SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/3/2024 11:33 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “The Doctrine”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt.
26:26b, 28
Message of the verses: “this is My body….for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins”
When the disciples picked up the cup Jesus said to them
“this is My blood of the covenant.” From
Luke’s gospel we learn that the Lord specified “new covenant” (22:30), which
clearly was distinguishing if from all previous covenants and this included the
Mosaic covenant.
MacArthur writes “When God made covenants with Noah and
Abraham, those covenants were ratified with blood (Gen. 8:20; 15:9-10). When the covenant at Sinai was ratified, “Moses
took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, ‘Behold the blood of
the covenant, which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these
words’” (Ex. 24:8). When God brought
reconciliation with Himself, the price was always blood, because “without the
shedding of blood there is no forgiveness” (Heb. 9:22 cf. 1Pet. 1:2). A sacrificial animal not only had to be
killed but its blood had to be shed. “The
life of all flesh is its blood” (Lev. 17:14), and therefore for a life truly to
be sacrificed, its blood had to be shed.”
Let
us now look at 1 Peter 1:18-19 “18 knowing that you
were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile
way of life inherited from your forefathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished
and spotless, the blood of Christ.” Verse
19 shows us that Jesus did not simply have to die but had to shed His own
precious blood. Jesus did not bleed to
death, He bled both before He died and as He died, and this was from His wounds
of the crown of thorns, from the lacerations of the scourging, and from the
nail holes in His hands and feet. After
He was dead, a great volume of His blood poured out from the spear that was
thrust into His side.
I remember hearing something when I was a younger believer and it had to do with the type of blood that Jesus had. I don’t know the type of blood that He had, but there was nothing in the chemistry of His blood that saves. The Bible makes it clear that the shedding of His blood was required, as it symbolized His atoning death, the giving of His unblemished, pure, and wholly righteous life for the corrupt, depraved, and wholly sinful lives of unregenerate men. MacArthur writes “Representative of the giving of that sinless life was the pouring out of that precious blood for many for forgiveness of sins. That blood made atonement for the sins of all mankind, Gentile as well as Jew, who place their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. The many includes those who trusted in God before Christ died as well as those who have and will trust in Him after His death. Abel, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and every other true believer who lived before Christ, was saved by Christ’s atoning death, as are believers of the New Covenant age. It was because of that truth that Jesus declared to the unbelieving Jewish leaders, “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad” (John 8:56).
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