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And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
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That scripture for today was based on the Lord’s instruction to His people in preparation for being set free from the bondage of Egypt. He would mark His people with the blood of an unblemished male lamb so that the angel of death, the destroyer, would pass over them without harm. {Ex.12:5,13} They, and now including His children everywhere, are called to celebrate that as a permanent ordinance. {Ex.12:14}

That is Passover, and as the Word makes clear, Christ is our Passover. {1Cor.5:7} It was His blood, His sacrifice, that brought about our forgiveness and eternal life, protection from death. He did for us what we could never do for ourselves. He had to suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. {Lk.9:22}

All mankind had sinned, and yes, that includes you and I, there is not an unblemished person among us. King David, a man after God’s own heart, would write that all men were corrupt and that there was not one who does good, not even one. {Ps.14:1-3}

Praise God, we are so incredibly blessed that because of the work of the cross we have been justified and now share in the righteousness of Jesus. {Rom.5:1} We need to really understand ‘communion’, our family meal. “Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?” {1Cor.10:16}

As with just about everything, there is almost always a right way and a wrong way, and that applies to communion—the bread, His body and the cup of the new covenant in His blood. And, as often as we do that we proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes. {1Cor.11:25-26} That is assuredly a facet in our proclaiming the excellencies of Him who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light. {1Pt.2:9}

The Spirit of God would speak through the apostle Paul to rebuke the church for coming together and allowing division to exist among the family. {1Cor.11:19} He continues there to caution us that whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. {1Cor.11:27} The church needs to repent of its divisions. We need to examine ourselves, and then eat of the bread and drink of the cup.” {1Cor.11:28}

That division is most often just disguised as ‘denominations’. The church lays aside the truth that there is only one name under heaven given among men by which men can be saved! {Acts 4:12} And that wonderful name is Jesus Christ. He who humbled Himself being obedient to the Father offering Himself a living and holy sacrifice with His death on the cross! That was the Father’s will. {Lk.22:42}

“Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:9-11)

EVERY KNEE WILL BOW AND EVERY TONGUE CONFESS