THE MYSTERY OF SIN: PERFECTED IN CHRIST(CONCLUSION)

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Welcome to another post on my blog The Truth. In today's post we will be concluding the series on "sin" and we will also be answering some important questions on this topic. 

This area of the christian faith is one of the most disputed and I hope that after reading today's post, every ounce of confusion that you might have once had concerning this topic will be dispelled in Jesus name. So without wasting any more time let's jump into our discuss for today but before we continue I want us to pray to the Holy Spirit (for some few seconds or minutes) for guidance and understanding as we begin our discuss because without the Holy Spirit this post will make no meaning to any of us. Now that we have done that I want to inform anyone who has not read the other posts on "sin" to please do so before reading this particular post or read them (i.e my other posts on sin) after reading this particular post so as to gain a better understanding of this topic. God bless you.

After today's conclusion on this series on sin I hope to clarify our confusions(if we had any)on these major "issues" of our christian faith:

1. Are christians sinners?
2. Do christians sin?
3. Are christians holy, righteous and pure?

Now if you have been following my series on "sin" you notice that I began the series with key figures or persons associated with sin and the subsequent process of reconcilation God put in motion after the fall of Adam. We discussed about Adam, Abel, Seth, Noah, Abraham and Moses. This people were the key players of the reconcilation process God had put into motion immediately after Adam sinned. Also, we also mentioned the following points that I want us to keep in mind:

1. Whenever God wants to begin a process that is world changing (or even a small process) He does not work with the majority or the crowd. He usually chooses a particular person or people who have found favour or grace in His sight.
2. The law was a type and shadow, an antitype, of our new covenant, we are currently enjoying. The old covenant was given to prepare us for our new covenant(the real thing God had in mind)  Galatians 3:24

Putting that at the back of our minds lets begin today's discuss. The topic of sin is a very broad one but I will try as much as possible to make it a brief, precise and self explanatory discuss and in order to do that we will use Apostle Paul's epistles to dissect this topic of sin and answer the questions given above. 

The reason I am using Paul's epistles is because Apostle Paul was the recipient and herald of the message of grace.  Jesus came to bring grace to the world but Apostle Paul was the vessel chosen to herald and preach the message and especially to the gentiles(i.e non jewish people which includes you and I). Now from the research I did on Apostle Paul I believe that the reasons God chose him as the herald for the message of grace and reconcilation of man to God include the following(apart from the fact that he found favour with God):

1. Apostle Paul unlike Jesus's apostles was not born in Israel. He was born among the gentiles(Paul was born in Tarsus,a city in Asia minor) so preaching the gospel among the gentiles would have been easier for him unlike the apostles who were Israelites(who were born in Israel) and would have found it harder to preach to the gentiles(because they  believed gentiles were unclean and we were until Christ came). 
2. Apostle Paul was a former persecutor of the church. In fact he called himself the chief of sinners because of his past sins. So it was not surprising that he became the herald of God's grace and the ministry of reconcilation 2 Corinthians 3:6, and one of the greatest missionaries and the greatest theologians of all time. He wrote more than half of the new testament and became the first person to write a book of the new testament. He had a first hand experience of God's grace.

 So let's delve into today's topic by turning our bibles to the book of Hebrews chapter 10. We will be using this chapter to explain sin and what grace did for us. Please I want you to focus your attention completely on what we are discussing. Verse 1 says "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". From this verse we deduce that the law was like a prototype of our new covenant i.e the law is like a man's shadow while our new covenant is the man himself, the real thing. Also, the sacrifices offered in the law never made any of the ancient Israelites perfect and the next verse tells us the reason. Now before we continue I want us to remember the rules I gave when reading the bible, which are:

1. Note what the bible chapter or verse you are reading is saying.
2. Note what the bible chapter or verse you are reading did not say.
3. Note what the bible chapter or verse you are reading did not say that it said.
4. Note what the bible chapter or verse you are reading said that it did not say.
5. Note what the bible chapter or verse you are reading said that it has been saying since.

