What Does Hebrews 10 Teach About Conscience, confession, and offering for sins

If you live everyday of your life by confession of sins: morning, afternoon, and evening; do you know you are not walking in faith? You're living as though under the law, do you know? It means you don't believe 2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. It means you have never believed Romans 8:1 since you've been reading it There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: (Rom 5:1) Surely, shall [one] say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: [even] to him shall [men] come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. (Isaiah 45:24 KJV) You had a righteousness that's of God the day you believed! That's why Romans 10:10 explains salvation as …with the heart man believeth unto RIGHTEOUSNESS; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Rom 10:10 It is God's righteousness, remember! It’s not about you! Now, God's righteousness, to say is eternal, is surely not an overstatement. I mean, God cannot have a moment of unrighteousness. Always and forever will He be righteous. He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness ENDURETH FOR EVER; his horn shall be exalted with honour. (Psa 112:9) Don't forget He is called Yahweh Tsidkenu; Meaning: the Lord our righteousness Now the good news is that this righteousness that endureth forever is now ours! Don’t forget I just said Yahweh Tsidkenu is “the Lord OUR righteousness”. So it is not righteousness for Himself, but a righteousness that has been imputed to us. Thanks be to God we are always in this righteousness because who shall separate us from the love of Christ? (Romans 8:35) So... Daily confession of sins and seeking for forgiveness is ESSENTIAL but only under the law. Let me show you why it's done that way. Hebrews explains the reason behind the perpetual, ritualistic confession and offering for sins as instituted and practised by the law. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. *[[Heb 10:2]] KJV* If English language is understood, the above statement "Would they not have ceased to be offered.." means ORIGINALLY it’s supposed to be a once and for all offering for sins, but for some reasons, that was not possible then. For then would they not have ceased to be offered So he explains why offering for sins was a perpetual ritual and ordinance. He already with this explained why Job was offering for sins daily, like some other men in the old testament. That was why all Israel often gather to confess sins and make sin offerings. Oh sorry, sin offering is what they do: confession of sins is a part of the process of sin offering. Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these. And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing: And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin. [Lev 5:4-6] KJV And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and CONFESS OVER HIM ALL THE INIQUITIES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: [Lev 16:21] KJV Hebrews 10:2 tells us things were never intended to be that way, where you come in the morning, in the evening to deal with sins. Let's read on.. . But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. [Heb 10:3] KJV So there was not supposed to be a "remembrance again made of sins" Now you can understand what God meant when He says "their sins and iniquities will I REMEMBER no more"(Hebrews 8:12). He is saying such "remembrance again made of sins every year" will cease to be operative when the time comes. Let's read on For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. [Heb 10:4] KJV Reason stated expressly! Why that remembrance and perpetual confession of sins come up every now and then is because "For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." So it means if those men could get a bull or goat or whatever that could TAKE AWAY sins, they would have lived restfully in grace, and not keep coming back for confession and offering for sins. Hmmmmm… Let's read on.. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: [Heb 10:5] KJV He says that's why when he (Jesus) comes into the world, he says, sacrifice and offering thou (God) would not. “Would” means "will". Sacrifice and offering God will not. It’s not God’s will. Standing in once for all forgiveness is God's will. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. [Heb 10:6] KJV Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. *[[Heb 10:7]] KJV* So the "once for all" redemption Jesus came to do is called "thy will O God"; not the "would they not have ceased to be offered" Now see verse 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ ONCE AND FOR ALL. [Heb 10:10] KJV Once for all! So, that "will" got us sanctified. Now what is sanctification? Holiness! We are made holy, not by our works (good, fair or bad), but by the "lo I come to do thy will". Any attitude of one Christian to seem to have attain more holiness than another Christian is what is called "holier-than-thou". What are we aiming at when we go to God to confess sins? Isn't it sanctification? By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Jesus did the confession of sins and EVERYTHING needed for forgiveness once for ALL OF US. That's why under grace (New testament), we are not asked to do anything if/when we sin, except that we discontinue the sin immediately. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? (Romans 6:1 KJV) My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: [1John 2:1] KJV Nothing save an admonition to stop sinning is said to the man in Christ! He already has the propitiation he is supposed to go and look for when he sins. What else needs he? You may read up the remaining verses on your own. We hope for the concluding part of this chapter in subsequent times. The Christian life is a walk of faith from start to finish, for the just shall live by faith. If God says your sins and iniquities will not be REMEMBERED anymore, remember Abraham BELIEVED God and it was accounted to him as righteousness. Peace with you in Christ.