And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
God promises in the new covenant to put His laws into hearts and minds and to remember sins and iniquities no more. His pardon is complete, forgiving fully and putting sins out of remembrance so they are no longer held against the forgiven. That remission rests on Christ's one sacrifice for sins forever, offered in doing God's will, unlike the repeated sacrifices that could never take away sins, so no further offering for sin remains. It belongs to those made holy through His offering and perfected forever by it, who are washed, sanctified and justified and changed from sinners into children of God. Because sins are so remitted, believers have boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus by the new and living way, and are to draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith and hold fast their profession without wavering.
Covenant Promise and Sacrifice
The promise is God's new covenant, that He puts His laws into hearts and into minds and remembers sins and iniquities no more. It belongs to those made holy through Christ's offering and perfected forever by His one offering, whose hearts and minds receive His law. Those who have repented are washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of God, raised from moral degradation from sinners into children of God and made one in Christ with those who led them to reconciliation. The pardon is complete, for God fully forgives and forgets, no longer holds sins and iniquities against them but puts them out of remembrance, and instead gives thought to their needs. The Holy Spirit bears witness to this covenant by writing God's laws in hearts and minds.
The remission rests on Christ's offering of His prepared body in doing God's will, which sanctifies and perfects forever those who are sanctified. It stands unlike the repeated daily priestly sacrifices that could never take away sins, for His one sacrifice for sins forever takes away the first order and establishes the second. After that offering He sat down at God's right hand to wait until His enemies are made His footstool, so where such remission is there is no more offering for sin and no further offering remains. All this has been provided at immense cost, and God desires believers to have all of it.
Having taken the blood of His own atonement into the holiest of all and sprinkled it there upon the mercy seat and upon His own garments and blessed the people, He appears in His priestly character. On earth the glory of His humanity did not appear and He was regarded as a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief from whom faces were hidden, while pursuing the path the plan of God had devised, but that same humanity descends from heaven robed in glory, triumphant and exalted. Appearing the second time He declares that there is to be no more sacrifice for sin. The verse is His plea to the Father for all who will cooperate with Him in the plan of salvation devised in infinite love and which He stands ready to fulfill, asking the Father not to charge their sins to them but to lay them on Himself, to show mercy to their unrighteousness and to forget their sins and iniquities. This belongs to those who have accepted His merits and made peace with Him, for them His righteousness becomes theirs, and for His sake the Father blesses them with all spiritual blessings.
Entering and Living Forgiven
Because sins are so remitted there is no more offering for sin, and believers have boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus by the new and living way consecrated through the veil of His flesh. With Christ as High Priest over the house of God they may enter with Him into the true tabernacle not made with hands. Those who have repented are washed, sanctified and justified, raised from moral degradation from sinner to child of God, and made one with those who led them to reconciliation.
They are therefore to draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and bodies washed with pure water. They are to hold fast the profession of faith without wavering, because He who promised is faithful. They are to consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works, not forsaking the assembling of themselves together but exhorting one another so much the more as they see the day approaching.
The verse gives spiritual life to the soul and is God's covenant promise of justification, sanctification and redemption. It calls for growth in grace, daily conversion to simple obedience, and deep appropriation of Scripture. It calls for a new conversion in which the person awakes to individual responsibility, takes himself in hand, is emptied of self while God does His part in cooperation with the human agent, so that Christ takes possession and makes him a vessel unto honor to work the works of God. Having this promise at immense cost, which God desires believers to have in full, means being doers of the Word and working in partnership with Christ, wearing no yoke of bondage but only Christ's yoke, keeping the Father's commandments as Christ kept them, and living and speaking and acting as children of light and representatives of Christ in the world.
The consecrated life thus received is to spend itself seeking to save perishing souls in dependence on the Lord rather than upon human agencies. It is to live the great truths presented so that they have power to influence others with a deeper appreciation of truth, since where the truths are not lived they accomplish little.
