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 (높은)성직자(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.
Through Adam’s disobedience to God (죄), 죽음이 사람에게 들어왔다, and his seed became corrupt.
Everyone that would be born of the corrupt seed of man would live under the condemnation and punishment (심판) for sin (오. 로마서 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 에덴동산 to not listen to the words of God and not obey His commandment.
모든 사람 (every soul) is born under the curse and lives in a sinful flesh in a fallen (broken) 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. 하도록 하다, man had the ability to be redeemed from the curse of sin and the punishment for sin, 그것은 죽음입니다.
God showed His love for humanity through Jesus the Christ. 왜냐하면 사랑에서, 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 (히브리서 2:14).
But although Jesus didn’t come in a sinful flesh, 예수님은 육체로 오셨습니다. 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. 그렇지만, 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 (이는 남성과 여성 모두에게 적용됩니다.) and walk as a son of God after the Spirit on earth.
Jesus was taken captive for mankind
하나님께서 정하신 때에, Jesus prepared Himself for His 기음aptivity 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. (매튜 26:50-27:54; 표시 14:45-15:39; 루크 22:47-23:48; 남자 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. 그렇지 않으면, they would have recognized the Father in Jesus. Since Jesus was the brightness of His glory and the express image of His Person (히브리서 1:2-3).
Jesus was scourged and crucified for mankind
하지만 this lot was already determined by God before the birth, 생명, 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, 그리고 죄에 대한 형벌, 그것은 죽음입니다, 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.
그는 감옥에서 나와 판결을 받았습니다: 그리고 누가 그의 세대를 선언 할 것입니다? 그가 산 자의 땅에서 끊어짐이니라: 내 백성의 범법으로 인해 그분께서 고난을 받으셨기 때문이다.
그리고 그는 악인들과 함께 무덤을 만들었습니다, 그리고 그의 죽음의 부자와 함께; 그는 폭력을하지 않았기 때문에, 그의 입에 속임수도 없었습니다.
아직, 주님 께서 그분을 멍이 들었습니다; 그는 그를 슬픔에 빠뜨렸다: 당신이 그의 영혼을 죄를위한 제물로 만들 때, 그는 그의 씨앗을 볼 것이다, 그는 그의 시대를 연장 할 것이다, 그리고 the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
그는 그의 영혼의 수고를 볼 것이다, 만족해야합니다: 나의 의로운 종이 자기 지식으로 많은 사람을 의롭게 하며; 그는 그들의 죄악을 견딜 것입니다
그러므로 나는 그에게 위대한 부분을 나눌 것인가, 그리고 그는 전리품을 강한 사람으로 나눕니다; 그는 자신의 영혼을 죽음으로 쏟아 부었 기 때문입니다: 그리고 그는 범죄자들과 번호가 매겨졌습니다; 그리고 그는 많은 사람들의 죄를 드러냅니다, 범법자들에게 중보를 만들었습니다
이사야 53:9-12)
Dipped in the blood of Christ
Just like the living bird was baptized (담근) 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, 그리고 죄, and death and cleansed and justified before God.
아담의 불순종으로 말미암아, 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 그리고 그의 피로써, you are redeemed thereof (the power of death and the judgment).
그리스도 안에서, you have redemption through His blood and are forgiven of all your sins, and are justified and saved.. (오. 로마서 5:1-19; 갈라디아서 1:4; 1 고린도전서 6:11; 2 고린도전서 5:21; 에베소서 1:7; 골로새서 1:13-14; 1 데살로니가 1:10).
모든 사람이 죄를 지었기 때문에, 그리고 하나님의 영광에 이르지 못하느니라; 그리스도 예수 안에 있는 구속으로 말미암아 하나님의 은혜로 값없이 의롭다 하심을 얻은 자 되었느니라: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, 지나간 죄 사함을 위한 그의 의를 선포하려 하심이라, 하나님의 오래 참으심으로; 선언하다, 내가 말하다, 이때 그의 의가: 그 사람이 정의로울지도 모르니까, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus
로마서 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 (에베소서 1:7; 골로새서 2:13).
