By One Offering
Hebrews 10:14
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. (Hebrews 10:14)
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By One Offering
The Perfect Offering
  By one offering, He hath perfected . . . in the offering of Christ on Calvary, we have a PERFECT offering from heaven above tainted neither by the earth nor by the sin of man. He came in the perfection of God to establish and create a PERFECT people for God, a heavenly people born of the Seed of God in Jesus Christ. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. (Galatians 3:16) As Christ is the heavenly Man so also those who are born of Him through the divine Spirit are the heavenly people of God. He took away the first man (Adam) to establish the second Man, the heavenly Man from heaven. Of twain He made one new Man, so, making peace. Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace; (Ephesians 2:15)
  When we enter into the family of God by the new birth, by the Holy Spirit, at that very moment we become a heavenly people, and God the Father translates us into the kingdom of His dear Son.
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. (1st Corinthians 15:44)
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. (1st Corinthians 15:45)
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. (1st Corinthians 15:46)
The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. (1st Corinthians 15:47)
As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. (1st Corinthians 15:48)
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. (1st Corinthians 15:49)
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. (1st Corinthians 15:50)
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Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: (Colossians 1:12) Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: (Colossians 1:13) In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: (Colossians 1:14)
  Adam was of the earth, earthy, he was created from the dust of the earth. His home and habitation were of the earth. Christ came out of heaven’s glory, not a man of dust, but a Man of heaven’s righteousness. He came out of heaven’s glory to create a NEW PEOPLE, a NEW MAN that through His Spirit would create a heavenly, a man of heaven, not another man of the earth. All those who have been born in the Spirit of Christ are separated from this world by His ONE OFFERING. They have been made to live in the heavenlies, even now by the Spirit of God. As we walk upon this earth and testify of Christ, are heart, soul and spirit walk with God in heaven above. As Adam was created from unstable dust, God has created us through the Seed and Spirit of His Son, who was and is a heavenly Man with NO imperfections. Although Adam was made from dust that image of dust was made to resemble the image of Christ, the heavenly Man. Only God could collect the dust, the most unstable medium and form an image, and then breathe life into that image. God declared in Genesis Chapter 1:26, . . . Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. In the image of God, created he him. So, Adam was created in the full image of the invisible God. The only thing that Adam lacked was deity. And as the angels, Adam was created by God alone. By the very breathe and word of God, Adam was given life. Yet he was of the earth, earthy. He was separated from the invisible dominion of the angels. He was separated from the spiritual land, a heavenly realm, the dominion of God. He was a possessor of the earth, he was tangible, and the earth was his dominion. As the tangible is revealed to mankind, so the heavenly, the UNSEEN, is tangible to all whom God has created in heaven and in the earth. There is an UNSEEN dominion on the earth that we dwell in. And although we cannot see it, for our eyes are ‘holden’ because of our flesh. The angels not only travel through the heavens, but they are ministering spirits sent forth to minister to them who are heirs of salvation. The angels were created in their first estate, this could explain, the old estate passing away when God in Christ will create a new heaven and a new earth. We could call this, the second estate. In Jude, verse 6, we see that the angels left their first estate because of sin. So also, Adam left his first estate, the paradise of God because of sin. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (Romans 5:12) Man left his first estate through sin and Adam became a man under the Law of Sin and Death. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2) Because of sin Adam was driven out of paradise to dwell in a land of thorns and thistles under the curse of sin which Adam brought into the world. The earth also went through great convulsions when the world felt the weight and the curse of Adam’s sin. Every beast in earth groaned under the weight of Adam’s sin bringing the Law of Sin and Death to its completion in mankind.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2)
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Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (Romans 5:12)
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For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (Romans 8:18)Â For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. (Romans 8:19)Â For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, (Romans 8:20)Â Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. (Romans 8:21)Â For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. (Romans 8:22)Â And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. (Romans 8:23)
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By One Offering
God Completed His Plan of Redemption
  Now let us see God’s plan of redemption in the ONE OFFERING that was offered forever. Many do not realize that it was offered for both heaven and the earth. For sin had entered into heaven in the anointed cherub, Lucifer, and thus, one third of God’s angels became corrupted by sin. God’s dominion of righteousness
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. (Ezekiel 28:15) By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. (Ezekiel 28:16) Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. (Ezekiel 28:17)
  These angels that sinned are bound in chains and were cast down to hell for by sin because they left their first estate. Their first estate was the place and position that God had created for them and that was to serve Him as guardians of His realm, and worshipers of righteousness in holiness. Their estate wasn’t a land territory, but a spiritual realm. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; (2nd Peter 2:4)And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.(Jude 1:6) Now Lucifer’s sin and his angels brought the war in heaven. God and His angels fought against Lucifer and his angels, and both Lucifer and his angels were cast out of heaven. They did not go gently into the night. The Lord Jesus Himself stated that He beheld Satan as lightening cast down to the earth. And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, (Revelation 12:7) And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. (Revelation 12:8) And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Revelation 12:9)
 Let’s see the character of Satan. God paints a picture for us that Lucifer is the devil the old serpent, and the great red dragon. (Revelation 12:9) His character and intractable will can be seen in Isaiah 14: 12 – 20.
