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Thursday, 14 August 2008 07:57

Heb 9:12 And not through the ablood of goats and calves but through His bown blood, centered donce for all into the eHoly of Holies, 1obtaining an feternal 2redemption.
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For if the ablood of goats and bulls and the bashes of a heifer csprinkling those who are 1defiled sanctify to the purity of the flesh,
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How much more will the 1ablood of Christ, who through the 2eternal Spirit boffered Himself cwithout blemish to God, purify our 3dconscience from 4edead works to fserve the 5gliving God?

 As I was pray-reading Heb 9:12 and reading the Holy Word for Morning Revival on it this morning, I saw much more clearly than ever that the eternal efficacy of Jesus' redemption is guaranteed by the fact that He has the Spirit of divinity in Him. As a real and genuine man, He could provide real and genuine human blood to pay for the sins of men. But if He were merely a man, then His blood would be like the blood of one goat, which could only cover the sins of one man up to that point. Maybe being perfect human blood, it could truly expitate--pay for--the sins of one man, not just cover it. But then it would only be the sins of one man up to the point of the man's repentance. Sins after that would require fresh sacrifices:

Heb 9:24 For Christ did not aenter into a 1holy place made by hands, a 2bfigure of the ctrue, but into dheaven itself, to appear now before the face of God for us;
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Nor in order that He might offer Himself often, just as the ahigh priest enters into the bHoly of Holies year by year by the blood of other creatures;
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Since then He would have had to suffer often asince the foundation of the world. But now bonce at the 1cconsummation of the ages He has been dmanifested for the eputting away of sin through the fsacrifice of Himself.

But because Jesus is also God, with the essence of the divine Spirit in Him, He could offer Himself through the eternal Spirit, and hence His sacrifice has eternal efficacy--it pays for the sins of all men at all times (even before the time of His crucifixion) who believe in Him by faith and receive His payment for theirs sins that their sins might be forgiven. Hallelujah! I am so thankful that Jesus is both man and God! A real man paid for my sins, and the eternal God applies this redemption to me now and forever!