The accomplished...the cross...the believed in..Christ

Sanctified by the blood of God who chose to die for our sins.

Cheese, cheese, a lot of Christians ask for the forgiveness of God when he already sanctified us, which he did by forgiving our sins on the cross also called salvation and adopted us into the family and made us the brother ''and sisters''to Himself, given eternal life through His shed blood and death signifying His blood, by the which we can now with confidence cry,  and cry out, Abba, father*Father,Father*.

Does he even remember your sins; when His blood has been made a ransom for our sins which you can't all remember for its sheer number and massive size nonredeemable and unpardonable...... 

"By one sacrifice He entered once and for all;  the most holy place, he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men". He disgraced the powers that be by confiscating them of their power and many could be said to be impossible, what He did."

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Did your asking forgiveness save you from the wrath to come? Was not Christ the mediator between you and God? 

The evidence of forgiveness is the seal of his spirit that would never leave nor forsake you.

The wages of sin is death which He paid so what else do you have to pay or can by your blood.

You are no longer a slave, unto sin, only as it become Christian power walk in it.

Dominance of the Christian brothers over their brothers.

For neccesity is laid upon me,.... woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel, if by my meat I make my other offended then I would not eat meat for ever. To the gentiles I became a gentile.....

12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

If the only you would have to know the depth of God's love, and that, his ways are not out of only our mind, but incomplete, without end.

So many, even under some guise of pride would think that gain is godliness and that we have all of God, compared to others, who only have a fraction, of what we do not posses.
The gift of God.....lest any man should boast, and what have you, that you did, not, received from Christ, like every other person whom He gave.



Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, not as some who corrupt the word.

  We have been redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver and gold that would vanish and perish with its using.
If only in this life I have hope then I am of all men most miserable.

The assumption that God would punish the Christian.

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creature.

This means that we are forgiven and justified before God, yet still in the process of being made completely new in Christ. Though we are declared righteous, we do not always act righteously. Therefore, our sin still has an effect. Much like a parent still loves a disobedient child, God still loves us when we sin. If we have been saved, our sin does not threaten the security of our salvation. In fact, our salvation does not hinge on our righteousness; it is founded on the righteousness of Jesus. We were dead in our sins and totally unable to save ourselves; it was God's love for us that resulted in salvation (Romans 5:8; 

The author of Hebrews speaks at length regarding God's punishment of sin, even for believers. We find in Hebrews 12:5-11:

And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives." It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

In this context, punishment (here called discipline) is a positive corrective by a loving heavenly Father. Believers are viewed as God's children, not to be hated or despised, but rather disciplined in love.

It is not to imply that God has a hand in deliberately tormenting us just to discipline us, neither is your illness a test of God. He's only affiliate, by proxy, using the tool of suffering, as any other thing, to make you trust in him.

Sin also carries certain natural consequences with it. God's rule is designed to be for our good. He created us and knows us intimately. He knows what is good for us and what is not. He does not create rules or give commands simply so that we will obey Him. 

God does not need to engage in a power struggle for the sake of His ego. He knows He is in control and His rule is loving. This means that our rebellion against God is really rebellion against what is best for us.

Breaking..the communion...unworthily

The apostle describes the sacred ordinance, of which he had the knowledge by revelation from Christ.  As to the visible signs, these are the bread and wine. What is eaten is called bread, though at the same time it is said to be the body of the Lord, plainly showing that the apostle did not mean that the bread was changed into flesh. St. Matthew tells us, our Lord bid them all drink of the cup, ch. Mt 26:27, as if he would, by this expression, provide against any believer being deprived of tbodyup.  The things signified by these outward signs, are Christ's body and blood, his body broken, his blood shed, together with all the benefits which flow from his death and sacrifice. Our Saviour's actions were, taking the bread and cup, giving thanks, breaking the bread, and giving both.  The actions of the communicants were, to take the bread and eat, to take the cup and drink, and to do both, in remembrance of Christ. But the outward acts are not the whole, or the principal part, of what is to be done at this holy ordinance which is to remember Christ.  Those who partake of it, are to take him as their Lord and Life, yield themselves up to him, and live upon him. Here is an account of the ends of this ordinance. It is to be done in remembrance of Christ, to keep fresh in our minds his dying for us, as well as to remember Christ pleading for us, in virtue of his death, at God's right hand. It is not merely in remembrance of Christ, of what he has done and suffered; but to celebrate his grace in our redemption. We declare his death to be our life, the spring of all our comforts and hopes. We show forth his death, and plead it as our accepted sacrifice and ransom. The apostle was addressing Christians, and warning them.  If we would thoroughly search ourselves, to condemn and set right what we find wrong, we should stop Divine judgements. The apostle closes all with a caution against the irregularities of the Corinthians. The breaking of bread is not as important as what Christ did on the cross, and the defilement of the body by sin has the consequence, death of the body. 1 Corinthians 11:30 Commentaries

Why Christ's blood had to be shed..

