15.Why is there no longer any need for an offering for sin?

Because all the sins of the believer, past, present, and future, have been forgiven by the one offering of the body of Christ.

The purpose of the new covenant is that God’s people may live without sin. Notice the steps in making this possible:

The Lord Jesus gave His body on the cross as a perfect sin-offering.

The Holy Spirit puts God’s laws in our heart.

The Holy Spirit writes God’s laws on our mind.

God no longer remembers our sins and lawlessness.

Because God no longer will remember our sins and lawlessness there no longer is a need for a sin-offering.

To view the new covenant as only the forgiveness of our sins is to put the new covenant on a level with the old covenant. The difference in the covenants is that under the new covenant our sins are removed from us. This is made possible by the forming of Christ, who is the eternal law of God made flesh, in our personality. As Christ is formed in us we are able to overcome sin and lawlessness, the atoning blood meanwhile keeping us without condemnation while we are learning how to gain victory over every enemy, every force that would seek to prevent us from keeping God’s commandments.

The promises of God are to the overcomer, to him who, through the Presence of Christ, gains the upper hand over the world, the lusts of the flesh, and his own self-will and self-centeredness. He who thus overcomes through Christ shall inherit all the promises of God.

The promises are not directed toward those who, after having made a profession of faith in Christ, continue to live according to the adamic nature. The hope of continuing to live in the adamic nature, and then to inherit the promises of God, is the major delusion of our time. It is a misunderstanding of the new covenant and of what it means to live by faith.