The Real Purgatory
The word purgatory comes from the word purge. To purge is to rid away whatever is impure or undesirable. In a word, it means to cleanse. According to some, purgatory is a temporary place where one can be purged of one's venial sins.
The Bible, however, points to a person rather than to a place for the purging of a sinner's sins. The real "purgatory" is a person.
Heb 1:3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when HE (Jesus) HAD BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SINS, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
God will only remit and forgive our sins on the basis of divine justice being satisfied. God's justice demands that our spiritual crimes must be paid.
This one just demand cannot be bypassed and overlooked. Divine forgiveness cannot be at the expense of divine justice. The penalty of sin is always death. Someone must pay the death penalty before cleansing and forgiveness can be issued.
All these are satisfactorily answered by Christ Himself when He died for our sins. It is solely in Him and what He did on the cross that a defiled sinner can find cleansing and purification.
Come now in repentance to God's real Purgatory, trusting in Him and what He did on the cross for cleansing and the purging of all your sins.
