Text: Romans 5:11: And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement: / Hebrews 9:22: And “almost” all things are purged by blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission:
In part one of the
Atoning Blood we found that “atonement” or (at-one-ment)
was from the root word katallage’, meaning
to exchange; adjustment; restoration (back to divine favor); reconciliation.
Two things we
touched on that the “atonement” did:
(1) Removed God’s displeasures
toward us: (2) Removed our alienation
from God.
So all we have to do
is believe and accept all that the “atoning blood” did on that
Cross.
·
St.
John 3:17: God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the
world through him might be saved. Vs
18: He that believes on him is
not condemned: but he that believes
not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name (character; authority) of the only begotten Son of God.
Mark 15 (33-41)
[speaks of the death of Jesus]:
·
Vs 37:
And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave
up the ghost: vs 39:
And when the centurion, which stood over
against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said,
“Truly this man was the Son of God”.
It states that “Jesus gave up
the ghost”. Ghost in this verse
is ekpne’o, meaning to expire. This word means “to breathe out”; “to expire”; “soul” or “life”.
This “ghost” that Jesus gave up or breathed out was
not the “pneu’ma” which is the Holy Ghost, the eternal Spirit, wind, breath, of God. What Jesus gave up was the “soul” (psuche’) aspect of
Himself that had to experience dying without God and going through
the judgment fire of God, but
it (His soul) was not left in hell (hades’ – the unseen world of spirits)! He
had to go through what He went through so that our total man, heart, soul, mind, and body could
be delivered from the tormenting and destructive works of the devil.
·
Acts
2:25: David spoke concerning him, “I foresaw the Lord always before my face,
for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved”:
·
Vs 26:
Therefore
did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest
in hope:
·
Vs 27:
Because
thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither will thou suffer thine Holy
One to see corruption.
People of God, get
this: If God did not allow “His own physical
body”, which was the body of Jesus, to see corruption (diaphthora’)
[decomposition and decay], how much
more Him not allowing “His own spiritual body”, which we are (His Church), to not see corruption (decomposition and decay)?
·
1
Peter 2:5: Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house,
a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus
Christ.
Jesus came that we might have life (Zoe),
and that we might have it more abundantly (John 10:10). And
this “life” (Zoe) is “life eternal” (quality) and “everlasting” (unending)!!
Back to the atoning blood”:
Blood was God’s only
purchase price of redemption. When man
sinned, something happened to his blood.
Leviticus 17:11 states, “The life of the flesh is in the blood”. Instead of incorruptible and therefore
deathless blood, Adam’s blood was corrupted through sin and became subject
to death. To redeem this dead
sinner, life must again be imparted. The
only remedy for death is “life”.
This life is in the blood, and so blood must be furnished which is sinless
and incorruptible.
Now none of Adam’s
race could do this. 1 Corinthians 15:22a states, “For in Adam all die”. Romans 3:23 says, “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There was only one who could furnish that
blood, the virgin-born Son of God, with a human body, with sinless
supernatural blood, implanted by the Holy Ghost. Blood and a sinless body was the only price of redemption God
could accept, without violating or breaching the integrity (honor; uprightness; completeness; oneness) of His holy nature. Death can only be exiled, annihilated, dismissed, or expelled) by life. Life is
in the blood and without shedding of
blood is no remission (Hebrews 9:22). A blood transfusion had to be
performed and provided through Christ and that life giving blood is in us by
the Spirit of the Living God!
·
1
Corinthians 15:22b: Even so in Christ,
shall all be made alive.
· 1 John 5:8: There are three that bear witness in earth (our physical bodies), the Spirit (pneu’ma –God’s breath), the water (the Word), and the blood (the life giving source): and these three agree in one.
Hebrews 9:18:
Whereupon neither the first testament was
dedicated without blood. The new covenant was confirmed, approved; given official sanction to, by the blood of Christ. Wherefore, as the death of a victim
was necessary to endorse, approve or make covenants official. (vs 19-22).
