Is.59:2(Amp) says, "But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His Face from you, so that He will not hear you."  When reading the rest of this chapter, you realize that Jesus was to be the Intercessor Who would remove mankind's sins and restore right standing for us before God.  Through Jesus, we now have Eternal Life.  Jesus explains what Eternal Life is in John17:3(Amp), saying, "And this is Eternal Life (it means) to know, to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand You, the Only True and Real God, and likewise to know Him, Jesus as the Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent."

     Through Jesus, sin wasn't just forgiven, but removed and eradicated, to where there is no more remembrance of its existence.  2Cor.5:21(Amp) says, "For our sake He made Christ virtually to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him, we might become (endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of) the Righteousness of God; what we ought to be, approved and accepted and in right standing and in right relationship with Him by His Goodness."

     Now that we have been made righteous in and through Jesus, the Eternal Life He described as "to know God," is ours to enter into and enjoy.  Too few have entered into this honor and privilege today.  We continue to hold onto things we were taught by others who believe we're only "old sinners saved by Grace."  We were old sinners and by Grace we were saved, but we're no longer old sinners.  Rom.8:16-17(Amp) tells us that we are God's children, "heirs with God and joint heirs with Jesus."

     We need to realize and accept that the sin which separated us from God has been done away with, by the new creation in Jesus.  God is once again our Father and there is no separation between Him and us.  We must have faith in what Jesus did on the cross and His Resurrection.  Heb.4:16(Amp) says, "We now have boldness to come openly before God's Throne of Grace at any time, to receive, find help in our time of need."

     Heb.10:1-2,10(Amp) says, "For since the Law has merely a shadow (a mere outline), foreshadowing of the good things to come-instead of fully expressing those things, it can never by offering the same sacrifices continually year after year, make perfect those who approach its altars. For if it were otherwise, would these sacrifices not have stopped being offered? Since the worshipers had once for all been cleansed; they would no longer have any guilt or consciousness of sin."  Verse10 goes on, "In accordance with this will of God, we have been made holy, consecrated and sanctified through the Offering made once for all of the Body of Jesus Christ,the Anointed One."  It's difficult to accept Jesus' Words that, "Eternal Life is knowing God and being at rest and peace in His Presence," when the condemnation of our past sins remains present in our hearts. 

     We've returned to religious ceremonies, in order to approach God on our own, leaving out the Supernatural things of our salvation.  Heb.11:6(Amp) says, "But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him (God). For whosoever would come near to God must necessarily believe that God exists and that He is the Rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him out."

     We can't exercise faith in Jesus' Sacrifice, with the sin consciousness holding us back.  We can't approach God like we should and as He desires, without faith in Jesus' Sacrifice.  Eternal Life is knowing God, but some still find it hard to accept even after being saved.  The separation between them and the Father remains, by their sin consciousness.  We either believe that Jesus accomplished all that was needed to reunite us with the Father or we believe we must do it on our own.  Man-made laws and rituals cannot do what Jesus, the Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world, did for us.  If Jesus didn't accomplish this by His Sacrifice, then we are still dead in trespass and sin before God.

     This is why Paul instructs in Heb.11:6, "Without faith [in what Jesus did]. it is impossible to please God and be satisfactory before Him."  Jesus says in John10:9(Amp), "I AM THE DOOR; anyone who enters in through Me, will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out freely, and will find pasture."  Jesus is the Only Door into the Father's Presence.  He is our Eternal life, our place in the family of God, our Righteousness, our only hope of knowing God.  We must place our faith in the Blood Sacrifice of Jesus, in which we live and move and have our being."