When we consider that Christ had to shed His blood for us, how could we ever think that human effort to not sin would have any value? It is silly to think that we could keep our salvation by avoiding sin in our human effort when it took the shed blood of the Perfect Lamb to atone for it.
The only payment for sin is the shed blood of the Perfect Lamb, we could never atone for our own sin by working to keep from sinning, we can't even shed our own blood for our sin, because we are sinful through and through.
Hebrews 9:22 "And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness."
1 John 1:7″… the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth
us from all sin.”
4. Revelation 1:5 “… Unto him that loved us, and washed us
from our sins in his own blood.”
5. Exodus 12:13 “… and when I see the blood, I will pass over
you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you,
when I smite the land of Egypt.”
6. Revelation 12:11 “And they overcame him (Satan) by the blood
of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony …”
7. Hebrews 9:14 “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience …”
8. Hebrews 10:19, 22 “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter
into the holiest by the blood of Jesus … Let us draw near with a true
heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an
evil conscience …”
9. Exodus 29:37 “Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for
the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy…”
10. Hebrews 13:12 “Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify
the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.”
God never said during the passover..."when I see how good you have been I will pass over you." NO! He said "when I see the blood I will pass over you."
The Old Testament account of the Passover lamb being killed, his blood being spread on the door posts, was an example of Christ to come and what He would do. His blood covered our sins when we trusted Him by faith. It was prophesy showing what God would do in the future. When Christ came, He fulfilled that prophesy, so that there was no longer any need to have the example, because the real Christ had finished that work.
When the Jews slaughtered the unblemished lamb and smeared the blood of that lamb on the door posts, the Holy Spirit would not bring death to that house.
When a person trusts Christ's shed blood on the cross for their sin, God looks at them and passes over us for judgement. We are no longer under the law of judgment for sin.
Then the Lord moves in, to be our helper, our counselor, our guide and our disciplinarian. All to grow us in holiness after being bought by His precious blood.
Later when the real Lamb of God was slaughtered on that cruel cross, He said that His blood was sufficient to cover the sin of all those who would place their trust in what Christ, nothing more is needed, not self effort of any kind will keep what we never earned in the first place.
John 15:26 "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:"
John 14:26 "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."
John 14:16-18 ""I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you."
Notice in verses 16-18 of these passages that God said "that He may be with you forever", in reference to the Holy Spirit. I believe God when He said that He would be with us forever.
Romans 8:16 "The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,"
"that we ARE of God." are words that speak very loudly to me. When we have trusted Christ we are signed, sealed and delivered.
Romans 8:26 "In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;"
We can't even pray effectively, we need help with even that. When we know Christ is our righteousness, that we have none of our own, then we have no reason to think that anything we do would be of any value apart from Christ. There will be no boasting in heaven or on earth for those who have been born again.
Ephesians 2:1-10 "2 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them."
So you see, we have no part in our salvation except to believe, placing our trust completely in Christ, all that He did and all that He will do in the future. If you are still trusting in your own ability to be good enough, then you are not born again.
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