A Christian is justified by the blood of Jesus Christ and lives under the blood as a living hope. This is best displayed in the sacrifice that belonged to the law for the cleansing lepers in the Old Covenant that is written in Leviticus 14. This sacrifice is just like the other sacrifices of the Law, a foreshadow of the finished and perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross and the power of His blood. Let’s look at the significance of the blood in the Bible and the life under the blood of Jesus Christ.
The sacrificial laws in the Old Covenant
All sacrificial laws that God instituted in His covenant with Abraham and his seed that are written in the Law of Moses and were executed by the (高い)祭司(s) that were appointed by God, point to the perfect sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ on the cross and His blood, whereby a New Covenant came into being.
One of the sacrifices was the sacrifice of the law of the cleansing of lepers.
What is the law for the cleansing of lepers?
According to the law of the cleansing of lepers, the leperd had to be brought unto the priest. This didn’t happen in the camp but outside the camp.
The priest went outside the camp and looked and beheld if the plague of leprosy was healed in the leper.
If the leper was healed, the priest commanded to take for him that was to be cleansed two birds that were alive and clean, and cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
The two birds, the cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop, were brought to the priest.
Then one of the living birds was killed in an earthen vessel over running water.
The other bird was taken together with the cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop, and dipped in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.
Then he would sprinkle upon the one that was to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and pronounce him clean.
The living bird that received grace and was dipped in the blood of the sacrificed bird was loosed into the open field.
The person that was to be cleansed washed his clothes. He shaved off all his hair and washed himself in water, that he might be clean. He returned to the camp but stayed seven days outside of his tent.
Then all kinds of rituals had to be performed, which can be read in Leviticus 14:9-32.
How the sacrifice of the two living birds is a foreshadow of Christ
This sacrifice ritual of the two living birds beautifully illustrates the redemptive work of Jesus Christ on the cross and the life of a born-again believer under the blood.
Two random, innocent birds were captivated due to the leprosy of man in the flesh.
アダムの神への不従順を通して (罪), 死が人間に入った, and his seed became corrupt.
Everyone that would be born of the corrupt seed of man would live under the condemnation and punishment (判決) for sin (に. ローマ人 5:12-19).
Every person is born in a fallen state as a sinner and possesses the corrupt nature of fallen man.
A person can’t help being born in sin.
Every person carries the sin in his flesh through the choice that man made in the エデンの庭 to not listen to the words of God and not obey His commandment.
すべての人 (every soul) is born under the curse and lives in a sinful flesh in a fallen (壊れた) state and stands guilty before God and demands a blood sacrifice.
God in His great mercy took care of the demand of the blood sacrifice. となることによって, man had the ability to be redeemed from the curse of sin and the punishment for sin, これは死です.
God showed His love for humanity through Jesus the Christ. なぜなら 愛から, God gave a way out to be saved and escape His judgment through His Son Jesus Christ and by His blood.
Jesus came in the flesh and was born of the holy Seed of God
Although Jesus was fully human and a partaker of flesh and blood, Jesus was not born as a sinner in a sinful flesh in a fallen state living under a curse. That’s because Jesus was not born of the corrupt seed of man but of the holy Seed of God (ヘブライ人への手紙 2:14).
But although Jesus didn’t come in a sinful flesh, イエスは肉体となって来られた and had the ability to become disobedient to God and sin and become equal to Adam’s state.
If Jesus couldn’t sin, the devil would not have tempted Jesus in the wilderness and during His life by the people around Him. After all, it was pointless anyway.
But Jesus could sin. しかし, Jesus stayed yielded and fully obedient to His Father and His Spirit. He resisted every temptation and overcame all the temptation of the devil.
Jesus was both Son of God and Son of man. He had to become the Son of man. So that fallen man could become through and in Him a son of God (これは男性と女性の両方に当てはまります) and walk as a son of God after the Spirit on earth.
Jesus was taken captive for mankind
神の定められた時に, Jesus prepared Himself for His captivity and the way of suffering He had to go in order to deliver the captives from their bondage and sufferings and set them free.
And so Jesus was captured and bound and taken to the high priest for interrogation. (マシュー 26:50-27:54; マーク 14:45-15:39; ルーク 22:47-23:48; ジョン 18:3-19:30).
