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Man’s Need for the Blood of
Christ
In
order to understand the importance and impact of the blood of Christ shed for us
at His crucifixion, we must view man according to God’s intention, as he was
created. Man was created with the intention of becoming a living human container
who would bear the very life of God – man would become a living vessel
suitable for God’s free expression.
For
this, man was created tri-part, with a body, soul, and spirit. God’s intention
was that one day God would place His very life into the created
man’s human spirit, thus making the created man to be reborn in spirit
– to be born of the very life of God Himself. God’s life and nature received
into the man’s human spirit would become expressed via man’s soul faculties
of mind, emotion, and will.
This
intention of God for man is first indicated in the Bible by the fact that God
placed Adam and Eve before the Tree of Life – a figure of
Christ as the bearer of the life of God to man (See John 15).
Here
below we see a verse that lists these three parts of man, but in a different
order than I have listed above.
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Thes. 5:23 And the very God of
peace sanctify you wholly (completely);
and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body…
We
should note from this verse, by a hermeneutic device called “the law of
first mentioning,” that the “spirit” is listed first, placing it as the
foremost part of man’s being. God intends that the life in the spirit
is to rule the faculties of the soul organ, and soul is to rule the doings of
the body. Thus, when religion tells us we need to “do things” or “act in a
certain way” in order to prove our being a Christian they miss the focus of
God’s plan that Christ articulated to Paul for we Gentiles. That plan was that
God’s life would indwell the human spirit of every person who receives
Christ’s Spirit, automatically producing the fruits of that life.
This
then brings us to see the physical body as the least part of
man’s according to God’s eternal plan. Man’s body is to be the servant of
man’s spirit-life. It is in the members of the physical flesh body that Sin as
a nature dwells (Rom 7:17-23), needing to be ruled over by Christ from within
the believer’s spirit. The body contains the fallen nature that Adam gained at
the fall in the garden, and which came also to all mankind as being of the
lineage of Adam (Rom 5:12). Rom 8:3 …God
sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin
in the flesh:
The
Sin nature in man’s flesh has contaminated the
originally created man, including his soul, producing the “acts of that Sin
nature in His flesh,” which we call sins. Now, Romans 8:8
(AMP) … those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the
appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or
satisfy God, or be
acceptable to Him.
The
created man, created to be a living vessel for God’s expression, has become a
dirtied potential container of the life of God; dirtied by acts of Sin in the
flesh. God planned to gain “many sons” by placing the life-seed of
His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, into men. Thus, if God is to bring the
fallen created man into accord with His eternal plan, there is a problem that
first needs to be remedied – man’s sins.
God
told
God’s remedy for man’s sins is the precious blood that was shed once by Christ at the cross to remit, cancel, and take away all sins of those who would only have faith in His blood.
Colossians
1:14 In whom we have redemption
through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Romans 3:24-25 (NASB) being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; 25 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith…