From a Park Bench - Hebrews 10 v 22

“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water” – Hebrews 10 v 22.

We have been made clean, our old evil conscious has been washed with the pure water of God and we are holy before God. This cleansing is eternal; an everlasting stream of holy water that has made us anew.

We can draw near to God because his righteousness is now our righteousness and if and when we sin we still remain clothed in the righteousness of God.

To continue to sin and not to enjoy the wonderful lavish grace of God is silly. Sin does have consequences in our lives; it dulls us to the whisper of God, hardens our hearts so we find it difficult to hear from God, opens a door to the Devil’s lies and makes us more sensitive to sin than to our new creation spirit.

I can be lead away by temptation, but temptation‘s comes in when I let the door of my thinking open to the wrong influences. What I mediate on and fill my mind with is what I treasure.  I am eternal accepted, forgiven and holy in Christ, nothing can alter God’s acceptance of me, but I can dull myself with listening to worldly wisdom, negative news, carnal ideas, all theses cause in me worry and fear.

The truth is found in the spirit that awakens inside of me and the word of God that is God’s love letter of truth to guide me.

The glorious triune God dances and reigns inside every believer and his goodness and grace are fountains of eternal water that overflow towards me. I am the joy and delight of my eternal father.

Grace Notes - Hebrews 8 v 12

“I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more” (Heb.8:12).

  

“We are blessed because we are righteous. Christ has delivered us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us so that we might experience the blessing of Abraham (see Gal.3:9-14). If we don’t understand this, every time something goes wrong in our lives we will think that God is catching up with us for some personal sin, or even a generational sin. Many Christians live like this.

God does not impute sin to the righteous. In Romans chapter 4, where Paul discusses our righteousness in Christ, he quotes David who said: “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall not impute sin” (Rom.4:7&8). Under the New Covenant God promises: “I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more” (Heb.8:12).

There may be consequences for wrong doing. If we sow to the flesh, from the flesh we will reap corruption – not from God. God does not impute our sins to us because they have been imputed to Christ. Instead Christ’s righteousness is always imputed to us. That’s why there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ – not now, not ever. We are blessed because of Jesus! That’s the good news of the gospel of grace: “…God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them…” (2 Cor.5:19).”

Ken Legg

Grace Notes - Hebrews 10 v 14

Hebrews chapter 10 v 14; “By one sacrifice you have been made perfect FOREVER”.

Rob Rufus makes it clear that once we believe in Christ and his righteousness we are blessed with every blessing and blessings overtake us.

“This is not a temporary salvation. The book of Hebrews calls it “eternal” salvation. The moment you believe you are the righteousness of God in Christ – do you have to pray for the Father to bless you?

Did Jesus have to pray for the Father to curse Him when He was made our sin?

You don’t see in the New Testament the apostles praying for blessing. The law was given through Moses but grace and truth came through Jesus. From the fullness of His grace we have received one blessing after another.

Deuteronomy 28 says if you will fully keep and obey all the law then all these blessings will come on you. But if you do not keep the law then all these curses will overtake you. Galatians 3:13-14 shows that Christ on the Cross redeemed us from the curse of the law that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through faith.

The moment you believe that you are the righteousness of God in Christ; you do NOT need to pray for blessings to come on you. They come on you and they overtake you! What do you see the apostles praying for in the New Testament? Not bless me – bless me. Blessings come on you when you believe. “