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Let us read Hebrews 10:1-39 for 7 times before we cast the first stone
Reminder of sins
In the old covenant there was a perpetual reminder of sins. why?
” it is impossible for the blood of
bulls and goats to take away sins ”
– 10:4
even after Jesus shed blood, died & resurrected, most Jews would not still believe at the full forgiveness of sins that Christ has offered. well, how can anyone just move away from a thousand year old practice? it is what they grew up with. their ancestors taught them Moses law. how dare you replace the Law! God gave us the Law!
see the point why people are angry at grace preachers? grace obsoletes the Law in terms of justification and forgiveness of sins
But now Christ has done a finished work. so therefore THERE IS NO MORE CONCIOUSNESS OF SINS
” the ones who worship, having
been purified once and for all,
would no longer have any
consciousness of sins ”
– 10:2
Were you not purified once and for all when you received Christ? do you confess your sins every day? as if a priestly performing his duty on offering sacrifice for sin day after day? stop it! you are already pure and purified once and for all
Christ died for all time – Past, Present & Future
Blood of bulls and goats
continuous offering of sacrifices
* note the time ‘year by year‘
” never able year by year by
means of the same sacrifices
which they offer ”
– 10:1
” But in them there is a
reminder of sins year by year ”
– 10:3
* note the time ‘every day‘ intensified by ‘many times’
” And every priest stands every
day serving and offering the
same sacrifices many times ”
– 10:11
The eternal blood of Christ
the eternal blood of Christ offered once and for all
” we are made holy through the
offering of the body of
Jesus Christ once for all ”
– 10:10
” after he had offered one
sacrifice for sins for all time ”
– 10:12
once and for all time. which time? day after day, year after year. all time. it includes the ‘us’ the future.all sins forgiven – Past, Present & Future
We are Perfectly Perfect
Are you not perfect before God? You are perfect for all time, every time!
” For by one offering he has
perfected for all time those
who are made holy ”
– 10:14
Once perfected by the blood of Christ and forgiven, there is no need for further sacrifices
” Now where there is forgiveness
of these, there is no longer
an offering for sin ”
– 10:18
Where is now, sin consciousness? gone. not only that, we are made a new creation.
all sins forgiven. Past, Present & Future
Evil Conscience
What about evil conscience?
” Therefore, brothers, since
we have confidence for the
entrance into the sanctuary
by the blood of Jesus ”
– 10:19
- what ‘confidence‘ is that? the confidence that we are purified of all sins and all sins are taken away and that no more sin consciousness
” since we have a great priest
over the house of God, let us
approach with a true heart in
the full assurance of faith,
our hearts sprinkled clean
from an evil conscience”
– 10:21-22
- what ‘full assurance of faith‘ is that? the full assurance of faith that we are purified of all sins and all sins are taken away and that no more sin consciousness
- sin consciousness resides in the conscience.
- good conscience means no more sin consciousness .
- evil conscience means sin consciousness .
the conscience tells which is good and which is evil. we’ve got that all the way from Adam. remember the ‘fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil’
an evil conscience is the one that reminds you of sins
whereas God proclaims
‘ Their sins and lawless
acts I will remember no more ‘
– 10:17
‘ For I will forgive their
wickedness and will remember
their sins no more ‘
– 8:12
- the conscience that reminds us of sins is the same conscience that told Adam to cover themselves with the ‘fig leaf‘ – self righteousness. you know what Jesus curse the fig tree?
- the conscience will remain with us until the day we die. unless a person is informed and believes that Christ has shed blood for the forgiveness of sins, there is no real peace in the conscience
- the conscience is not of heaven. the conscience is of earth’s. but the Holy Spirit is of heaven, of God, is God, and received by hearing of faith and not by obedience to the Law (galatians 3:2). we are sealed by the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption (ephesians 1:13). mind you, we aren’t sealed with our conscience
- the conscience is weak. it cannot convict of righteousness nor does it make one righteous. knowing morality or the Law does not make one righteous or good
Apart from the Holy Spirit, there is no one to remind us of righteousness
when the conscience is sin conscious, it is an evil conscience. but the Holy Spirit reminds us our sins has been forgiven and that we are purified of all sins. God declares us righteous for all time!