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! (Isaiah 14:12)Â For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: (Isaiah 14:13) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (Isaiah 14:14) Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. (Isaiah 14:15) They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; (Isaiah 14:16) That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? (Isaiah 14:17) All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. (Isaiah 14:18) But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. (Isaiah 14:19) Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. (Isaiah 14:20)
  As we behold Lucifer in the word of God, we see that he was an angel of sin full of pride and self-will. However, God cast him down to the ground, but because of the iniquity within him he was filled with violence. Now the earth would become his battlefield and a hunting ground. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. (Ezekiel 28:16)
  Lucifer resumed the battle with God ON earth using Adam as a pawn against the Almighty God. This did not take away Adam’s responsibility to God for God had already made Adam aware of the Law of Sin and Death. When Adam approached the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he KNEW what God had already declared, that in the day that he would partake of this tree that he would surely die. At that moment, Adam became a partaker of the same iniquity that was found in Lucifer. Adam was a partaker of the same sin that caused violence in heaven. So, the battle on earth began and the plan of God’s redemption was set in order and could only be rectified by ONE OFFERING for sin. This ONE OFFERING for sin would be for both heaven above and for earth beneath.
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. (Colossians 1:20)
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Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: (Ephesians 1:9) That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: (Ephesians 1:10) In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: (Ephesians 1:11)
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Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: (Philippians 2:9) That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; (Philippians 2:10)
  God’s plan of redemption does not include Lucifer and his rogue angels. Their judgment is SET and will be finalized in the lake of fire. They are IRREDEEMABLE. However, man has been given a second chance in the ONE OFFERING forever by Jesus Christ.
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By One Offering
Sanctified For Ever
  By this ONE OFFERING, the Lord Jesus Christ has PERFECTED FOREVER those who are sanctified by the offering of His Body, and by the washing of His blood. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 10:10) Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. (Hebrews 13:12) We have not only the offering of His Body, but also the BLOOD of the new covenant in Christ. This new covenant is complete in Christ Himself. For He is made unto us, those who are born again, wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification and redemption. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: (1st Corinthians 1:30) Now the Lord Jesus is made unto us through His death and shed blood . . . sanctification. Sanctification is setting apart, taking one object from one place and setting it in another place: thus, removing man from sin and creating a new man in righteousness. It removed the old covenant of the blood of beasts and replaced that covenant with a new covenant in the blood of Christ. We have been set aside in His death, in His life, in His Spirit and in His soul, and one day (although time may not measure it) we will be like unto Him in His own image. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (Romans 8:29)
  In His death on the cross, He set Himself aside from all of mankind, for He was the ONLY ONE who could lay down His life and take it again, of twain making one new man. In His resurrection, He set Himself aside from all of mankind. His resurrection was proof that there was nothing IN Him of Adam. In the sacrifice of Himself, He set this ONE OFFERING aside from before the foundation of the world, to be a Body prepared of God for the redemption of mankind, and to set at liberty the whole creation from the sin and curse of Adam by bearing in His Body the sin of the whole world. Now, as Adam brought sin into the world, it was the Lamb of God, the Lamb of sacrifice, by ONE OFFERING who took sin out of the world. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1:29) Now Adam is of the earth, the earth is his dominion, he was created in the earth from dust, and he died in his own dominion and returned to that dust. He is the first man, the man who brought sin into the world, but the second Man came from heaven to take sin OUT of the world. He is the heavenly Man. He is the Lord of glory. He was manifested in the flesh in the very Body that was prepared for Him. This Body was prepared to be the ONE OFFERING forever. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. (Hebrews 10:5) He who was from above is above all. This heavenly Man, after He had purged our sins in the one sacrifice forever, laid down His life and took it again, and then ascended back into heaven after He had OFFERED ONE sacrifice forever on the cross of Calvary. He offered His Body, and He offered His blood.