Is the Shedding of Blood Required for the Forgiveness of Sins? (Hebrews 9:22)
 The whole of the Old Testament, every book, points toward the Great Sacrifice that was to come—that of Jesus’ sacrificial giving of His own life on our behalf. Leviticus 17:11 is the Old Testament’s central statement about the significance of blood in the sacrificial system. God, speaking to Moses, declares: “For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.” 

A “sacrifice” is defined as the offering up of something precious for a cause or a reason. Making atonement is satisfying someone or something for an offense committed. The Leviticus verse can be read more clearly now: God said, “I have given it to you (the creature’s life, which is in its blood) to make atonement for yourselves (covering the offense you have committed against Me).” In other words, those who are covered by the blood sacrifice are set free from the consequences of sin.

Of course, the Israelites did not know of Jesus per se, or how He would die on their behalf and then rise again, but they did believe God would be sending them a Savior. All of the many, many blood sacrifices seen throughout the Old Testament were foreshadowing the true, once-for-all-time sacrifice to come so that the Israelites would never forget that, without the blood, there is no forgiveness. This shedding of blood is a substitutionary act. Therefore, the last clause of Leviticus 17:11 could be read either “the blood ‘makes atonement’ at the cost of the life” (i.e., the animal’s life) or “makes atonement in the place of the life” (i.e., the sinner’s life, with Jesus Christ being the One giving life through His shed blood).

Hebrews 9:11-18 confirms the symbolism of blood as life and applies Leviticus 17:11 to the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 12 states clearly that the Old Testament blood sacrifices were temporary and only atoned for sin partially and for a short time, hence the need to repeat the sacrifices yearly. But when Christ entered the Most Holy Place, He did so to offer His own blood once for all time, making future sacrifices unnecessary. This is what Jesus meant by His dying words on the cross: “It is finished” (John 19:30). Never again would the blood of bulls and goats cleanse men from their sin. Only by accepting Jesus’ blood, shed on the cross for the remission of sins, can we stand before God covered in the righteousness of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21).The solemn transactions between God and man, are sometimes called a covenant, here a testament, which is a willing deed of a person, bestowing legacies on such persons as are described, and it only takes effect upon his death. Thus Christ died, not only to obtain the blessings of salvation for us, but to give power to the disposal of them. All, by sin, were become guilty before God, had forfeited every thing that is good; but God, willing to show the greatness of his mercy, proclaimed a covenant of grace. Nothing could be clean to a sinner, not even his religious duties; except as his guilt was done away by the death of a sacrifice, of value sufficient for that end, and unless he continually depended upon it. May we ascribe all real good works to the same all-procuring cause, and offer our spiritual sacrifices as sprinkled with Christ's blood, and so purified from their defilement.

Why the Christian has to preach power.

We often hear that Jesus gave up power, and in many ways this is absolutely true—the Incarnation was a stunning self-limiting on the part of the eternal Son of God, and it went all the way, as Paul says in Philippians 2, to the point of death on the cross. Death is the end of all power, and the Son who is in very nature God emptied himself of all power on the Cross. That is a central part of the Christian story.

But while the whole gospel revolves around that moment of utter surrender and trust at the Cross, the New Testament writers also go to great lengths to emphasize Jesus' power in his teaching and healing, and the way he conferred that power upon his disciples both before and after his death and resurrection. And the resurrection, of course, is a breaking in of creative power like the world had not seen since the first moment of creation, and maybe even not then. The resurrection of Jesus from the dead has had more profound cultural effects, for longer, among more people, than anything else in history. That is power!

So I think the harm in only speaking of powerlessness as the Christian calling is that it does not take a lot of the New Testament seriously. For example, the part where Jesus gives his disciples authority to preach the gospel, heal the sick, and drive out demons. There is no doubt that we are called to exercise our power in a different way from the world (Matthew 20:25-26). But I see very little in the New Testament that implies that Christians should be powerless in a categorical sense. Instead, we are called back to the deep, true power that comes from bearing the true image of God in a world full of idols and injustice.

First, there are all sorts of power that don't come from exercising authority, influence, or leadership: The power of being physically attractive. The power of inherited wealth. The power of being born with a certain passport or speaking a certain language. The power, in a culture that reveres elders, of being old. The power, in a culture (like ours) that reveres youth, of being young. None of these really come from any kind of leadership, but they are all forms of power for better and for worse.

The other reason is that we all want to believe we are using our power well. But the Christian view of the world suggests that it is exactly when we think we are doing well that we are most at risk of playing God in the worst way. I not only wanted to write about the real gift of power, but the real dangers of power, which I summarize in the book as idolatry and injustice. And the truth is that authority, influence, and leadership, which all sound pretty benign and beneficial, can end up underwriting terrible idolatry and injustice. The best word for the whole beautiful, complicated, dangerous subject ispower.