Sunday, March 31, 2019

Fifth Sunday Meditation: By The Water And The Blood




"Moses wrote all the words of the Lord. He rose up early
in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain
and set up twelve pillars representing Israel's twelve tribes.
And he sent young Israelite men, who offered burnt offerings
and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord.

And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and
half of the blood he dashed against the altar.
Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing
of the people; and they said, "All that the Lord has said we
will do, and we will be obedient."

And Moses took the remaining half of the blood and sprinkled
it on the people, and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant which
the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words."
Exodus 24:4-8





"For the life, the animal soul, is in the blood, and I
have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement
for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement,
by the reason of life which it represents."
Leviticus 17:11


"Who is this Who comes from Edom, with crimson-stained
garments from Bozrah (The sheephold)  in Edom? (red).
The One Who is glorious in His apparel, striding triumphantly
in the greatness of His might?  It is I, the One, Who speaks in
righteousness, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save!
Why is Your apparel splashed with red, and Your garments
like the one who treads in the winepress?

I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples there
was no one with Me. I trod them in My anger and trampled
them in My wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon
My garments, and I stained all My raiment."
Isaiah 63:1-3

"I am the Good Shepherd.  The Good Shepherd risks
and lays down His own life for the sheep."
John 10:11


"My sacrifice, the sacrifice acceptable to God is
a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart,
broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly
and thoroughly penitent, such, O God,
You will not despise.
Psalm 51:17


All are justified and made upright and in right standing
with God freely and gratuitously by His grace, His
unmerited favor and mercy, through the redemption
which is provided in Christ Jesus.

Whom God put forward, before the eyes of all, as
a mercy seat and propitiation by His blood, the cleansing
and life-giving sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation
to be received through faith.  This was to show God's
righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He
had passed over and ignored former sins without punishment.

It was to demonstrate and prove at the present time,
in the now season, that He Himself is righteous and He
justifies and accepts as righteous those who have true faith in Jesus."
Romans 3:24-26


The Water Of Life
Yongsung Kim



"Then they took him (Joseph) and cast him into the
well-like pit which was empty; there was no water in it."
Genesis 37:24

"As for you also, because of and for the sake of
the covenant of the Lord with His people, which was
sealed with sprinkled covenant blood, I have released and
sent forth your imprisoned people out of the waterless pit."
Zechariah 9:11


"Wait and listen, everyone who is thirsty! Come to the waters;
and he who has no money, come and buy and eat!  Yes, come,
buy priceless spiritual wine and milk without money and without
price, simply for the self-surrender that accepts the blessing."
Isaiah 55:1

"They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion
and shall flow together and be radiant with joy over the
goodness of the Lord-for the corn, for the juice of the grape,
for the oil, and for the young of the flock and the herd.
And their life shall be like a watered garden, and they
shall not sorrow or languish anymore."
Jeremiah 31:12

"Now on the final and most important day of the Feast,
Jesus stood, and He cried in a loud voice, If anyone is thirsty,
let them come to Me and drink!  They who believe in Me,
who cleave to and trust in and rely on Me as the Scriptures
has said, From their innermost being shall flow continuously
springs and rivers of living water.

But He was speaking here of the Spirit, Whom those who
believed, trusted, and had faith in Him were afterward to receive.
For the Holy Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus
was not yet glorified, raised to honor."
John 7:37-39

"For whatever is born of God is victorious over
the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world,
even our faith.

"Who is it that is victorious over the world, but they
 who believe that Jesus is the Son of God?

This is He Who came with water and blood, His
baptism and His death, Jesus Christ the Messiah-
not in water only, but by the water and the blood.
And it is the Holy Spirit Who bears witness, because
the Holy Spirit is the Truth.

So there are three witnesses in heaven:
the Father, the Word (Christ), and the Holy Spirit,
and these three are One;
and there are three witnesses on the earth:
the Spirit, the water, and the blood;
and these three agree, are in unison;
their testimony coincides."
1 John 5:4-8


"And He further said to me,  It is done!
I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the Beginning and the End.
To the thirsty I Myself will give water
without price from the fountain springs
of the water of Life."
Revelation 21:6




Only Jesus
Casting Crowns
(2018)





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