Blood Works - Third Order

We continue looking at the orders given by God about the requirements of the animals used to produce the blood, which will work in the salvation of His enslaved children.

Third Order Regarding Blood Works

The chosen animals, according to God’s mandate, had to be spotless. Your lamb shall be without blemish. What does this mean? This simply means that there are to be no flaws found on the animal. It must not be deformed in any way, or be sickly in any form. In other words, it must be without fault.

How does this relate to Jesus, our human Brother? Jesus is the perfect One, I can hear us all saying, for He never sinned. That is perfectly true and we need to understand why this is so. We need to know beyond our carnal thoughts and self-understanding, and beyond all sentiments, that Jesus really and truly came and lived among us in human flesh.

This is not just important, it is our very hope, for unless we believe that Jesus came as a human, like you and me, we will continue to make excuses for our sinful nature. In that vein, we cannot but receive all that Jesus has done for us, so that we can live as He lived. It is in Jesus and in Jesus alone, that we who are in sinful flesh, can die to sin and live in Christ. Paul reminds us, believers, that if we die with Jesus, we know that we will also live with Him. This is so, because faith allows us to believe that Jesus died and rose, never to die again and rise again. He died once and for all, so that death no longer has any mastery over Him.

The Scripture states this clearly. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Romans 6: 10 – 11.

It is in Jesus and Jesus alone that we can know the freedom from being slaves to sin .You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. Romans 6: 18.

It is in Jesus and Jesus alone that we are reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5: 21

Why is this so? How can it be? This is all reliable and trustworthy, because the Man Jesus, in truth and in fact came in human flesh, sinful flesh. Many, like me, need to know this as a fact. Jesus did not come in sinless flesh but in sinful flesh. He came like you and me, yet He never sinned. These verses of Scripture have been chosen, to emphasize specific facts and points about our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who took on flesh and became a man.

Paul, as a servant of Jesus, said that he was called and set apart for the Gospel of God, the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures regarding his Son who as to his human nature was a descendant of David. Romans 1: 2 – 3. David was not a man in sinless flesh. In other words, David was a human person like you and like me. If we believe that Jesus, in His earthly body, was a descendant of David, then Jesus was totally human also.

Now listen, with new and spirit-enabled understanding to this fact. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh. Romans 8: 3. Jesus came in the likeness of sinful flesh, not sinless flesh. That is the only way that He could be true and genuine for the work for which He came. In other words, Jesus’ flesh was subject to pain, sorrow, pleasure, love and even death, as your flesh and mine. It is precisely because He took on weak human flesh that He could be as we are and be called our brother. For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. Hebrews 2: 17 - 18

It is precisely because of the Spirit abiding in Him that He was able to not yield to the devil’s temptations. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weakness, but we have one who was tempted in every way, just as we are – yet was without sin. Hebrews 4: 15.