When Christ died and bore the sins of his people,

he took those sins and he put them away so decisively

that when God looks upon his people,

he does not impute to them any of their sins, neither past nor present, nor tomorrow, or the next day, or the millisecond before you die if you have a bad thought.

Those are gone. They are buried in the deepest sea. They are forgotten in this sense

that he will never remember them as grounds of condemnation. Why should we never doubt that our

sins have been forgiven? In this episode of Light and truth, John Piper turns to Hebrews 10,

1 to 18 to reveal the profound assurance we have in the finished work of Christ. This sermon was

originally preached at Bevilleham Baptist Church on February 16th, 1997.

One of the ways to turn your eyes upon Jesus and look full in his wonderful face and have the things of earth go dim is to die. There's another way you can watch Jesus and turn

your eyes upon him, and that's what we'll do now for the next few minutes, and that is to open the Bible and to read portraits of his power

and his love and his truth and righteousness. And now I want you to open to Hebrews

chapter 10. And we're going to open to Hebrews chapter 10.

And we're going to focus among these 18 verses on one verse and drawing the others as they are important to elucidate it.

The verse is number 14 in Hebrews 10.

Let me just read it.

It's a beautiful, short, powerful word.

By one offering, he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

By one offering, he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

Now let's just clarify right off the bat, three things. Number one, the word offering.

Now we go to verse 10, the one that I jumped the gun on here. Verse 10 says, by this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the

body of Jesus Christ. So there's the explanation of what the offering is. This is not just any

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