Hebrews 10

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There is a blessed secret in Heb. 10 The divine argument there, seems to me to be an enlargement on the words in Ex. 12, “When I see the blood, I will pass over you.” And Israel was all the time within, feeding upon the lamb.
The secret is this. The conscience follows the throne. If God’s demand or will be unanswered, the conscience is not perfected. If God’s will be answered, the conscience is purged, and we are sanctified.
The blood of bulls and goats did not satisfy the throne of God, or answer His will. The proof was this that the same offering went on day by day-year after year. But the blood of Christ once offered, was never offered again. Jesus. “sat down” instead of going out again. God saw the blood and passed over, as One that had said, “Judgment shall not come nigh you.” The Israelite—the believer—may feed on the Lamb inside. God entitles him to be “bold”—to stand in His presence like a priest, fresh under the washing of the Sanctuary. The throne is satisfied, and so is the conscience.
Sin is not an offense against ourselves; it is a damage, a mischief, a ruin on ourselves but it is against God; it is an offense; and if God be satisfied that it is put away, so are our hearts to be. We are thus to stand as sprinkled from an evil conscience.