Acts, Chapter 3, Peter is preaching, and he says, “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out” (verse 19).  This is the first message preached after the power of the Holy Ghost.  And he’s talking about our sins being blotted out.  This is what the message of the gospel is.  Can you see how once this becomes reality to us, we can’t—how can we help but tell somebody else about this free gift?  Can we get too busy, that we can’t do this?  Are we so caught up with our own lives that we can’t bring this message to people that they don’t have to live under torment, under guilt?  They don’t have to receive the consequences of Satan’s rebellion, of Adam’s rebellion.  God has bypassed all of that and now is ready to make a personal covenant with them, if they’ll acknowledge that His death is sufficient, praise God!  There is nothing that can “separate us from the love of God” that’s in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:39), hallelujah!  Amen?  We have to tell somebody!

Evangelism isn’t putting big campaigns together.  And evangelism is not going out under obligation.  Evangelism is giving freely what was given to us freely.  It’s a thankfulness, and a love, that so naturally works itself out in those of us that are regenerated.  As we’re told, “Love…as I have loved you” (John 13:34); amen?  How?  He gave His life for us.  It was not convenient.  But as you and I are walking in the revelation of the substitutionary work of Jesus, Him going to that cross for you and me—it becomes so much more effective, if we can see the consequences of how effectual that propitiation, that appeasement of God, was through Jesus’ blood.  And that He sees us in Christ’s righteousness.  Father sees you in Christ’s righteousness.  Jesus even prayed this, “Father, that You would love them as You’ve loved Me” (John 17:23).  What a prayer!  Father couldn’t love us as He loved Jesus, if we hadn’t been made righteous with His righteousness.

So, let’s see ourselves as God sees us; amen?  Now, we know that true understanding of having sin’s power and dominion removed from us.  Sin is no longer being a dominant force in our life, yet we still experience those times of sin.  First John says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).  See, we’re not just forgiven of the sin, we’re put back in that state because that sin we confessed, no longer exists, and it is a sin of the past of which the blood effectually paid for; amen?  It’s been washed away.  And we can boast in the fact that Jesus’ work was sufficient.

And that’s what this substitutionary work was all about.  It’s a delivering of us from the curse of the law, of death, of separation from God.  Galatians 3:13 just makes that statement, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.”  You see, Jesus didn’t just come in and have that sin put upon us, and it have no effect on Jesus.  Jesus embraced the curse of the law through that.  “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Psalm 22:1) Amen?  Don’t think for a moment that it was any of the things that we’ve done: our drugs, our promiscuous living—we look at these outward things so much—but it’s just our pride, our jealousies, our ambitions, our unfaithfulness.  We could go on and list all these different things that are the consequences of sin being dominant in a life.