·
Hebrew
9:16: For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the
death of the testator.
A testament (diathe’ke) [a disposition, a contract (a
devisory will); covenant] could
only be put in place by a testator [diatith’emai]. JESUS was our “Testator”, the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8).
·
Hebrews 9:17: For a testament is of force
after men are dead: otherwise it is of
no strength at all while the testator lives.
Testament comes from
the Latin “testes”, derived from the
Ancient near Eastern custom of one man placing
his hand under the other man’s thigh in making a solemn pledge, conveying
not only the trust of the two parties, but also the pledge is binding on the “future generations” that will
come from the seed of each
man. There are two instances: Genesis 24:9 [Abraham and his eldest
servant, when he went to get a wife for Isaac]:
[then two generations later, Jacob and Joseph] (Genesis 47:29).
We are now included
in this covenant or testament, not just the Jews. They are no more God’s chosen people after
the flesh, for we are all “one”
now in Christ! We that have
accepted the Son, are God’s Israel (those ruling with and are a prince with Him in the earth), His chosen, and we are all over the
world not just in the Middle East as some believe.
·
Galatians
3:16: Now to Abraham and his SEED
were the promises made. He said not, and
to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy SEED,
which is CHRIST!
·
Vs 27:
For as many as have been baptized
into Christ (not in water) have put on Christ. Vs
28: There is neither Jew nor Greek
(Gentile), there is neither bond nor free, there is
neither male nor female: for you
are all one in Christ Jesus. Vs 29: And if you be CHRIST’S, then are you
Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Acts 3:25: You are the children of the prophets, and of
the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, “And
in thy seed shall all the kindred of the earth be blessed”:
Hebrews 8:10: For this is the covenant that I will
make with the house of Israel (not in the middle east, but we Christ’s
body are God’s Israel) after
those days (when Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected), saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and
write them in their hearts: and I
will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 10:16:
This is the covenant that I will make
with them after those days, saith the Lord, “I will put my laws into their
hearts, and in their minds will I write them”.
These
verses right here tells us with God putting and writing His Word in our minds
and in our hearts makes us become the
living word of God, or the
Word made flesh! (1 John
4:17) As he is, so are we, in this
world!
We have been
appointed to this: Luke 22:29: And I appoint unto you a kingdom,
as my Father hath appointed unto me.
In the case of
Hebrews 9:16-17, in relation to the “testator“”, this is in reference to the death of
Christ who was charged to make the new covenant with man. Since the victims (all have sinned and come short) involved were under the penalty of
death for their sins, and since the covenant had to do with redemption of
these victims from their sins by the death of a substitute, it was
necessary for the one making the covenant to die in order to redeem
those He volunteered to free from death: Hebrews 9:16: For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of
the testator. Such a covenant could
only be in force after the victim was dead and the covenant ratified (approved; made official) by such death
(vs 17): For a testament is of force
after men are dead: otherwise it is of
no strength at all while the testator lives.
Vs 22: And “almost” (nearly) all things
are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no
remission.
Some things were
ceremonially purged with water and fire and
some with the ashes of a red heifer: Numbers
19:2-10; 31:13-24. [But all were
first consecrated by blood].
In relation to
being ceremonially purged:
·
Hebrews
9:13: For if the blood of bulls
and of goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean,
sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh: vs
14: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience (awareness; understanding; knowledge) from dead works to serve the living
God? [Meaning, having “OMNI-science”
(God knowledge), knowing Truth by
having Christ’s mind]!
Conscience: “con” (an opposing reasoning; swindle or trick) – “science”
(a systemized knowledge derived
from observation, study, of facts, principles, methods, skills and techniques). Over the years the enemy has through many
religious leaders used lies, philosophy, vain
deceit, traditions of men, rudiments of the world, and have swindled and
tricked us by giving us “con-science” (that
which opposes “truth”), instead of “Omniscience” (God
knowledge), the “truth” that will free us from the bondages of the devil. Paul
warned us about this in Colossians 2:8, when he said “Beware [take
heed; behold; observe; discern], lest any man spoil (seduce; strip; rob) you” through vain deceit, traditions of men, etcetera, of what’s rightfully yours through Christ. But to avoid this we must do what Philippians
2:5-6 says, “Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it not
robbery to be equal with God”. Also: 2 Timothy
2:15: Study to show thyself approved
unto God, a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word
of truth.
