“Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven.” This a very uplifting statement to the transgressors, as in all of us. The Bible tells us that YAHSHUA was wounded for our transgressions. He was wounded emotionally and physically, although He never transgressed or violate a law, a command, moral code or boundary. He suffered the wound of our transgressions. In the cause and effect, transgression has its effect on the body through diseases. YAHSHUA took that upon Himself and for a moment, He suffered the pain transgression causes. Isaiah 53:6 says, “We all like sheep have gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord has made to light upon Him the guilt and iniquity of us all.” To go astray is to deviate from the right way rebelliously, in order behave as we please. This sounds to me as sin of transgression. Transgression is knowing what is right and not doing it. We all suffer the consequences of transgression. One example is in our eating habits. Day after day, we transgress the law of nature which our Lord established for the well-being of our body. He created living foods to nourish our living cells; but knowingly, we choose man created dead foods, filled with harmful chemicals to feed the body. Worse yet, is when we ask God to bless the poison we are about to partake for the destruction of our health in the name of YAHSHUA. Diseases have taken our body as a result. Not connecting the dots, we continue eating for our destruction and asking God to heal us. The sin of transgression will continue destroying us, unless we admit we have sinned and have a change of heart toward God and what He has created for us to eat. This is only one aspect of the sin of transgression that affect all of us. Don’t you know, asks Paul “that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received from God? You are not your own, You were bought with a price, so then honor God and bring glory to Him in your body” (I Cor. 6:19-20).
We transgress God’s law in many aspects of life. In the law of marriage – ‘till death us part, disloyalty in our relationship with Him and with others. Israel, when in their pilgrimage to the Promised Land, lived a life of transgression against God’s Laws. Blessed above all nations, Israel has not understood her responsibility to obey God. Israel committed a grave sin that of having other gods besides Him after God covenanted with her. They did not repent and continued throughout their lives serving and worshiping false gods. A sin of transgression against God has not been dealt with to this day. YAHSHUA suffered much for the sin of transgression. The world is without excuses to continue transgressing against God today, after He has provided a way to be forgiven through His Son. David suffered much for not dealing with his sins. In his silence concerning his sin, his groaning was continuously all day long. Pain in the bones and in his kidneys, kept him suffering under God’s heavy hand upon him. That led him to acknowledge his sin to God, hiding nothing from Him. He confessed his transgression and he was forgiven from all he had confessed to God. A relief, with wings of peace took him from that estate of guilt and freed him. As a result, he had this to say from the heart: “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit” (Ps. 32). The Bible assures us that when God forgives us, He remembers our sins no more. “He has not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities, for as the heavens are high above the earth, so great are His mercy and loving-kindness toward those who reverently fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us” (Ps. 103:10-12).
Light from the Word 