What an amazing God we serve!!! He so desires to do us good but we sometimes think that He is so far removed from our situations!!! Just continuing from the previous entry.......
The old covenant proved that man in His sinful state could not save himself. God so desired to be joined together with man in a blood covenant relationship where He was ONE with Him, that He sealed His covenant in His own Blood...in the Blood of His begotten Son. He loved us......He still loves us and will continue to love us!!! John 3:16 says 'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that who so ever believes in Him should not perish but have ever lasting life'.
I am so grateful to Jesus because He came willingly to offer Himself as the perfect Sacrifice, to give His Blood that we would enter into a blood covenant relationship with God where we would forever be bound together as one...that we would inherit all that God has and is.
When Christ came into the world, He said: '........Sacrifice and offereings You have not desired, but instead You have made ready a body for Me (to offer); In burnt offerings and sin offerings You have taken no delight. Then I said, Lo, here I am, come to do Your will, O God;(to fulfill) what is written of Me in the volume of the Book' (Heb. 10:5-7).
Under the Old Testament, God's one requirement was obedience. Man, in his weak, sinful nature could not walk in obedience. Jesus became the perfect Sacrifice for man's sin because He had come to the earth in the form of human flesh and had lived a life of 100 percent obedience to God. Jesus fulfilled the Law! It was His obedience that made His blood accepted once and for all as the perfect and only sacrifice for the sins of the world.
There is POWER in the BLOOD of Jesus!! Without Jesus, there is no forgiveness...there is no hope...there is no life! Heb.9:22 says; in fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. Through His obedience ' Jesus became the author of eternal salvation' (Heb.5:9). Also read Heb.9:12-14.
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