Christ As High Priest Interceding Now

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Hebrews 10 mentions the fact that Christ's single offering has perfected forever those who are sanctified. We are complete in Him. But this needs to come out into our behaviour. And that cannot happen unless we GET this truth in our hearts and realize the impact it is saying. Here is where our CONSCIENCES require purging.

His blood paid for it all, but people who struggle and are self-defeating do not have their consciences purged. Their unnecessary guilt causes them to not even considering living up to what I am proposing we can live up to, as one of many examples. Hebrews 10 is repeating the emphasis of the fullness of Christ's work in order to encourage our faith and get us out of this self-defeating mode caused by lack of understanding. SO THAT OUR CONSCIENCES CAN BE PURGED.

The key is when we draw nigh unto God by placing our faith in Him and having His righteousness placed upon us.

It is for this reason the preacher of Pentecost clarifies what brings remittance/forgiveness of sins in chapter 3:19 when he says ...

Repent, and turn to God, so that your sins will be blotted out.

His work as High Priest happens at the point of faith ... not at the time of a religous rite ... like water baptism.

Water baptism is a picture of His death, burial and resurrection ... an outward sign of an inward work that began when we submitted our wills and hearts by drawing nigh to the Lamb and High Priest .

If it is baptism that is required then the writer would have stated so.