Daily Bread - MAR/28/07
Acts 22:16 - And now why delay rise up be baptized and calling on the name of the Lord wash away your sins.
The blood of Jesus was given to us to wash away all of our sins. God has made it all so very simple; all we must do is call on the name of the Lord Jesus and we shall be saved (Acts 16:31; Joel 2:32). The word that is translated washed here is used one other time in the New Testament, 1 Corinthians 6:11. In 1 Corinthians 6:11, Paul makes it even more clear that the sins of the past which were named in verses 9-10 were washed away in the Name of the Lord Jesus. The Greek word (apoluomai) may be translated 'make pure' or 'wash away.' The word is used in imagery of purification (as Philo, Mut Nom 49; Just, D. 13. 1; BDAG). The only possibility that we have been given to have all of the sins of our past erased is through the forgiveness that is in Christ Jesus. The means of that forgiveness is supplied to us through the blood of Jesus Christ which extinguishes every form of sin and death (Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14).
The effect of the blood is to purify by eliminating every sin. In effect, the blood is a purification agent that absorbs all of the sin. It is the life that swallows up the death, the light that cancels the darkness, the power of God that overthrows the power of Satan, and the truth that sets free from every lie. Paul also calls this purification the washing of regeneration (Titus 3:5). When John describes this redemption that removes our sin he uses a related word which is translated 'loosed,' 'released,' or 'washed' (lousanti), "...unto Him who loved us and loosed us from our sins in His own blood" (Revelation 1:5). In John's First Epistle, he uses yet another word to describe the effect of the blood of Jesus on those who call on the name of the Lord which means to purge or to cleanse (katharitzo). Every sin has been removed from our lives so that at this very moment we are pure, holy, and without blame in His sight. God so loved us and desired to fellowship with us that He provided this means of salvation so that we might spend today and every day for the rest of eternity with Him walking around in His love.
Be blessed,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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