“Conscience of Sins”

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The goal of the Father for believers concerning sanctification is that they would have “no more conscience of sins” (Heb 10:2). Saints need not to contemplate their sins since they have been completely and permanently cleared of all the guilt of all their sins—“once for all” (Heb 10:10, 12, 14; 9:12, 28)!

“Because the worshippers, once purged, would have had no more conscience of sins” intends the design that we are not to allow a guilty conscience because of our sins (unless one thinks Christ’s expiation was insufficient to procure all sin), to manifest the impact of being always forgiven, and thus never needing to wallow in the mire of guilt! We can be aware of our sins only enough to identify them and remember the Lord’s expiation for them. There can be a short season of guilt in a babe-in-Christ, but maturity affords the believer growth in Christ (Eph 4:15); and if we maintain any guilt concerning anything at all, we have yet to learn fully God’s forgiveness in Christ.

It is not humility that may keep one thoughtful of one’s sins, but ignorance of the truth that the believer in Christ is in unbroken forgiveness with God when living a life of confession and repentance of sins; and know, it isn’t our obedience, which shows our love for God (Jhn 14:21, 23) that forgiveness is secured, but forgiveness is established by faith in the expiation of Christ’s Cross.

This answers to the fact that we are to “lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us” in order that we might not be “troubled” and “overtaken” in much sadness of heart (Gen 4:13; Gal 6:1; Jhn 14:1, 27). Our sins be as they may, God has provided—through faith in Christ, confession and repentance—“a way of escape, that we may be able to bear it” (1Co 10:13); and all is accounted for concerning all our sins and His all-forging love.
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“Because the worshippers, once purged, would have had no more conscience of sins”; there are external and internal worshippers; the latter are such who worship God in Spirit and in truth: but here ceremonial worshippers are meant, who, if they had been really purged from sin by legal sacrifices, and purifications, would have had no more conscience of sins, and so have had no need to have repeated them; as such spiritual worshippers, who are once purged from sin by the Blood and sacrifice of Christ; not that they have no sin, or no sense of sin, or that their consciences are seared, or that they never accuse for sin, or that they are to make no confession and acknowledgment of sin; but that they are discharged from the guilt of sin, and are not liable to condemnation for it; and through the application of the Blood of Christ to them, have peace with God, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”

—John Gill
 

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Mankind was created in the image and likeness of God. (Gen 1:26-27)

But then came the forbidden fruit incident wherein Mankind relinquished its God-like

sense of right and wrong and adopted a natural sense instead. (Gen 3:22)

None of the sacrifices in the Levitical catalogue suffice for addressing Mankind's natural
sense of right and wrong. That came later with Jesus' crucifixion. (Heb 9:13-14, Heb 10:22)
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Mankind was created in the image and likeness of God. (Gen 1:26-27)

But then came the forbidden fruit incident wherein Mankind relinquished its God-like

sense of right and wrong and adopted a natural sense instead. (Gen 3:22)

None of the sacrifices in the Levitical catalogue suffice for addressing Mankind's natural
sense of right and wrong. That came later with Jesus' crucifixion. (Heb 9:13-14, Heb 10:22)
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Hi, and thanks for the reply! True, the Law could not "take away sins," but it did establish "forgiveness," which is the objective of all; and this was only for unintentional sin (Num 15:25; 30). The objective of Christ's Blood was to take away sins, which phrase meant only the guilt of sin and not the sin itself, which is the old man or sin nature. It's not just the sins forgiven but the believer freed from its "dominion" (Rom 6:14).
 

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Obtaining forgiveness and cleansing for one's sins in a timely manner is a
good practice. (1John 1:6-10)

However, folks need their natural conscience purified only once. (Heb 9:1-
-10:14)

* Mankind's natural conscience is very unreliable. It isn't uncommon for it to
run across God's activities in the Bible that appear very unfair and even
downright wrong. That difference between the natural conscience and the
divine, is a flaw in Man's association with his maker that God can't overlook.

Prov 14:12 . .There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it
leads to death.

1John 1:6-7 . . If we claim to have fellowship with Him yet walk in the
darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.

Ways that seem right to a man-- i.e. the judicious activity going on in his
natural conscience -- are sometimes dead ways though they appear to Man's
natural sense of right and wrong as perfectly okay.

The problem isn't hopeless, but does requires systematic deprogramming
and retraining (Rom 12:1-2, Heb 5:14) and it's worth the effort.

1John 1:7 . . If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His son, purifies us from
all sin.
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Obtaining forgiveness and cleansing for one's sins in a timely manner is a
good practice. (1John 1:6-10)
Once forgiven, always forgiven! This is the sense of "once for all" (Heb 10:10). God knows we will always want to please Him because He "works" this in us (Phl 2:13); it's a permanent condition.
 

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Once forgiven, always forgiven! This is the sense of "once for all" Heb 10:10.

Well; I'm just an under-educated retired welder and thus likely the least
qualified around here to critique a chaplain, but I know from personal
experience that it's a big mistake to circumvent 1John 1:5-10.


BTW: Advertising yourself a chaplain sets you up for a harder fall than most.

Jas 3:1 . . Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers,
because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
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Well; I'm just an under-educated retired welder and thus likely the least
qualified around here to critique a chaplain, but I know from personal
experience that it's a big mistake to circumvent 1John 1:5-10.


BTW: Advertising yourself a chaplain sets you up for a harder fall than most.

Jas 3:1 . . Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers,
because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
Hi, and thanks for your reply! Yes, the more you lead the more you are accountable for; but a Christian shouldn't be worried about being a leader if one is called to it. I don't know what you mean by "circumvent." 1Jn 5:8-10 concerns one initially establishing salvation, which is done only once.

Once cleaned from all unrighteousness a true believer will not return to the sin nature (God ensures this - Phl 2:13), and thus will maintain a life of confession and repentance. One doesn't go in and out of forgiveness but enjoys a continuous and eternal fellowship with God.
 

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I don't know what you mean by "circumvent." 1Jn 5:8-10 concerns one
initially establishing salvation, which is done only once.

Inexperienced and/or poorly trained Christians are commonly informed that
their entire lifelong indictment has been wiped clean; and that the wipe is
necessary only once; leaving no sins to answer for, either past, present, or
future. And then they're told to make a habit of confessing their sins to
obtain forgiveness and cleansing per 1John 5:8-10.

You can probably see how confusing that might be for newbies, and how
they might be persuaded that confession, forgiveness, and cleansing are no
longer necessary seeing as how Jesus supposedly took all their bad with him
to the cross: including their natural conscience, which requires just as much
atonement as their sins.
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Inexperienced and/or poorly trained Christians are commonly informed that
their entire lifelong indictment has been wiped clean; and that the wipe is
necessary only once; leaving no sins to answer for, either past, present, or
future.
But all sins are always taken into account; there are no sins that are not already known by God that we will commit, and therefore it includes all our sins, not just some. He forgives us when we continue to confess and repent when we sin (1Jn 1:9), which answers to a continuous fellowship of forgiveness. If there is no confessing and no repentance, one is not yet saved.

When we initially come to Christ confessing and repenting, this is permanent and perpetual, because we continue to live in an attitude of confession and repentance. When we sin the Spirit will ensure that we confess (Gal 5:17); and the Father Himself ensures we will live for Him (Phl 2:13).
 

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I would like to meet just one Christian on an internet forum sometime before
my death who can explain certain elements of Christianity in a clear enough
manner that even a small child or an Appalachian hillbilly can understand it.
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