Reflecting on the Price
Jesus paid a tremendous price to make an atonement for our sins (Hebrews 9:
11-15) “but Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater
and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this
building. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood, He
entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the
unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh. How much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this
cause He is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the
redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which
are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance”. Hebrews 10:8, 10
says “above when He said, sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and
offering for sin You would not, neither had pleasure therein; which are offered
by the law. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ one for all”.
The Day of Atonement was established by the Lord Yahweh, for us to be
cleansed from our sins once a year by the high priest (Leviticus 16:30,34) “for
on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you; to cleanse you, that you
may be clean from all your sins before the Lord Yahweh. And this shall be an
everlasting statute to you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all
their sins once a year. And he did as the Lord Yahweh commanded Moses”.
And in Leviticus 23:26-28 says “and the Lord Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying.
Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement; it
shall be an holy convocation to you; and you shall afflict your souls, and offer an
offering made by fire to the Lord Yahweh. And you shall do no work in that
same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the
Lord Yahweh your God”.
Although we don’t practice making sacrifices like in the old testament, we should
reflect on the price that Jesus paid to redeem us back to our heavenly Father.
The Bible tells us that we are not our own (I Corinthians 6:19-20) “what? Know
you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you
have of God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price;
therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. You are
bought with a price; be not you the servants of men”.
Jesus suffered much for us (Isaiah 53:3-6) “He is despised and rejected of men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces
from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He has borne our
griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem Him stricken; smitten of God,
and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for
our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes
we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one
to his own way; and the Lord Yahweh has laid on Him the iniquity of us all”.
Reflecting on what Jesus did for us, will encourage us to live right, remember it’s
the goodness of God that lead us to repentance. I Peter 1:18-23; 3:18 says
“forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as
silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your
fathers. But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and
without spot. Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was manifest in these last times for you. Who by Him do believe in God, that
raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might
be in God. Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the
Spirit to sincere love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure
heart fervently. Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
by the word of God, which lives and abides forever. For Christ also has once
suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put
to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit”.
David speaking to himself is reflecting on the goodness of God in Psalms 103:1-
5 which says “bless the Lord Yahweh, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless
His holy name. Bless the Lord Yahweh, O my soul, and forget not all His
benefits. Who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving
kindness and tender mercies. Who satisfies your mouth with good things; so
that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s”.
Ephesians 2:10-14 says “for we are His workmanship; created in Christ Jesus to
good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.
Wherefore remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are
called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made
by hands. That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having
no hope, and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who
sometimes were far off are made near by the blood of Christ. For He is our
peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of
partition between us”.
We are told to examine ourselves (II Corinthians 13:5) “examine yourselves,
whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know you not your own
selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobates”?
As we examine ourselves, we have an opportunity to repent and be cleaned (I
John 1:6-9) “if we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we
lie, and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us
from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth
is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”.
Romans 8:9-13 says “but you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that
the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is
none of His. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of son; but the
Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him that raised up
Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall
also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwells in you. Therefore,
brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if you live
after the flesh, you shall die; but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of
the body, you shall live”.
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: October 7, 2011
Jesus paid a tremendous price to make an atonement for our sins (Hebrews 9:
11-15) “but Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater
and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this
building. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood, He
entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the
unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh. How much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this
cause He is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the
redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which
are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance”. Hebrews 10:8, 10
says “above when He said, sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and
offering for sin You would not, neither had pleasure therein; which are offered
by the law. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ one for all”.
The Day of Atonement was established by the Lord Yahweh, for us to be
cleansed from our sins once a year by the high priest (Leviticus 16:30,34) “for
on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you; to cleanse you, that you
may be clean from all your sins before the Lord Yahweh. And this shall be an
everlasting statute to you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all
their sins once a year. And he did as the Lord Yahweh commanded Moses”.
And in Leviticus 23:26-28 says “and the Lord Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying.
Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement; it
shall be an holy convocation to you; and you shall afflict your souls, and offer an
offering made by fire to the Lord Yahweh. And you shall do no work in that
same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the
Lord Yahweh your God”.
Although we don’t practice making sacrifices like in the old testament, we should
reflect on the price that Jesus paid to redeem us back to our heavenly Father.
The Bible tells us that we are not our own (I Corinthians 6:19-20) “what? Know
you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you
have of God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price;
therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. You are
bought with a price; be not you the servants of men”.
Jesus suffered much for us (Isaiah 53:3-6) “He is despised and rejected of men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces
from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He has borne our
griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem Him stricken; smitten of God,
and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for
our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes
we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one
to his own way; and the Lord Yahweh has laid on Him the iniquity of us all”.
Reflecting on what Jesus did for us, will encourage us to live right, remember it’s
the goodness of God that lead us to repentance. I Peter 1:18-23; 3:18 says
“forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as
silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your
fathers. But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and
without spot. Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was manifest in these last times for you. Who by Him do believe in God, that
raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might
be in God. Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the
Spirit to sincere love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure
heart fervently. Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
by the word of God, which lives and abides forever. For Christ also has once
suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put
to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit”.
David speaking to himself is reflecting on the goodness of God in Psalms 103:1-
5 which says “bless the Lord Yahweh, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless
His holy name. Bless the Lord Yahweh, O my soul, and forget not all His
benefits. Who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving
kindness and tender mercies. Who satisfies your mouth with good things; so
that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s”.
Ephesians 2:10-14 says “for we are His workmanship; created in Christ Jesus to
good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.
Wherefore remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are
called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made
by hands. That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having
no hope, and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who
sometimes were far off are made near by the blood of Christ. For He is our
peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of
partition between us”.
We are told to examine ourselves (II Corinthians 13:5) “examine yourselves,
whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know you not your own
selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobates”?
As we examine ourselves, we have an opportunity to repent and be cleaned (I
John 1:6-9) “if we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we
lie, and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us
from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth
is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”.
Romans 8:9-13 says “but you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that
the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is
none of His. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of son; but the
Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him that raised up
Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall
also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwells in you. Therefore,
brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if you live
after the flesh, you shall die; but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of
the body, you shall live”.
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: October 7, 2011
