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Hebrews 10:11-18

¹¹Under the old covenant, the priest stands before the altar day after day, offering sacrifices that can never take away sins. ¹²But our High Priest offered himself to God as one sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down at the place of highest honor at God’s right hand. ¹³There he waits until his enemies are humbled as a footstool under his feet. ¹⁴For by that one offering he perfected forever all those whom he is making holy.

¹⁵And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. First he says,

¹⁶“This is the new covenant I will make with my people on that day, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their hearts
so they will understand them,
and I will write them on their minds
so they will obey them.”

¹⁷Then he adds,

“I will never again remember
their sins and lawless deeds.”

¹⁸Now when sins have been forgiven, there is no need to offer any more sacrifices.

Reflect

My oldest daughter Sarah is learning her gazindas in school. We were discussing the different ways to learn how to perform these problems quickly. I told her that when I was a kid, we repeated our gazindas every day. We would begin each class reciting our gazindas. Eventually, everyone knew that three gazinda nine, three times!

The High Priests repeated the sacrifices daily hoping to satisfy Gods requirement for the cleansing of sin. These sacrifices, although repeated daily, could never take away sin. Only Christ’s perfect sacrifice of Himself on the cross could and did. With God’s new covenant, He uses the Holy Spirit to write these laws in our hearts and minds so that we will obey them and since God forgets our sins, they are forgiven once and for all. Or in other words, forgiveness gazinda our sins, every time.

Respond

How does the Holy Spirit help you obey God today?

What did God mean when he said that He would never again remember your sins?

If God forgets our sins, why is it that we sometimes have a hard time forgiving ourselves?

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