Christ Died Once and For All
'Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.' Hebrews 9:25-28
Thank you Jesus that my sins are forgiven once and for all that when You died on the cross 2000 years ago, You took ALL my sins and made me a new creation. I no longer have to worry whether I fall in and out of fellowship even when I sin because Your blood is greater than all my iniquities. I don't confess to be forgiven because I am already forgiven!! You said in Your word that 'I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.' Hebrews 8:12
I can walk in newness of life now because it is NEVER about me doing to earn Your love or approval. It is all about Your redemptive work on the cross that qualifies me.
Quoted: 'Sin-consciousness will make you depressed and keep you in a cycle of sin even when favor of God is on your side. Every time you search your heart for sin and failings, guess what? You will find something!...The more you are conscious of your righteous identity in Him, the more you are transformed by His unmerited favor, the more the desire to sin dissipates and the more you become a true worshiper.'
'For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.' Hebrews 10:1-2
Thank you Jesus that my sins are forgiven once and for all that when You died on the cross 2000 years ago, You took ALL my sins and made me a new creation. I no longer have to worry whether I fall in and out of fellowship even when I sin because Your blood is greater than all my iniquities. I don't confess to be forgiven because I am already forgiven!! You said in Your word that 'I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.' Hebrews 8:12
I can walk in newness of life now because it is NEVER about me doing to earn Your love or approval. It is all about Your redemptive work on the cross that qualifies me.
Quoted: 'Sin-consciousness will make you depressed and keep you in a cycle of sin even when favor of God is on your side. Every time you search your heart for sin and failings, guess what? You will find something!...The more you are conscious of your righteous identity in Him, the more you are transformed by His unmerited favor, the more the desire to sin dissipates and the more you become a true worshiper.'
'For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.' Hebrews 10:1-2
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