Which is why Jesus said you must be born again. The born again believer no longer has any conscience of sins (Hebrews 10:2).
Christ provided the sacrifice that makes the true believer, who worships him in Spirit and in truth (John 4:24), perfect (something that the sacrifices of the Old Testament could not do).
But many professing believers seem to attribute the old covenants lack of power to perfect (Hebrews 10:1) also to Christ’s sacrifice.
So if your sins are taken away (John 1:29) and you are perfected by Christ’s blood (Hebrews 10:14), what does that make you?
And why the threat in Hebrews 10:26-31?
And why is this written:
Romans 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
If you are not obeying the Lord, you don’t have the Holy Spirit:
Acts of the Apostles 5:32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
And you aren’t perfect (as many openly admit):
Hebrews 11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Hebrews 5:9 ...he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him
So:
Joshua 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve... but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Precisely...as I Agree and have said.
We "all" have been given AN Offering...it's Established, it exists, it yours.
Reach out and Take ...or DUH...lose it.
That (corruptly) argued, you can not "lose" Salvation Until AFTER you have "RECEIVED" Salvation- buttressing their argument; Saved once and Forever is is not true.
That argument is framed ON a false premise.
Every man's Salvation is already Bought and Paid for. it is Exclusively Every Single person's Offered Gift. The Gift IS theirs. It is not a GIFT that are Forced to TAKE.
(Quick review to Adam and Eve...eat all this Offered to you...1 prohibition...they each reached out and took the 1 prohibition...Eve reached out and took from serpent, Adam reached out and took from Eve...neither reachout and took from the TREE OF LIFE...
and consequently Consequence ensued...life span dwindled...and TREE OF LIFE? Removed from earth's Surface For Centuries.)
Just as I could buy you a gift card, exclusively for you. Hold it in front of you, Offer it to you...if you do not reach out and take it...DUH, you lose it.
On the point of "Perfected"... Absolutely Agree.
A man "In Christ", is an individual who has chosen to make his own Election of a Commitment, regardless or what any other man believes or does.
Such a man, making a commitment TO the Lord God, IS that man "establishing an Exclusive relationship Between him and His Lord God....and the man's Lord God, accounts that specific man "perfect-ED" , in his Lord God.
Then comes the Argument....oh, oh, so you are perfect and sinless.
Once again, they begin their argument on A FALSE premise.
I claim to be Perfected.
I don't claim to be perfect.
( I know the difference, that humans are not perfect, but yet Gods Power can Perfect souls, (via restoration 23 Psalms) and Quicken a man's spirit with Gods seed (1 John 3:9)... and account that mans Body sanctified JUSTIFIED to be raised Perfect and that is by Gods "making" (which is VIA Jesus Christ...as all things Are made by and Through Him (John 1:3).
Now when I choose to submit to my Lord God for Him to "MAKE" changes to my person...and my Lord God identifies those "Godly Made Changes Perfected IN Him"...
Then THAT is what occured, Period.
SINLESS did not occur.
Perfection did not occur.
Forgiveness Occurred. His eternal light within me, covering the darkness of my internal sin Occurred. Gods light overpowering my darkness Occurred, that nomore can God See or remember my Sin. And Gods Power within me Keeps me from Ever Again (Sinning) Against God.
Changing the Premise, lands THEM on a false conclusion.
And the Finger wagging of accusing others of Committing SIN.
I stand firmly...I have never committed a SIN AGAINST a man, nor has an other man committed Sin Against me.
Only God Can Forgive SIN.
And only was it Against God that I could commit Sin....and I Took Gods offering, to quash that from ever Again being possible.
(trespassing...is a different act, between man and man. I can repeatedly commit unintentional or intentional Trespasses Against other men, and they me. I can forgive them and visa versa...or not.)
SIN AGAINST God...(forgiven or not), does NOT release the Person from consequences.
(Hint ALL bodies, shall die)
Trespassing between men, very often does not release the Person from consequences.
(Cheating spouse...forgiven...
Consequence...divorce, liquidity of assets, children accessability. ...ouchy Consequence)
So yep agree. And adamantly disagree with those who want to argue, by first changing the true premise to a false narrative.
God Bless,
Taken