You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. SelahYou have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; Thou hast covered all their sin. [Selah
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… before. This is verses one through three. Watch them look back. Lord, you were favorable to your land. You restored the fortunes of Jacob. You forgave the iniquity of your people. You covered all their sin. You withdrew all your wrath. You turned away from your hot anger. You restored, you forgave, you covered, you withdrew, you turned away. In other words, we're not asking you to do for us something that you haven't already done for us. And we're not asking you to be anyone than who you've always been for us, even before us, before the foundation of the world. This is who you are, and this is what you've done. And now when we look back on our past, we go looking for mercy and for hope, we have so much more to say than they did, don't we? Our past is so much better than theirs. Do you see that? they could remember what God did in Egypt and the wilderness and Canaan but we have Bethlehem and Calvary if we're going to pray like this we get to pray Jesus you came into the world and were born in a manger you were obedient to the point of death even death on a cross you were pierced for our transgressions. You were crushed for our iniquities. You were wounded so that we might be healed. You became poor so that we might become rich. You suffered the righteous for the unrighteous to bring us to God. And then three days later, you rose, conquered death to give us life. …
many common mercies that God gives freely to all sorts and conditions of men. "He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust." But the pardon of sin is a special blessing reserved for His own peculiar people, whose names He wrote in the Lamb's Book of Life and whom He gave to His Son in the Covenant of His Grace—and whom Christ reclaimed by His precious blood when He "loved the Church and gave Himself for it." These are the people in whom God takes a peculiar delight—and these are they whose sins are forgiven them for Christ's sake! If you, my Brother or Sister, are one of these highly-favored ones, then you have good reason to be happy! Think for a minute or two upon what this pardon is, and then you will see what cause you have for happiness. Isaiah tells us that Jehovah has laid upon Christ the iniquity of all His people so that this crushing burden has been removed from all of us who are truly His—and surely he who has had such a load taken off his heart and conscience must be a happy man! In Psalm 85:2, we read, "You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people, You have covered all their sin." If we have believed in Jesus, our sins are covered even from the sight of God by the Propitiatory Sacrifice of Christ, and they are so concealed from our own eyes that we no longer think of them as condemning us! Can any of us realize that this is our case and yet remain unhappy? In Isaiah 44:22, we read, "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions and, as a cloud, your sins." You have sometimes seen the clouds dissipated and scattered so completely that not a vestige of them can be seen—that is how our sins are driven away by God—so shall we not be happy? Sometimes the pardon of sin is called the casting of sin behind God's back into the depths of the sea. At another time it is said that, "the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for and there shall be none. And the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found." And then there is that wonderful description of the work of "Messiah the Prince" which Gabriel gave to Daniel, "to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins." What stronger expression than that could ever be used? If it is Christ's work "to make an end of sins," we may be quite sure that He will do it and that there will be an end of them for all who believe in Him! Therefore let our hearts dance for joy as His gracious Spirit assures us that our sins are as completely annihilated and put away as if they had never been committed! …
"He that covereth his sins shall not prosper."—Proverbs 38:13. "Thou Hast covered all their sins."—Psalm 85:2. IN THESE two texts we have man's covering, which is worthless and culpable, and God's covering, which is profitable, and worthy of all acceptation. No sooner had man disobeyed his Maker's will in the garden of Eden than he discovered, to his surprise and dismay, that he was naked, and he set about at once to make himself a covering. It was a poor attempt which our first parents made, and it proved a miserable failure. "They sewed fig-leaves together." After that God came in, revealed to them yet more fully their nakedness, made them confess their sin, brought their transgression home to them, and then it is written, the Lord God made them coats of skin. Probably the coats were made of the skins of animals which had been offered in sacrifice, and, if so, they were a fit type of him who has provided us with a sin-offering and a robe of perfect righteousness. Every man since the days of Adam has gone through much of the same experience, more or less relying on his own ingenuity to hide his own confusion of face. He has discovered that sin has made him naked, and he has set to work to clothe himself. As I shall have to show you presently, he has never succeeded. But God has been pleased to deal with his own people, according to the riches of his grace; he has covered their shame and put away their sins that they should not be remembered any more. …