The mystery of God's wisdom (part 3)

 

     3.   Jesus Christ took on flesh in order to release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Man was subjected to the bondage of sin and the law of sacrifices which could not present him perfect before God, because the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.  Therefore, when He (Christ) came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come --- In the volume of the book it is written of Me ---To do Your will, O God.' "Previously saying, "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the law), then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first that He may establish the second. By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all" (Hebrews 10:1-10).

And so, since the wages of sin is death and the blood of animal sacrifices could not present the worshiper perfect before the Father because if they could they would not have ceased to be offered, therefore, through the death of Jesus Christ in whom all things exist, His death paid the penalty of sin for all humanity and released those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage, but this deliverance requires a certain application and protocol in order to effect the redemption and forgiveness for our transgressions.

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To be continued

With brotherly love

Lucius Joseph