Side Note: The Blood and the Brazen Altar. In the Old Testament the sacrifice offered on the brazen altar was offered by fire unto God. However, the blood of that sacrifice was poured out at the base of the brazen altar. The blood was not consumed by fire but soaked into the earth on the day of atonement. A portion of that blood was set aside and with this blood the high priest would take that blood into the Tabernacle and walk through the holy place, then enter within the veil, and sprinkle the Ark of the covenant seven times, and then he would pour out the remainder of the blood on the mercy seat. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: (Hebrews 9:7) The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: (Hebrews 9:8)
 When Aaron poured out the blood on the mercy seat, there were two witnesses from heaven, two golden Cherubims on the Ark of the covenant, watching in wonder at those things.
Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. (1st Peter 1:12) And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. (Exodus 25:20) And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. (Hebrews 9:5)
  Although the Spirit of God does not elaborate about the two Cherubims, we see them throughout scripture as sentinels and messengers. At the entrance to the garden after man was driven out, God place two sentinels, two Cherubims of glory and a flaming sword to keep the way to the tree of life. They were also sentinels on the veil in the Tabernacle. We see them there guarding the entrance to the mercy seat, to the paradise of God, and to the tree of life. For upon the earth, this place within the veil was the most holy place, it was separated from the earth, and only the high priest could enter into the holy of holies. These sentinels that guarded the holy of holies also were on the Ark of the covenant looking down on the mercy seat, protecting it from any defilement. When Nadab and Abihu crossed that guarded threshold and went within the veil with strange fire in their censors, this same fire that guarded the way to the tree of life, came down from heaven and consumed both Nadab and Abihu.
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. (Leviticus 10:1) And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. (Leviticus 10:2)Â
  The same fire that had guarded the tree of life was the same fire that consumed Nadab and Abihu and protected the way of the holy of holies. It is interesting that the holy of holies were approached from the most eastern part of the Tabernacle. The Cherubims before the garden of God were located on the most eastern part of God’s paradise, the garden of God So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. (Genesis 3:24) God is very serious about His holy things. As He was with the tree of life in the garden, as He protected the holy of holies, so He looks upon that holy thing, that holy child, that holy Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Those who defile the Son of God will face the fire of God’s retribution in the fires that cannot be quenched.
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. (Revelation 19:20)
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are] and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. (Revelation 20:10)
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. (Revelation 20:14) And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:15)
He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: (Hebrews 10:28) Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? (Hebrews 10:29) For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. (Hebrews 10:30) It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. (Hebrews 10:31)
The golden Cherubims that we see over the mercy seat are symbolic of that which is in heaven.
