DAY 63 Read Numbers 28 through 30.
Today's reading returns to the theme of prescribed sacrifices in the ceremonial services. Let us remember that all this shed blood symbolized and pointed forward to that of Jesus as the Lamb of God.
Memory gem: "This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins" (Matthew 26:28).
Thought for today:
Christ is our High Priest now in the presence of God for us, not in "the holy places made with hands,...but into heaven itself" (Hebrews 9:24), where He still pleads His blood in our behalf. Some people do not like to hear about the blood of Christ. They resent it. They do not want anyone to die for them. They want to work their own way to heaven; they want to make themselves good enough to be there; they want to make themselves moral enough to be saved. But there is the word of God in Hebrews 9:12: "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us."
Jesus is our High Priest of good things to come. My friend, do you not wish to share these good things--cleansing from your sins, the blotting out of your sins, a part in the full atoning sacrifice of the cross, peace which passeth understanding, the guidance and leading of the Holy Spirit, the resurrection from the dead, a place with Christ forever? The apsotolic writer tells us that if the blood of the animal sacrifice in the temple of old sanctified to the purifying of the flesh in the symbolic service, "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).
Will you today accept this blood-bought salvation?
Today's reading returns to the theme of prescribed sacrifices in the ceremonial services. Let us remember that all this shed blood symbolized and pointed forward to that of Jesus as the Lamb of God.
Memory gem: "This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins" (Matthew 26:28).
Thought for today:
Christ is our High Priest now in the presence of God for us, not in "the holy places made with hands,...but into heaven itself" (Hebrews 9:24), where He still pleads His blood in our behalf. Some people do not like to hear about the blood of Christ. They resent it. They do not want anyone to die for them. They want to work their own way to heaven; they want to make themselves good enough to be there; they want to make themselves moral enough to be saved. But there is the word of God in Hebrews 9:12: "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us."
Jesus is our High Priest of good things to come. My friend, do you not wish to share these good things--cleansing from your sins, the blotting out of your sins, a part in the full atoning sacrifice of the cross, peace which passeth understanding, the guidance and leading of the Holy Spirit, the resurrection from the dead, a place with Christ forever? The apsotolic writer tells us that if the blood of the animal sacrifice in the temple of old sanctified to the purifying of the flesh in the symbolic service, "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).
Will you today accept this blood-bought salvation?
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