Text: “Remember Thy congregation, which Thou hast purchased of old; the rod of Thine inheritance, which Thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein Thou hast dwelt".
Psalm 74:2.
“And the Blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are; and when I see the Blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.”
Exodus 12:13.
Good morning, Blood-bought Christian! The entire volume of KJV Holy Scripture is
known as ‘the book of the blood’; for the shedding of blood runs through its
God-breathed pages more surely than human blood flows though the veins of every
sinner that has ever lived upon this earth.
Furthermore, there is a most significant and Divine reason for this fact
– without the shedding of Blood there is no remission from our sin. We must plead the Blood.
“For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the
people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with
water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the
people. Saying, this is the blood of the
testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the
vessels of the ministry. And almost all
things are by the law purged with blood; and without
shedding of blood is no remission (of sins).” (Hebrews 9:19-22)
God’s Way of Salvation: To understand the significance of ‘the
shedding of blood’ in God’s way of forgiving our sins and Eternal Salvation of
the souls of ‘His people’ – we must go right back to the root of Created
mankind’s problem – sinning against a Holy God of wrath against sin.
When God Created Adam and made Eve from him in
Eden’s Garden – mankind was created sinless, pure, holy, and very good, with a
free will to make choices that seemed good to him/her.
“And God saw everything that He had made, and behold
(look, and fully understand), it was very good.
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” (Genesis 1:31)
Our Sovereign Lord God, Jehovah, is trice Holy and
totally perfect - He does not create anything that is not good and perfect. Adam was created good and perfect, you and I
are not created beings, we are born of woman, born in the fallen image of
Adam. We are born guilty of Adam’s sin
in Eden, and must be purged from sin by Spiritual regeneration.
“Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did
my mother conceive me.” (Psalm 51:5)
You and I do not become sinners when we commit our
first sin. We commit our first sin
because we are natural born sinners; born of woman with a naturally sinful
human nature. All mankind born in Adam’s
image, fallen from God’s grace by disobedience in Eden’s Garden – are natural
born sinners; born with a nature that is totally biased towards sinning.
The apostle Paul put it this way: “For I know that
in me (that is in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present
with me (I would like to always do good); but how to perform that which is good
I find not (I have no power over sin).
For the good that I would (do) I do not: but the evil which I would not
(do), that I do. Now if I do that I
would not (do), it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.” (Romans 7:18-20)
Paul’s old nature, which still lives within him
after he has been born again and given a new Spiritual nature within – is still
very prone to sin, because he was born naturally of woman with a naturally
sin-prone nature. He was not Created of
God, but born of sinful parents, with a body, a soul, and a DEAD spirit. That is why we, also, must be ‘born again’ of
God’s Spirit. The genuine Spiritually
regenerate Christian has now two natures – the old and the new. That is why there is a continual Spiritual battle
raging within each of us daily.
“And you hath He quickened (made alive), who were
dead in trespasses and sins; wherein ye walked according to the course of this
world, according to the prince of the power of the air (Satan), the spirit that
now worketh disobedience…even when we were DEAD in sins, hath quickened us
together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)” (Ephesians 2:1-6)
God’s Remedy for Sin: To redeem Adam and Eve from their
disobedient sin, the Lord God decreed His way of Salvation: there had to be an
acceptable sacrifice – the innocent for the guilty, and the innocent’s blood
had to be shed to cover the sin of the guilty party.
The first deaths in all Creation took place when
God slew innocent animals to make clothes to cover Adam and Eve – after they
had sinned against Him. This signified
God’s way of redemption for time and Eternity – and pointed the way,
prophetically, to the Sacrifice of the pure and Holy Lamb of God, Jesus Christ,
Whose sinless Blood would be shed on the Cross, the innocent for the guilty;
the just for the unjust; the sinless for the sinful – that we might be redeemed
from our sins and be reconciled, sinful mankind with a Holy Lord God.
“Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God
make coats of skins, and clothed them.” (Genesis 3:21) The first mention of the
shedding of innocent blood to atone for sin, marking out clearly, God’s way of
redemption and Eternal Salvation, in the Blood of Christ, His Son.
“Neither is there Salvation in any other: for there
is none other name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved.” (Acts 4:12) “Jesus saith unto him (Thomas), I am the way,
the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” (John 14:6)
Adam, no doubt, taught his sons Cain and Abel God’s
way of making a sacrifice for their sins.
Abel obeyed God’s way of redemption and he “…brought of the firstlings
of his flock and of the fat thereof. And
the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering.” (Gen. 4:4)
But, “…Cain brought of the fruit of the ground
(which the Lord God had cursed because of sin) an offering unto the Lord…but
unto Cain and his offering He had not respect…” (Genesis 4:5) The Lord did not
respect/accept Cain’s offering because no blood was shed.
“…and without shedding of blood is no remission (of
sins).” (Hebrews 9:19-22)
Thought: You and I are God’s ‘…congregation which
Thou hast purchased of old; the rod of Thine inheritance, which Thou hast
redeemed;’ – purchased by the Blood of Christ Jesus. That is why, in our fervent daily prayers, we
must always seek to plead the Blood of Christ, doing so gives us Spiritual
power with God and against all enemies, Spiritual and temporal. “…Nothing but the Blood of Jesus…” Hallelujah!
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