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 (高的)牧师(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.
由于亚当悖逆上帝 (罪), 死亡进入了人, and his seed became corrupt.
Everyone that would be born of the corrupt seed of man would live under the condemnation and punishment (判断) for sin (哦. 罗马书 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 伊甸园 to not listen to the words of God and not obey His commandment.
每个人 (every soul) is born under the curse and lives in a sinful flesh in a fallen (破碎的) 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. 以便, man had the ability to be redeemed from the curse of sin and the punishment for sin, 这就是死亡.
God showed His love for humanity through Jesus the Christ. 因为 出于爱, 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 (希伯来书 2:14).
But although Jesus didn’t come in a sinful flesh, 耶稣来到肉中 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. 然而, 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 (这适用于男性和女性) and walk as a son of God after the Spirit on earth.
Jesus was taken captive for mankind
在神指定的时间, 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. (马修 26:50-27:54; 标记 14:45-15:39; 卢克 22:47-23:48; 约翰 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. 否则, they would have recognized the Father in Jesus. Since Jesus was the brightness of His glory and the express image of His Person (希伯来书 1:2-3).
Jesus was scourged and crucified for mankind
虽然 this lot was already determined by God before the birth, 生活, 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, 和对罪的惩罚, 这就是死亡, 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, 并流了他的血, so that everyone that believes in Him and His sacrifice and accepts His blood would be saved.
他被从监狱和判断中被带走: 谁能宣告他的世代? 因为他被切断了生活的土地: 因为我的人民的犯罪是他陷入困境的.
他和邪恶的, 并与富人一起死; 因为他没有暴力, 他嘴里都没有欺骗.
然而, 主乐意伤他; 他使他陷入痛苦: 当你将他的灵魂作为赎罪祭时, 他将看见他的后裔, 他必延长他的日子, 和 the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
他必看见自己灵魂的劳苦, 并应满足: 我公义的仆人必以他的知识使许多人称义; 因为他必担当他们的罪孽
因此我要把他与伟大的人分享, 他将用坚强; 因为他已将自己的灵魂倾倒至死: 他被列在罪犯之中; 他裸露了许多人的罪, 并为违法者代求
以赛亚 53:9-12)
Dipped in the blood of Christ
Just like the living bird was baptized (浸入) 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, 和罪恶, and death and cleansed and justified before God.
通过亚当的不服从, 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 和他的血, you are redeemed thereof (the power of death and the judgment).
在基督里, you have redemption through His blood and are forgiven of all your sins, and are justified and saved.. (哦. 罗马书 5:1-19; 加拉太书 1:4; 1 哥林多前书 6:11; 2 哥林多前书 5:21; 以弗所书 1:7; 歌罗西书 1:13-14; 1 帖撒罗尼迦人 1:10).
所有人都犯了罪, 并没有上帝的荣耀; 通过他的恩典通过基督耶稣的救赎自由地证明: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, 宣布他的公义，以减轻过去的罪恶, 通过上帝的宽容; 宣布, 我说, 这时他的公义: 他可能只是, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus
罗马书 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 (以弗所书 1:7; 歌罗西书 2:13).
- You’re redeemed through His blood (以弗所书 1:7; 歌罗西书 1:13).
- You are justified by His blood (罗马书 5:9; 提图斯 3:7).
- You are reconciled by His blood (2 哥林多前书 5:18; 罗马书 3:25; 歌罗西书 1:20).
- You have peace with God through the blood of His cross (罗马书 5:1-2; 歌罗西书 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, 赎回, justification, 和解, 并与神和好 (希伯来书 9:21).
这 life is in the blood. 所以, a gospel without the blood is dead and doesn’t make a person alive.
在旧约中, everything that came in the service of God and belonged to God had to be purified with blood first.
在新约中, 情况仍然如此. 然而, 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.
没有耶稣的宝血, a person is not forgiven, 净化的, 赎回, 有道理的, 并与上帝和解.
No work, ritual, 方法, strategy, 牺牲, or precepts and regulations of man can redeem a person from the power of the devil, 罪, 和死亡, 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 (马修 28:19; 标记 16:16; 使徒行传 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, 你与世界分离 (借着肉体的死) 并与上帝和解 (通过死者的圣灵复活), and you have peace with God.
你被洗礼, into His blood, and risen in His resurrection (罗马书 6:3:11).
The water separated you from the world and brought a separation between your old wicked sinful life (肉体之后) and a new holy life (圣灵之后) 归向上帝.
Just like God separated the righteous from the unrighteous through the water (洪水) 在 the Days of Noah, and separated His people through the water from the pagan life in Egypt and a holy life with God.
通过 baptism in Christ, you are dead to the world and made alive unto God and have peace with God. (哦. 使徒行传 26:18; 罗马书 5:1; 6:5-11; 以弗所书 2:13; 腓立比书 3:10-21; 歌罗西书 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: 但是现在在基督耶稣里，有时遥不可及的是基督的宝血使 (以弗所书 2:11-13)
As it is appointed unto men once to die, 但是在此之后: 因此，基督曾经被提议承担许多人的罪过; 向他们寻找他的人将第二次出现，而没有犯罪来得救 (希伯来书 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 (圣经) 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.
耶稣的血是牺牲, a remission, and not a permit to keep sinning.
God is light, 在他里面毫无黑暗. 我们若说我们与神有交通, 并在黑暗中行走, 我们撒谎, 并且不说实话: 但如果我们行在光中, as he is in the light, 我们彼此有团契, 儿子耶稣基督的宝血使我们摆脱了所有的罪
1 约翰 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.
现在, 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.
因为 祂复活的大能 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, 以一种新的、活泼的方式, 他为我们奉献的, 透过面纱, 也就是说, 他的肉 (哦. 罗马书 5:1-2; 歌罗西书 1:20-23; 希伯来书 10:19-20)
现在和平之神, 这再次从死者那里带来, 绵羊的伟大牧羊人, 通过永恒盟约的鲜血, 让您在每项良好的工作中都完美地履行他的意志, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, 通过耶稣基督; 永远是永远荣耀的. 阿门
希伯来书 13:20-21
