Hebrews 9:11–14 (NAS): But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Thought: Certain phrases strike me as particularly significant: 1) once for all, eternal redemption and through the eternal spirit. The sacrifice of our Savior for our sins is completed “once for all” and it accomplished eternal redemption. Trust in the Savior activates this eternal redemption.
“Through the eternal Spirit” is a profound utterance. By this, it seems, eternity is attached to the sacrifice making it eternal in its’ moment to moment application. It is once for all forever moment by moment applied to us. This is why we are free from the law. And as Myron Houghton taught me that now all things are lawful but all things are not expedient. Sin is not expedient. It will hurt us. Sin is unwise to partake in, but we will never be condemned by it, for Christ has removed it.
From my studio study,
Be expedient