Step Ten

Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

So now we are called to be sin-conscious? Really?:

"By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

"And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

"But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

"From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

"For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." (Hebrews 10: 10-14)

"The high priests of old ministered daily, and they never sat down. But Jesus our High Priest sat down, signalling to the Universe and to all eternity that the work is Finished.

Unfortunately, the crazy "Churchianity" and AA have impressed upon people that they must catch up with their sins, make sure that they do not slip up.

Yet the blood of Jesus keeps cleansing us from righteousness:

"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." (1 John 1: 7)

His blood keeps cleansing you! And not only that, but we have not just been purged from sin (Hebrews 1: 2), but also from a conscience of dead works (Hebrews 9: 14)

A "dead work" is anything that we do in order to get something-- this in large part because the works have been done already:

"For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world." (Hebrews 4: 3)

and

"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2: 10)

and

"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." (Philippians 2: 13)

We rest in our full righteous acceptance in Christ, and His grace flows through us!

There is no point in recounting our sins to God, anyway, because He has forgotten all of them:

"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 12)