46. Sins Not Purged by Our Sorrow; Only by the Blood of Jesus

Our hope really is founded upon nothing less than the blood of Jesus and His righteousness!  We can do absolutely nothing to take away or purge our own sins.  Jesus Himself has already done it and has sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high! (Heb 1:3)  We may feel varying degrees of sorrow for our sins, but no amount of sorrow can purge our sins.  No amount of pleading with God to take away our sins can actually take away our sin.  Again, it's already been done!  It's been done once for all through the sufficient sacrifice of Jesus.


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44. Saved by Grace Through Faith Apart from Works

We are saved by grace, through faith, apart from works.  If our works have anything to do with it, then it's no longer grace.  When we were saved, we were saved despite having had bad works.  Now, we still have bad works sometimes, but those bad works don't "unsave" us.  Otherwise, it would no longer be grace by which we're saved.  We're saved either by grace or works, but it can't be both.


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43. Jesus Is the Guarantee That We're Saved to the Uttermost

A few podcasts ago I talked about how our promises are no guarantee, but God's promise is. The oath that God made to Himself, written about in Hebrews 6, is where our hope lies. It's a hope we can cling to with certainty! Hebrews 7 brings up the oath again, after showing how the Law was "weak" and "unprofitable," and it could make nothing perfect, so therefore it was "annulled." Something better came along, based upon God's oath rather than being based upon the repeated sacrifices of the law or our works. This oath makes "Jesus guarantor of a better covenant." (Heb 7:22). There had formerly been a ministry of mortal priests, offering sacrifices day after day, which could never make anyone perfect. But through the one offering of Jesus, who lives forever, all our sins have been taken away and we have been perfected forever.


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