This proves that the spiritual leaders of God’s people deviated significantly from God. They had no insight and understanding regarding God and His Word and His Kingdom. さもないと, they would have recognized the Father in Jesus. Since Jesus was the brightness of His glory and the express image of His Person (ヘブライ人への手紙 1:2-3).
Jesus was scourged and crucified for mankind
それでも this lot was already determined by God before the birth, 人生, and captivity of Jesus, it became visible after His captivity when all the people of Israel demanded the release of the criminal Barabbas and the crucifixion of the innocent Jesus.
Jesus Christ was the One Who freely gave His life for humankind. He carried all the sins and iniquities, そして罪に対する罰, これは死です, in His flesh and became a curse on the cross and died.
Jesus brought salvation for mankind
Jesus gave His life and died on the cross, and shed His blood, so that everyone that believes in Him and His sacrifice and accepts His blood would be saved.
彼は刑務所と裁判から連れ去られた: そして誰が彼の世代を宣言するのか? なぜなら、彼は生ける者の地から切り離されたからである。: わたしの民の罪に彼は打ちのめされたからである.
そして彼は悪者たちとともに墓を建てました, そして彼の死において富裕層とともに; 彼は暴力をふるっていなかったので, 彼の口にはいかなる欺瞞もなかった.
まだ, 主は彼を傷つけることを喜ばれた; 彼は彼を悲しませた: あなたが彼の魂を罪の捧げ物とするとき, 彼は自分の種を見るだろう, 彼は寿命を延ばすだろう, そして the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
彼は自分の魂の苦しみを見るだろう, そして満足するだろう: 彼の知識によって、私の義なる僕は多くの人を義とするでしょう; 神は彼らの咎を負うからです
したがって、私は彼に偉大な者と分け与えます, そして彼は戦利品を強い者たちに分け与えるであろう; 神は自らの魂を死に至るまで注ぎ出したからである: そして彼は違反者たちと数えられました; そして彼は多くの人の罪を負った, そして違反者のためにとりなしをした
イザヤ書 53:9-12)
Dipped in the blood of Christ
Just like the living bird was baptized (浸した) in the blood of the living bird that was sacrificed for the leprosy of the man in the flesh, and was set free, so are you baptized in Christ in His blood. Through the baptism (dipping) in Christ His death, you are redeemed from the power of the devil, そして罪, and death and cleansed and justified before God.
アダムの不従順を通して, you lived under the power of death under God’s judgment (God’s wrath, God’s punishment). But through the obedience and the sacrifice of Christ そして彼の血によって, you are redeemed thereof (the power of death and the judgment).
キリストにおいて, you have redemption through His blood and are forgiven of all your sins, and are justified and saved.. (に. ローマ人 5:1-19; ガラテヤ人への手紙 1:4; 1 コリント人への手紙 6:11; 2 コリント人への手紙 5:21; エペソ人への手紙 1:7; コロサイ人への手紙 1:13-14; 1 テサロニケ人 1:10).
すべての人が罪を犯したからです, そして神の栄光に届かなくなる; キリスト・イエスにある救いを通して、神の恵みによって無償で義とされる: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, 過去の罪の赦しに対する神の義を宣言する, 神の寛容によって; 宣言するには, 私は言います, この時の彼の正義は: 彼が正義であられるように, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus
ローマ人 3:23-26
What is the significance and power of the blood of Jesus Christ?
The blood of Jesus contains the life of God and the power of the blood of Jesus is:
- You are forgiven of your sins through His blood (エペソ人への手紙 1:7; コロサイ人への手紙 2:13).
- You’re redeemed through His blood (エペソ人への手紙 1:7; コロサイ人への手紙 1:13).
- You are justified by His blood (ローマ人 5:9; タイタス 3:7).
- You are reconciled by His blood (2 コリント人への手紙 5:18; ローマ人 3:25; コロサイ人への手紙 1:20).
- You have peace with God through the blood of His cross (ローマ人 5:1-2; コロサイ人への手紙 1:20).
Without the shedding of blood there is no redemption and justification
Without the shedding of blood, there is no salvation for humanity. And without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness, 償還, justification, 和解, そして神との平和 (ヘブライ人への手紙 9:21).
の life is in the blood. したがって, a gospel without the blood is dead and doesn’t make a person alive.
古い契約で, everything that came in the service of God and belonged to God had to be purified with blood first.
