Topic: A Full-Orbed Sacrifice [Thursday April 30, 2015]
Text: Hebrews 9:11-15
Key Verse: “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” (Hebrews 9:14).
David Livingstone, that great missionary to Africa, made an attempt to compare the efforts he put into the preaching of the gospel in Africa with the sacrifice Jesus made to redeem mankind from eternal damnation and concluded that there was no ground for comparison. In his words “people thought of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which simply paid back a small part of the great debt owed to our God, which we can never fully repay? Is that sacrifice which brings its own reward of the consciences of doing good, peace of mind and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with such a thought! It is emphatically no sacrifice. It’s rather a privilege: I never made a sacrifice, Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which He made who left His Father’s Throne on High to give Himself for us”.
The sacrifice of Jesus Christ cannot be better explained. Christ paid the final and ever efficacious price for the redemption of mankind without spot or any sinful stain either in His nature or life. First, Christ’s blood is sufficient to purge the conscience from dead works. It reaches to the very soul and conscience.
Secondly, the blood is sufficient to enable us to serve the living God, not only by purging that guilt which separates God and the sinner, but in sanctifying and renewing the soul through the gracious influences of the Holy Spirit.
Conclusively, Christ became the Mediator of the New Testament which is anchored in His shed blood and the universal atonement to redeem mankind from transgressions and to qualify all those that are effectually called to receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Christian experiences of salvation and sanctification are obtainable through faith in Christ’s full and final sacrifice.
Bible in One Year: 1 Samuel 8-9
Thought for The Day: Jesus atoned for all your sins.
DCLM Daily Manna was written by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.
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