We're still talking about "the atoning blood”:
·
Hebrews
10:4: For it is not possible
that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Paul shows that there
can be no redemption but through the blood of Christ; and to
prefigure this, the law could not grant any remission of sin without the
blood of a victim.
·
Hebrews
9:22: And almost all things
are purged with blood; without shedding of blood is no remission.
In relation to “the redemption price”, the tabernacle
in the wilderness is the only building ever erected having a foundation
made of “pure silver”. “The foundation was made of “solid silver sockets”, which is
a picture of Jesus Christ and of the believer who is “in Christ”.
A “socket” in
Webster is defined as a natural or artificial hollow into which
something fits or in which something revolves; an electrical device receiving a
plug or light bulb to make a connection.
Sockets is the
Hebrew word e’den (eh’-den), meaning a basis (of a building, a
column); foundations. It goes
to another root word adown (aw-done’)
connoting “strength”; to rule; sovereign; controller
(human or divine); Lord, lord, master, owner. So theses “sockets”
or “foundations” are in reference to people, the sons of God
(male and female), that were ruling
and reigning over the creation in the beginning.
·
Psalm
82:5: The foundations of the earth
are out of course.
Those “foundations”, the sons of God
(male and female) that God was plugged
into were ruling and reigning over the creation with dominion, authority,
and power, because they were plugged into God!
These “sockets and
foundations” are in reference to us now, as well, the believers that are “plugged” into Christ and Christ is “plugged” into them, 2 Corinthians 5:17: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a
new creature (creation): old things are
passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Why, because through His
shed blood, we are “the redeemed”!
·
1
Corinthians 6:19-20: What? Know ye not that your body is the temple
of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not
your own? You are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in
your spirit, which are God’s.
So “Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath
redeemed from the hand of the enemy” (Psalm 107:2)!!!
Everything depends
upon this foundation and the “silver foundation” speaks of the blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ on which our entire redemption depends and
hangs.
This “silver” was furnished by the children of Israel who
carried it out of the land of Egypt. It
was paid as a redemption tax, a
tax upon all of the male adults in the congregation of Israel which
every adult Israelite was to pay (Exodus 30:11-15).
This “silver” is called the “atonement money” (the half shekel they had to pay) which
was required of every single Israelite.
None were to not give or it meant death and cutting off from the
assembly of Israel.
Silver in the
bible speaks of “atonement”, and
this atonement is always to be
by blood. That tabernacle God
instructed Moses to build was actually “CHRIST”! So the “silver
foundation” upon which the tabernacle rested signified that it was
built upon the “atoning blood”
of a substitute. On this
foundation, the blood of atonement,
the tabernacle of our redemption
is also built which is the “blood of
Christ”!
·
Matthew
27:3-4: Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned,
repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the
chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the
innocent blood. And said “What is
that to us”? See thou to that. Vs
5: And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and
departed, and went and hanged himself.
SILVER points to
the blood of Christ: Leviticus 17:11: The life
of the flesh is in the blood:
and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for
your souls: for it is the blood
that makes an atonement for the soul.
·
1
Corinthians 6:20: You are bought with
a price:
·
1
Peter 1:18-19: You were not redeemed
with corruptible things, as silver and gold… but with the precious
blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
[It’s
precious because it is the blood of God Himself]!
·
Acts
20:28: Take heed therefore unto yourselves,
and to all the flock, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased
with his own blood.
