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The answer to that question is found right there in Hebrews 10. First what does it mean not to have a sin consciousness?
Verse 2 of Hebrews 10 says that the old sacrifices could not make the worshipers perfect. Verse 11 then says that if the old sacrifices could have made the worshipers perfect then the offerings would have stopped because once purged they would have had no more conscience of sin. Verse 3 says that in those old sacrifices there was always a remembrance of sin because the blood of animals could never take away those sins.
The renewing of our minds we are to do is to know and fully realize that our sins have been purged,completely removed. We are now new creations. We are now the righteousness of God. We are no longer to struggle with sins. All we do when we remember sins and struggle against sins is to give them a position that does not belong to them. If we could only stop focusing on ourselves and our own sins we could focus on the finished work of Jesus, and the fact that our sins have been removed and have no power over us any longer. This is the way out of sin rather than the struggle of self against sin. Self never could conqueror sin and never will.
As long as you continue to fight against an enemy, that enemy has power. I am not saying to give in to sin and sin all you want. A saved person doesn't want to sin anyway. What I am saying is to know that sin has been conquered on the cross. The battle has already been won by Jesus. When we put our trust in him alone as the one who has dealt with our sin, we deny sin's hold on us. The victory is already won. All we need do is accept that victory by faith and the struggle over sin is done. The problem has been that the devil has us trying to win a battle that Christ has already won. We don't even know we are victorious and so we don't enjoy the spoils of victory.
We still have a conscience of sins because we cannot accept that Jesus has already dealt with sin. Jesus already paid the price. We have already been purged of sin. We have carnal minds that only look at self and how sinful self is and we try to correct self to be what we think is pleasing to God. Works don't please God. Faith is the only thing that pleases God. Faith in the finished work of Calvary. The carnal mind cannot accept the things of God. The carnal mind cannot grasp righteousness by faith alone, for the carnal mind will only see self and never see Jesus and what was done in the Spirit.
Verse 2 of Hebrews 10 says that the old sacrifices could not make the worshipers perfect. Verse 11 then says that if the old sacrifices could have made the worshipers perfect then the offerings would have stopped because once purged they would have had no more conscience of sin. Verse 3 says that in those old sacrifices there was always a remembrance of sin because the blood of animals could never take away those sins.
The renewing of our minds we are to do is to know and fully realize that our sins have been purged,completely removed. We are now new creations. We are now the righteousness of God. We are no longer to struggle with sins. All we do when we remember sins and struggle against sins is to give them a position that does not belong to them. If we could only stop focusing on ourselves and our own sins we could focus on the finished work of Jesus, and the fact that our sins have been removed and have no power over us any longer. This is the way out of sin rather than the struggle of self against sin. Self never could conqueror sin and never will.
As long as you continue to fight against an enemy, that enemy has power. I am not saying to give in to sin and sin all you want. A saved person doesn't want to sin anyway. What I am saying is to know that sin has been conquered on the cross. The battle has already been won by Jesus. When we put our trust in him alone as the one who has dealt with our sin, we deny sin's hold on us. The victory is already won. All we need do is accept that victory by faith and the struggle over sin is done. The problem has been that the devil has us trying to win a battle that Christ has already won. We don't even know we are victorious and so we don't enjoy the spoils of victory.
We still have a conscience of sins because we cannot accept that Jesus has already dealt with sin. Jesus already paid the price. We have already been purged of sin. We have carnal minds that only look at self and how sinful self is and we try to correct self to be what we think is pleasing to God. Works don't please God. Faith is the only thing that pleases God. Faith in the finished work of Calvary. The carnal mind cannot accept the things of God. The carnal mind cannot grasp righteousness by faith alone, for the carnal mind will only see self and never see Jesus and what was done in the Spirit.
Renewing the mind is to search the scripture and discover what GOD says about all matters pertaining to life and conforming our thinking to what GOD says. This is where the spiritual POWER is manifest in our lives and YES we are supposed to continue to fight against Satan as he is the god of this world and born again believers are not of this world rather of the kingdom of God. Satan is only defeated by our using the empowerment given us by Christ... which is our responsibility to USE and WORK. Satans ultimate "universal defeat" is told to us... but has not yet been executed. IF Satan was defeated already... than ALL MEN would be free in Christ... but that is not so.
We still have a conscience of sin because SIN still resides in the world, lingers in the flesh and carnal mind. Thus we are to "mortify" the lust of the flesh and assume the SPIRITUAL thinking and renew our mind as instructed.... to LEARN God's ways and walk according to them. WHICH has NOTHING to do with returning to empty rituals.