 Whenever you buy a product, you want to know exactly what it is you're getting and also obviously how much it's going to cost The Bible puts it this way Jesus puts it this way when he says that nobody Interes into a task or begins to build something without first adding at the cost not knowing Does he have enough to finish it? No one enters a war without knowing the same thing Well, if that's the case with us then so too is it with with God, right? So he is not going to enter into something without knowing what he's getting himself into How does that relate to? This whole issue of sin and salvation when we look at salvation and we think about it as compared to our sins The question that comes up is did he die for all of our sins and how so? Especially the future sins obviously when we became believers All of our sins were future as far as compared to when he was on the cross And so the payment that he made he obviously paid for some future sins But does that mean that he paid for future sins after we come to know Christ are the sins? After that that we've trusted in Christ are those sins also forgiven The issue is always going to be perspective right our perspective is typically how we look at things We don't usually look at things from others perspective first, but it's usually ours first second and third But if we really want to be honest we need to look at it more from God's perspective Remember when God looks at us. He looks at us knowing our beginning and our end He knows exactly what we're going to do. He knows what we're going to do He knows what we're not going to do He knows what we would do if these things that have if these things would have occurred and so He's got all this knowledge and he's not just sitting Everywhere at the same time. He is at every time at the same time Meaning he's is he's at the past just as much he is in the future just as much as he is in the present So there's nothing that escapes him. There's nothing that escapes his eye He is ever present always watching and so when he purchases our salvation He knows what's going to come with that. He knows what kind of person We are what we're going to do in 10 years and 20 years He knows every little small detail again. He knows very heads of our hair of our heads So he knows what's going to happen at 435 Eastern Standard Time in four years in New York City or in Dallas or in Chicago or in Myanmar What have you and so knowing all of our faults all of our field all the all the trash that we're going to Accumulate he still decides to save us. He still decides to purchase us Well, why is that? Well because God is in the business of rehabbing old defective products He's in the business of reconciliation And so when he wants to reconcile something when he wants to pay for something Obviously he thinks about what the cost is going to entail and so when it comes to us The cost is pretty significant, right? And why is that? Well In order for him to be in our presence or by the way around in order for us to be in his presence He can't have these dirty unrighteous vessels before him. He can't have people Unjustified people who have sinned against them before him Well, since there's a problem there needs to be a solution. And so what is the solution? Well, the solution is as it has been the atonement When you think about the atonement the atonement has three parts three things you need to think about one covering to a Cancellation and three a reconciliation as a matter of fact when we talk about this you could even look at as though The first two leads to the third There's a covering and a cancellation in order for there to be a reconciliation and what I mean by those terms I mean this there's a covering that has to be this covering of a sin This sin can't continue to be present before God. There's this cancellation of the debt. There's a debt. That's old Every sin produces a debt owed to God. It's a stain. It's a mark. It's a blot against us And so that has to be cancelled and then after that there's this reconciliation The people are brought back together and God has always been about reconciling people think about the fall in the garden After they sinned what did he do? Because of their shame he covered them up and they could still have a fellowship with him It even was so that it came to be in the course of time where they brought about an offering to God I remember the whole issue would came in April. Well, what's that for? Well? That's for a reconciliation That was even before the law and then in the law and it's important that we understand this There came about out of the law or in the law the atonement The biggest problem as it relates to salvation Where people go off and get get things wrong is because of a misunderstanding of the atonement So let's do a real quick recap the atonement We find all the details in Leviticus particularly 16 And there is this priest who needs to have his sins atoned for before he goes into the holies for holies and Before he intercedes on our behalf or on the people's behalf There is this scapegoat whose sins of all the people are Confessed and cast on the head of the scapegoat Those sins that are on the scapegoat are sent away out of the camp. Are you following so far? Then there's another element that is the sacrificial land There is this blood of this bull of this goat who is Sacrifice whose blood is shed upon the altar and then God will accept the sacrifice if God accept sacrifice Then the people's sins are atoned for for how long for one year Why there needs to be a really good understanding of this is that? Remember when this happens the person is deemed before God as justified. There's nothing that God holds against them until Later there is a need for another day of atonement So this occurs every year so for for that person for that for those people Their sins are atoned for for one year