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. (Hebrews 9:1)Â
For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. (Hebrews 9:2)Â
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;Â (Hebrews 9:3)Â
Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;Â (Hebrews 9:4)Â
And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. (Hebrews 9:5)Â
Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. (Hebrews 9:6)Â
But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:Â (Hebrews 9:7)Â
The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: (Hebrews 9:8)Â
Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;Â (Hebrews 9:9)Â
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. (Hebrews 9:10)
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;Â (Hebrews 9:11)Â
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. (Hebrews 9:12)
  All the things that were presented to Israel in the Tabernacle were earthly images and symbolic of the things that were in heaven. The True Ark of the covenant is in the holy of holies in the Temple of God in heaven. On that Ark is the True Mercy Seat and two living Cherubims continually watching over the mercy seat. Now after the ONE OFFERING forever, when Christ was in the tomb there were two sentinels, two Cherubims guarding the most holy thing, the Body of God’s Christ. They were guarding against any disturbance or defilement, and again we see, one Cherubim at His head, and one at His feet, looking over the Temple of God in the Body of Christ. Guarding until the third day on the third hour when Christ through the power of His endless life would come forth raised by the Spirit of holiness.
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. (Hebrews 7:16)
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:Â (Romans 1:4)
 As He was the only begotten of the Father in His resurrection, He became the first born FROM the dead . . . not OF the dead, for His Body saw NO corruption.
For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:Â (Acts 2:25)
Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:Â (Acts 2:26)
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. (Acts 2:27)
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. (Acts 2:28)
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. (Acts 2:29)
Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;Â (Acts 2:30)
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. (Acts 2:31)
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. (Acts 2:32)
Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. (Acts 2:33)
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, (Acts 2:34)
Until I make thy foes thy footstool. (Acts 2:35)
Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. (Acts 2:36)
 Even in death, death could not corrupt the Holy Son of God. Sin could not finalize corruption for the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ saw NO corruption. His Body laid in the tomb guarded by two sentinels and within the chamber of the Holy Spirit of God while the Prince of life slept, He was guarded by the Cherubims. It was one of them who proclaimed, He is not here: for he is risen. Now it gets extremely interesting, because on resurrection morning when He met Mary, He refrained her from touching Him. Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and [to] my God, and your God. (John 20:17) He told her that He had not yet ascended to His Father and their Father. This was His first ascension often overlooked as being an ascension. In His last ascension (recorded in the book of Acts) there were two witnesses, two Cherubims of glory in white.
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. (Acts 1:9) And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; (Acts 1:10) Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. (Acts 1:11)
 Now, let’s going back to the book of Genesis when Abraham was sitting in the door of his tent when three men approached. (Genesis 18) One was the Lord, and the other two were Cherubims. How do we know? It was these two men, these two Cherubims, who went into Sodom to deliver and rescue Lot from Sodom. While these Cherubims were in Sodom, the men of Sodom wanted to defile them, and in their frenzy to sully and to desecrate goodness and purity, they were smitten with blindness. We also see these two angels as sentinels guarding Lot, and remember, that when they had extracted Lot and his two daughters from Sodom the judgment of God, in the fires from heaven, consumed Sodom and all the cities of the plain.
Alright, back now to Mary in the garden of the tomb, the Lord Jesus said to her, Touch me not. For He MUST ascend to place His blood on the mercy seat in the Temple of God in heaven. Only He as that PURE OFFERING could enter into the holy of holies in heaven. He had already offered His Body and His soul on the brazen altar (the cross). He had already spilled His blood at the foot of the brazen altar (the cross). He had already carried His Body into the holy place, and now as the risen Man, as the Priest after the order and oath of Melchisedec, He MUST take the blood of the most holy thing, His own Body and place His blood on the mercy seat in heaven to not only redeem the things of earth, but the things of heaven as well; for sin began in heaven with Lucifer. As Christ placed His blood on the mercy seat, the Cherubims of glory looked on in wonder and with great admiration. Now, He could descend back down to earth to His brethren and reveal the new Man of resurrection glory. He is truly the fullness of the glory of God and the express image of His Person. He revealed Himself as Spirit and then quickly manifested Himself as both flesh and bone. Notice that there is no mention of blood in John Chapter 20:19 – 22, and Luke 24:38, 39.
Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. (John 20:19) And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. (John 20:20) Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. (John 20:21) And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: (John 20:22)
And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? (Luke 24:38) Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. (Luke 24:39)
 As the GodMan can passed through the fullness of time, He can pass through all tangible objects, no earthly object can restrain Him. In John Chapter 6, we see Him as the Holy Ghost, it is the Spirit of Christ walking on the waves of the storm not bound by the things of the earth. And then when it was needful, He manifested Himself as flesh and saved Peter and entered into the boat, and then there was a great calm, and they worshiped Him, the manifest image of God. Here it was not Touch me not but handle me. ♦ End of Side Note: The Blood and the Brazen Altar. (CLICK HERE to read more about Touch Me Not.)
