haz
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Our inward man (Christ) delights after the law, Rom 7:22.heretoeternity said:Hebrews 10..if you are truly saved, God will write His laws on your heart and mind and I will be their God and hey will be my people Jeremiah 31....so if you are saved and spirit filled with God's Holy spirit, you will not want to sin, or disobey God's law. Salvation is provided for those who call on the name of Jesus, repent and follow His Commandments (law)..as Paul goes on to say if you keep on sinning after this point there is no other sacrifice availablde for you, as you have turned your back on the saving grace and blood of Jesus...
Therein is the law within us.
A Christian's life is hid with Christ in God, Col 3:3. Christians abide in Christ, and in him there is NO SIN, 1John 3:5.
So why do you then judge a Christian's righterousness by whether they obey the law? You judge by outward appearances.
That thief on the cross who called Jesus "Lord" had righteousness imputed to him. And he did not have any obedience to the law to show for it. Yet the doctrine you follow says that we are required to obey the law perfectly, or to some ambiguous slightly lessor degree that you cannot offer details from scripture on.
You are correct, if we sin after we become a Christian then there is no more sacrifice for those subsequent sins.
Heb 10:17,18
then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
Heb 10:26
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins
Only past sin was remitted at the cross.
Rom 3:25
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God
So have you sinned (gone back under the law that we've been set free from and then transgressed, even just once) since you supposedly became a Christian?
There are many who are like Paul was before his conversion. They profess to know God, but "being ignorant of His righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God", Rom 10:3.
I don't know where your standing is and suspect that like Paul before his conversion, you are following an error doctrine out of ignorance. Thus I'm not suggesting that you are into this willful sin, rebelling against God's will (John 6:40). Many legalists still have opportunity to repent of their "dead works" of self-righteousness (Heb 6:1).
Remember that whatever the law says it says to those under it, Rom 3:19.
But Christians are not under the law, Rom 8:2, Rom 10:4, Gal 3:25, Gal 5:18, 1tim 1:9.
Hence we cannot be charged with sin/transgression of the law, 1John 3:4.
Being in Christ, covered by his righteousness/holiness/sinlessness/perfection, Christians "cannot sin"(1John 3:9), we've "ceased from sin"(1Pet 4:1).
Rom 4:8
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Rom 8:33
Who shall lay any thing (this includes sin) to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
So who is the one who commits willful sin in Heb 10:26?
It is any true Christian who had the knowledge of the truth of Christ, who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come (Heb 6:4,5) but then turn back to works of the law to determine their righteousness. Such have made themselves a willful sinner.
Gal 2:18
For if I build again the things which I destroyed (righteousness by works of the law), I make myself a transgressor/SINNER
For a true Christian to turn to the law for righteousness that is to do the following:
Reject God's grace.
Reject His will (John 6:40).
Crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame, Heb 6:6
Trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace, Heb 10;29
Again, I'm not suggesting you are willfully sinning in this way. I suspect you are in ignorance just as Paul was before his conversion, and thus have opportunity to repent of your dead works, Heb 6:1