Victory Can Be Yours!
Article #6 –
“Atonement for Sins”
Why
did God choose Abraham? God chose Abram,
later to be known as Abraham, to father a new nation. This would become the Nation of Israel, the
Jewish nation. He developed this nation
to show the rest of the people of the world His power, His love, grace, mercy, and
His other many attributes through His people.
Through all of the Old Testament times, there was only one way the Jews
had to cover all of their sins. It could
only be done by the slaughter of animals, the shedding of the animal’s
blood. This atoning sacrifice could only
be accomplished by one person, which was the Jewish high priest. Before he could atone for the sins of the
people, he had to atone for his own sins.
This sacrifice had to occur within the Holy of Holies. No one but the high priest could even enter
the holy of holies. The high priest was
the only one who had access to God for making amends for the sin of himself and
the people.
Now,
as the result of the sacrifice of Jesus by the shedding of His blood on the
cross for our sins, He has washed our sins away. Jesus is now our eternal high priest. “For
it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled,
separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens; who does not need daily,
like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and
then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He
offered up Himself.” (Heb. 7:26, 27)
He died on that cross once for all sin and for all people, once for all.
By
believing in Jesus Christ, we now have free access to our Heavenly Father
through Christ who is our eternal high priest.
Each believer has obtained free admission to the throne of God through
Jesus Christ and his/her sin can be forgiven by simply asking.
“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our
sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9) We have a hot-line to heaven, no longer do we
have to sacrifice animals for our sins to be covered. We now have Jesus as our intercessor, our
mediator between us and our heavenly Father.
We, also, have the Holy Spirit who intercedes for us. “In
the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray
as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep
for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is,
because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.” (Rom.
8:26, 27) The saints, mentioned above,
are all who have believed in Jesus Christ.
Like the song says;
What
a friend we have in Jesus,
All
our sins and griefs to bear!
What
a privilege to carry
Everything
to God in prayer!
You,
too, can have victory in Jesus! God
bless you and yours. More to follow.
Lowell Parrish
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