We are completely forgiven. The lie is we’re conditionally forgiven or progressively. Well, what the Law with its sacrifices could not do, Christ’s sacrifice did accomplish a Complete past, present and future forgiveness! Please Read 10:1: The sacrifices of the Law could never “make perfect those who draw near.”
10:2: Those sacrifices could not completely cleanse the worshipers and take away their consciousness of sins.
10:3: Those sacrifices provided a yearly reminder of sins.
10:4: Those sacrifices could not take away sins.
10:10: By God’s will through the cross, “we have been sanctified” once for all.
10:12: Christ “offered one sacrifice for sins for all time.”
10:14: “By one offering He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.”
10:17: God promises to remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.
10:18: “Where there is forgiveness…” “there is no longer any offering for sin.”
All of these phrases add up to news that sounds too good to be true, and yet is true: In Christ we receive a complete, final, once for all pardon for all of our sins, past, present, and future! We’re prone to say, “What’s the catch?” There’s no such thing as an absolutely free lunch, but there is such a thing as God’s absolutely free pardon from all of our sins. It is totally free to us, because Christ bore the awful penalty that we deserved to pay.
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