I just got off the phone with a girl who is considering things of the Lord. The gospel was shared with her recently and we were talking about it and she said some of that stuff seems crazy. I asked her what exactly seemed crazy to her and her response was that we are not worthy and our good things that we do are like filthy rags before the Lord. She was referring to Is 64:6 "We are like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags.." It is crazy! Even crazier is that "..the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin." 1 John 1:7
Ryan asked me the other night to teach Samuel something during our family time and earlier that day Samuel and I were painting outside and we painted a cross. I told Samuel that we needed to put some blood on the cross and he said, "why we need blood mom?"
Samuel painting
Lil Keely playing in the paint
The blood! The blood is so important!
So...we talked about why the blood?
We looked at a few passages...but the main one we talked about was in Lev 14:2-7(a prophecy of Christ)"This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold,the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field."
Jesus Christ was killed in an earthen vessel (flesh) and we (the diseased, messed up leper) can be dipped in His blood and declared CLEAN and set FREE!
Samuel letting the bird dipped in the blood be set free. Yay!
Rev 1:5 - "Jesus Christ....Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood."
Praise the Lord! Oh let us not consider His blood a common thing! May the Lord work in our hearts to be in awe of the blood He shed for us to be made clean!
Heb 10:29 "Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?"
How to apply the blood?
Jhn 11:26 "And whoever lives and believes in Me (Jesus) shall never die. Do you believe this?"
Lydia
