30 Days of Truth
Day 9 – be not sin-conscious
Hebrews 10:1-3 KJV
[1] For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. [2] For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. [3] But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
This is a long portion of scripture to start off this article, but I believe it is critically important to discuss.
Every year, the High Priest would enter into the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle or Temple to make the sacrifice for sins. But the sacrifice made every year could never take away sins. On the contrary, it REMINDED people of their sins.
Notice that the sacrifice doesn’t remind God about their sins, it is speaking about their conscience of their sins.
The remembrance of sins is one of the most harmful things that we Christian’s deal with today.
Do you see from these scriptures that once sin was purged and done away with by the sacrifice of Christ, that we should have had no more conscience concerning our sins?
God has already said that under the New Covenant that He would remember our sins and iniquities no more!!
The reason we deal with the remembrance of our sins is because both people and our own conscience constantly remind us of what we have done wrong.
People cannot easily forget, but God CAN forget, and He DOES forget.
He FORGIVES and he FORGETS!
We cannot control how other people remind us of our sins and mistakes, but because Christ’s righteous nature lives inside our born-again spirit, we can control our own conscience.
In order to have of conscience of sins, we must not remind ourselves of our mistakes but look towards God who has already forgiven and forgotten them.
We must renew our mind daily and remind ourselves of the righteousness we are by Christ Jesus! Not as a vain ritual, but because we deserve to be uplifted, encouraged and strengthened by God’s Word about us!
If your conscience reminds you of the sins, you’ve committed and condemns you, speak against it with your words!
Your words are powerful, and when you tell your conscience what God has done on your behalf in Christ Jesus and remind yourself of what Christ has done in your spirit, your conscience will quiet down and gradually fall in line with truth.
Words can overcome thought, and truth can overcome wrong thinking.
So, faith comes by hearing the Word of God.