then it has happened again So during that period of time their sins are atoned for they are in right standing before the Lord are you with me? so when it comes to this question of Are we forgiven for future sins? Well in the context of the atonement During that one year period of time their sins are atoned for even those that occur after the one year after the atonement so So the same holds true with us when we sin even after Christ pays a debt Our all of our future sins past present and future sins. They're all covered. They're all forgiven Why well the same mechanisms as there in the old covenant Form of atonement is also present in the new form of atonement Remember God is the one who was initiating this God is the one who's orchestrating this and we know in Philippians 1 he says that he God who began a good work in us that is salvation He began this in us we didn't initiate this he initiated this and so he got who began this good work in us It is he who was faithful to complete it, right? And then we look at what Paul says about this issue of salvation even regarding this in Romans 8 Let's go there for real quick. And so let's go to verse 29 as for those whom he foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and Those whom he predestined he also called those whom he called He also justified very important and those whom he justified. He also glorified Then he says what then shall we say all these things if God is for us who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for all of us How will he not also with him graciously give us all things? So then here's what he says and here's the important part who shall bring a charge against God's delay It is God who justifies who is to condemn Christ Jesus is the one who died more than that who was raised Who's at the right hand of the father or I'm sorry of God who indeed is interceding for us all Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness Or danger or sort as it is written for your sake. We are killed all day long We're kind of sheep for the slaughter, right? You said now look at this No in all things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us for I am I'm sure That neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come Nor things present nor things to come future nor powers nor height nor death nor any other Creation will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus So he goes through a litany of things that could possibly happen He's not specific because he would be there all day There's not enough ink and paper to write about all the possible sins or things that we can think of and he says Nothing whether it's present or future anything to come Nothing will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, right? And he says that because of all of this we are more than conquerors in him I know that's not going to necessarily nail it or sell it for some people, but I've got some more So let's just kind of ride with just ride with me for a little bit longer. Some are going to say When you become a believer you have to repent Now some people have kind of misunderstood what it means to repent means that meaning that you have to keep repenting every time that you sin Well, repentance is isn't something that you do Repentance is something that you become it doesn't mean that you just stop sinning now you should sin less You're not gonna become sinless, but you will sin less Repentance or to repent means to use the Greek word some of you already know this met noe Which means to change your mind about something to kind of turn around even in the Hebrew Shubh it just seems me to return or turn around and so it's the idea that I Maybe I don't sin like I used to I'm still going to sin But it's the attitude It's the heart behind when I sin it grieves me my whole disposition towards sin has changed I don't look at it or view it the way I used to when I mess up it bothers me. I don't like it Whereas before I repented Yeah, whatever it's sin, you know, I'm not perfect and so a person who has a repentant heart Changes how they feel about it and if it bothers him, what do you do about things that bother you? You want to fix that you want to get it out get it away from you, right? Same thing with this repentant heart towards sin. So consider this a hundred-year-old believer on his deathbed as He's dying. He's been a believer for let's say 80 years. He became a believer at age 20. So for 80 years He's been a Christian He had some sins in his life at age 20 Some of those same sins are going to be persistent in his life even up to his deathbed 80 years Because at age 100 is he a sinless man? No Again, if anyone says he does not sin, he is a liar Well, here's a devoted believer who at age 100 is about to go and be with the Lord and on his deathbed He still has sin. Are these brand new sins? No, these are sins that he's been struggling with Since he was 20 Hopefully not to the same degree to the same tune Hopefully some of the sins that he had at age 20 are no longer present But then they're going to be some sins that he just couldn't could not dodge Paul had the same issue He's not alone in this regard. He said that the good I want to do I don't do the bad things I want to stop doing I keep doing because though Inwardly we had been saved the one part about us that has not been saved nor will ever be saved is this flesh We're not this isn't going with us to have it. Thank God because when I get to heaven Maybe I'll get some hair back, right? Maybe my visions will be better. I'll have a perfect body Hopefully it's my my 20 year old body versus this oldest older version of me and so Paul says that Yeah, we sin but grace abounds and but now he did say that should we continue in sin that grace should abound Should we continue just to act the way we want to act just because we've got grace Well, the people that do what