Study Notes

I.      God wants us to live with no consciousness of sin; that simply means he wants us to live as though sin never existed

A.    What is a sin consciousness? – Hebrews 10:1-2

1.      Conscience-The consciousness of anything; To be conscious of something means you aware of it, it passes through your mind

2.      Functioning with a sin conscious is functioning in a state where you are constantly aware of sin you’ve committed

a.    People who function like this we talk about themselves and other believers as unworthy, unholy, weak, imperfect vessels

b.    Some of their favorite phrases are “We’ve all fallen short of the glory of God” and “We’re just all sinners saved by grace”

3.      A person who operates with sin consciousness is one who acknowledges the reality of what Jesus did on the cross and mentally ascends to the truth and power of it, but continues to think and live as if it never really happened

B.     Sin consciousness is a matter of the mind; When you operate with a sin consciousness you’re choosing to think on and be conscious of your sin

1.      Sin consciousness is the result of allowing your mind to think on the wrong thing

C.    When you’re operating with a sin consciousness you are:

1.      More mindful of sin and its effects than you are the blood and it’s effects

2.      More mindful of the wrong you’ve done, than the right Jesus did

3.      Acknowledging your unrighteous acts above Jesus’ righteous act (you know what Jesus did, but you’re acknowledging what you did as greater)

a.    Your sin/unrighteousness works or no match for his obedience/righteous work

4.      Exercising more faith in your sin to effect you negatively than in the blood of Jesus to effect you positively  

a.    When you’re thinking about the sin you’ve committed and you’re yielding to guilt and condemnation you’re exercising faith in that sin’s ability to effect you negatively; when you’re thinking about the blood and refuse to yield to those feelings you’re exercising faith in the blood to effect you positively

5.      Acknowledging what Satan did to Adam in the Garden of Eden as a greater thing than what Jesus did on the cross at Calvary

D.    Being conscious of sin robs of you 1) Relationship 2) Bold faith 3) Receiving 4) Reigning

1.      The fruit of a sin-consciousness is guilt/condemnation, fear/inferiority, inequality/unworthy

2.      God doesn’t want you approaching him with a consciousness of sin, he doesn’t want you praying with a consciousness of sin, he doesn’t want you rebuking the devil with a consciousness of sin, he wants you to engage every activity of the Kingdom as if you never sinned and as though sin never existed

II.     There was an insufficiency or lack of power seen in the blood of animals to get done what God ultimately wanted to get done which was to obliterate sin and remove from your conscience.  However, there was no lack of power in the blood of Jesus and in the sacrifice that he made-Hebrews 10:1-4

A.    The imperfect sacrifice vs. the perfect sacrifice

1.      The imperfect sacrifice (Left a consciousness of existing, but covered sin)

a.    1) Had to be repeated

b.    2) Can’t make you perfect

c.     3) Can’t purge you; make you clean, free you from guilt

d.    4) Can’t remove the consciousness of sins  

e.    5) Can’t remit sin

2.      The perfect sacrifice (There’s no consciousness of non-existent, destroyed sin)

a.    1) Did not have to repeated; it was perfect the first time

b.    2) Will present the people perfect before God

1)       Evidence that the people were perfect would have been that the sacrifices stopped being made; Now the sacrifices have stopped and the reason is because the people have been made perfect

c.     3) Purges you, makes you clean, frees you from all guilt

d.    4) Removes the consciousness of sin

1)       The perfect sacrifice was designed to effect the conscience of the believer, but like everything the believer must receive that by faith  

e.    5) Remits, destroys, and obliterates sin

B.     The sacrifices made under the law could never make you perfect; the high priest in those days could never present the people has holy, unblameable and unreproveable in the sight of God-Colossians 1:22

III.   God ultimately wanted to deal with sin in such away that His children would have no consciousness of it; he doesn’t want us conscious of past sin-Hebrews 10:4-12

A.    God’s interested in sin being removed, carried off, obliterated from the record so that it will no longer effect your conscience and keep you conscious of it

1.      Hebrews 10:4,11-The blood of bulls and goats couldn’t take away sins

2.      Hebrew 10:6,8-Those sacrifices didn’t please God b/c they left a consciousness of sin

a.    Sins being covered and remembered was never the will of God

3.      Psalm 103:12-The blood of bull and goats put man’s sins far away from him, the blood of Jesus destroyed man’s sin to the place where there is no evidence that the man committed any sin  

B.     Hebrews 10:5-9,9:7-14, 26-28-This is how God dealt with your sin; Jesus entered as the high priest and the sacrifice one time to purge your conscience from dead works

1.      10:5-9-He gave Jesus a body to sacrifice to remit sin

2.      9:7-That old sacrifice could not get done what God ultimately wanted to get done

3.      9:11-Jesus is our High priest, but he doesn’t go in year after year because the sacrifice that was made and the blood that was shed was perfect

a.    12-He entered into the Holy of Holies through His own blood

4.      9:14-He purged our consciences for dead works

a.    The blood of bulls and goats cleansed the outside only, but the blood of Jesus purified the body and the conscience-Hebrews 10:22

5.      Hebrews 10:10-12-He only made the sacrifice once because it was perfect

a.    His sacrifice cleansed the people in such a way that they would have no more consciousness of sin

b.    His blood did what the blood of bulls and goats could do; it obliterated sin

IV.   Our approach, our mindset, completely changes because of the blood; we can’t allow ourselves to just mentally ascend to the reality of this, but we have to live like it is true

A.    13-Jesus expects me to win; so my approach and mindset is I expect to win and anything less than victory is unacceptable

1.      He’s waiting for you to put your words with the blood and overcome-Rev 12:11

B.     17-God will not remember your sin; He’s not going to be mindful of it or remind Himself of it, therefore my approach is I’m not going to be mindful of it or remind myself of it

C.    18-My approach and mindset is I have no sin and have never sinned

1.      There has been a remission of sin rather than atonement of sin

a.    Atone means to cover; Ex 32:30-OT they sacrificed an animal to atone (cover) sin 

2.      Remission means to let sins go as if they had never been committed; to send away

D.    19-My approach before God is a bold approach knowing he deals with me as through sin never existed in my life because in his eyes it hasn’t

E.     22-My approach is one in full assurance of faith

1.      Why wouldn’t I expect to receive what I’m believing for? Why wouldn’t He love me, talk to me, bless me after all I’m perfect and holy

F.     22-My approach is that I’m clean, Holy, and pure

1.      My heart has been sprinkled from an evil and guilty conscience and if that thing tries to rise up I resisted through faith in the blood

G.   23-My approach is that I hold fast to the confession of our faith without wavering because through the blood I’m right with God I have the same right to victory as Jesus