Because many Believers have never been exposed to the true meaning of
"imputed righteousness", they remain weak in their ability to receive
from God in many areas of their lives.

Guilt and condemnation are extremely powerful faith defeaters. When
a person does not know they are free by grace, they approach the
promises of God with an innate sense of unworthiness.

Many people experience salvation, few however experience the benefits
of being righteous before God. To be righteous is to have the God of
all creation decree that, through faith in the finished work of our
Anointed Redeemer, sin no longer has place in us. We are free by His
decree, judged to be, in rightstanding before God.

The Apostle Paul points out some points of great interest in
understanding the vast difference between being forgiven for
past deeds and being righteous before God.

Hebrews 10:1,2
The old system of Jewish laws gave only a dim, shadowy foretaste
of the good things (benefits)that would come to the Believer,
who puts faith in Christ. Because the law was not the true form
of these realities, the law could never, by these same sacrifices
which they offered continually, year by year, give complete
freedom from sin, to those who drew near. Otherwise, they would
surely have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers having
been once purged from sin, they would no longer have any guilt
or consciousness of sin.

In the above passage from Hebrews, the issue of sin is approached
from two very separate and distinct perspectives. By coming to an
understanding of what Paul was presenting concerning the law
approach to sins and the grace gift approach to sin itself, will
bring life changing liberation.

Paul states that under the Old Covenant system Hebrew law, sacrifices were offered year by year to cover sins by physical acts.
The law of obedience or consequences provided a way to cover or
atone for past sins or previously committed acts of disobedience.

Sacrifices were offered year after year, but sin itself was not
dealt with, only the past acts of sin. The annual sacrifices did
not defeat sin. They did not win a victory over sin. They did not
liberate man from sin. The sacrifices could never pay the ransom
price to buy back mankind from the authority of sin.

Atonement, or covering, for sins previously committed was not
sufficient. Man needed redemption from sin. Man needed a Redeemer,
Anointed of God, to settle the issue of sin, "once and for all."

Sins past, the law could deal with. Sins present, and sins future,
were beyond the ability of the law and its sacrifices for wrongs
committed.

Paul compared the work of the law to continually cover sins previously committed, and the work of the sinless Blood of the
Lamb of God, to defeat sin and its author, through the eternal
sacrifice.

The Old Covenant yearly sacrifices were limited to covering the
penalty, which would result from any past sins, past deeds or
failures of the flesh. They had to be offered continually year
after year, to atone for the new crop of sins that had been
committed during the previous year.

A new sacrifice was required each year, because, weak flesh would
fail to live up to the law. Weak flesh would fail God's righteous
requirements again and again. No flesh can glory (manifest) in the
sight of God.

But, in the New Covenant provision, a spiritual sacrifice would do
what a physical sacrifice could never accomplish. The spiritual
sacrifice would "destroy the power of sin."

In this powerful distinction between what the law could accomplish
and what the Eternal Sacrifice could accomplish, Paul puts his
finger on the key difference.

Paul states that if keeping the law of God, doing good deeds and
offering sacrifices for past deeds, was enough to make man right
with God, then once sin was covered, man would never need another
sacrifice for sin.

What the law provided for, was much of what most people call
repentance for past wrongs. They were covered, forgiven, each
year for past deeds, but sin itself was not defeated.

Paul said if covering sins was enough, then they could have
stopped offering sacrifices. This reveals the true power of
the Eternal Sacrifice, that settles sin for the Believer, not
just forgives the sinners past deeds.

In the New Covenant, there was a spiritual, eternal sacrifice
offered, to fulfill the law, pay sins debt, and set man free.
Not a continual process, time and time again, but a finsished
work.

One sacrifice, for all men, for all time, for all sin, past,
present, future. An eternal sacrifice to defeat sin, not just
cover past sins.

If Messiah's triumph only covered past deeds, then each time
a person, having been purged, failed God again, they would
need another sacrifice, since the sacrifice they received at
salvation only covered them for the period up to salvation.

When Paul states,"there remains no more sacrifice" and the
context pictures, no more sacrifices to be offered for what
is already covered. Could he be revealing to people of
religious mindset, people who were accustomed to yearly
sacrifices for their latest crop of sins, that, that system
no longer was in place?

If the sin question has been dealt a death blow, by the eternal
sacrifice, then there is no need to address it again and again.
Not because man will will not be weak and fail God. But because
the Blood of the Lamb cleanses from all sin and once the Blood
is received through faith, the Blood does for man, what the
"weakness of flesh," could never do. The Blood puts sin eternally
under the Believer's feet.

The sacrfices of the law only went backwards from the moment of
sacrifice, because it did not defeat, it covered.

The sacrifice of the Eternal Lamb of God cleanses from all sin, not
from all past sin. This is why it was once for all (all people,
all sin, all time) and not a process to be repeated each year or
with each failure of man.

From Hebrews 13:8 we see our Lord presented as the same, eternally
changeless, yesterday, today and forever.

If He was your Savior, He is your Savior, and He will always be
your Savior for all eternity. He does not change.

If you do not walk away from Him, reject Him or deny Him, He will
never leave you, or forsake you, not until it is all over. If He
was your Redeemer, He is your Redeemer, He will always be your
Redeemer. Your flesh cannot do it, His Blood has, can, and will
do it for you.