“But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand. There he waits until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool under his feet. For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy” (Hebrews 10.12-14 NLT).
How can we possibly believe we have been made Perfect in Christ when we stumble and fall so often?
The answer is simple. We are made up of three parts: Spirit, Soul (mind, heart and will) and Body. Once we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, it is the Spirit part of us that is Perfected through the Finished Work of Jesus. Our Spirit, which was once separated from God, has now passed from death to life, and we are reconciled back to God (John 5.25). This reconciliation can only come via the Cross of Christ. Jesus gave us His Perfect status with God, and He took our sinful status. Then He brought our sinful status with Him into death and rose from the grave three days later leaving that sinful status behind. He became our Holy and Final Sacrifice (Ephesians 5.2), erasing sin once and for all for those who accept His gift of salvation (1 John 1.7).
“Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life” (Romans 5.9-10 NKJV).
Here are seven verses about your Perfect Place in God through Christ.
- “In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered” (Hebrews 2.10 NIV).
- “But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you” (1 Peter 5.10 NKJV).
- “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me” (2 Corinthians 12.9 ESV).
- “For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it” (Proverbs 2.21 KJV).
- “So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing” (James 1.4 NLT).
- “God arms me with strength, and he makes my way perfect” (Psalm 18.32 NLT).
- “For the law never made anything perfect. But now we have confidence in a better hope, through which we draw near to God” (Hebrews 7.19 NLT).
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