It’s this “silver
foundation” typifying the “blood of Christ” upon which all our hope is built:
The blood of Christ has given us “eternal redemption”: Hebrews
10: 4: It is not possible that the
blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins: vs 11: and every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the
same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: vs 12: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins
forever, sat down on the right hand of God.
Jesus sitting on the
right hand of God is not happening out somewhere in the sky. It means that God has eternally established
(settled; rooted) Jesus Christ
in a position of power and authority in Him!
As Paul wrote, 1 Corinthians 3:11: For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which Jesus Christ!!
The Tabernacle that
Moses built was CHRIST and it was founded on a “silver foundation”, representing the “atonement money”. This
was a shadow of the price of
redemption, the blood of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Every man
had to bring his own half shekel (35
cents), rich and poor, an individual responsibility. Salvation is also a personal, individual
matter and can never be obtained based
on anyone else, but only through Jesus the Christ.
There is a song by
Edward Mote and William Bradbury:
My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ atoning blood and
righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus name.
On Christ the solid Rock I stand - all other ground is sinking sand!
Briefly, isn’t it
amazing how that the blood flowing in an unborn fetus’ arteries and veins is
not from the mother but is produced within the body of the fetus. The mother provides the fetus with all the
nutrients it needs for development through the placenta, but yet God
constructed it so that “no blood” passes from the mother to the child, because
the blood comes from God Himself!!
Genesis 1:26: And God said, “Let us make man”!
Man here is the
Hebrew root word adam (aw-dawm’),
meaning ruddy (red color); to
show blood (in the face).
Blood in
Hebrew is dam (dawm), meaning, “blood”.
So when God created
and made “man” (aw-dawm’), He
created and made “man” with His blood (God’s
own blood) in him! Before the fall
of man, he (male and female) was
living by the life of the “innocent
blood” that was in him, but when the man (aw-dawm’), or the Adam race of people
fell into corruption, their innocent
blood became contaminated by sin and “guilty blood” flowed through their veins which led to death. They fell from that which was “divinity”
back into that which was “humanity”!
·
Galatians
4:4: But when the fullness of the
time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the
law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the
adoption (placing) of sons.
We the “sons of God” (the body of Christ) are the ones the
creation is waiting for and not Jesus. Romans 8:19: For the earnest expectation of the creature (creation) waiteth for the
manifestation of the sons of God.
But the wait is over for those that recognize who the “sons of God” are and are receiving the fullness of the Kingdom message, of having victory now! 1John 3:2: Beloved, NOW (present tense) are we the sons of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: [It’s revealed now or made known now to those that will accept the truth]: but we know that, when he shall appear [He is appearing in you and me, His body, now], we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. [We see Him as he is when we look at one another].
1 Corinthians:12:12: For as the body is one, and hath many member, and all the members of that one body being many are one body: so also is CHRIST!
Ephesians 5:30: We are members
(limbs; parts) of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Jesus partook of
human flesh without partaking of the effect of Adam’s blood.
·
Hebrews
2:14: Forasmuch then as the
children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise “took
part” of the same.
There is a difference
in being “partakers” of
something and one that “took part”
in something.
·
Vs 14a: For as much then as the children are “partakers”
of flesh and blood:
Partakers, is
from the root word koinone’o, meaning
to share with others: communicate; distribute; “to fully have a share in”; “to
have in common”. Romans
3:23: All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
·
Vs 14b: He also himself likewise “took part”
of the same.
Took and part are from the same root word metech’o, meaning to share or participate; take
part (not all).
·
Philippians
2:7: But made himself of no
reputation, and “took (lamban’o) [get hold
of; received] upon him”
the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: vs 8: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and
became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Though He (Jesus) “took part” in the same
(putting
on flesh as a man), yet He was without sin (He didn’t “partake” of sin)! So how did He “take part in the
same”? By being “made sin” for us!
·
2
Corinthians 5:21: For he hath made
him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be
made the righteousness of God in him!
·
Romans
8:3-4: For what the law could not do,
in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own son in the likeness
of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be
fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Isaiah 7:14: Therefore the LORD himself shall give you a sign;
behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel
(with us (is) God).
