12.16-What is it that God cannot remember?

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God’s love is not conditioned upon performance.  God’s love is a covenant or agreement that goes out to all people that declares that He wants all people to be saved.

Jesus came to the cross to pour out for us the new covenant in His blood.  Jesus laid won His life for us, His brothers and sisters.  Just a mother goes to the point of death to bring her children into the world, Jesus went to the point of death and beyond it on the cross to bring about the chance for us to be born again into the kingdom of God. 

New covenant says that the old covenant had some faults.

This covenant is written not on tablets of stone, but in our minds and on our hearts.

It is a personal relationship between us and our God.  It is the God that we know.  From the least of His children to the greatest of His children all know Him.  They know Him as merciful and able to forget and not remember their sins.   

The blood of goats and calves that was given under the Old Covenant would not cleanse the conscience of people from dead works based salvation.  Jesus gave His blood and then died and was resurrected and ascended to heaven.   

He is there in the presence of the Father to explain the exact nature of human temptation as it is experienced on earth.  Because of Bethlehem when God’s Son became 100% human we can pour out our hearts to God when we are betrayed and God understands how to comfort us.  

 To experience humanity is to experience death.  After death there is a time of judgment regarding our life and its choices and outcomes.

God's mercy is such that when we sincerely repent and ask forgiveness His children can have confidence that He has forgotten our sins.  This mercy powers transformation in our lives to be new people who do not live in the way we have in the past.

Luke 22.

²⁰ And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.

1 John 3.

¹⁶ We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷ But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his ^[g]heart ^[h]against him, how does the love of God abide in him? ¹⁸ Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

Hebrews 8,9

⁷ For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second. ⁸ For finding fault with them, He says,

“Behold, days are coming, says the Lord,
^[o]When I will effect a new covenant
With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
⁹ Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers
On the day when I took them by the hand
To lead them out of the land of Egypt;
For they did not continue in My covenant,
And I did not care for them, says the Lord.
¹⁰ “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
After those days, says the Lord:
^[p]I will put My laws into their minds,
And I will write them on their hearts.
And I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.
¹¹ “And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen,
And everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
For all will know Me,
From ^[q]the least to the greatest of them.
¹² “For I will be merciful to their iniquities,
And I will remember their sins no more.”