• Are you making a list?  Does it include right, wrong, good, bad, success, and failure.  Does your day end with a pass or fail grade written over it?
• Do you focus on your actions to decide if you have succeeded or failed before God?
• Do you live under a cloud of accusation?
• Do you have a persistent obsession of your own sinfulness, weakness, and helplessness?

Believers are to come boldly into the throne room of grace.  Although we are aware of our own unworthiness and weakness, we must take hold of what Christ has done on our behalf.

Heb 9: 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.  13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Heb 10: 1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered?  Because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

The worshippers, once cleansed, would have no more conscience of sins.  This is the perfect conscience. 

In those sacrifices, made year by year, there is a continual reminder of sin.  It is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.  What is impossible through the law Christ has accomplished.  Through His own blood, He takes away not only guilt, but also our sin. 

When the heavenly reality of this type and shadow appears, the cleansing is complete.  The Amplified Bible states it this way:

Since the worshipers had once for all been cleansed, they would no longer have any guilt or consciousness of sin.

I am not saying that there is no need to deal with sin.  We must have a keen sense toward sin, but we should not be living in sin consciousness.  

Sin consciousness keeps us focused on ourselves, pathetic and powerless in prayer.  It also opens the door to accepting the accusations of Satan.

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