Hebrews 10:14
"For by one offering, He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified"
The Scriptures declare that by the one offering God HAS PERFECTED forever those that HE sanctified (set apart in Christ in election, redemption, and regeneration). This is the particular grace of God to cause any sinner to own their sin and to know that in this flesh " dwelleth NO GOOD THING” (Romans 7:18). It is God's Grace to give His children eyes to look to Christ by faith, who fulfilled all that the Father's law and justice required both in His perfect obedience to the precepts of the law, but also in paying its penalty. So complete was His work of righteousness that He earned and established, that upon completion of His death, God the Father justified once and for all, every sinner for whom He paid the debt. " Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him" (Romans 5:9).
What a comfort to us who are God’s elected children that when the Spirit of God makes us know the weight of our sin, we are also made to see the preciousness of the blood that His Son shed unto death for us, whereby we are accepted in the Beloved. "To the praise of the glory of His Grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the Beloved" (Ephesians 1:6). As one dear saint of old declared, “The believer's perfection is in Christ. Oh that He may condescend to teach me, and lead me to look straight out of self—to a glorious Christ!”
What others have as their goal, we as the LORD’s redeemed ones have as a reality already. While others seek to be justified by their works or will, we for whom the LORD Jesus already paid the debt are already justified by His death. When the Spirit of God opens the eyes of God's elected sinners, it is not to justify them, but rather to cause them to see and embrace the justification Christ already accomplished for them at the cross. "The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the Hope of his calling, and what the riches of the Glory of His Inheritance in the saints" (Ephesians 1:18).
We dare not look to any profession for our justification, to any supposed goodness in ourselves, or even to the graces of the Spirit as our perfection. We look to the LORD Jesus Christ alone and believe the report of His Word-"And ye are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power:" (Colossians 2:10). Those that the Father justified upon completion of the LORD Jesus’ satisfactory death on the cross, are declared complete or fulfilled in Christ's work so that nothing more can be added to it to make it complete. It's not as if Christ did most of the work, and now the sinner completes the rest. No! "Ye are complete in Him." Here are two matters of note:
"Ye are..." Present tense. Once God declared redeemed sinners complete in Him by His death, they continue in that state forever. They are not progressing in holiness, but are declared holy in Him and continue in that state. No sin, nor wandering can ever remove them from who they are in Christ...complete! Complete wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption, 1 Corinthians 1:30.
"In Him" Not outside of Him, nor beside Him, or near Him, but "in Him." Because this is so, we need no other experience or work to draw us closer to God. As one writer states: "So near, so very near to God, I cannot nearer be. For in the Person of His Son, I am as near as He. So dear, so very dear to God, I cannot dearer be. The love with which He loves His Son – such is His love for me.”
Amen and Amen!! Christ The LORD is our ALL in ALL!
Complete in Him!
Glory to God! 🙏✝️❤️