Have you ever been in a place where you felt like your past were over taking who you were? I have been in this place. The past seems to dig its claws into you not allowing you to move forward, not allowing you to be free from the sin that once plagued you. There is something about the past that is determined not to be walked away from. It doesn’t want to accept the inevitable that we are always moving farther from it, making it more irrelevant with every passing minuet.
Being free from the sin that occurred in our past shouldn't be as hard as it sometimes seems. Jesus did a mighty work on the cross. One that will reverberate throughout history, shaking the sin of our past off of our backs forever. "For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God." (Hebrews 9:13,14).
Hebrews 9:28 gives an implicit message that is powerful, "so Christ having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him." He's coming back not to deal with sin! The implicit message is that it's already been dealt with! How cool is that?. We don't have to be burdened with a sin from the past for the Lord has already dealt with it. It’s his and the blameless sacrifice he did shakes us free of it.
Walking in freedom is what he designed for us, and it allows for a great impact on the kingdom when my attention is not on my sin but the reaching of others for the one truth... Jesus.
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