新しい契約で, これは今でもそうです. しかし, not with the blood of animals but with the blood of Jesus Christ.
Without the blood of Jesus Christ, a person is dead, and the faith is dead, and the preaching of the gospel that is proclaimed is powerless.
イエスの血がなければ, a person is not forgiven, 浄化された, 償還された, 正当化された, そして神と和解しました.
No work, ritual, 方法, strategy, 犠牲, or precepts and regulations of man can redeem a person from the power of the devil, 罪, そして死, and justify and reconcile a person with God.
Only the blood of Jesus Christ can redeem, and justify and reconcile a person with God.
What is the significance of the baptism in Christ according to the Bible?
The baptism in Christ takes place after your repentance and not after your natural birth. The Bible speaks about a baptism in water and not a sprinkling with water (マシュー 28:19; マーク 16:16; 行為 2:38; 8:12).
For the identification with Christ, you need to be baptized. Through the identification with Christ, through the baptism in the water of separation, あなたは世界から切り離されています (肉の死を通して) そして神と和解しました (死者の中からの霊の復活を通して), and you have peace with God.
あなたは彼の死に洗礼を受けています, into His blood, and risen in His resurrection (ローマ人 6:3:11).
The water separated you from the world and brought a separation between your old wicked sinful life (肉の後) and a new holy life (霊の後) 神に.
Just like God separated the righteous from the unrighteous through the water (洪水) で the Days of Noah, and separated His people through the water from the pagan life in Egypt and a holy life with God.
を通じて baptism in Christ, you are dead to the world and made alive unto God and have peace with God. (に. 行為 26:18; ローマ人 5:1; 6:5-11; エペソ人への手紙 2:13; ピリピ人への手紙 3:10-21; コロサイ人への手紙 1:20-23).
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: しかし今、キリスト・イエスにあって、時には遠くにいたあなたがたも、キリストの血によって近くにされるのです。 (エペソ人への手紙 2:11-13)
As it is appointed unto men once to die, しかし、この後判断: だからキリストはかつて多くの罪を負わせるために申し出られました; そして彼を探している彼らに彼は救いに罪を犯さずに二度目に現れるでしょう (ヘブライ人への手紙 9:27-28)
The Life under the blood of Jesus Christ
You no longer live in darkness under the blood guilt of sin and death, whereof disobedience to God and His Word (聖書) and sinful works of the flesh bear witness.
But you’re baptized in His blood, washed, and resurrected and made a quickening (living) spirit in Christ that lives under the blood in the light in freedom, whereof obedience to God and His Word and the righteous works bear witness.
イエスの血は犠牲でした, a remission, and not a permit to keep sinning.
God is light, そして彼の中には闇はまったくありません. 私たちが彼と交わりを持っていると言うなら, そして暗闇の中を歩きます, 私たちは嘘をつきます, そして、真実ではありません: しかし、私たちが光の中を歩くなら, as he is in the light, 私たちは互いに交わりを持っています, そして御子イエス・キリストの血は私たちをすべての罪から清めます
1 ジョン 1:5-7
The new creation lives under the blood and is a witness of Jesus
The new creation is baptized into His blood and lives under the blood and is a witness of Jesus Christ.
今, the new creation testifies, through his words and deeds and obedient life unto the Word in the truth and will of the Father, of the power of His blood and work of salvation for mankind.
You are God’s possession; your life belongs to God. God purchased you with the precious blood of His beloved Son, under which you live and you are set as a living hope for the people around you.
だから 彼の復活の力 and His blood shall be revealed through your faith and regeneration in Christ by the life you live and the works you do.
The life under the blood gives you a right and privilege to come boldly before the throne of God in the holiest, 新しい生き生きとした方法で, 神が私たちのために聖別してくださったもの, ベールを通して, つまり、, 彼の肉 (に. ローマ人 5:1-2; コロサイ人への手紙 1:20-23; ヘブライ人への手紙 10:19-20)
今は平和の神様, 私たちの主イエスを死者の中からよみがえらせたのは, あの偉大な羊飼い, 永遠の契約の血によって, 神の御心を行うために、あらゆる良い働きにおいてあなたを完璧にしなさい, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, イエス・キリストを通して; 誰に栄光が永遠にありますように. アーメン
ヘブライ人への手紙 13:20-21
