Perfection for the Children of God

Perfection for the Children of God

Hebrews 10:14

“For by on offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.”

            “For by one offering” Christ Jesus offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, as it is written “But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, at down on the right hand of God;” (Hebrews 10:12). Christ Jesus offered one sacrifice for sins; His one offering for sins was absolutely and perfectly effective for the purpose for which it was intended. That the one sacrifice for sins was perfectly effective to the purpose for which it was intended is shown in that after He had offered that one sacrifice for sins Christ Jesus sat down at the right hand of God, in perfect immutable stability as King of Glory; (Psalm 24:1-10).  It is but once, only “once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” (Hebrews 9:26). The Old Testament priests, had first, to offer for themselves; and then for the sins of the people: Christ Jesus offered but once for the sins of His people, that is, the members of His spiritual body or the spiritual seed of Abraham. For it is the spiritual seed of Abraham alone that Christ Jesus “took on” as the subjects of His everlasting kingdom, for “he took on him the seed of Abraham.” (Hebrews 2:16; Galatians 3:16, 29). The Old Testament priests had to offer, first for their own sins, because they were sinners; they were sons of Adam, and therefore they had a fallen nature, a nature that is ruined by sin, both original and actual sin, sinners in thought, word, and deed; as all the natural sons of Adam are. Christ Jesus offered only one offering for sins and those sins for which He offered Himself were the sins of His chosen people who were given Him of His Father before the foundation of the world, (Ephesians 1:3-5). Jesus Christ is and was the sinless one, The Holy One of God, He “knew no sin” (II Corinthians 5:21) Christ Jesus is the “Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” and He is “a Lamb without blemish and without spot:” (John 1:29; I Peter 1:19). Therefore Christ Jesus never offered for Himself for He was the sinless one, but offered only once for the sins of His people whose iniquities were “laid on Him” (Isaiah 53:6).

 I ask the reader to allow me to bring before him what world it is whose sin it  was that Christ Jesus took away; it was not “the world of the ungodly” who God destroyed in the flood in the days of Noah, (II Peter 2:5) nor “the whole world" that “lieth in wickedness” while the little children are of God, (John 5:19) here are two separate and distinct worlds, one is of God; the other lieth in wickedness. There is that world that is in Adam, in that world all die: and there is that world that is in Christ Jesus in this world all are made alive: it is written “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” (I Corinthians 15:22). There is that world whose sins were laid on Christ Jesus and therefore in God’s sight they have no sin (Jeremiah 50:20) these live in Christ Jesus; this is that world that God so loved in John 3:16; and it is this world whose sins the Lamb of God has taken away. (John 1:29). Reader if you would avail yourself of a more full view of the two separate worlds that are extant in this world see the following verses of holy writ: (James 4:4; I John 2:15-17; 3:1; Revelation 12:9; Romans 11:7; John 17:9, 14, 16 ).

            “He hath perfected for ever” all that world that is “of God” (I John 5:19) is in Christ Jesus; for they were set apart or sanctified in Christ Jesus from everlasting (Jude 1; I Corinthians 1:2) that world is made accepted in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:6) for Christ Jesus is to them “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Jeremiah 23:6) and Jesus Christ is “the same yesterday, and today, and for ever. (Hebrews 13:8). That world that is in Christ Jesus and perfected in Him is the “general assembly and church of the first born, which are written in heaven” (Hebrews 12:23) they are “not of the world” (John 17: 14, 16, 20, 21) but they are all one in Christ Jesus (John 14: 20; 17:21-26). That world that is in Christ is perfected in Christ, they abide in Christ, and are robed with the robe of the righteousness of Christ and the garments of salvation in Christ. That righteousness that is inherently in Christ Jesus is upon them as their robe, and covering. Each individual member of the body of Christ is a member in particular (I Corinthians 12:27), and all the members collectively make up the body of Christ (I Corinthians 12:20) who is the Head of the body (Colossians 1:18) the individual members collectively form the one body of Christ and collectively are the fullness of that body; of which Christ is the head and it is He that filleth all, in them all. Christ Jesus is all to each of those who are in Christ; for “of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.” (I Corinthians 1:30-31).  

            “Them that are sanctified” are those that have been set apart or “sanctified in Christ Jesus,” (I Corinthians 1:2). These are the children of the covenant (Acts 3:25) and children of the promise (Galatians 4:28). They are set apart in, or preserved in Christ Jesus (Jude 1) from everlasting, or before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4). They were chosen in Jesus Christ unto salvation from the beginning (II Thessalonians 2:13) according to the purpose and grace of God which was given them in Christ Jesus before the world began (II Timothy 1:9). They were given faith in Christ according to the ordination of God (Acts 13:48) and were “justified from all things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses” (Acts 13:39) through that faith in Christ Jesus: as it is written “therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed;” (Romans 4:16). “The seed” is all that believe in Christ Jesus as it is written “Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.” (Galatians 3:7). That is they who believe are the spiritual seed of Abraham, (Galatians 3:16, 29) and “the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:” (Romans 4:13, 14). These sanctified ones were chosen in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world, and were predestinated to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ, as it is written “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus

Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.” (Ephesians 1: 3-6).  See the writers blog at www.hebrews915.blogspot.com   A.J. Ison