“…now Christ has come, as the high priest of all the
blessings which were to come. He has passed through the greater, the more
perfect tent, … and he has entered the sanctuary once and for all, taking with
him, not the blood of goats and bull calves, but his own blood, having won an
eternal redemption for us. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a
heifer are sprinkled on those who have incurred defilement and they restore the
holiness of their outward lives (emphasis mine); how much more effectively
the blood of Christ, who offered himself as the perfect sacrifice to God
through the eternal Spirit, can purify our inner self (emphasis mine)
from dead actions so that we do our service to the living God” (Hebrews 9:
11-14).
The Old Covenant was
but a shadow of the New. God’s power in saving the Israelites from the slavery
of the Egyptians—all who sprinkled their doorposts with the blood of the slaughtered
unblemished lamb were saved from death--was but a foreshadowing of God saving
us by the blood of His only begotten Son from the slavery of Satan, a slavery
far more devastating than any kind of slavery here on earth by human beings
enslaving other human beings. Satan
roams the world in search of souls to cast into everlasting fire, separated
from God for all eternity. The slavery that we endure here on earth never
separates us from God, as God’s connection with us is eternal, is of the spirit
and can never be severed by what can happen to us physically. Spiritually, God
has secured our eternal redemption in Christ Jesus, the unblemished Lamb of God
who takes away sin and who sits at the right side of His heaven Father in
heaven interceding for us.
Steep me, O God, in this mystery of redemption and the price
it cost your Son to save me from the slavery of sin.
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