Daily Bread - MAR/29/07
Revelation 1:5 - And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness the firstborn from among the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. The One who loves us and has freed us from our sins with His own blood.
One of the most important doctrines that is essential for salvation is "Faith in the Blood of Jesus to Cleanse from Sin." We find a word used here in Revelation 1:5 that emphasizes the radical effect that the blood of Jesus has on sin; the blood has 'loosed it from off of us' or 'freed' us from its hold. The Greek verb that is used here is found 43 times in the New Testament. The basic meaning of 'luo' is to set free, untie, or loose. The opposite of 'luo' is 'deo' which means to bind (Matthew 18:18). One of the many ways that it can be translated is 'destroy' as in 1 John 3:8, "...that he might destroy the works of the devil."
The verb occurs in its "aorist active" form 20 times (Mark 11:2; John 2:19; 11:44: Acts 7:33; Rev 9:14; Acts 22:30; Mark 1:7; Luke 3:16; Acts 13:25; Rev 5:2; 1:5; Matt 21:2; Luke 19:30; Acts 2:24; Eph 2:14; Matt 5:19; 16:19; 18:18; John 1:27; 1 John 3:8). In all of these verses it is primary translated, destroy, loose, and untie. Other Greek words that are used to express the effect of the blood is 'katharitzo' which is also used many times in the gospels to describe lepers being cleansed after Jesus had healed them. The word is used concerning our hearts having been purified (Acts 15:9), a people purified for God (Titus 2:14), the blood that purifies the conscience (Hebrews 9:14, 23), that cleanses from sin (1 John 1:7); and that cleanses from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). There is a striking change of tense in this verse that helps to underscore the fact that the blood of Jesus has freed us from every sin. The change in tense is between 'loves' (agaponti) and 'freed/washed' (lusanti/lousanti). While 'love' is in the present tense, 'freed' is in the past tense. This alludes to the fact that Jesus freed us from our sins at the moment that we received His forgiveness, yet His love is present and forever ongoing.
Blessings,
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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