He Has Put Away All Wrongdoings!

Referring to our list again. Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened? Though a situation had not been entirely our fault, we tried to disregard the other person involved entirely. Where were we to blame? The inventory was ours, not the other man's. When we saw our faults we listed them. We placed them before us in black and white. We admitted our wrongs honestly and were willing to set these matters straight. (AA, pg 67)

This "list" business is a fool's errand before one puts pen to paper.

"Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:" (Psalm 139: 23)

The Psalmist asked God to do the searching! Imagine that!:

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17: 9)

Who can know it? Only God can! and in Christ, we then receive God's laws on our hearts and minds! (Hebrews 8: 10-12)

Micah prophesied what Jesus would do:

"He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." (Micah 7: 19)

and this has been done forever in the New Covenant:

"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 12)

God remembers them NO MORE -- and this double negative is infinitely intensive -- no never!

If we feel a sense of guilt, or a sense of wrongdoing comes over us, we must rest in what has been done in His sacrifice, not our senses:

"For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." (Hebrews 10: 14)

and behold, the Holy Spirit then reminds us of the following:

"Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

"And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

"Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. " (Hebrews 10: 15-18)

No more offering for sin - no more confessing, no more twisting oneself into a pretzel, no more doing dead works!

He has put away all our wrongdoings -- and thus we need not drink, smoke, or engage in any other perversion in order to break free! In Christ, we are free indeed (John 8: 36)