New creation & the New covenant
Are you not a new creation? of which covenant do you belong? is your mind still on the old? renew your mind. change your mind (repent)
The new covenant does not remind of sins
” I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah ….
I will forgive their iniquity, and
their sin I will remember no more “
– Jeremiah 31:31-34
amen
- grace and peace
I have another video that I think might help you. It helped me and it was explained with illustration.
It’s a follow up to Sola Fide, but it’s by someone else. Basically the way he explains it is that salvation is when we receive Christ. Sanctification is a process that lasts our whole life and it means standing up for what we believe for. It also means walking the path of holiiness. He does a better job explaining it than I can, but there is a difference between salvation and sanctification. I hope this helps you.
i’ve seen the video.
he says that the other 5 virgin who went to buy oil were saved.
I don’t agree. parables are interpreted differently, so me not agreeing is purely me.
i have a different revelation on the 10 virgins virgins. I wont share it yet, but i’ll can give you a hint. it is about the Law, Grace, the chosen people and the church.
hey, thanks for stopping by… :) have a blessed day
- grace and peace
Why did you leave out verse 26 and following? Willful sin, which all sin is willful isn’t it, leaves us with nothing but an expectation of fearful judgement. How does this fit into the whole sin consciousness teaching?
Hi Jeff,
I lately discovered that sinning willfuly is offering blood of bulls and goats. in other words, going back to the old covenant and ignoring the blood of Jesus that takes away the sin of the world.
“expectation of fearful judgement” means that when we go back to offering blood of bulls and goats, there is a fearful expectation of judgement for the blood of bulls and goats does not take away sins.
God is justice and judge,
“whom God offered as a place where atonement by the Messiah’s blood would occur through faith.
He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because he had waited patiently to deal with sins committed in the past
He wanted to demonstrate at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies anyone who has the faithfulness of Jesus.”
- Romans 3:25
as Paul stated in romans, righteousness is by faith.
when Abraham believe by faith he was righteous. he was righteous because of WHAT JESUS IS GOING TO DO IN THE FUTURE
today we are righteous because of WHAT JESUS HAS DONE IN THE PAST
therefore, if we ignore what Jesus did, and continue in unbelief, there is certain fearful expection of judgement to come.
look at the average christian. who confesses their sins every day to God. what happens when they commited a a BIG sin? they are fearful, condemn.
why so? because they underestimated the blood of Jesus, which forgave them ALL their sins.
the same idea. when we ignore the power of the blood of Jesus, we end up condemn, depressed and fearful for who would not fear a just and a righteous God?
I have a follow up post
http://thegospelofgrace.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/our-sins-are-willful/
feel free to comment back bro :)
- grace and peace
Yes. I did a lot more research on my original post. It appears verse 29 explains what willful sinning is according to the writer. Another question if you don’t mind. Are we not called to obey the revealed will of God? When we fail, as we all do, is there any action we need to take? Are we to repent and ask God to forgive us? If all sins are forgiven why would I need to ask for forgiveness? Is fellowship with the Lord broken when I sin, and in asking for forgiveness God then restores fellowship? I know this to be true in my other earthly relationships, especially my marriage. When I fail my wife, I repent and ask for forgiveness from her. My failings has not caused her to reject me but the intimacy needs to be restored. We are the bride of Christ. Is the relationship the same?
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$Are we not called to obey the revealed will of God?
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Yes. if there is anything that we should do, that is to obey and do the revealed will of God
the will of God is this
“For my Father’s WILL is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life,
and I will raise him up at the last day.”
- John 6:40
“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the WILL of him who sent me and to finish his work.”
- John 4:34
“Jesus answered, “The WORK of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”"
- John 6:29
if the WILL of God is for us to believe in Jesus, then the other “stuff follows”
the other stuff which is, praying, witnessing, doing good works, giving your life to someone,
donating your kidney to someone . . . .
but first thing first, your identity. who are you?
