Sunday, January 20, 2019

Mediator and Priest of Good Things to Come

Hebrews 9:11-15 
11 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Christ as our perfect and sinless High Priest promises good things to come by ministering to us  heavenly tabernacle and not the temporal which has been destroyed already.  He offered His own blood instead of animal sacrifices (which only pointed as shadows of His perfect atoning sacrifice to come), that He could then go into the holiest place one time for all He died for, those He calls for redemption by His promise of a never ending inheritance.  Therefore, if the animal sacrifices purified our bodies, consider how much more Christ’s own divine blood can be shed one time to be effective forever.  He did this those called can have the conscience purified and not just the flesh.  He reconciled us through the eternal Spirit of the Almighty by His sacrifice which was our death in the death of Christ, leading to the death of death itself in Him by that sacrifice of Himself, shedding His blood in place of ours (Leviticus 17:11, Hebrews 9:22, Romans 5:9).  He now mediates this new covenant of grace between our Father in heaven and us for our sin and when we sin, forgiving our transgressions pointed out by the Law and putting His Spirit in us with that Law as a new conscience as it were and the ability to obey willingly and effectively by that grace of His atoning sacrifice of Himself.  Christ assuredly is our High Priest of the good things in His presence forever to come! 

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