4 More Jewels in Our Inheritance as Children of God

We Will Never, Ever Need Another Sacrifice for Our Sins

"In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; He entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence. Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world.

But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself …" Hebrews 9:22-27 NIV

Forgiveness for sins never came from a prayer, a ritual such as baptism, religion or good intentions. Forgiveness for sins required death, innocent death. Innocent animals died to postpone God's judgment for humanity's sins, for Adam in the garden and for Israel under the Law, until the Lamb of God came and took away the sin of the world (John 1).

Jesus' death was not, and will not, be repeated as with animal sacrifices, because it alone satisfied God's judgment for sins - the death of a human being, the Son of Man, for the sin(s) of human beings. This marvelous act, which established God's forgiveness, has occurred once, and that one time was for all, because it was the death of God the Son.

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