- You’re redeemed through His blood (에베소서 1:7; 골로새서 1:13).
- You are justified by His blood (로마서 5:9; 티투스 3:7).
- You are reconciled by His blood (2 고린도전서 5:18; 로마서 3:25; 골로새서 1:20).
- You have peace with God through the blood of His cross (로마서 5:1-2; 골로새서 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, 구원, justification, reconciliation, 그리고 하나님과의 평화 (히브리서 9:21).
그만큼 life is in the blood. 그러므로, a gospel without the blood is dead and doesn’t make a person alive.
옛 언약에서, everything that came in the service of God and belonged to God had to be purified with blood first.
새로운 언약에서, 이것은 아직도 사실이다. 그렇지만, 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.
예수님의 피가 없으면, a person is not forgiven, 깨끗해진, 구속된, 정당화됨, 그리고 하나님과 화해했습니다..
No work, ritual, 방법, strategy, 희생, or precepts and regulations of man can redeem a person from the power of the devil, 죄, 그리고 죽음, 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 (매튜 28:19; 표시 16:16; 행위 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, 너는 세상과 분리되어 있다 (육체의 죽음을 통하여) 그리고 하나님과 화해했습니다. (죽은 자 가운데서 영이 부활하여), and you have peace with God.
당신은 그분의 죽음과 합하여 세례를 받았습니다, into His blood, and risen in His resurrection (로마서 6:3:11).
The water separated you from the world and brought a separation between your old wicked sinful life (육체 후에) and a new holy life (정신 후) 하나님께.
Just like God separated the righteous from the unrighteous through the water (홍수) ~에 the Days of Noah, and separated His people through the water from the pagan life in Egypt and a holy life with God.
통해 baptism in Christ, you are dead to the world and made alive unto God and have peace with God. (오. 행위 26:18; 로마서 5:1; 6:5-11; 에베소서 2:13; 빌립보 3:10-21; 골로새서 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: 이제는 전에 멀리 있던 너희가 그리스도 예수 안에서 그리스도의 피로 가까워졌느니라 (에베소서 2:11-13)
As it is appointed unto men once to die, 그러나 이 후에 심판이 있느니라: 그러므로 그리스도도 많은 사람의 죄를 담당하시려고 단번에 드리신 바 되셨고; 또 자기를 찾는 자들에게 구원에 이르게 하기 위하여 죄 없이 두 번째 나타나시리라 (히브리서 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 (성경) 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.
예수님의 피는 희생제사였습니다, a remission, and not a permit to keep sinning.
God is light, 그리고 그 안에는 어둠이 전혀 없습니다. 우리가 그분과 친교가 있다고 말하면, 그리고 어둠 속에서 걷는다, 우리는 거짓말을합니다, 그리고 진실이 아닙니다: 그러나 우리가 빛 속에서 걷는다면, as he is in the light, 우리는 서로 교제를 가지고 있습니다, 그리고 그 아들 예수 그리스도의 피가 우리를 모든 죄에서 깨끗하게 하실 것이요
1 남자 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.
지금, 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.
왜냐하면 그분의 부활의 능력 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, 새롭고 살아있는 방식으로, 그분께서 우리를 위해 거룩하게 하신 것입니다., 베일을 통해, 즉,, 그의 살 (오. 로마서 5:1-2; 골로새서 1:20-23; 히브리서 10:19-20)
이제는 평화의 하나님, 우리 주 예수를 죽은 자 가운데서 살리신 이가, 양들의 그 위대한 목자, 영원한 언약의 피를 통하여, 모든 선한 일에 너희를 온전케 하사 그의 뜻을 행하게 하시고, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, 예수 그리스도를 통해; 영원히 영광을 누리십시오. 아멘
히브리서 13:20-21
