What we’ve received through Jesus in the New Covenant is far superior to the Old. Old Testament sacrifices were symbolic and had to be offered over and over again. Jesus gave His life once—as the perfect sacrifice for sin—and it never again needs to be repeated. Your born-again spirit never needs to be re-cleansed; re-purged; or born again, again. “But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us”(Heb.9:11-12). Your salvation is eternal. “For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance”(Heb.9:13-15). Jesus entered once into the holy place and made one sacrifice. “For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation” (Heb.9:24:28) The Old Testament sacrifices couldn’t do what the New Testament sacrifice of Jesus did. They were only temporary shadows of the real thing to come. For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins”(Heb.10:1-2). If the Old Testament sacrifices really could have made the people perfect, they wouldn’t have had to be offered over and over again. If they had worked, the worshipers—once purged—should have had no more conscience of sin. New Testament believers need not be conscious of sin. If you focus your thoughts on who you are in the spirit, you’ll be conscious of righteousness. Draw near to God boldly because you are now the righteousness of God in Christ. “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him”(2Cor.5:21). Eternal redemption ”means that you’ve been forgiven of your sins—past, present, and even future tense sins. You were sanctified—separated, made holy—through the offering of Jesus Christ once for all time. “By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Heb.10:10). The context proves that Heb10:10 means one sacrifice made you holy for all time. “And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering often times the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man [Jesus], after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified”(Heb 10:11-14)
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:27:27 +0000
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