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By One Offering
Worthy of Worship
 Since we are dealing with the ONE OFFERING that was offered forever, we must also reveal the worthiness of that offering when Christ was worshiped by His disciples. He did not rebuke them. In the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, we have two separate occasions of inappropriate worship.
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. (Revelation 19:10)
And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. (Revelation 22:8) Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. (Revelation 22:9)
  If the Son of God who was here to fulfill all righteousness did not possess full deity on earth, He would have refused the worship of His disciples in the ship. He was not here to deify Adam. He was here to take Adam out of the way. He never laid His deity aside, for God is Spirit, and upon His death, Christ commended His Spirit to His Father; thus, He never relinquished His deity.
  As we see in Revelation Chapters 19 and 22, even a glorified saint is not an object of worship. This possessor of heaven clarified to John that he was of the brethren of John, and therefore, not worthy of worship. We also have the blind man of Chapter 9 of the gospel of John, think of the sequence of Chapter 8 of the gospel of John and Chapter 9. Christ had proclaimed to the Pharisees that they were of their father, the devil. The result was that they picked up stones to stone the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus had just announced that they were of their father the devil, and that he was a murderer from the beginning; yet almost instantaneously, they followed exactly want Jesus had condemned them for. They attempted to murder the Prince of life. But it was not yet His hour. Again, He moved through them in the Spirit where no man could see Him, and so passed by. This presented to us, a man born blind, as all man who come into the world, all are blind to the things of God. For man loves darkness and hates the light. The man of John Chapter 9 was without hope, all available resources and money had already been spent and all failed to give him sight. How many today think that their alms and tithes can give them salvation. And when all their money is gone, then they find that their true condition is as a beggar, and only the Light of the world can give them sight and salvation. How did the Lord Jesus introduce Himself to the man who was born blind? Christ revealed Himself to the man who was born blind as the Son of God. He answered the blind man’s question, He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? (John 9:36) The Lord replied in verse 37, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. Through this revelation this blind man then worshiped the Son of God. And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him. (John 9:38)
  You cannot enter into heaven without the Lord Jesus Christ, the scales on your blind eyes must fall to the ground, and you must see Jesus Christ as the Son of God and worship Him. In the Old Testament, worship was based on sacrifice. In the New Testament, worship is based on the heart acknowledging the ONE sacrifice offered for ever in Jesus Christ.
  Again, on the Sea of Galilee, they saw a Spirit, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of God is all ONE Spirit, for God is Spirit. How do we know this? John Chapter 4, the Lord Jesus stated that God is Spirit, and they that worship the Father must worship Him in spirit and in truth. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. (John 4:23) God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24) There are many things to see in John Chapter 4, but the obvious is the equality of Spirit in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We see a union of the Godhead that is impossible to understand by man. We are not equipped to enter into the inner sanctum of deity. We must worship from without and according to the gospel of John, the equality of worship belongs to both Father and Son by the Spirit of truth, the Spirit of holiness, which through the word of God presents to us the FULLNESS of the Godhead bodily. God’s revelation to us in these last days has come to us by His Son. This image of the invisible God represents the WHOLE GODHEAD: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Christ expected worship as the Son of God on earth. He instructed the woman at the well in John Chapter 4 to worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth. John Chapter 1 tells us that both grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:Â (Colossians 1:14) Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: (Colossians 1:15) For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: (Colossians 1:16)
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. (Colossians 2:8) For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. (Colossians 2:9) And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: (Colossians 2:10)
