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 All of the Old Testament sacrificial systems typified substitution. Every lamb that was slain and whose blood was poured out, every offering on flaming, brazen fire, every Day of Atonement, every Yom Kippur, every sprinkling of the blood between the cherubim, every priest who ever sacrificed before God, typified that great revelation of substitution.

When the worshiper came with his offering, he took the sacrificial animal, put his hands on its head, and confessed there his sins. The animal was then slain and its blood poured out at the base of the altar. Why? By putting his hands on the head of the animal, he identified himself with the lamb or with the bullock; and when the animal was slain, it was as though he, the worshiper, had been slain. It was a substitutionary sacrifice.

That is the gospel. There is in Christ an actual substitution. This is not a metaphor or simile. This is not poetry or fiction. This is not imagination. This is an actual substitution. God took Christ, His only begotten Son, and delivered Him to the judgment and death, to the damnation and cursing assigned to us. Christ received in His own body the curse and the judgment. He died in our stead. “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us ... that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith” [Galatians 3:13-14]; “that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” [1 Corinthians 5:21]. That is, He actually took our place: the law fully satisfied, judgment for judgment, blood for blood, damnation for damnation. All of it did He take, bearing in His own body our sins on the tree [1 Peter 2:24].

Pastor Criswell

Hebrews 9:22 (NIV)
22  In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

But now, praise God: Matthew 26:28 (NIV)
28  This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

 

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Amen!!

 For through the blood of our savior, Jesus Christ, we have been redeemed!  Our sins are covered, washed away! Our shame and guilt is removed! We are now accepted by God and have an eternal inheritance! We can enter God's presence and have fellowship with him! We also overcome the enemy and escape the future judgement and wrath!

Praise God! Their is so much that the blood of Christ Jesus has given to us!!!!! Praise God We are covered, praise God for sending us JESUS!!!

God bless ?

 

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