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Day 15: JESUS SATISFIES THE LAW OF GOD
REFLECTION QUESTIONS
» If you die today and God asks you why He should allow you into His heaven, what will you say? (hint: there is only one Biblically correct answer)
» If Jesus’ blood gives you eternal life, how does that affect how you see yourself in this life?
» There is not one thing in all of creation more powerful than the shed blood of Jesus. Meditate on this for a minute and give thanks to God.
» Practice the memory verse.
QUOTE
“Begotten by the Father, He was not made by the Father; He was made Man in the Mother whom He Himself had made, so that He might exist here for a while, sprung from her who could never and nowhere have existed except through His power.”
- Augustine of Hippo
SCRIPTURE
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to ful ll them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.”
- Jesus (Matthew 5:17-18)
DEVOTIONAL
God is Holy and Just, and while obedience to His Law is required and rewarded, disobedience must be punished. God told Adam that if he ate the fruit of the forbidden tree then he would surely die. So, when this command was broken, death entered into the human experience and we were banished from the Garden. Now life and death ow in the veins of human beings.
Because life is in the blood, God has always forbidden the eating of the blood of animals and required accountability for the shedding of human blood. He also established that without death (the shedding of blood), sin cannot be forgiven. In fact, the law requires that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. (Hebrews 9:22)
We have all broken God’s Law and there is no forgiveness for this rebellion without the shedding of blood - the giving of a life.
Enter Jesus, who is born of a virgin (the sin-infected blood of a human father is not in Him) and lived His life in perfect obedience to God the Father. He obeyed the Laws of God perfectly. Because of His great love for us, “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21) The blood of life was shed to defeat the death that flows in our veins. His perfect obedience is credited to us and satis es our sin-debt. His death is the ultimate fulfillment of the law, while simultaneously the most merciful gift God has ever given. Justice is served and Holiness remains in tact, for disobedience is punished and obedience is rewarded - all in the person of Jesus.
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By Evergreen Christian CommunityREFLECTION QUESTIONS
» If you die today and God asks you why He should allow you into His heaven, what will you say? (hint: there is only one Biblically correct answer)
» If Jesus’ blood gives you eternal life, how does that affect how you see yourself in this life?
» There is not one thing in all of creation more powerful than the shed blood of Jesus. Meditate on this for a minute and give thanks to God.
» Practice the memory verse.
QUOTE
“Begotten by the Father, He was not made by the Father; He was made Man in the Mother whom He Himself had made, so that He might exist here for a while, sprung from her who could never and nowhere have existed except through His power.”
- Augustine of Hippo
SCRIPTURE
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to ful ll them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.”
- Jesus (Matthew 5:17-18)
DEVOTIONAL
God is Holy and Just, and while obedience to His Law is required and rewarded, disobedience must be punished. God told Adam that if he ate the fruit of the forbidden tree then he would surely die. So, when this command was broken, death entered into the human experience and we were banished from the Garden. Now life and death ow in the veins of human beings.
Because life is in the blood, God has always forbidden the eating of the blood of animals and required accountability for the shedding of human blood. He also established that without death (the shedding of blood), sin cannot be forgiven. In fact, the law requires that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. (Hebrews 9:22)
We have all broken God’s Law and there is no forgiveness for this rebellion without the shedding of blood - the giving of a life.
Enter Jesus, who is born of a virgin (the sin-infected blood of a human father is not in Him) and lived His life in perfect obedience to God the Father. He obeyed the Laws of God perfectly. Because of His great love for us, “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21) The blood of life was shed to defeat the death that flows in our veins. His perfect obedience is credited to us and satis es our sin-debt. His death is the ultimate fulfillment of the law, while simultaneously the most merciful gift God has ever given. Justice is served and Holiness remains in tact, for disobedience is punished and obedience is rewarded - all in the person of Jesus.