When God created
woman He made her so that no blood would be able to pass from her to the fetus,
her offspring. So God gave our “Redeemer”,
Jesus Christ, a human body but sinless body with “innocent or not guilty blood” in
it!
·
St.
John 1:1: In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God: vs 14: And the Word was made flesh and
dwelt among us!
Mary was the “flesh
vessel” God used to bring Jesus here, but God put His own blood in Jesus
by the Holy Ghost!
·
Luke
1:35: And the angel answered and said
unto Mary, “The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the
Highest shall overshadow thee:
therefore also that holy thing (log’os) [embodiment of God’s Word]
which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God”.
The “Spirit” and
the “blood” agree: 1 John 5:7:
There are three that bear record in
heaven, the Father, the Word, and the
Holy Ghost: and these three are
one. Vs 8: And there are three that bear witness
in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood:
and these three agree in one.
And His blood was “not guilty blood” or “INNOCENT BLOOD”!
·
Matthew
27:3-4: Then Judas, which had
betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought
again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, “I
have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent (not guilty) blood”!
Jesus partook
of human flesh without partaking of the effect of Adam’s “guilty
blood”!
·
1
Corinthians 15:22: In Adam all die,
even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Vs 45: The first man
Adam was made a living soul: the last
Adam was made a quickening (make alive) spirit.
Vs 47: The first man is
of the earth, earthy: the second man is
the Lord from heaven.
When people die their
bodies are embalmed by injecting embalming fluid into the blood stream to push
out the blood and push in embalming fluid to preserve that body from
decay. Embalm means to preserve. After death the decay process begins with the
decomposition of the blood.
Jesus was dead for
three days and yet there was not any decomposition
or corruption anywhere in His body!
·
Psalm
16:10: Thou will not leave my soul in
hell; neither will thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption (destruction; decomposition; decay; alterations)! (Acts 2:31).
· John 20 [Jesus appears to His disciples and makes a blood deposit or transfusion into them]:
·
vs
21-22: Then said Jesus to them again,
“Peace be unto you: as my Father hath
sent me, even so send I you”. And when
he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them, “Receive
ye the Holy Ghost”.
Right then was the
breathing in of the blood of God into those disciples as it happened to
Adam in Genesis 2:7 when the LORD God breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul! The blood of God was breathed into Adam! At Pentecost the blood of God was breathed into His people, given
as a universal gift of life!
·
Acts
2:1-4: And when the day of Pentecost
was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven
as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were
sitting. And there appeared unto them
cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them, and they were all
filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the
Spirit gave them utterance.
That “sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty
wind” was the very breath of God
with His blood in it that
was breathed into those in
that upper room! And as God’s people
went forth from that point, preaching and teaching the Word of God, that was
the very blood of God being breathed upon or into the
hearers and it happened for thousands at
Pentecost.
·
Acts
2:41: Then they that gladly
received his word were baptized; and the same day, there were added unto
them about three thousand souls.
The same thing is
happening today as we (God’s
people) (the sons of God) minister the Word of God to His people, God’s blood, is being transfused into them by His Spirit!
To receive God’s
blood certainly isn’t drank from a glass, nor is a bucket of blood poured over our head but it’s received by the Spirit.
Jesus said in John 6:53: Except
you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in
you. Vs 55: For my flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed. Vs 56: He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him. Vs 57: As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he that eats me, even he shall live by me.
·
1
Corinthian 12:13: For by one
Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles,
whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. Vs 14: For the body is not one member, but many!
There is power, power, miracle or wonder working power, in the “atoning
blood” of the LAMB!!! It reaches to
the highest mountain, and flows to the lowest valley: it’s the blood that gives you and me strength
from day to day, and it will never lose its power!!!
Everything we need, is in the ATONING BLOOD of the LAMB!! Receive of it today!!!
Pastor Gracie Perry