So out of kindness and mercy, God spread the consequence of sin – but now in the New Testament He deals with it, and He doesn’t just deal with sin. He deals with iniquity. It won’t matter where you’ve come from. It won’t matter what has happened in your background. It won’t matter what line you’ve come out of! There is a remedy for it! You don’t need to blame your past or your background. You may have had some corrupt DNA. You may have had some corrupt impartation into you. You may be brought up in a difficult, or bad, or destructive environment, but you do not need to carry that iniquity! I’ll tell you why in a moment.
This is what the Bible says, in Isaiah 53, Verse 5; He was bruised for our iniquities. He shed blood internally. He suffered internal pain, internal suffering, just like you and I suffer when there’s torments of hatred and bitterness and various other iniquity. They torment people. They make them sick. They make them do things that are crazy stuff. They make fathers that love their daughters abuse them. What causes such a thing? It’s iniquity inside them. It’s a driving power of sin working in their heart. God has to deal not just with the behaviour, but the very root core of the thing, so Jesus was bruised for our iniquities and not only this. Look at this. He laid on Him the iniquity of us all! Now I want you to get what that means.
Suppose here we have a father sins in idolatry, then the sin is carried here, laid on this one, laid on this one, laid on this one, laid four generations. Now this is what Jesus did at the cross. All of that iniquity, which normally would be spread generationally, the Bible says God laid it all on Him – ALL the iniquity of every generation laid upon Jesus Christ. He was bruised when He was beaten viciously, and the skin punctured, underneath He was bruised and damaged, His blood shed. It was for the crookedness, the twist, the torments that go on inside our lives! It was to deal with the root of sin itself, so no longer would you carry the iniquity of your fathers and your ancestors. No longer would you pass it on. You could be free of that thing, and walk in peace with God, and peace in your heart. What an amazing thing the blood of Jesus has done!
What an amazing kindness. What an amazing God! Oh my, that the blood was shed for our iniquities and crookedness. So how come so many people still wrestle with it?
Colossians 2, Verse 13; He took away the list of ordinances against us, all the transgression and sin, all the iniquity. He put it on Jesus on the cross, the whole lot put on Him! You don’t have to carry any of it. You don’t have to carry any of it! So what the blood of Jesus Christ does – I’m going to show you, last couple of Verses. You’ve got to have a look at this. Have a look at this, and then we’re going to pray for people who’ve got iniquity gripping and sticking – you need to stand up, get the blood of Jesus flowing into your life and spirit. Get set free of it!
Look in Hebrews, Chapter 10, notice what He says. So this gives a whole new dimension on communion which I can’t cover, but here it is. It says – Verse 12 – But this man, when He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever – once – from that time waiting until His enemies made His footstool. By one offering, He has perfected forever those who are in the process of being sanctified. Verse 16; Holy Ghost witnesses out of Jeremiah, "This is the covenant I will make with after those days," says the Lord; I will put My laws in their heart, in my mind I will write them - now notice this - and their sins and iniquities I will remember no more. Now it's the remembering of iniquity that causes sin to flourish, so if your iniquity is not dealt with, sin flourishes in your life. You can restrain it, hide it, cover it. It'll always find a way out somewhere.