The Law

Hebrews 7:19, "For the law made nothing perfect"--it never brought anyone or anything to perfection, to completion.

Speaking to those that are in Christ, the law for him is like the little boy with the dirty face who looks into the mirror. All that the mirror does is reveal to him is that he has a dirty face. It does nothing else. It gives him no object, nothing outside of himself to do away with his condition. He finds no relief or release. He tries, he struggles, he hates it when he sins. He tries to hide it, tried for years but it doesn't do any good, especially when he is alone. As much as he hates his sins it doesn't stop the guilt and condemnation in his mind of what the mirror showed what he was when he looked into it.

Well, God wants all of His little boys and girls to know that they have a GREAT High Priest in heaven seated at the right hand of God interceding FOR them. What is the purpose of this GREAT High Priest? What about all the sins that all of His children commit? They interrupt our communion, the intimacy of so great a love, but they do not change our position before God, nor the finished, factual reality of Christ seated at the right hand of God, with us seated in Him positionally.

God would have us to know, understand, and experience the perpetual presence of Christ at God's right hand.

• Christ has perfected us forever because He has completely and eternally satisfied the Father's justice and integrity. As a result, WE ARE ACCEPTED.

• As our GREAT HIGH PRIEST, He obtains grace to help in time of need, that we may not sin. But the present exercise of priesthood by Christ does not refer to sins. We have in Hebrews 10:1-10, through the work of Christ no more conscience of sins, because we ARE perfected forever IN HIM.

Our communion is founded on the truth in 1 Jhn. 2:1-2. Our sins are not imputed, not put to our account because of Christ and HIS WORK that He has completed and finished on behalf of us before God. Sins interrupt communion with God, but our righteousness that is in Christ never is altered. Christ's work doesn't change and neither does His grace.

As we grow in grace and knowledge of these truths with loving chastisement when our hearts get away from Him through sinning. The chastisement comes from a loving hand that guides us back into the experience of being so loved by our Father as His dear children.