The whole evil and ruin of sin was that Adam turned from doing the will of God and began to do his own will. The redemption of Christ has no value to us as believers in this life if it lacks the power to enable us to once again do God s will. To be sure we have a hope of eternal life with Christ when we die. We know that in that state we will be without sin and totally conformed to the will of God. To many believers this is the only aspect of salvation that they know.
Trials come and they feel discouraged, temptations come and they fall.
It is only as our bodies become as Christ s body, a living sacrifice to God, and our actions become the result of God s will being worked out in our lives that we truly know the meaning of a victorious Christian life within the vail. When we studied the 7th chapter we saw how the eternal priesthood of Christ was greater than the Levitical priesthood because Christ needed to only offer his body once for all, whereas the Levitical priesthood had to offer daily. In chapter 9 we learned that the shedding of His blood and the entering into the Holiest of Holies was once for all unlike the priests who had to sacrifice daily and enter into the Holiest place once each year. In this passage we see how the sacrifices being made continually by the Levitical high priest served to bring into conscience s remembrance the sins committed on a daily basis, while under the action of Christ our the once and for all sacrifice can be applied to our conscience also. Remember our conversion.