Record of Sins

"Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin. My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin." (Job 14: 16 NIV)

Lord God knows every sin a person commits. He has them all recorded in his register, in his "book of remembrance." For the unbeliever, however, this record will be opened in the Day of Judgment and from those records the evidence of those crimes will be presented.

On the other hand, the believer in Jesus can expect not to be judged out of those books, for his sins are said, by an eternal decree of God, "not to be remembered." (Hebrews 8: 12; 10: 17)

"And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books." (Revelation 20: 12 NIV)

If you are a believer in Jesus, your name is in the book of life, and you will not, therefore, be judged out of the "book of the law," or your destiny decided based upon the keeping of the law. Oh what glad tidings of great joy!