Living as Perfected People – Hebrews 10:1-18
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You Are Already Perfected
Let that sink in for a moment. If you’re in Christ, you are already perfected. Not one day in the future. Not after you’ve prayed enough prayers or read enough Bible or gone on some spiritual pilgrimage. Right now. You are a forgiven people. A perfected people.
Hebrews 10:14 says it plainly: “By a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.”
Perfected for all time. Not improving. Not getting there. Perfected.
That’s liberating. That changes everything.
From Forgiveness, Not For It
Here’s the shift we need to make: we live God’s way because we’re forgiven, not to be forgiven.
We can’t earn our forgiveness. We can’t add to what Christ has done. His work is finished. The sacrifice is complete. We stand before God fully accepted on the basis of Christ’s once-for-all offering.
And that frees us. We’re freed to obey. Freed to serve. Freed to love God and love our neighbour—not out of guilt or fear, but out of gratitude and joy.
We don’t serve God, hoping it’ll tip the scales. The scales are settled. Christ paid it all.
We serve God because we’re already his. Already forgiven. Already perfected.
Keep the Gospel on Repeat
Now, if Christ’s work is finished and we’re already perfected, why do we keep coming back to this message?
Because we’ve got thick heads, and we forget! We drift. We start thinking we need to add something to the finished work of Christ.
That’s why we need the gospel on repeat. Not to re-sacrifice Christ. Not to renew his offering. But to remember what he’s already accomplished.
Every time we gather with God’s people, every time we open God’s word, every time we come to the Lord’s Table, we’re not adding to Christ’s work. We’re remembering it. We’re being reminded: It is finished. You are forgiven. You are perfected in him.
Don’t move on from the gospel. Keep it central. Keep trusting Jesus.
What Confidence We Ought to Have
Think about what this means for how you approach God. You don’t come to God hoping your spiritual performance this week was good enough. You come to God on the basis of Christ’s finished work.
You don’t stand before God uncertain whether you’re acceptable. You stand before God knowing you’re already accepted—not because of what you’ve done, but because of what Jesus has done.
That’s not arrogance. That’s confidence in Christ. And it should change the way you pray, the way you read Scripture, the way you face trials, the way you battle sin.
You’re not fighting to become acceptable to God. You’re fighting from a position of already being accepted.
The Good News Is…
The good news is that you don’t need to keep striving to earn what’s already been secured. Through Christ’s once-for-all sacrifice, you are perfected. You are sanctified. You are able to stand in the presence of a holy God—right now, not one day in the future.
So bask in this good news. Remember this good news. And keep trusting in Jesus.
Live as the perfected people you already are in him.
Reflection
Heavenly Father, thank you that through Christ’s finished work, I am already perfected. Help me to live today from that reality—not striving to earn your acceptance, but rejoicing that I’m already accepted in Jesus. Help me to keep the gospel on repeat and never move on from the sufficiency of Christ. In his name, Amen.
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