is therefore now no condemnation to them
which are in Christ Jesus,” Rom. 8, 1. The believ-
ers are in Christ Jesus, having accepted His salva-
tion offered to sinners in the Gospel. There is no
condemnation to them, for they are accepted of God

according to the value of Christ’s finished work.
God beholds them in His Son, in whom He is well
pleased and with whose work He is perfectly satis-
fied. ‘Trusting in God’s well-beloved Son as their
Savior, believers know from the Word of God that
they have in Him “redemption through His blood,
even the forgiveness of sins,” Col. 1, 14. By faith
they have become God’s “dear children,” whose sins
He will remember no more. All their sins are cast
into the deep sea of God’s forgetfulness.

The faithful God Himself says: “Their sins
and iniquities will I remember no more,” Hebr.
10, 17. Words of comfort and cheer for the troubled
heart of the very humblest, poorest, weakest be-
liever! They tell us God is satisfied with Christ’s
work of redemption, and the believer being satisfied
with that same work, there is sweet peace between
him and God, as there rises from his thankful heart
the cry of adoring gratitude:

O depth of love, in which, past finding,
My sins through Christ’s blood disappear;
This is for wounds the safest binding,
There is no condemnation here;

For Jesus’ blood through earth and skies
Forever “Mercy! Mercy!” cries.

Blessed believer! Well may the joyful expe-
rience of such great mercy fill his heart with thanks-
giving, and move him to bring to others the glad
message of God’s infinite love and unspeakable
mercy in Christ Jesus.

-— e

Let the world have their rich ones, their power-
ful ones, and their wise ones, and their consola-
tions; let them trust and glory in their wisdom,
their might, their wealth, and their possessions —
my heart triumphs in the living God. — Luther.