SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/2/2017 8:15 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-3 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 have been talking about the blood of our Lord Jesus
Christ as the Bible states in verse 20b which has made our peace through His
blood, and have made mention that it is not literally the blood, but the blood
being a symbol which speaks of the awful death that He died on the cross. Let us now look at Romans 5:9-10,
“9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.”
Notice the highlighted sections in these verses as one
speaks of the blood while the other speaks of the death of His Son. MacArthur writes “The critical element in
salvation is the sacrificial death of Christ on our behalf. The shedding of His blood was the visible
manifestation of His being poured out in sacrifice, and Scripture consistently
uses the term ‘shedding of blood’ as a metonym for atoning death. (A metonym is a figure of speech in which the
part is used to represent or designate the whole.)”
He goes on to write “Bloodshed was God’s design for all
Old Testament sacrifices. They were bled
to death rather than clubbed or burnt.
God designed that life being poured out (‘the life of the flesh is in
the blood’). Nevertheless, those who
were too poor to bring animals for sacrifices were allowed to bring one-tenth of
an ephah (about two quarts) of fine flour instead (Lev. 5:11). Their sins were covered just as surely as the
sins of those who could afford to offer a lamb, goat, turtledove, or pigeon
(Lev. 5:6-7). Christ’s blood was
precious—but as precious as it was, only when it was poured out in death could
the penalty of sin be paid.”
There is only one major group to insist that the
application of the blood is literal which is the Roman Catholic Church. It was the death, the difficult and painful
death of Christ that has paid for our sins, for as earlier mentioned in another
SD there is not enough of Christ’s blood to be applied to all believers, for
Christ did not even bleed out when He died as once His sacrifice was complete
He was the One who caused His death as He had said earlier that no one takes
His life, and no one did but Him for as mentioned Christ came to do the
Father’s will which was His being payment for those who had and will accept His
sacrifice for payment for their sins.
Now only did Christ die as a sacrifice, but also as a
substitute. Christ not only died for us, but He died in our
place so when we sin after being saved God looks at what Christ did for us as a
sacrifice and a substitute and we are not condemned because of that. Romans 8:3-4 “For what the Law could not do,
weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness
of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the
Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but
according to the Spirit.” “He condemned
sin in the flesh.” “He took the place of sinners, dying a substituionary death
that paid the full penalty for the sin of all who believe.” We know that this death satisfied the Father
because Christ was raised from the dead.
What we see here is not only Biblical truth, but Paul was
also using it to hammer away at the false teaching of the heretics, the ones
who were trying to make Christ a split being.
Paul argues and insists the He died as a man for men, and if this was
not true then there would be no reconciliation possible.
2/2/2017 8:42 PM
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