The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Hebrews 9:13-14, “For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those

who have been defiled, sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of

Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience

from dead works to serve the living God?”

As I’ve studied these two verses, I have become even more aware of how POWERFUL the blood of

Jesus Christ is! The Old Testament Jews has a myriad of laws to be obeyed. They also committed

sins against the LORD that might have required more sacrifices of “goats and bulls” than we could

imagine to assuage the wrath of God. The “ashes of heifer,” therefore, was sprinkled in water and

preserved for a sacrificial offering that was acceptable to God. What neither the ashes nor goats or

bulls could cleanse, however, was the conscience of the offender.

You’ve undoubtedly heard someone say, “Well, I’ll forgive, but I can’t forget.” What they are really

saying is, “I’ll forgive, but I won’t forget.” Many people have that problem with themselves. When

we first moved to Australia, we lived in the upper level of a house owned by an British pastor. He

prayed aloud –so loud that we could not help but hear all he said to the LORD. He had apparently

committed a sin which plagued his conscience –a sin he simply could not forget! And his prayers

constantly sought the LORD’s forgiveness. Looking back on that situation, and with the understanding

I now have of what the Bible teaches about His forgiveness, I am confident he had already been

forgiven. He had simply not allowed the LORD’s forgiveness to reach his conscience.

The Old Testament people had that problem, too. God could forgive sin –and He did! But, the

sacrifices those people offered could not reach their consciences. The Blood of Jesus Christ

reaches our consciences. We may have difficulty totally forgetting our sins against God, but He

is competent through the power of His shed blood to erase even the conscience of our sin. Don’t

worry and fuss over your past sins. Confess them genuinely to Him and forget them! He promises,

“As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us” (Ps. 103:12).

Our love and prayers are offered for you every day,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”