Good Morning Friends,
“Day after day every priest stands and
performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices,
which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time
one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God. Since that time
he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool, because by one sacrifice he
has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. The Holy Spirit also
testifies to us about this. First he says:
‘This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the
Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their
minds.’ Then he adds: ‘Their sins and
lawless acts I will remember no more.’ And where these have been forgiven,
there is no longer any sacrifice for sin.” (Hebrews 10:11-18)
In Christ, we’ve been made perfect. It’s not
that we never sin anymore, none of us could honestly make that claim. It’s that
all of our sins, past, present, and future have been taken away by the blood of
Jesus Christ. In Christ, when God looks upon us, He doesn’t see our sins. God
sees us through the perfect holiness of Jesus Christ. That has been
accomplished once and for all through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the
cross. His death is totally sufficient.
Christ not only accomplished the taking away
of all our sins, He has also provided the way for us to be changed. In the Old
Testament, God provided the standard, His Law, by which men would be judged. Those
who loved God were to try to keep the Law. But that wasn’t possible, not for
anyone. In Christ, God is doing the transforming work in our lives from the
inside out. By His Holy Spirit, He is writing His standards in our minds and
putting them in our hearts.
We’ve been forgiven, once and for all, by the
sacrifice of Jesus. It is God’s doing, not ours. It is grace.
We’re being changed by the presence of His
Spirit. Again, it is God’s doing, not ours. It is grace.
Everything we need is in Christ!
His, by Grace,
Steve
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