![]() This reminds me of the first Passover, as death passed over all who applied the blood of a lamb over their doorposts or lentils. ![]() This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins” (Rom 3:25). It was He that “God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. The law only showed us what sin is (Rom 7:7, Gal 3:23-25), so those old sacrifices could only cover sins, but not take them away, and they were repetitious because sin is repetitious, but those who have repented and trusted in Christ have been redeemed “with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot”(1st Pet 1:19), so we were not rescued from God’s wrath “with perishable things such as silver or gold”(1st Pet 1:18), but by the once-and-for-all sacrifice of Jesus Christ, Who came for this very reason, to give His life as a ransom for many (Mark 10:45). We could never have been redeemed by the law because we couldn’t even keep it. Today, there is “no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself” (Heb 7:27). When the old sacrificial system contained in the Mosaic Law was still in effect, they had to repeat the sacrifices over and over again because ancient Israel, like all of us, sin over and over again, and so, “ The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office” (Heb 7:23). Does the gospel depend on Jesus’ sinless life, His atoning death, the resurrection, or all three? The Spotless Lamb of God
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