Outrageous Forgiveness of Sin!

How often the Lord's people are startled at the mighty power of Jesus!

The instance of Jesus calming the wind and the waves, and His disciples' astonishment at His power over them, points us to consider the power that Jesus has to save us from our sins.

The disciples called upon Jesus as He slept peacefully through the storm. They thought that Jesus could not save them while He was asleep. Then when Jesus rebuked the wind and the waves and they obeyed His voice, they marveled!

How foolish of them to be surprised - after all, Jesus made the wind and the sea!

We might well ask, how did the disciples figure Jesus would save them without quieting the wind and the waves? Perhaps they thought He would remove the water that had swamped the little boat.

But to them, the wind and the waves were just too powerful, even for Jesus. They are inexorable forces of nature that even today, we have no control over at all.

How often we limit Christ's mighty power to save us!

These thoughts lead us to consider how Jesus would save His people from their sin. After all, God had promised that He would.

And yet, when Jesus revealed just how He would save His people from their sin, some scoffed and were outraged at Him. When Jesus told the man sick of the palsy that his sins were forgiven him, the religious leaders thought, what blasphemy, only God can forgive sin!

Who doesn't want to be saved from their sin, and the judgment for it? Yet men in Christ's day had no idea that Jesus would save them by forgiving their sin!

They forgot that Jesus is God manifest in the flesh, and therefore has the power to forgive sin.

Moreover, He died to take our sin away!