I say “I believe in Jesus whom God sent, Jesus who died and gave himself for me”
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$When we fail, as we all do, is there any action we need to take?
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depends of what kind of failure, and who’s perspective.
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when my boss at work expects a perfect product and I fail to deliver
then most likely the action i need to take is
“extend work hours to redo the product
make sure to employ experts to aid me in the product development”
worst, I get fired from my work. the action i need to take is find a new job
but thats the world, the way of the world
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in God’s perspective, when I fail, It does not change the way God sees me.
I am stil righteous and holy and perfect and sanctified before God.
the hard part as always is believing that “we are to do nothing” in order to accept God’ forgiveness.
we truly believe salvation is by Grace and through faith alone, not by works.
but in our daily lives, when we fail, we find it hard to forgive ourself.
as a child growing up, we expect our parents to punish us for the mistake we made.
when I was 8-10yrs old, I had a fight with my brother. growing up without a parent,
my guardian got his 38 revolver gun and pointed it to me and told me to stop fighting or else!
other ocassion he will beat me with a baseball-bat like wood.
see how I viewed failure and discipline? in my perspective, God will punish me if I fail.
boy how hard it was for me to undo all those idea of God.
but the scripture says, you are forgiven of all your sins.
practically, you know why we are forgiven of all sins?
so that we do not punish ourselves
but dont get me wrong, when you fail to fulfill a promise with someone,
like taking them to a date or promising them a movie treat, by all means, fulfill your promise! lol
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$Are we to repent and ask God to forgive us?
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God has forgiven us of all sins. past present and future.
you will read that theme from my blog, in most of my post.
now, I am not saying you do not repent (change your mind) of your sins.
you can repent. you can ask God for forgiveness.
there is healing in asking for forgiveness. there is peace, relief when we ask for forgiveness.
it is not illegal to ask for forgiveness, nor it is a sin to ask for forgiveness .. hahahah.
but you see, as for me, I am forgiven of all sins. thats the knowledge I have,
so I do not ask for forgiveness, rather I ask for wisdom or ponder, in order not to make the mistake again.
but when i do make the same mistake, it doesn’t matter. it still is forgiven.
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$If all sins are forgiven why would I need to ask for forgiveness?
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you ask for forgiveness, in a sense to give you a sense of ” a sense of being forgiven”
its just senses :) feeling, emotion.
this is a radical statement :
“asking for forgiveness, does not forgive”
because the blood of Jesus alone forgives!
Unbelievers and Believers are forgiven of all their sins
our difference with the unbelievers?
we know we are forgiven
unbelievers they know not and neither do they believe they are forgiven
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$Is fellowship with the Lord broken when I sin, and in asking for forgiveness God then restores fellowship?
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God does not break relationship with you when you sin.
let me share you my favorite verse :)
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another,
and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.”
- 1 John 1:7
we are children of light
“You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.”
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5
by merely in the light and being the son of light, by default when you sin, you are continually purified and continually cleansed
when your son or daughter disobey you, do you disown them? no. they are still your children.
the way God treats us , never changed. but the way we treat God changes.
when we sin, our flesh goes to work and says “God hates sin and you must be punish for that”
but the new creation in us says “I am the righteousness of God in Christ”
then you experience grace, then thats the time you stand up, and continue.
“for sin shall have no dominion over you because you are not under Law but Grace”
- Romans 6:14
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$I know this to be true in my other earthly relationships, especially my marriage.
When I fail my wife, I repent and ask for forgiveness from her.
My failings has not caused her to reject me but the intimacy needs to be restored.
We are the bride of Christ.
Is the relationship the same?
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I am from a different culture. I have no idea if mine is the same.
in my country, when children reaches 18 yrs old, they do not leave home.
when they get married, some still don’t leave home and rather brings in the wife home.
so now it becomes a huge family.
regarding when I fail my wife or she fails me, we do not talk about that :)
yes, there are silence, i sleep in the couch for one night, hahahah
but then the following day or after the following day (depends on the gravity of failure, lol)
we simply get restored back.
again, I am not saying this should be the standard.
we are married, and no matter what we do, we are husband and wife.
technically we lost fellowship in a while BECASE WE CHOOSE it.
when emotions run high in marriage, boy im telling you… you know what i mean :)
but not all marriages are like that.