they want to do aren't believers I don't care if you cause a Christian and atheists whatever if you behave a certain way It might it's an indication that you're not his people who are his have a repentant heart people who do not have a Repentant heart are not believers. I don't care if they call themselves believers and what happens is we get confused And get caught up because someone called themselves a believer and we assume that well this guy can't he can't be saved anymore He lost his salvation the guy was never saved to begin with But because we look and take him at his word, which I don't know why we should we should look at his fruit How his heart is now granted we are not gonna ever be able to judge Everyone's walk because we're just not with them all the time Thankfully everyone can't do the same for us because if they see us on our worst day How would they see us if we saw Peter on his worst day the day that Christ is being crucified the day that he Betrayed that he betrays Jesus and denies him you see Peter those couple days There's no one it's gonna think that he's a that he's a believer no one, but we know better now, don't we and so just like God who remember he said to he said to Peter you are going to deny me and then what does he say after that? He said but when you return so God knows Again, you're beginning and you're in and they're all the filth in between He's gonna take all this junk and turn it into a jewel. So just like he knew what Peter was going to be What kind of how he's gonna deny him? He knows us as well and he still decides to purchase us and so I said a misunderstanding of The atonement causes this problem and so let's look at how the atonement how we have even this issue of Future sins is even addressed in Hebrews. Let's go there In Hebrews 9 23 it says thus it was necessary for the copies room. He's speaking about to these Jews About the atonement and he's kind of equating the day of atonement with this new atonement now And he's comparing how it was in the old with the old Priest versus with the new priest with the old elements versus the new elements So he says thus it was necessary for the copies of heaven of the heavenly things to be purified with these rights But the heavenly things themselves with better with better sacrifices than these here it is for crisis not entered Not into the holy places made with hands which are copies of things but into heaven itself Now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf Nor was it offer nor it was it to offer himself Repeatedly as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own For then he would have to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world But as it as it is He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself and Just as his appointed for man to die once and after that comes the judgment So Christ has been offered once to bear the sins of many He will appear a second time not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him So let's kind of put a pause on let's see what he's talking about. Let's go back over what he's talking about He's not like the old priest. He didn't have to have his sins atoned for but he makes rather than making a Yearly sacrifice. He makes a sacrifice once that's all that's required. Why? Because his blood is More valuable. It's a lot better than what the priests have been doing Let's go to chapter 10 verse 1 for since the law has but a shadow of good things to come instead of the true form of these Reality it can never by the same sacrifices that are continually offered Every year make perfect those who draw near so notice he keeps talking about and contrasting What Christ did which was just once versus this yearly need to have this done over and over again Otherwise verse 2 would they not have ceased to be offered since the worshippers having once been cleansed Would no longer have any consciousness of sins if they were once cleansed there would be no need for this But they have they have this thing that happens to them every year And so Christ pays us in the debt once and that's enough first three But in these sacrifices There is a reminder of sin every year for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats To take away sins the issue is taking away sin Not that people are going to not sin again. It's the effect of sin Verse 5 consequently when he came into the world He said sacrifices and offerings you did not desire but a body you have prepared for me and burnt offerings and sin Offerings you have no pleasure then I said behold I have come to do your will oh God as it is written in the scroll of the book When he said above you have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and burnt offerings and sin offerings These are according to the law verse 10 and by the will and by that will We have been sanctified through the offering of Jesus Christ once and For all right, so we've been sacrificed to Jesus Christ Once and for all how many times we were sanctified through sacrifice. We were sanctified Past tense now we're gonna see this same word being used in the participle form a continuing sanctification versus a past tense Having been sanctified and every day the priest stands daily and Every priest stands daily at his service offering repeatedly the same sacrifices which could never take away sins But when Jesus Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins He offered a single sacrifice for sins He sat down at the right hand of God one sacrifice for all sins Are you are you are you guys sing what I'm reading? One sacrifice for all sins. He's using the word sins plural And he says he sat down at the right hand of God Waiting for the time until his enemies should become his foots tools now look at verse 14 He says for by a single offering. He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified By one offering not a