SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/1/2017
10:40 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “The Means of Reconciliation”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Colossians
1:20b, 22a
Message of the
verses: “having made peace through
the blood of His cross…He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through
death”
We ended up in our last SD speaking about the blood, the
blood of Jesus Christ and what it means, and so we want to continue this
discussion in our SD for today.
I have actually heard some strange things about the blood
of Jesus as far as was it a certain type that no one has ever had, things like
this, but there really is nothing mystical about His blood. The blood of Christ saves us only in the
sense that “His death was the sacrificial death of the final Lamb. It was that death that reconciled us to God
(Rom. 5:10)” writes John MacArthur.
The blood of Christ is applied to the believer in a
symbolic way, and not some magical or mystical way. This is done by faith and it is similar in
the way we see Jesus Christ by faith.
In the Old Testament the blood was applied in the Holy of
Holies on the mercy seat on the Day of Atonement which symbolized that God had
forgiven the sins of Israel for that year, as I believe in the spiritual calendar
this was the first day of the week. We
know physically that the blood of Jesus is not applied to believers, but as
mentioned in a symbolic way. If this
would happen writes John MacArthur “Otherwise we will wind up with an obviously
unbiblical doctrine like transubstantiation to explain how literal blood can be
applied to all believers for salvation.”
In John 6:53-54 Jesus states “53 So Jesus said to them,
"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man
and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. 54 “He who eats My flesh
and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” The physical integration of the blood of
Jesus being physically applied to us cannot apply to a passage like this
one.
So what happened to the blood of Jesus? Well it actually ran into the dust of the
earth around where He was crucified so it was not collected in any way, shape,
or form so there is no way that the actual blood of Christ could be applied to
all of us, so all of must understand that the sprinkling of the blood of Christ
as far as the New Testament application is symbolic.
John MacArthur writes “Without the shedding of blood
there is no forgiveness’ (Heb. 9:22). I
affirm that truth and have never denied it.
But the ‘shedding of blood’ in Scripture is an expression that means
much more than just bleeding. It refers
to violent sacrificial death. If just
bleeding could buy salvation, why did not Jesus simply bleed without
dying? Of course, He had to die to be
the perfect sacrifice, and without His death our redemption could not have been
purchased by His blood.”
We will pick up from this
point in our next SD.
2/1/2017 11:07 PM
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