White Sins & Vaccinations

Thursday, May 23, 2019

In Isaiah 1, it’s written: "Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." How can sins become as white as snow? When God forgives a sin, and when we receive it, our past sins become as white as snow. What was evil is neutralized and is used for good. But a sin forgiven and repented of becomes something else altogether. In the same way, a deadly bacteria is something dangerous, but if that disease is neutralized, rendered ineffective, and put into the form of a vaccination, its nature is changed. It becomes something altogether different. It becomes an inoculation that prevents and protects the person from the very disease it once was. So too, to have your sins forgiven and truly receive the fact that your sins are forgiven and your past is wiped clean, and that you’re free because of the grace and mercy of God - this is what inoculates you against sin and causes you to become new. For your sins forgiven and your past redeemed by the blood of Messiah is what truly makes them as white as snow.

From Message #390 - The Gospel and Your Immune System