Scripture to Read: Hebrews 9:15-21
Today we see in Hebrews 9:15 the words,
“For this reason…” God is telling us because Christ is our
Great High Priest, the Perfect Sacrifice to pay for ALL
our sin, and because Christ entered the perfect Holy
of Holies, that He is our Perfect Mediator between us
and God the Father. Jesus is continually praying on our
behalf. Also, as our Mediator, Christ speaks on behalf of
every believer, uniting every believer to God the Father.
Christ did all of this through His perfect life, His perfect
obedience to the Father’s will, and through His death
and resurrection, defeating death and sin for all time.
Therefore, everyone who surrenders to Christ as Lord
receives God’s promise of eternal life and God’s eternal
inheritance. Through Christ’s death, Christ completely
redeems every follower of His, from all sins. Christ even
died for all those sins committed under the first covenant.
The evidence that Christ died for all sins, for all
time, is explained in Hebrews 9:16-20. We see in Hebrews
9 that a covenant made by a person cannot go
into effect until after that person dies. In the first covenant
that God gave to Moses, there had to be the death
of an animal for the covenant to go into effect. That is
why God led Moses to say to the nation of Israel, in Exodus
24:8, “…this blood confirms the covenant the Lord
has made with you…” These same words Jesus used in
Matthew 26:28, during the Lord’s Supper to let us all
know His blood confirms God’s promise of eternal life.
Challenge & Application
1. Christ has done so much for us, so what did you
learn today about Christ’s blood and what He’s doing
now for us?
2. Knowing this Good News, who will you share this
with this week?
Don’t forget to pray using the A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) method!