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AATHAVAN Bible Meditation - No. 1880
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Wednesday, April 01, 2026
"….and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption." (Hebrews 9:12)
The reason the Lord Jesus Christ became a sacrifice for us was to obtain forgiveness for our sins and to grant us complete deliverance from them. He provides not only the forgiveness of sins but also the strength to keep us from continually falling back into sin. In Old Testament times, animals were sacrificed for the forgiveness of sins, but their blood did not provide people with full liberation from sin. Although God had also given various legal commandments, those commandments could not lead humanity onto the right path either.
If we receive forgiveness for our sins, our hearts will experience joy and peace. Furthermore, the stinging of a guilty conscience caused by the sins we committed will be removed. However, the blood of animals did not provide people with such heart-felt joy, peace, or the assurance of forgiven sins. It did not make human beings perfect. If it could have made them perfect, "would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?" (Hebrews 10:2)
In other words, the blood of animals did not completely wash away and perfect human beings from their sins. Therefore, because of the lingering guilt in their consciences, they did not stop sacrificing but offered them again and again. But our Lord Jesus Christ, not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
There is another reason why Jesus Christ offered Himself as a sacrifice: God had already given various commandments for the well-being of humanity, but the people did not obey them. Therefore, we read in the Bible that God Himself did for us what those legalistic commandments could not achieve. "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." (Romans 8:3)
Thus, the Old Testament covenant became ineffective in this regard. Human transgressions increased. "For this reason, He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance." (Hebrews 9:15)
Therefore, there is no meaning in merely becoming emotional for a few moments by watching the sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ as if watching a tragic movie. It is essential that we open our hearts for the blood He shed to work within us. If we live without making an effort to receive the experience of redemption created by His own blood, we will merely be people who observe these days out of a yearly sense of duty.
Yes, dear ones, only when we live in fellowship with Him, who is Light, having our sins washed by the blood of Christ, can we truly be in fellowship with others. Only then will the blood He shed completely purify us. "but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin." (1 John 1:7)
Divine Message: Bro. M. Geo Prakash
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