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Let us now look at one of the letters Paul wrote, the one to The Hebrews. In this letter Paul sought to contrast the old covenant with the new covenant. He was writing primarily to born again Hebrews who had chosen to be under the new covenant, though they had not made the connections which contrast the old covenant from the new covenant.

By the sixth chapter of the letter to the Hebrews the Apostle emphasizes the nature of the old coovenant, wherein every year, once per year, there was a High Priest function to remember the sins of himself and the people and use the blood of innocent animals to make an atonement. This was done once per year, every year, as remembrance of their sins dealt with by the shedding of blood, innocent blood.

Jesus quoted from the prophets when He stated that the blood of bulls and lambs did not please God and that God the Father had provided a body for Him, God the Son, so He could make the perfected sacrifice for the sins of the many. Paul clears it up that this sacrifice was done once, for everyone, forever, then The Lamb Sacrificed sat down at the Right Hand of The Father and is our High Priest forever before The Father.

By the writing of chapter ten (really there were no chapter divisions, the writing was a flowing stream of thought, stream of Spirit urging) Paul focuses in more closely to the reality of the new covenant functioning, contrasting that with the weakness of the old covenant functioning and how God enacts His new covenant. In the New Covebnant there is no remembrance each year for the Blood of Jesus is sufficient forever, and the New Covenant does not require that Jesus be sacrificed over and over like in the old covenant because this would mean the first and ONLY time He shred His blood for us was not enough. God forbid!

The Spirit culminates this focus with the statement that God will remember their sins no more! That is stated to those in whom God has put His ordinances and character. How did God / how does God do that, put His character and ordinances within a man or woman? Well, by coming in to abide in that born again spirit which the Blood of Christ has cleansed from ALL unrighteousness.

In the old covenant the sins of the many were remembered each year and addressed once each year with the High Priest entry into the Holy of Holy. In the New Covenant which cancelled the old covenant (according to what Paul wrote) the remembrance of the sins of the many is now dealt with by the blood of Our High Priest such that God remembers their sins no more! What? Yes, there is no next years ritual and the next years ritual to deal with the sins, Christ dealt with them ALL, past, present and even next years sins with His Once for All sacrifice/ This is where God expects something from us ...

The work of God, the thing God requires from us is to believe He has dealt with our sins, once and for all by the blood of Whom GOD sent for our redemption. Behold a believer is a new creation ... in spirit. Not in flesh, in spirit. While we are alive our flesh is alive in this body we will sin. BUT GOD ... God has dealt with that sin and remembers it no more following our being born again. THAT is the astonishing preciousness of the Gospel of God's Grace in Christ: we who believe God, though we are yet sinners in this flesh, are made to be the righteousness of Christ by God's Presence in our born again spirit, thus not requiring every year once per year to remember sin and have it dealt with temporarily.

The key is right there in the letter to the Hebrews, that the Word of God separates the soul and spirit so that God, by His Holy Spirit, abides in our human born again spirit.

Jesus explained this to Nic, as written in John 3. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the spirit is spirit. We are not yet equipped to 'see' into the spirit, so Jesus added for Nic that the Spirit is likened unto wind which blows and only the effect of that wind is seen, not the wind itself.

What Paul wrote to the Hebrews is actually quite the defense of once born again thereafter forever a born again, because Jesus through His blood shed for us dealt with sin once and forever so that it is not remembered every year to be dealt with once peer year. We have a High Priest in Heaven who has dealt the penalty for sin and cleared the ledger forever.

Those who would argue against this teaching by Paul in the Letter to the Hebrews will try to focus attention on 'unrepentant sin' or the withholding of eternal life until AFTER the flesh is dead. Some will even commit a heresy of insisting the person must pay a penalty for which Jesus has already met the price.

Once a man or woman is born again, they are in the Hands of God, not in their own hands. They didn't get into the hands of God by their flesh and cannot get away from the hands of God by their flesh. It is satan who wants you to believe otherwise. Their spirit has been birth by God, into the family of God,with the imputed righteousness of Christ as their new life identity, in the spirit, regardless of what sin the flesh which is dying may commit. And satan is so subtle and powerful in this world that he can produce sin in the flesh of the born again that makes the hair stand on end! But that sin has already been dealt with Once and forever by the shedding of Christ's blood, the power of which is connected to the Believer by faith, by believing, thus by the Power of God's Grace not the efforts of the sin-laden flesh.

God is going to grace us even further at some point in the future (perhaps this week?), when He comes to transform us in the twinkling of an eye and call us up into the clouds to meet the Lord Christ in the air and return with Him to the Father's House.