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希伯来书10:1-4：1既是将来美事的影儿，不是本物的真像，总不能借着每年常献一样的祭物，叫那近前来的人得以完全。2若不然，献祭的事岂不早已止住了么？因为礼拜的人，良心既被洁净，就不再觉得有罪了。3但这些祭物是叫人每年想起罪来，4因为公牛和山羊的血断不能除罪。

有时候你会听到今日的基督徒谈论圣餐礼的方式，就好像它是旧约时代不断被重复的一种献祭仪式。你可能会听到人们这样议论：“在他死之前还能领受圣餐礼难道不是一件美事吗？”当我还是个孩子的时候可能听到过这样的议论。似乎如果我打算去天堂，我就得牢记赦免好像是一件需要不断被刷新的事情。

赦免并不像一个开关，一会儿打开一会儿关上。如果你相信耶稣，你就一直处于赦免之中，因为耶稣只一次献祭，他的果效就会持续到永远。无论我醒来还是入睡，我都被赦免。即使是在我开口向上帝认罪之前，甚至是我还在犯罪的时候，我已罪得赦免（但我从来不会把赦罪作为继续犯罪的借口）。我虽良心软弱，但我仍蒙赦免，因为即使是微小的信心依然是一个能带来拯救的信心。

我很高兴，因为我被赦免不取决于我认罪的质量，或是我信心的强弱，或是我参加圣餐礼的次数。我在基督里被赦免，因为他为我的罪死了，只一次献上却持续到永远。

祷告：主耶稣，当我的良心控告我自己或是我心存疑虑时，请指引我，让我看到你在十字架上为我的罪付出的牺牲。请提醒我，我犯下的每一个罪，无论大小，都永远被赦免了。我这样祈求是奉你的名。阿们。

Hebrews 10: The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. 4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

       Sometimes you hear Christians today speak of the Lord’s Supper as if it were one of those oft-repeated sacrifices of the Old Testament. You hear it in comments like these.  “Wasn’t it nice that he was able to receive communion just before he died?”  Maybe I heard comments like that when I was a child.  I remember thinking of forgiveness as if it were something that needed to be refreshed often if I were going to make it to heaven. 

Forgiveness is not an on again, off again thing. If you believe in Jesus, then you are forgiven all the time, because Jesus made just one sacrifice, which was good for all time. I am forgiven when I am awake or sleeping. I am forgiven even before I confess my sins to God, even while I am still sinning (though I will never use forgiveness as an excuse to keep on sinning). I am forgiven, even when my conscience is weak, because a small faith is still a saving faith.

I rejoice that my forgiveness does not depend on the quality of my confession, or the strength of my faith, or the frequency of my attendance at the Lord’s table.  I am forgiven in Christ, who died for my sin once for all. 

Prayer:   Lord Jesus, when my conscience accuses me or my heart doubts, then point me to your sacrifice on the cross for my sins. Remind me that every sin I committed, small or grievous, has been forgiven forever.  I ask this in your name.  Amen.