Tag: Forgivness is Expensive - Hebrews 8-10

Hebrews 9:22

Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Tag:  Forgiveness comes at great expense

When Jesus had the “last supper” with His disciples, he told them that His blood would be poured out for their “forgiveness:” 

Matthew 26:28

for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Forgiveness is expensive.  It came at the cost of the death of the Son of God.  That is why we should not take it lightly.   Note what one writer states:

John MacArthur: 

It is possible to become morbid about Christ’s sacrificial death and preoccupied with His suffering and shedding of blood. It is especially possible to become unbiblically preoccupied with the physical aspects of His death. It was not Jesus’ physical blood that saves us, but His dying on our behalf, which is symbolized by the shedding of His physical blood. If we could be saved by blood without death, the animals would have been bled, not killed, and it would have been the same with Jesus.

Since the Tabernacle was not yet built when Moses ratified the covenant, his sprinkling the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood is obviously meant to be anticipatory. The blood he sprinkled at the initiation of the covenant continued, in a sense, to be sprinkled by the priests in the Tabernacle and Temple as long as that covenant stood. The purpose of the blood was to symbolize sacrifice for sin, which brought cleansing from sin. Therefore, without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Christ had to shed blood to show His death.  His death, in substitute for you and me, was to justify us (satisfy the wrath of God against us).  Because of this work by Christ we have forgiveness.  When we sin against God we spurn that act of Christ’s death to forgive us.  He has paid the ultimate cost to assure or eternal justification.  God requires a death for sin (Romans 3:23).  Christ was that death!!  We are forgiven as a result.