You Are Washed by the Blood
Dr RJ Sing · 1 min read
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”
Leviticus 17:11 says, ‘The Life of the Flesh is in the Blood’. When Jesus poured out His Blood, He poured out His Life. As I understand it, the life of God was released into the Universe. Bear in mind that our redemption is not complete, until the Resurrection. Some have the impression that our bodies are not important—but our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
God is not going to leave our bodies in a state of decay. He is going to resurrect them with Glory like that of Jesus. Redemption is the full outworking of Jesus’ sacrifice and it is consummated by the resurrection. Many Christians do not seem to grasp the significance of Christ’s Resurrection. The Sons of God are revealed at the Resurrection and all of creation is waiting expectantly.
The Trees, the Seas, the Rivers and mountains are all waiting. It is extraordinary that creation has so much excitement and that the Church has so little. The entirety of creation suffered because of man’s sin. We see that we are not the only ones who are going to come into the Glorious Resurrection, creation is too. However, God has assigned this priority, creation does not come in until we come in.
From the July 2018 issue, themed We Do the Ridiculous, He Does the Miraculous.
