Where Do Blotted-Out Sins Go? S5e25 Acts3:19

Peter gets to the dramatic action-point of his sermon and charges his audience, "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be BLOTTED OUT.  You may ask along with me today, where exactly do these sins go?  Where might I find them?

First, know that we are not the first to sin or to be blotted.  David, one of the best sinners of all time, had his sins blotted.  Peter reminds his audience of this by using David's words from Psalm 51: "Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy BLOT OUT MY TRANSGRESSIONS." We are in good company with David.  We are in good company with a HESED-steadfast love God.

Second, the word is a pretty strong one.  Blotted is wiped away, erased, permanently eliminated.  You know the reference here to "God wiping away every tear" when we get to heaven?  Will there be tears in heaven? YES.  but only once.  Then they will be ELIMINATED.

Finally, so where do these CANCELLED (same Greek word BLOTTED) sin records go?  Where does your list of sins as long as your arm end up? Col 2:14, Forgiven, cancelled debts that stood against us. Set aside. NAILING IT TO THE CROSS.  This would be a good painting.  The Cross on Calvary with about a billion pieces of long paper nailed to it.  Every sin, of every REPENTED person, from every year and from every land.  Be one of them today. Write and tell me about it bewithme.us@gmail.com