3. What kind of God are we sinners dealing with? Micah 7:18.
NOTE: ‘The word of God reveals His character. He Himself has declared His infinite love and pity. When Moses prayed, “Show me Thy glory,” the Lord answered, “I will make all My goodness pass before thee.” Exodus 33:18, 19. This is His glory. The Lord passed before Moses, and proclaimed, “The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin.” Exodus 34:6, 7. He is “slow to anger, and of great kindness,” “because He delighteth in mercy.” Jonah 4:2; Micah 7:18.’ Steps to Christ, page 10.
4. How does God promise to deal with sins confessed to Him? Micah 7:19.
NOTE: ‘He so loved us that He wants to save us. But He cannot save us in our sins. He will save us from our sins. And as our whole self is sin and sin only, in order to get us, in order to buy us, He had to buy our sins also. So in giving Himself for us, He gave Himself for our sins too. Galatians 1:4. And as we are His, because He bought us with that great price, so also our sins are His, for He bought them with the same great price. Then will you, today and now, let Him have the sins which He has bought? Or will you hold on to these yourself? In this, too, will you let Him have what is His own? In this, too, will you let Him do what He will with His own? And what will He do with these sins? Oh, He will forgive them! 1 John 1:9. He will make them as white as snow. Isaiah 1:18. He will put them away. Hebrews 9:26. He will cast them into the depths of the sea. Micah 7:19. He will remove them from us as far as the east is from the west. Psalm 103:12. He will cast them all behind His back. Isaiah 38:17. And when they are all cast behind His back, He and His own throne will stand between us and them, as the pledge that we are free from them; and the rainbow round about the throne will be the sign, the token, of the everlasting covenant that our sins and iniquities will be remembered no more. Hebrews 8:12.’ A. T. Jones: The Home Missionary, November 1892.