  For too many years man has gotten away with his insanity in trying to un-deify the Lord of glory, the image of the invisible God, Jesus Christ. Christ had/has all the same attributes that He had in heaven. He NEVER became a lesser god in His manifestation. Man in Adam continues to discredit the deity of Jesus Christ in trying to create a mixture of Adam and God. Christ NEVER became Adam. Christ was a heavenly Man. Christ never relinquished that position in heaven. But that is the ways of man and what can we expect from a sinner, Adam’s trap was deification, yet Adam was never a deity. Adam was a creation by deity, but was nothing greater than dust in the image of Christ. One of the great mysteries of the Godhead is that Christ was manifested IN THE FLESH from heaven as the holy thing, as the holy child Jesus, as God’s holy Son. There was never a question of the Lord’s deity from His birth to His ascension to the right hand of God. One of the purposes of His manifestation was after He had finished the work of the cross, He ascended as a glorified Man to sit at the right hand of God. The children of the devil will never accept that. In John 8:44 reveals that all born of Adam and of the seed of Adam are children of the devil. And those children still want to stone the Lord Jesus Christ. They cannot, as the Pharisees, accept the perfections of Christ, in Body, soul and Spirit. Here is another thing for you to understand, that the Body and the blood and the Spirit of holiness has brought about our sanctification. We are set apart as the children of God in THAT ONE OFFERING of the Son of God. This is why we can enter into His inheritance as the sons of God. But we are still as brethren to each and every saint of God. As sons, we have a place before the throne of God, but we are not by any means part of that throne which God alone possesses. Through time many people have exalted their own selves in a place of deity. Man is only exalting man to a position that man is not worthy of for ALL are under the Law of Sin and Death. This cancels out any thought or position of deity. When Constantine, as a man, claimed that he was a deity, the council of deceivers never repudiated this, they accepted his claim of deity and at the same time they argued over the deity of Christ. When the fulfillment of Satan’s man is revealed in the tribulation period, which is divided into two three and a half year periods, those devoted churchaholics that deny the deity of Jesus Christ and will have missed the translation of the saints because there was no faith in them, will gladly receive the mark of the Beast and WORSHIP his image. God is very specific in what we are to worship. We are not to worship ANY image made by hand. We are not to go into the woods and cut down a tree and bring it into the house of God and worship the Christmas tree. We are not to worship the bunny rabbit or the sun god Moloch. We are not to worship the egg. I saw a picture the other day, it was a fairly large piece of ground, maybe 1/4 acre, you could not see the grass because of the many-colored eggs and there were parents teaching their children this abomination in place of teaching them Christ. What about the devil’s day, Halloween, the Satanic carved pumpkin, the demonic mantra ‘Trick or Treat,’ the license to do evil? What an education that children get from their parents. God has entrusted these precious children to parents and the majority of parents lead their children in the pathway of hell and the lies of the devil. Yes, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus. All these things are the vain and sinful imaginations of men without Christ. No matter how man tries to wrap all of his imaginations under a spiritual setting, it still remains what it is, man’s imagination. All these false gods that are professed today have come from within a heart with an evil imagination. Which God judged in Genesis Chapter 6, verse 5 describes their undoing. It was their imaginations of the evil of their hearts. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. (Colossians 2:8) And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5)
  Our eyes should be open by the Spirit of God to see the works of evil men and put those works in the proper place. We are to deny and back away from vain philosophies, and the evil imaginations of mankind, from the traditions of men (and remember that sin is the number one tradition of mankind) and the rudiments of the world. These rudiments are a great gulf between God and man. We should not allow ourselves, as the children of God, to be dragging into the slough of despond. All these things, in a very deceptive way, take away from God and take away from God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Man will create false doctrines, false images, and even false Christs to deceive himself and to continue in the love of darkness because the natural man hates the light. Then we have the verbal images of the false ministers of Satan bending the word of God and presenting false images of the Lord Jesus Christ. They use guile and smooth words to make merchandise out of the masses, to keep the mind of man, to keep the heart of man, to keep the soul of man, to keep the spirit of man on himself, and on his own imaginations in his own castle of sin. Man is already under a severe handicap and delusion of the devil when man comes into the world. All that is born of woman, and all that are of the seed of Adam are under judgment of the Law of Sin and Death. You cannot be born again of this earth, but you MUST be born again from heaven above. Our confidence, as the children of God, is the Spirit of Christ within us. When Christ stood before the Pharisees, they believed NOT the Son of God on earth. God in the last day, the last time period of man’s history that will be fulfilled in the last battle upon this earth, came in the fullness of time when God sent forth that holy thing, that one Body, that one Spirit, that one soul, that ONE OFFERING of eternity forever to sanctify forever all those who would believe in the Son of God.