repeated offering that was required that meant they had to do this every year Over and over and over again because the next year you might not be atone for you might be not you might not be in Just a right standing before the Lord and so in this case what Christ does he offers one Sacrifice one and what does he say he says by a single offering? He has perfected those who are being sanctified so again We were sanctified was that mean we were set apart in the beginning. He chose us in the beginning chose us he set us apart when he chose us had we acted as though we were set apart He has said by a single Sacrifice that thing that single sacrifice that Christ did he perfected us for all time Who are being sanctified so we're in this process of sanctification. We were sanctified. We are being Sanctified we are he is sanctifying us This working in us and He has per in but in that process We are seen as perfected for all time all time includes the sins that we're also going to do From now going forward all the sins all of our future sins. Are you with me? So Even though remember guy again I said he has not gotten into some deal that he can't get out of or he doesn't understand I didn't know this is gonna happen. You sold me a defective product I didn't know the thing was gonna break down He knew full well what he was getting into and there was a sacrifice paid on our behalf For the believers and he has perfected. He has perfected us For all time. Let's drop down to verse 16 He says this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days declare the Lord I will put my laws in their hearts and I will write them on their mind Keeping in what he said in Ezekiel that I will pour my spirit into their heart and they will never depart from my statutes Right, they will walk into my statute and he says in verse 17 I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more He's never going to bring those up past present and future lawless sins and deeds Verse 18 where there is forgiveness of these there is no longer an offering of sin Let me say it again where there is a forgiveness of these sins. There is no longer an offering needed So now I want I want to tell you something I want you to pay close attention to these words as we wrap this up He tells us that we have this boldness to enter before him Well, we can only enter before him if we are in right standing And he's speaking present tense of what we can do now and later And he didn't indicate that that that situation that condition that standing is ever going to change But he kind of gives a warning and I don't know how How to really make what to really make of this warning Is it to say that people who might believe this way might have a particular mindset? But I want you to hear this warning And it should bother you you can reject what he's saying He's saying this to the Jews who believe that I've got to do this every year. It's up to me It's it's it's almost it's almost kind of workish I've got to have my sins atone for every year. There's got to be a work done every year Not the one that was done by Christ. That's not sufficient. Now the ball is in my court now. It's on me and so What you paid for doesn't cover all the other things that I'm going to do Here comes the warning be careful that you are not like some of these men Who are going to have rejected what he's doing? Are you saying by saying that he did not pay the debt for our future sins? Are you saying that you can lose your salvation? Are you saying are you rejecting what he's done? Are you saying that his atonement was not sufficient? Be careful I'm not in a position to say that yet by you saying that you might be actually denying the very salvation You're claiming that you can lose being a believer means that you are believing in what he has done And that it is sufficient I chose Hebrews 9 and particularly 10 for a reason because People who believe you can lose your salvation run at verses 26 and 27 They don't run to the passages before where he's Kind of comforting them and telling listen guys. It's okay. It's all right. It's fine You are going to endure He paid a price for you That covers you and for you to have this this boldness this assurance because he tells us to to have this full assurance And then look what he says later on after Verse 20 27 it may be that those people who are saying That he hasn't paid The debt for my future sins who believe that I could lose my salvation It may be that he's talking to you in these latter verses He says in verse 28 Anyone who has set aside the law of moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses Verse 29 how much more worse punishment? Do you think will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the son of god? And has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he sanctified And has outraged the spirits of grace So it could be that you have decided you have trampled on the foot what god has done You have rejected the sufficiency of his blood That could be those i'm not saying it is I'm not saying it isn't either That that he could be giving a warning to you about denying how powerful and how sufficient his blood is And look what he says in verse 30 35 He says therefore do not throw away your confidence Which has a great reward or you have need of you're gonna have need of endurance So that when you have done the will of god, you may receive the what is promised And so i'll go ahead and leave there I can keep going on through the rest of Hebrews that ballads what i'm saying or go backwards But it's important to know that not only did he die for our Past sins our present but also our future sins That's what he did. That's what his blood did. He knew exactly what he was getting He did it anyway Because he knew the awesome pot price that was required The blood of jesus was more than enough to even cover our future sins Amen