No Remission Without Blood of Jesus - Part 636

But Jesus Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own precious blood He entered in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for you and I. (Hebrews 9:11-12)

What these scriptures in Hebrews chapter nine are stating is that we are no longer living under the first covenant. The old testament and adherence to the "law" whereby men meet and drink, and are full of diverse washings and had carnal ordinances imposed on them. As the scriptures state, that was the practice "until the time of Reformation" when Jesus' blood shed on the cross changed everything.

"For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh ... [then] 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?"

It is for this cause that He -- Jesus the Christ -- is the mediator of the new testament, that by means  of His death on the cross, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. His joy. His wisdom. The peace of Jesus in our hearts that passes all understanding.

For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead. Otherwise, it is of no strength at all while the testator lives. This point is further elaborated upon in Hebrews chapter nine, but for these purposes know that almost all things by the law are purged with blood and "without the shedding of blood there is no remission." (Hebrews 9:22)

It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heaven should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true but into heaven itself; now to appear in the presence of God for us. Jesus -- the "only" mediator between God and man. If we confess our sins, Jesus is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.

Why? Because He offered Himself for us. Once and for all. Not that He should offer Himself often as the high priest enters into the Holy place every year with blood of others. For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world. But now, once in the end of the world, hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

Indeed, the same God who created the world became as one of us so that we could personally know the living God who loved us enough to shed His precious blood on a cross for us. He was the sacrifice. In the beginning God. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. And the Word became flesh. (John 1:1-14)

Christ was "once" offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for Him, shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation. Press into Jesus. Love Him today. Stand in the offering plate.