12.10 Regular confession of sins is a practice under the Covenant of Law

Regular confession of sins is a practice that came from the law. The nation of Israel had to offer their animal sacrifices repeatedly on a regular and planned basis, as the blood of animals could only cover their sins for a year.

(Heb 10:1-4)
For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these SAME SACRIFICES, which they offer CONTINUALLY YEAR BY YEAR, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had NO MORE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SINS. But in those sacrifices there is a REMINDER OF SINS every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

The above verses give a picture of Israel going into a repeated and regular sin-search followed by the confession of sins. This naturally gives rise to sin-consciousness. This is still happening in the Church today because of a lack of revelation of what Christ has already accomplished for us in the New Covenant.

The animal sacrifices are a reminder of sins to point us to Jesus, the perfect sacrifice. Then Jesus came and gave Himself as one perfect sacrifice to remove sins forever (Heb 10:5-14). Because the work was finished and there would be no more sacrifices for sins, Jesus sat down. The believer has been perfected in his standing in Christ. Today, there is no longer an offering for sin and the worshiper should have no more consciousness of sins.

(Heb 9:11-12; 10:11-14, 18, 2)

But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with HIS OWN BLOOD He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained ETERNAL REDEMPTION.

And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS FOREVER, SAT DOWN at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Now where there is remission of these, there is NO LONGER AN OFFERING FOR SIN…

For the worshipers, once purified, would have had NO MORE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SINS.

We have received the perfect solution that the Old Covenant believers never had. We have received righteousness in Christ that the law could not give them. We have the perfect blood of Jesus while they only had the blood of animals. We have crossed into a better covenant in the dispensation of grace.