I know marriage from unbelievers. yes they have conflicts,
but they handle it better than me handling my marriage.
take note they are unbelievers
i guess, its the feeling of “no fellowship” when we sin,
but then God is always there with us for it is written
“Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you”
- Hebrews
“Emanuel God with us”
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God has the legal right to be with us, because of what Jesus did at the cross.
when we sin or fail?
- it is God who runs after us.
- it is God who restores the fellowship
it is us who are slow to catch up. we cling to our failure more than to God’s grace.
it is like we trasure our sin so much, that it is gravely serious and that God cannot forgive it.
so we lose fellowship (at least we think we lost it) ,
but the Prodigal Father (yes, prodigal father), has been there all along every night waiting for the son to come back :)
great day brother!
i felt like i’ve preach to a multitude of crowd.. hahah. sorry for the long post
- grace and peace
thank you for spreading the gospel of grace. i am being renewed by the fact that all my sins are forgiven for all time.
Hi Dorothy,
thank you for sharing. Imagine, 30 yrs of self condemnation because I think God hates me for my sin.
and at the same time 30 yrs of John 3:16 – “for God sooooo love the world that He gave Jesus His Son. that whosoever believes in Jesus, shall not perish but have everlasting Life”
those who believes in Jesus shall be taken from the “perishing state”. they shall be taken from the “condemning state”.
in other words, God does not cause us to perish, neither does God condemns.
Jesus came to give us Life, and to have that Life more abundantly! amen.
therefore, sin consciousness is an indicator that we have not understood John 3:16.
if we have not understood John 3:16, then how are we to understand 1 John 1:9?
glad you have visited :)
- grace and peace
Well praise God I never heard it put this way. Ive accepted the blood of Jesus and he has washed me clean. But man people make me mad and Im glad to know I can go back to beating them and it won’t affect my salvation. I’m forgiven for everything I want to do. Im going to start drinking and smoking pot again too. It don’t matter who I have sex with any more because God won’t hold it against me who cares if my wife does. What a great guy God!
$ ”
- I can go back to beating them and it won’t affect my salvation. I’m forgiven for everything I want to do.
- Im going to start drinking and smoking pot again too.
- It don’t matter who I have sex with any more because God won’t hold it against me who cares if my wife does”
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either you knew you are forgiven of all your sins, or you aren’t.
Jesus said
“Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.”
- Luke 7:47
those who hated sin much are those who loves God much for their MANY sins were forgiven much.
those who claim to “we can sin more because we are forgiven much” are, sadly, have not knew of God’s total forgiveness of sins.
what you have just said is what exactly sin consciousness can do you to people. you are still sin conscious because you have not known all your sins were forgiven.
let me ask you :
when you love God much, will you do those things you mentioned above?
funny, because some years ago when I was conscious of sins I DID ALL OF THEM except smoking pot. i didn’t smoke pot because i’ve seen a relative destroyed by it. could have done it if i haven’t known of its danger.
but when I found out all my sins were forgiven, my life changed. my desires changed as well.
one cannot claim to love God and does things that hurts God. it just don’t mix.
Woah! I must say I have been enlightened by your post. If God doesn’t remember my sins then why should I remember them? Wow! I’m getting to understand the power of GRACE and the power in the death and resurrection of Jesus! HALLELUJAH!
glad you were blessed
- grace and peace
I really enjoyed reading the articles and posts; I also recommend a book titled What God Wishes Christians Knew About Christianity by Bill Gillham. I read this maybe 7 years ago; absolutely life-changing. It was my first introduction to the idea of not needing to ask forgiveness, but just thank Him for it; also not praying for healing but thanking Him because it’s ALL finished!! Then I went on to discover that every jot and tittle of the law of Moses WAS fulfilled at the cross (Col. 2:24, Eph. 2:15; and virtually all of Romans, Galatians and Hebrews). Now it’s all about exploring the wonders of knowing Him!