04-01-2009, 03:18 AM
Greetings! I just discovered this forum. I would like to share my thoughts (extremely concise) on this topic, and it will help to see where I stand among you all. I would love your thoughts and comments. Perhaps on this forum this has been said a bunch of times already?
Why Jesus died for us...
In the Old Testament God began "Blood Covenants" the moment that Adam and Eve sinned. God killed an animal that He had just created to cover their naked "shamed" bodies. (That is why we wear clothes today. We are ashamed to walk around naked.)
This was recognized as grace, and in time God made other Blood Covenants with man.
And man made blood covenants with other men.
Blood Covenants were/are unbreakable, and should someone break the blood covenant--"that someone" would be killed for breaking it.
Moses and his people made a Blood Covenant (which can be described as the Law Contract) with God. This can be found in the Book of Numbers in the Bible. The people said that they would obey these Laws and this Blood Covenant was made with the sacrifice of animals.
Thus Moses and the people made a binding Blood Covenant with GOD at the base of the mountain.
But the problem is that they could not keep the Law/Blood Covenant perfectly, AND we can't keep the Law perfectly. We are all in the same boat.
God came to earth to die in our place. The punishment that we deserved for they and we are the covenant/Law breakers, HE took upon Himself.
What we deserved fell upon Jesus, the perfect sacrifice.
Along with His death on the cruel cross, He established a New Covenant as well, one of mercy and grace. For the Law has no mercy. And the Law is made for the Lawless.
I say all that to say, God came to us and saved us by His Own Blood.
The Blood was not someone else's Blood, but God's alone.
For He died in our place.
His Own Right Arm saved us, not someone else's arm.
(Also, the same LORD of the Old Testament is the same Lord of the New Testament. Compare Isaiah 40:3 with the first verses of Mark. And there are other verses in the New Testament that also say these verses as in Mark. This is one of the windows into the Old and New that connect it easily. This is the same LORD Who came to die and rise again. Even more HE gave us Himself a tangible God Who will wipe our tears from our eyes one day.
Love in Jesus' Name.
Why Jesus died for us...
In the Old Testament God began "Blood Covenants" the moment that Adam and Eve sinned. God killed an animal that He had just created to cover their naked "shamed" bodies. (That is why we wear clothes today. We are ashamed to walk around naked.)
This was recognized as grace, and in time God made other Blood Covenants with man.
And man made blood covenants with other men.
Blood Covenants were/are unbreakable, and should someone break the blood covenant--"that someone" would be killed for breaking it.
Moses and his people made a Blood Covenant (which can be described as the Law Contract) with God. This can be found in the Book of Numbers in the Bible. The people said that they would obey these Laws and this Blood Covenant was made with the sacrifice of animals.
Thus Moses and the people made a binding Blood Covenant with GOD at the base of the mountain.
But the problem is that they could not keep the Law/Blood Covenant perfectly, AND we can't keep the Law perfectly. We are all in the same boat.
God came to earth to die in our place. The punishment that we deserved for they and we are the covenant/Law breakers, HE took upon Himself.
What we deserved fell upon Jesus, the perfect sacrifice.
Along with His death on the cruel cross, He established a New Covenant as well, one of mercy and grace. For the Law has no mercy. And the Law is made for the Lawless.
I say all that to say, God came to us and saved us by His Own Blood.
The Blood was not someone else's Blood, but God's alone.
For He died in our place.
His Own Right Arm saved us, not someone else's arm.
(Also, the same LORD of the Old Testament is the same Lord of the New Testament. Compare Isaiah 40:3 with the first verses of Mark. And there are other verses in the New Testament that also say these verses as in Mark. This is one of the windows into the Old and New that connect it easily. This is the same LORD Who came to die and rise again. Even more HE gave us Himself a tangible God Who will wipe our tears from our eyes one day.
Love in Jesus' Name.