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:Â (John 1:12) Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:13)
  And the Word was made flesh, and He dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory of the only begotten Son, full of grace and truth. The Word was made flesh. The Word that was in the beginning with God, and the Word that was God, and He, through the word of His power, has made all things, and it is He who fills all in all. For without Him was not anything made that was made. Even the mystery of faith is void without Him for He is both the Author and Finisher of faith. Through faith He has finalized all things. He has completed His will and purpose. He has revealed His promises and completed them in the fullness of time. Although we do not see the end of all His work on Calvary, we know that all things that transpired from that point in time is the fulfillment of God’s will and purpose. Even the new heavens and the new earth are surrounded with the joy that was set before Christ when He endured the shame and suffering for even then the divine Son, that physical image of deity on the cross, KNEW the end from the beginning, and the beginning from the end. We are limited in our thought process not only by the flesh, but also by the sin that comes upon us. Christ never suffered the limitations of mankind. This is why the Spirit of God wants us to understand that all fullness is within Him. And that He, the Lord Jesus Christ is the fullness of the Godhead bodily. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. (Colossians 2:9) In the second Chapter of Colossians, verse 8, God describes all the pit falls of mankind. Then God presents to us the very fullness of Himself in Jesus Christ, the fullness of the Godhead bodily. This very revelation comes on the heels of man’s desperation in verse 8, Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. The revelation of the Godhead is one word, NOT two words, showing the complete unity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit which, the word ‘trinity’ cannot do for the word ‘trinity’ divides the Godhead and through the traditions of men use that division to lessen the Almighty God.
  Why did the Spirit of God use the word Godhead? Maybe so that man could relate his own direction from his own head. It is man’s head that directs us. It is the head that is the center of our awareness of our own person, our spirit works through our head in combination with our heart. Although they are separated, they are vital for each other. The mind cannot function without the heart, and the heart cannot function without the mind of the spirit. This excludes all of man’s modern medical doctrines. They feel that it is in their power to determine life and death. Truly, there are procedures to prolong life, but all these procedures have been gifts from God to show His mercy to the world, to the man of the world that is under sin. We are all in the presence of death throughout our entire lifetime. It hovers over us as a cloud waiting to devour, and to separate us forever as man in Adam from the presence of God. It is man’s tradition, man’s thoughts, the rudiments and doctrines of the world that wants to keep all mankind from the new birth in Jesus Christ. When we are born again, we receive the Spirit of Christ within us and that Spirit is the representative of the fullness of the Godhead bodily. So now, as new creations in Christ, we are directed by the mind of Christ. We are kept in the love of God in the heart of Christ. Christ in His work within us has restored our souls. We have the eternal presence of His Spirit within us. With all these things for us, who can be against us? Who can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus? Have you ever noticed that man in Adam will fight hard with all his power and energy to keep his natural life under sin and death; yet he will not fight, nor walk a path that takes him from death to eternal life in Jesus Christ.
  That day on the cross, Christ separated time and eternity. In His visual death, and His sufferings, He was completing and working out the fullness of time and the entrance of eternity. What He had to offer the Jews and the Gentiles at His trial before Pilate was a kingdom that man had never seen before. How often He had wept over Jerusalem, and yet they did not know their time, and they did not know their eternity. Some of the saddest words of mankind can be found around the trials of Christ. When man had the opportunity to open the door of eternity, man in the Jews declared, ‘Not this man, but gives us the child of the devil Barabbas,’ who was a murderer and a thief. Barabbas was absolute proof of a man bitten by the serpent, the devil. The phrase of Satan that ye shall be as gods gave man the uncontrollable desire to have dominion over his fellow man even unto death. Believing that man shall be as gods entertains both death and hell. Man cannot turn away from evil because of the enmity and sin within. It is sin that corrupts the mind, the heart and the soul and leads man down the dark path into more darkness. It is the devil in all his guile that has stripped mankind from any sense of righteousness and goodness. Man is prone to the tailor-made works of the devil. Without divine intervention, the race of mankind is a hopeless race. The only intervention comes through Jesus Christ and is available to us by His finished work on the cross offering ONE OFFERING for ever in His own Body on the tree. Christ is the embodiment of the Law of Faith as Author and Finisher. He is also the Beholder and the Giver of faith.