God promises in the new covenant to put His laws into hearts and minds and to remember sins and iniquities no more. His pardon is complete, forgiving fully and putting sins out of remembrance so they are no longer held against the forgiven. That remission rests on Christ's one sacrifice for sins forever, offered in doing God's will, unlike the repeated sacrifices that could never take away sins, so no further offering for sin remains. It belongs to those made holy through His offering and perfected forever by it, who are washed, sanctified and justified and changed from sinners into children of God. Because sins are so remitted, believers have boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus by the new and living way, and are to draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith and hold fast their profession without wavering.
Covenant Promise and Sacrifice
The promise is God's new covenant, that He puts His laws into hearts and into minds and remembers sins and iniquities no more. It belongs to those made holy through Christ's offering and perfected forever by His one offering, whose hearts and minds receive His law. Those who have repented are washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of God, raised from moral degradation from sinners into children of God and made one in Christ with those who led them to reconciliation. The pardon is complete, for God fully forgives and forgets, no longer holds sins and iniquities against them but puts them out of remembrance, and instead gives thought to their needs. The Holy Spirit bears witness to this covenant by writing God's laws in hearts and minds.
The remission rests on Christ's offering of His prepared body in doing God's will, which sanctifies and perfects forever those who are sanctified. It stands unlike the repeated daily priestly sacrifices that could never take away sins, for His one sacrifice for sins forever takes away the first order and establishes the second. After that offering He sat down at God's right hand to wait until His enemies are made His footstool, so where such remission is there is no more offering for sin and no further offering remains. All this has been provided at immense cost, and God desires believers to have all of it.
Having taken the blood of His own atonement into the holiest of all and sprinkled it there upon the mercy seat and upon His own garments and blessed the people, He appears in His priestly character. On earth the glory of His humanity did not appear and He was regarded as a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief from whom faces were hidden, while pursuing the path the plan of God had devised, but that same humanity descends from heaven robed in glory, triumphant and exalted. Appearing the second time He declares that there is to be no more sacrifice for sin. The verse is His plea to the Father for all who will cooperate with Him in the plan of salvation devised in infinite love and which He stands ready to fulfill, asking the Father not to charge their sins to them but to lay them on Himself, to show mercy to their unrighteousness and to forget their sins and iniquities. This belongs to those who have accepted His merits and made peace with Him, for them His righteousness becomes theirs, and for His sake the Father blesses them with all spiritual blessings.
Entering and Living Forgiven
Because sins are so remitted there is no more offering for sin, and believers have boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus by the new and living way consecrated through the veil of His flesh. With Christ as High Priest over the house of God they may enter with Him into the true tabernacle not made with hands. Those who have repented are washed, sanctified and justified, raised from moral degradation from sinner to child of God, and made one with those who led them to reconciliation.
They are therefore to draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and bodies washed with pure water. They are to hold fast the profession of faith without wavering, because He who promised is faithful. They are to consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works, not forsaking the assembling of themselves together but exhorting one another so much the more as they see the day approaching.
The verse gives spiritual life to the soul and is God's covenant promise of justification, sanctification and redemption. It calls for growth in grace, daily conversion to simple obedience, and deep appropriation of Scripture. It calls for a new conversion in which the person awakes to individual responsibility, takes himself in hand, is emptied of self while God does His part in cooperation with the human agent, so that Christ takes possession and makes him a vessel unto honor to work the works of God. Having this promise at immense cost, which God desires believers to have in full, means being doers of the Word and working in partnership with Christ, wearing no yoke of bondage but only Christ's yoke, keeping the Father's commandments as Christ kept them, and living and speaking and acting as children of light and representatives of Christ in the world.
The consecrated life thus received is to spend itself seeking to save perishing souls in dependence on the Lord rather than upon human agencies. It is to live the great truths presented so that they have power to influence others with a deeper appreciation of truth, since where the truths are not lived they accomplish little.