Hebrews 9:22
"...without shedding of blood is no remission."
Some say they can't understand why the Gospel is such a bloody one. They say that it is distasteful and the 'god of love' would never have required such a thing. Well, in their depravity they are right, a 'god of love' would have no need for legal satisfaction and justice for sin because that god is not holy. Their god is weak and subject to change, just like the men that created him. But the True God of the Bible is a Holy and Just God. His justice had to be satisfied with blood shed unto death in payment for sin.
Christ is not waiting for anything from us, we are incapable of anything Good. That's why the Father made a covenant with His Son to intervene for His chosen sinners.
If you're not convinced of the sickness, wickedness, and evil of sin, then the Holy Spirit has not educated you by His Word. You can't sugar-coat sin. While it sounds nice to say that we 'slipped up' or 'erred' or told a 'little while lie,' in reality, everything done outside of Christ is sin and worthy of death.
God didn't leave the fate of His children in their own sinful hands! No, the Sovereign God gave us to His Beloved Son and when He opens your heart to this Truth you'll be beyond grateful, knowing you would be lost forever without Him.
"For the life of the flesh in in the blood:...for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." (Leviticus 17:11) The blood of innocent animals was only a covering until the blood of Christ was shed unto death, on the cross at Calvary, "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)
Christ was both innocent of sin and righteous by obedience, the only complete, satisfactory Sacrifice. He is the blood that purged, cleansed us from our own dead blood, "And from Jesus Christ, Who is the Faithful Witness, and the First Begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood..." (Revelation 1:5) "For this is My blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." (Matthew 26:28)
Christ Jesus our LORD,
by His blood,
we have Life!
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