Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering, He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
The grace of God in the gift of Christ - His death, resurrection, His gift of righteousness and holiness is greater - heavier in substance and power than indwelling sin, Satan’s dominion, the lusts of the flesh and all the temptations of this world. All the problems we face with ourselves, with the world and evil can be met through the provision of grace which has been provided us in the cross, through Christ.
Christ’s death - being made sin, (1) receiving the full outpouring of wrath against all the sins of mankind in His body (2) - destroyed the power of indwelling sin in us. The purity of his sacrifice, and the ultimate symbol of His finished work- His blood has secured eternal forgiveness and escape from God's righteous wrath.
His blood cleanses us from all sin. All our sins and lawless deeds are remembered before God no more, because they were all judged but once at the cross. How much did Christ forgive at the cross? How much sin did He take upon Himself? All.
Hebrews 8:12 esv : 'For I will be merciful toward their iniquities (KJV: unrighteousness) , and I will remember their sins no more.'
As we confess our sins to Him, turn from our sins to Him and put simple faith in Him to receive what Christ has done for us, God takes of the forgiveness and blood of the cross and applies it to us. (3) He forgives us fully, being 'merciful to our unrighteousness,' because of Christ's bearing of all sin and all wrath, God's wrath will no more burn against us to judge or condemn us.
The repeated appropriating of this truth destroys the power of indwelling sin by giving the Christian a humble knowledge of God’s free, total, but costly forgiveness. The blood of Christ replaces guilt and shame with acceptance, forgiveness and a tangible experience of being loved by God 'the love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit'.
‘There is therefore now, no more condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.’ From sinners and enemies we are declared ‘not guilty’ and not only that, we have Christ’s own full righteous life credited to us as to our own account, and are declared ‘highly favored in Christ and loved in the beloved,’ through the simple agency of faith.
1. 2 Cor 5:21 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2. Hebrews 10:12-18 12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified...18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
3. 1 John 1:9 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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