No More Conscience of Sins Hebrews 10:2

The writer of Hebrews declared “the law having a shadow of good things to come” could “never with those sacrifices”... “make the comers thereunto perfect” . In chapter ten and verse two of Hebrews the writer shares how there will be “no more conscience of sins” where we read:

For then would they not have ceased to be offered?

because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

The verse begins, “For then would they not have ceased to be offered?”. The writer began with the word, “For then” which refers to “even as, indeed, no doubt, seeing then, verily and therefore” “would they not” or “the sacrifices would not” “have ceased”” or “desisted, been restrained and left off” “to be offered” which means “being brought, lead into and presented?” If the “sacrifices offered” by the priests were able to make a person “perfect”, there would have been no need to continue “offering” them. The writer questioned whether the priests would not have stopped “offering” their sacrifices if they were sufficient to cleanse people from their sins.

The verse goes on to say, “...because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.”. The writer added the word, “because” or “for the sake of, through, by reason and account of” “that the worshipers” which means “those who serve for hire, minister and render religious service or homage” “once” or “one time” “purged” which means “cleansed, pruned and expiated” “should have had” or “held, owned possessed and kept” “no more” which means “no longer or further” “conscience” or “the moral consciousness” “of sins” which means “offenses, missing of the marks, errors and mistakes”. If the sacrifices presented by the priests were effective to “purge” people from their “errors”, they would not be “conscious” of them any longer.

When we meditate upon these words in Hebrews, we see how the “sacrifices” offered by the priests were incomplete because they did not “cleanse” nor “purge” people from the “consciousness” of their sins otherwise the priests would not have needed to offer them every year. Jesus “offered” Himself “one time” in the heavenly temple and was not only able to “purge” people from their “sins”, but also to know they didn't need to think about them any more. Jesus is the only one who ever “sacrificed” in this manner, and through Him we may obtain everlasting “salvation” for our souls.

Next time the writer shares how “those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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