Monday, September 22, 2014

The Blood of Jesus Fulfilled the Law

"22And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." (Hebrews 9: 22)

The blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin (1 John 1: 7)

We are not cleansed by our thinking and feeling, by our being and doing.

Jesus died for our sins and granted us His Life, Himself, and all things with Him.

"I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." (John 15: 5)

We bear fruit because of our knowledge of all that Jesus did for us:

"9For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; " (Colossians 1: 9-10)

and also

"8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." (2 Peter 1: 8)

If we are not fruitful in anyway, this is the reason why:

"9But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins." (2 Peter 1: 9)

How are we purged from our sins? By the blood of Jesus!

"How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" (Hebrews 9: 14)

One key word in the passage above, eternal, should cause us to ask: how?

Of course, we are talking about the eternal blood of Jesus.

Through His blood, He pays for all our sins and the sins of the entire world:

"1My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." (1 John 2: 1-2)

and also

"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." (Matthew 5: 17)

Then

"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." (Romans 3: 31)

We are no longer under law, because we have the grace of God, in which all our sins are paid for forever, and thus we have His life in us.

He has fulfilled the law, and thus any further breaking of the law, and thus taken us out of dead Adam under law and brought us into the living Christ.

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