Once For All
Christmas is the celebration of God coming to earth, as the God/Man, Jesus Christ. He came to purchase eternal redemption for the sins of all people. He did this by giving Himself once for all people and all of our sins.(Hebrews 9:12) Hallelujah, what a Savior!
The blood of goats and calves offered for sins was only a temporary payment that had to be offered many times in the Temple by a human priest. Jesus came as the True High Priest to enter the Most Holy Place in heaven, not the copy on earth, to sprinkle the mercy seat with His blood once and for all, after hanging on that cruel cross until He died in our place. Do you get the picture? Jesus came into this world to make the payment for our sins once for all, so that when we trust Him as our Lord and Savior, we are forgiven once for all of our sins. Then, we have eternal redemption form sin.
Leave it up to God to do something perfectly well, once for all. Christmas was the initiation of that process, so that Holy God would have blood to pay for the sins of the world. Let's not leave this aspect out of our Christmas celebrations. As I have been saying this year, that is what makes Christmas such a big deal.
Tomorrow, I intend to read Hebrews 10-12.
The blood of goats and calves offered for sins was only a temporary payment that had to be offered many times in the Temple by a human priest. Jesus came as the True High Priest to enter the Most Holy Place in heaven, not the copy on earth, to sprinkle the mercy seat with His blood once and for all, after hanging on that cruel cross until He died in our place. Do you get the picture? Jesus came into this world to make the payment for our sins once for all, so that when we trust Him as our Lord and Savior, we are forgiven once for all of our sins. Then, we have eternal redemption form sin.
Leave it up to God to do something perfectly well, once for all. Christmas was the initiation of that process, so that Holy God would have blood to pay for the sins of the world. Let's not leave this aspect out of our Christmas celebrations. As I have been saying this year, that is what makes Christmas such a big deal.
Tomorrow, I intend to read Hebrews 10-12.