 Please memorize these rules because I will be referring to them in our discuss and they will help in your own personal study of the bible so as to avoid confusion when reading the bible (you must also pray to the Holy Spirit for understanding). Now from verse 3-9, it talks about (please remember rule 1) how Jesus came to replace the sacrifice of bulls and goat because the sacrifice could not take away the sins of the people and also because the people offering it were always reminded sins. Verse 9 says"then he said, behold, I have come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first that He may establish the second". 

 Now remember rule 1, the bible did not say that God threw or discarded instead the second covenant was established which is similar to what all we have been saying- the law was made to prepare us for the new covenant. Our new covenant is the completing or perfection of the law(or old covenant).

Now verse 10 is the beginning of today's teaching and it says," by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all". Isn't this a powerful verse? This verse is telling us that we have been sanctified, set apart, made holy once and for all through Christ's death. 

 Every true christian is holy.(verse 14 also confirms it but I will tell you why it says we are being sanctified when I discuss the reason why we must keep our holiness or practice holiness). Now verse 12 says" but this man after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God". Isn't this also a powerful? Let me explain; if you read the previous verse it says"and every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly by the same sacrifices,which can never take away sins". This verse is telling us that in the law the priest had to offer sacrifices repeatedly daily while he was standing because the people were continually sinning and because the blood of bulls, lambs and goat could not take away sins forever but Jesus offered one sacrifice once and for all(forever) and He  is seated at God's right down. What does that tell you and I? Simply, we are not sinners. Anyone who is a christian is not a sinner. 

Let me explain. Under the old law the people had to present lambs and goats for their sins while the priest had to offer them as sacrifices for their sins, then once a year the High Priest would enter the second part of the tabernacle alone and offer a sacrifice for all the sins he and the people had committed throughout that year before God. Hebrews 9:7. If we are still sinners then Jesus has to continually offer himself as a sacrifice for us and He must also enter the holy of holies(the innermost part of the tabernacle) to offer Himself before God for our sins but that is not possible because Jesus is in heaven reigning as the son of God and as God(the second person of the trinity) and as our divine High Priest not in a tabernacle made with hands but in God's divine presence, Hebrews 9:24. 

Please I hope you understand. In fact Hebrews 10:12 explains it all. The blood of Jesus continually cleanses us every second, minute, hour,day and year. We are continually cleansed when we confess our sins.

 Now that we have established that we are not sinner, does that mean that we can act and behave as we like. Since we are not sinners does that means we should sin and disobey God's command of love?. That is very wrong. Let's turn to Hebrews 10:26 which says "for if we willfully sin after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins". This verse says that if sin willfully i.e if we sin deliberately and continuously after we come into the knowledge of the truth there no longer remains a sacrifice for sin such christian (that means that christian has judged himself and has placed God's judgement and wrath on himself/herself already, Hebrews 10:27-28) because such christian has counted the blood by which he or she was sanctifed a common thing and insulted the Spirit of grace. 

 The knowledge of the truth is simply that we are no longer sinners, that is what Hebrews 10:1-25 has been saying all along(rule number 5), we are holy or sanctified or set apart and God no longer remember any of our sins because they have all been paid for. God has sworn that He will never be angry with us ( Isaiah 54:9). So any christian who now knows that he or she is not a sinner, that God can never be angry with him/her no matter what he/she does, that he/she is now holy, such  christian possesses the knowledge of the truth and MUST NEVER abuse God's grace. Hebrews 10:29. We must henceforth from today stop being sin conscious. God does not remember your sins. Hebrews 10:12.

 We will stop here today and continue tomorrow. I hope you have been taught by the Holy Spirit. I hope you really understand. Please if you any questions contact me at Elliottoju@gmail.com or drop your comments. In my next post we will be discussing the reasons why christians still make mistakes, and the reason some christians will still go to hell even though we are not sinners. 

 Please if you are not born again and want to become God's child today say and believe these words now: Lord Jesus I accept you as my Lord and savior today. I believe that you died for my sins and rose for my justification and that you are seated in heaven as the son of God. Thank you for what you have done.Amen. 

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