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Justly Covered

Covered by the Blood

Covered By The Blood by David Peacock Listen on Posterous

Hebrews 9:11-14, 22-26; 10:1-4, 12-22

 

1.      Forgiveness of sins is not possible without the shedding of blood.

 

Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. Hebrews 9:22

For the wages of sin is death... Romans 6:23

 

The Old Testament sacrifices were established because without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins.  These sacrifices showed that God in His mercy and grace would allow a substitute so that the punishment of sin, which is death, could be paid by another.  God sacrificed an animal and used its skin to cover the shame of Adam and Eve.  God provided a lamb to be sacrificed in place of Abraham's son Isaac.  The OT priest would make annual sacrifices on behalf of God's people.

 

These ongoing sacrifices served to show that we are sinners, that our sin deserves death, and that our only hope is for our sin to be covered by the blood of another.

 

Still, these were just animals and they really could not pay the price of sin.  They were a shadow, a foreshadowing of what we really need, and that is to have our sin paid for by one who is infinitely perfect.  The only way that payment could be made is if the eternal Son of God, took on flesh and shed His blood for us.

 

 

2.      Jesus is the perfect Lamb of God whose shed blood cleanses from sin those of every age who trust in Him.

 

 

·         Animals sacrifices were made in a tent and then a temple made with human hands to symbolize the presence of God.  Jesus sacrifices actually was made before the presence of God.

For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Hebrews 9:24

 

·         Animals had to be continually offered on an ongoing basis.  Jesus's death on the cross is a onetime sacrifice sufficient to cover the sins of those of every age.

And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, Hebrews 10:11–12

 

 

·         Priest offered animals in place of their sins and the sins of the people.  Jesus offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for sin.

Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Hebrews 9:25–26

 ·         The blood of animal could not make us perfectly righteous before God.  The blood of the Son of God can!

For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. Hebrews 10:1

For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. Hebrews 10:14

 

 

·         Animals sacrifices were made to remind us of our sinfulness.  Jesus was sacrificed so God would remember our sins no more.

But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. Hebrews 10:3

then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” Hebrews 10:17

  

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, Ephesians 1:7

 

…knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. 1 Peter 1:18–19

 

 

 

3.      By the blood of Jesus, we can come to God with confidence knowing our sins are covered!

 

Satan says you don't deserve to be forgiven, you don't deserve the right to approach God.  The blood of Jesus says, it's not about what you deserve but what Jesus has done.  No, we are not worthy but the One who sacrificed on our behalf is.  Because of HIs blood, I'm covered, are you?

 

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life. Revelation 21:27

 

…the book of life of the Lamb who was slain. Revelation 13:8

 

You will forever be known because of your sin or one who is covered by the blood of the Lamb who was slain, are you covered?