In continuation of Sunday’s message, we’re looking at the outcome of what God carried out in Christ. The efficacy of what was done by the sacrifice of Jesus. We compared the sacrifice of the animals in the Old Testament and what it was able to accomplish and we concluded that what the lamb of God achieved is superior and supreme.
Colossians 1:12-23
We are partakers because we were adopted into the family of God. The legality of that process is such that the adopted child has equal rights with the biological child in the family. The scriptures even say that Jesus is not ashamed to call us brethren.
What qualified us to be partakers is what the Father accomplished for us in His Son, Jesus. The blood of the animals could not make anyone partaker. Through the blood of the Lamb of God, we have redemption.
What God did through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus is sufficient. It’s not something we can compare to what the blood of the goat could do. In Colossians 1:12, the Bible reveals that we are qualified and what qualifies us is what God did through his son.
Jesus made it happen for us to be partakers. We have been delivered from the power of darkness so no form of captivity is permitted to hold you down. The believer has been delivered, you are not the one looking for deliverance, You are the deliverer.
What Jesus did delivered you. You need to understand that the fact that you have challenges does not mean you are under the power of darkness. The death of Jesus is sufficient, capable, effectual and potent. God has translated us to the kingdom of his dear son.
Colossians 1:12-14
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins
He has translated you into the kingdom of His dear Son. He could not leave you in the kingdom of darkness. He translated you. You are settled in the family of God. The Father has done good work in your life.
You are delivered and translated. You are a member of His family. He has accepted you in the beloved. This is what the death of Jesus has done. He has made Him the first and the beginning.
In verse 14, the writer says that we have redemption through Jesus’ blood, which is the forgiveness of sins.
Redemption is the forgiveness of sin. The forgiveness of sin is not just in the past. It is in the past, present and future.
There is no more sacrifice for sins. He has done the perfect work. The blood of the animal is just pay-as-you-go. The blood of the animal only atone for the sin. It does not remove the sin. What the Father did for us in His Son is such that the forgiveness of sin has to deal with the past, present and future. There is no other sacrifice that can be used for the forgiveness of sin. That is redemption!
There is no requirement for the forgiveness of sin aside from the one the Father has done through Jesus Christ.
As unbelievers accept the forgiveness of sin, believers will need to appropriate forgiveness of sin.
We administer and appropriate it when we have issues. No one goes to hell because of sins. People go to hell because they fail to administer or accept the forgiveness of sin.
There are cases when people who have believed in the gospel of Christ stopped believing in that message because of a challenge, and they say their case is beyond redemption. This is one of the reasons why some people enter into depression and commit suicide.
These are the very ones who have tasted the good word of life. They have seen that there is life in what God has done in Christ Jesus. They have come to a point in their life where they cannot believe in the forgiveness of sin. The same way they have believed in the forgiveness of sins the same way they ought to have appropriated the forgiveness of sin in that situation.
Till you see Jesus you will never outgrow the forgiveness of sin. You will constantly need it. It will be by you open to receive what the Father has done.
This is superior to the blood of bulls and goats because we would not need another animal when there is a sin committed.
It is superior because it has been done once and for all by the lamb of God, who is Jesus Christ.
This is not offered daily and oftentimes. This is done once and for all.
The same way you have received salvation, and forgiveness of sin at new birth, you will always and constantly need it till you see Jesus face to face.
Jesus made peace for us through His blood. The matter is settled. We will always need His blood. You will always come by the blood and you will always need the understanding and assurance of the forgiveness of sin till you see Jesus. The only difference is that there is no animal to kill. No priest to meet for confessions. You don’t have or need a middleman, you can sort yourself with your Father, you are not an Orphan or a bastard.
He is your father, you are accepted in the beloved. You are a diplomat. You have all it takes to have a discussion with your father without any interference or middleman. You have been translated to the kingdom of his dear son. You have received redemption which is the forgiveness of sin.
Hebrews 10:1 NKJV “For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.”
Now we have the image of the invisible God, what we have now is no more shadow. What we have now can deliver all the promises of God. And the bible says all the promises of God are yea and Amen.
We have the image of the invisible God and by him, all things were created that are in heaven and on the earth, visible and invisible. And he is the head.
The word “head” talked about authority. He has received the supremacy. He comes first in everything. He is the firstborn. He has become the standard.
If there is anything you need to know in Christ Jesus, the explanation is available.
Christ Jesus is the one presenting us Holy. He does this through his death. He offers us his righteousness. So whenever he presents us to the father, he does so because we are now his bride.
We do not present ourselves as holy, it’s Jesus who does the work.
Jesus grooms us as his bride. He nurtures us.
He presents us holy and unblameable in his flesh through death.
These are the things we have received from Christ.
It makes His death higher and superior.
The father did it once and for all.