Christ and His Supremacy
Heb 10:11-14
From the scriptures, we see that despite the multiplicity and continuity of the sacrifices, the scriptures say they can never take away sins.
The scriptures are just comparing two dispensations. ‘This man’ Jesus offered his sacrifice once. Ephesians 1:17-23
Jesus has become the head and he has received from the Father what has made him preeminent
Col 1:12-23
The scriptures from Hebrews reveal the weakness of what used to be. The weakness of this is that it can only speak to the daily but not forgive sins.
Verse 12 of Hebrews establishes the supremacy of what God has done in Christ.
Jesus provided a single sacrifice for sins once and for all. He was not offering, so in Christ Jesus, the sacrifice for sin had been offered, and it was offered once and forever not daily or oftentimes or continually. God wrought in Christ and what he did in Christ brought about perfection.
He settled mankind and ended the enmity between God and man. The above scripture has emphasized and made us comprehend that Christ’s sacrifice is supreme, superior, and ultimate. A lot of people still do not understand the depth of what God did for us in Christ. We are not fighting for victory but from the victory we have. That’s the concept of spiritual warfare in the New Testament. The goal is not to win the battle but to establish the victory in Christ. You don’t have what it takes to fight the devil.
The only one who has that capacity has already won and defeated the devil. If there is a need for you to establish victory in an area of life, you don’t need to fight. You simply need to stand firm and insist on Jesus’ victory, and enforce it.
You are an enforcement agency. What God did in Christ was finished and perfected. The Bible says there is no more sacrifice for sin. Fasting and prayer do not make you overcome sin. God is pleased with the blood. The wrath of God has been turned.
Jesus was explaining that He needed to present Himself (and the blood) before the Father as a high priest. As He presented Himself, the wrath of God was turned away. Jesus satisfied His Father. He did it once and for all. The one He did was superior to the ones the high priest made daily and yearly.
Hebrews 10:12
[12]But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God (KJV).
John 20:17
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
At His ascension, Jesus presented Himself to the Father as a high priest over the house of God.
The house of God was a physical temple. The high priest will present the sacrifice before the Father. He is not a high priest over the cement and brick, nor is He over the cathedral. He is not over the tabernacle. He is the high priest over your life.
This is because you are the temple of the Lord. You are the house of God. The high priest is the one who died, was buried and was raised again. He has the privilege to present His blood before the Father. He has become the priest over you and is superior to what the priests do daily, weekly, oftentimes and yearly. That is the supremacy of Christ!
This is why God gave Him to be the head over all things, even the Church. He obeyed. He did the work of obedience.
John 10:17-18
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment I received of my Father.
He said, “…no one taketh this glory to himself.”(KJV).
He yielded Himself. He obeyed.
Ephesians 1:11
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will
A contextual look is the “in whom we have obtained an inheritance. “
If you can be praying for your inheritance that shows they were never yours in Christ Jesus. It would be ignorance of the scripture to start praying to obtain your inheritance. Some of the things you think are your inheritance are not your inheritance in Christ Jesus.
If you have prayed for cars that shows it was never your inheritance and it contradicts what Paul says in Ephesians 1:11.
If the material things are your inheritance, why do the unbelievers have them in abundance? You must understand what Jesus died for. He did not die so you could drive a car or build a house. You can have them without knowing Jesus.
Making the material things look like they are what He died for is fraudulent on your part. Your inheritance is forgiveness. You have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Ephesians 1:2-7
[2]Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
[3]Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
[4]According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
[5]Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
[6]To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
[7]In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;(KJV).
We are accepted amongst the beloved. We are not struggling to be accepted. We cannot offer money for it. There is nothing else we can give that can make us accepted other than what Christ has done. There is nothing else that is required for God to accept you.
Forgiveness of sins is our inheritance. In Christ is the redemption of sins.
Ephesians 1:2
[2]Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ (KJV).
It is wrong to have thought that blessings can be converted to capital. You have to work if you need money. You have to engage in a service if you need money. The blessings being spoken about in the aforementioned text are mentioned in the latter verse – the forgiveness of sin, acceptance among the beloved, inheritance, and our adoption.
What distinguishes us from unbelievers is that we entrust our knowledge and business to the Lord.
According to the text, the blessing is in Christ and not in currency. We are also chosen among the beloved. By the law, no one can stand before the Lord. However, because of what Christ has done, we can stand blameless before the Father in love.
There is a difference between sinlessness and being blameless and faultless. Not knowing this will make you struggle with this truth.
We are dressed in His righteousness. Our faultlessness is rooted in Jesus. We are covered and immersed in Him. In this, we are not afraid of the rapture.
So when he comes with a trumpet sound, you cannot miss rapture because you are dressed in his righteousness and it can never be pulled off. You are never stripped of his righteousness. You have been immersed in his righteousness, which is what the sacrifice of Christ provided.
Jesus’ death and sacrifice are supreme to what we had previously. Christ brought us faultless, blamelessness so we can stand before Jesus when he shall come. We will not be ashamed when he comes.
Trying to submit to God’s righteousness is having a proper understanding of what the righteousness of God is. While you are working towards perfection, he gave us the gift of righteousness. So what he expects is that your act of righteousness will catch up with the gift. If all you have is an act, then he says all the righteousness of man is like a filthy rag.
You did not do anything to be righteous, you only “became” righteous. Christ knew no sin yet he became a sinner that we might be righteous. 2 Corinthians 5:21.
The place of living right is that we must settle first then issue of righteousness. So we keep learning about Christ.
As a believer, we must live by the name. They do not call people “Christians” in church, they were called “Christians” on the street because people saw the disciples’ conduct and concluded that these have been with Christ. They saw their life because they behaved like Christ and called them Christians.
The turning point is not establishing our righteousness. Righteousness is an inheritance we receive from God.
According to how he has chosen us, we should be holy and blameless before him.
There is no place in the new Dispensation where we live in fear but a constraint from his love. We are compelled to live right not living right out of fear. What Jesus have we have. We are partakers of his life. We are co-heirs on the premises of adoption. The sacrifice of Jesus birthed this for us. We are accepted by the beloved. We do not pray to be accepted like it was in the story of the Prodigal Son.
We should never run away from his presence. If you think you’re running; can you hide from God? All we need to do is come and stand before the Father.
Ephesians 1: 7
We have redemption through his blood.
No one can forgive sin as the Son did. The turning point is that no one goes to hell because of sin rather they go for not receiving and accepting the inheritance in Christ. That which the blood of the lamb delivered to us.
Hallelujah