Get Wisdom #26

   Prov.4:7(Amp) says, "The beginning of Wisdom is, GET WISDOM (skillful and Godly Wisdom) (For skillful and Godly Wisdom is the principal thing). And with all you have gotten, GET UNDERSTANDING (discernment, comprehension and interpretation)."

  We've observed and celebrated the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus over this past week. Jesus told His disciples at the Last Supper to, "Do this and remember what I'm about to say, while doing it." Most of us remember that Jesus has given Himself so we can be born-again. We remember that Jesus died and then rose again from the dead. 

  Like many from the Gentile Church though, we haven't truly remembered or understood the complete knowledge of what Jesus said and did. This was also the Feast of Passover. Many look at the Passover as an Old Testament festival, but Jesus said that He "came to fulfill the Law and the prophets," in Matt.5:17(Amp). The Old Testament saints observed the Passover, but is this still for us today in the New Testament?

  Jesus made it clear at the Last Supper, that the cup was in remembrance of what He was about to do, saying in Mark14:22(Amp), "He also took a cup (of the juice of grapes), and when He had given thanks, He gave (it) to them, and they all drank of it. And He said to them, This is My Blood (which ratifies) the new covenant, (the blood) which is being poured out for (on account of many)." 1Cor.11:25(Amp) tells us, "Similarly when supper was ended, He took the cup also, saying, This cup is the new covenant (ratified and established) in My Blood. Do this, as often as you drink (it), to call Me (affectionately) to remembrance." 

  We read God's directive for the high priest (Aaron, Mose's nephew) in Lev.16-17, where He called for two separate goats or lambs on the great day where they gathered to honor God at the Passover Feast. One was to be presented before the Lord and the high priest would lay his hands on its head and place all the sins of Israel upon it. This lamb or goat was sent out of the camp into the wilderness. The other was slain, sacrificed, and its blood was sprinkled on the Mercy Seat for their redemption. In Lev.16:34(Amp), God says, "This shall be an EVERLASTING STATUTE FOR YOU, that atonement may be for the Israelites for all their sins once a year. And Moses did as the Lord commanded him." Many today still don't understand that Jesus died twice on Calvary's cross. Once was when His Body died and once was when His Spirit died. Once was for the Lamb when all the sins of the world were placed upon Him.

  The death of Jesus' Body and the shedding of His Blood were for our Redemption, while we're still living here in our flesh and blood bodies. Jesus' Spiritual death was when He "took the spiritual death that Adam passed onto our spirit men and women, when he transgressed in Eden. Adam's sin separated us spiritually from God. Gal.3:13(Amp) tells us that we've "Been redeemed from the Curse of the Law, in Jesus." This redemption was by His Blood.

  The Passover is still of the upmost importance to the believer today. Jesus is our Passover Lamb and we must understand the significance of His Blood in our lives today. Heb.9:12-14(Amp) tells us, "He (Jesus) went once for all into the Holy of Holies (of Heaven), not by the virtue of the blood of goats and calves (by which to make reconciliation between God and man) but by His Own Blood, having found and secured a (complete redemption) an everlasting release for us. For if the mere sprinkling of unholy and defied persons with the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a burn heifer is sufficient for the purification of the body, HOW MUCH MORE SURELY shall the Blood of Christ, Who by virtue of His Own Eternal Spirit, Divine Personality has offered Himself as an unblemished Sacrifice to God purify our consciences from dead works and lifeless observances to serve the everlasting God."

   Heb.10:19(Amp) says, "Therefore Brethren, since we have full freedom and confidence to enter into the Holy of Holies by the Power and Virtue of the Blood of Jesus, We, as Christians, still sin in our natural flesh and blood bodies. The Spiritual death of Jesus was for our spirit man/woman, so we could be born-again. This is a complete Salvation for the spirit, soul and body. Let's put faith in Jesus Blood for ourselves and our families. Not just to be born-again, but to keep us continually clean and covered before God. The Curse of the Law was three-fold. It was poverty, sickness and death. These are all in the flesh, not the spirit. This is what the Blood was for. Bless you and remember the Passover.