15. The blood of Jesus Christ is the taking away of sin; the setting apart of the saints to God; and that by which they are already perfected.
For it is written-(read from Heb. 10:1-141For 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. 2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. (Hebrews 10:1‑14)) Heb. 10:4: "As it was not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins," Christ came to do God's will.. "By the which will we are sanctified [or set apart to God] through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.... for this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sin, forever-sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting until his enemies be made his footstool.
For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified" (or. set apart to God)... (15) and of this "the Holy Ghost is a witness," having said (17) " their sins and iniquities will I remember no more."
The blood, then, was by God's will, the taking away of sin; and the setting apart of the saints to God; that by which the church is already perfected. It is said of Noah. the creatures went in to him in the ark "as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in." How completely has He shut us thus in a place of better blessing, by a covenant in His own blood! There can then be no more offering for sin-because there has been remission of all the believer's sins and iniquities; but the blessing does not stop here; the knowledge of the remission sets a man apart to and for God-saying 'to him, as it were, " You need look for nothing more either to cleanse you or to make you meet. I, the Blood, am all you want as to the question of acceptance: by me you are perfected forever; go, go away from thinking about self; go, go and serve God; for you are set apart to Him-yea, perfected for Him. Let Him be, your study, your delight, your end in everything you do, or think, or say."