Ezekiel 18:22-23 None of the offenses he has committed will
be remembered against him. Because of
the things he has done, he will live. Do
I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? Declares the Sovereign
Lord. Rather, am I not pleased when they
turn from their ways and live?
The paragraph in which these verses are found begins with
God’s statement that when a wicked person turns away from their wicked ways and
begins obeying God’s ways, they find life.
It is after they have turned to God that their offenses are forgiven and
forgotten. Because of their turning from
sin to God they will live, and that is the thing they have done that gives them
life. God wants that turning to happen
in every person. It is His desire to see
that. He created us and does not want
any of us to be lost to Him, but it depends on our turning. As soon as the turning occurs, so does the
life and with it, the offenses are forgiven and forgotten.
Or, as a following verse (18:28) says:
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