FOREVER PERFECT

By one offering He has perfected  forever

Those who are being sanctified.

--Hebrews 10:14

Read: Hebrews 10:8-18

• Genesis 49-50
• Matthew 13:31-58

          When I first heard of Sara Lee cakes, the name-brand caught my attention because on of the most common Asian family names is "Lee." Being a Chinese Lee myself, I wonder if Sara was Chinese or Korean.

         Then I learned that Charlie Lubin, an American bakery entrepreneur, had named his cheesecakes after his Daughter Sara Lee. Sara said her father wanted this product to be "perfect sanctified" (10:14).

          Perfection is a standard that none of us could ever hope to attain. Yet we learn from Hebrews that Jesus, through His one supreme sacrifice for our sins, "has perfected us forever those who are being sanctified" (10"14).

         The continual sacrifices made by the priests since the time of Moses could never change anyone's sinful standing before God (Heb.10:1-4). But the one-time sacrifice of Christ on the cross--the  sinless One dying for the sinful-perfected us forever in the eyes of God. Jesus' once-for-all payment for our sins was sufficient. The writer to the Hebrews paraphrased Jeremiah 31:34, "their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more" Heb. 10:17).

         We are perfected to stand before God because of the perfect work accomplished by Jesus on the cross. This is the assurance of salvation. --Albert Lee

We're far from perfection, yet  perfect forever, For Christ is our righteousness, 

Lord, and our Savior; No justification for sin can we offer, Yet sanctified fully,

we're now His forever. --Lee

God is the perfect Judge, and He can declare the guilty perfect.