WASHED | ONCE AND FOR ALL

WASHED | ONCE AND FOR ALL

Revelation 1:5-6 “To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”

True redemption is found exclusively through the blood of Jesus.
A working revelation of the blood of Jesus will give you ongoing access to the glory of God.
Where the blood of Jesus flows the Holy Spirit goes.

“The blood and the Spirit always bear testimony together. Where the blood is honored in faith or preaching, there the Spirit works; … He always leads souls to the blood. The Holy Spirit could not be given until the blood was shed. The living bond between the Spirit and the blood cannot be broken.” Andrew Murray

Jesus is the lamb slain from before the foundation of the world. 
Redemption through His Blood was always His eternal plan!
1Peter 1:20 “… he was chosen and destined for this before the foundation of the earth was laid, but he has been made manifest in these last days for you.”

“O happy fault that earned for us so great, so glorious a Redeemer.” Ambrose of Milan
felix culpa (Happy Fault)
The covenant that the Father made with His Son took me from from sinful to SONFUL!!!

The fall didn’t defeat God’s plan It revealed something greater: GRACE
Revelation 13:8 “The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
Before there was a fall — there was already a Lamb.
God didn’t just solve sin—He outplanned it.

“The death of Christ was not an afterthought. It was the centerpiece of God’s eternal plan.”  
  John Piper
Before God ever said, “Let there be light” — There was already a conversation about the cross.

Ephesians 1:4-5 “Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.”

Day Of Atonement — Yom Kippur
Leviticus 16:1-34 “‘On that day offerings of purification will be made for you, and you will be purified in the Lord’s presence from all your sins … day of complete rest for you, and you must deny yourselves …” “…This is a permanent law for you, to purify the people of Israel from their sins, making them right with the Lord once each year.’ Moses followed all these instructions exactly as the Lord had commanded him.”

Passover: Every family participates. — Lamb for every household. Personal forgiveness, deliverance. — Repeat every year. — Temporary limited results. — Foreshadows Jesus.

Atonement: Only High Priest is working. — All others observe in rest. — Different sacrifice - bull and goats. — Corporate purification and union. — Repeat every year. — Temporary limited results.
Foreshadows Jesus.

ATONEMENT: the state or process of being at one, UNION. (W. Tyndale)
The doctrine concerning the reconciliation of God and humankind, especially as accomplished through the life, suffering, and death of Christ.

Atonement :— God’s dramatic victory in Christ over the enslaving powers of sin, death, and the devil, liberating humanity from bondage and reconciling the world to Himself.

1. The Work Of The Priest
Humbled in simple garments. Jesus — God becomes flesh
He works alone, heavy lifting!!! Jesus — Went to cross alone
He is a representative. Jesus — Substitutionary ministry
He returns in glorious garments. Jesus — Ascends Glory

Hebrews 10:12-14 (NLT) “But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand. There he waits until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool under his feet.  For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.”

2.The Posture Of The People
Complete Rest. Deny yourself. Pay attention.
Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,”

3. The Two Goats
A. The Sacrificed Goat — Propitiation.
1 John 2:2 “And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.”
Jesus didn’t start something you have to finish.

Propitiation is not God being reconciled to us — it’s us being reconciled to the God who never stopped loving us.
The cross didn’t make God love you, it proved He always did, while dealing with everything that stood in the way.

In Propitiation Jesus Became Sin
1 Corinthians 5:21 “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
Jesus became every sin, past present and future, to the fullest degree.

“ Jesus was cursed on the tree in our place and bore our sin in His own body. He did not bear our sin in His blood. It was just as holy on the cross as it ever was. As He offered the sin sacrifice to God, He was covered with pure, innocent, justifying, redeeming, sanctifying blood so that He was able to dismiss His spirit to His Father at death.” David Alsobrook

For Our Propitiation God Condemned Sin In Jesus Flesh
Romans 8:3 “For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,” “KATAKRINO” :— to condemn decisively

B. The Scapegoat — Expiation
The removal of sin and restored union with God. Deals with GUILT!
Psalm 103:12 “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.”

Isaiah 43:25 “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins.”
Micah 7:19 “He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea.”

Hebrews 9:14 “…how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

Our culture today in addicted to scapegoating!!!
Some have been conditioned to blame themselves for everything.
Some are experts blaming others for everything and anything else.

Scapegoating is humanity’s attempt to deal with guilt without transformation.
The gospel: Jesus isn’t a scapegoat we blame—
He’s our Saviour who willingly carried sin to actually remove it.
We scapegoat to avoid responsibility—but Jesus took our sin to restore responsibility and relationship.

Romans 4:25 (TPT) “Jesus was handed over to be crucified for the forgiveness of our sins (Propitiation) and was raised back to life to prove that he had made us right with God!" (Expiation)

In Jesus: Sin is condemned — Propitiation. Sin is removed — Expiation
Propitiation means God conquers all that is against you.
Expiation means your past is no longer attached to you.