Sunday, October 28, 2012

Hebrews Ten- No further Sacrifice

By itself the phrase, "There threrefore remaineth no further sacrifice" to them that willfully sin, was very troubling.  When you place that phrase in the context of the entire chapter it is not talking about a loss of salvation but the loss of the ability to go offer the life of another lamb to cover sin.  Christ's sacrifice offered "once for all"  was final.  It not only covered sin but made the sinner perfect.  When we sin we come back to that final sacrifice and state of perfectness with the serious consideration that we are in the hands of the "living God".  Instead of finding lostness we are enjoined to "cast not away your confidence".  Our confidence is in a finished act, and an indwelling Power in place of a new sacrifice.  Thus we draw near to the holy of holies where before only the Priest could enter behind the veil and even then with a rope on his leg in case his corpse had to be drug out.  The act of celebrating communion is to remember that blood of the covenant and who we really are.

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,