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2)
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. (Romans 3:27)
Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. (Romans 3:30)
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By One Offering
One New Man
  In Romans Chapter 3, we are brought to the knowledge of justification before God. We are NOT justified by the works of the law. In fact, the law wrestles with the natural man, and the natural man is prone to BREAK the law and not obey the law. If man keeps the whole law and offends by one point, then he is guilty of all.
  The natural man is enmity against God. This is one point in the love of God in Christ Jesus that seems to be hidden from the eyes and heart of man. Christ came out from heaven’s glory without enmity to destroy enmity and make of twain ONE NEW MAN, so, making peace with God.
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:Â (Ephesians 2:8)
Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:9)
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10)
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;Â (Ephesians 2:11)
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:Â (Ephesians 2:12)
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:13)
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;Â (Ephesians 2:14)
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;Â (Ephesians 2:15)
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:Â (Ephesians 2:16)
  Are you beginning to see these truths with your heart? The eyes of sight are different from the eyes of the heart. The eyes of the natural man see the temporal, and the tangible; the eyes of the heart, through the Spirit of Christ, see the invisible, and through faith embraces the heavenly and the heavenly Man, Christ Jesus. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1) Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; (Ephesians 2:15) Enmity came with sin. It is one of the arrows of sin that destroys man’s presence with the Almighty God. Christ abolished that enmity between every child of God and the Person of God. There is no more enmity between us. The love of God overcame enmity in Christ Jesus. Christ took enmity and nailed it to His cross in the finished work of redemption. And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: (Ephesians 2:16)
 Out of twain, the Lord Jesus made ONE NEW MAN. When you are born again by the Spirit of God, you are NO longer of Adam. You’re a brand-new creature in Christ. ALL things are new, and the OLD things are passed away. God went to great lengths to perfect His plan of redemption. The Godhead brought forth a perfect Man in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ; thus, we have the Godhead bodily. This was a Body prepared in heaven. (Hebrews 10:5) This Body was prepared BEFORE the foundation of the earth, when the worlds were made by Christ by the word of His power which is confirmed in Hebrews 1:2, and 10, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; (Hebrews 1:2) And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: (Hebrews 1:10) Everything in God’s creation was and is designed for God’s will and for His purpose. In the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, all creation was brought forth for His good pleasure. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. (Revelation 4:11)
 Think of the immensity of God’s creation. A mind far beyond any technical mind of mankind to put into His creation things that could endure time and would not fail until their purpose was and is completed. From creating the worlds BY His Son in Hebrews 1:2, to laying the foundation of the world BY His Son in Hebrews 1:10, and then, the heavens (all the stars, both the SEEN and UNSEEN) was made by the works of His hands. Tell me, Has there ever been a person in the earth who could understand such things unless they were revealed by God to man? And even then, it is far beyond comprehension. God has proclaimed (concerning the work of redemption) that it was His right hand who brought about salvation to us.
And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. (Isaiah 63:5)
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. (Isaiah 59:16)
O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. (Psalm 98:1)
 In our own creation, as the children of God, it is by REVELATION that we are made of the Seed of Christ by the Spirit of God. It is by REVELATION that we are made one NEW man in Him, and it is by His gift of His own Spirit that we understand these truths. This Spirit within us is the same Spirit of creation; therefore, we are made a NEW creation IN Christ as a NEW man, not of the earth, but of heaven. We are no longer of the earth, earthy. We have been taken from the dust and have been created by the Spirit of Christ as a NEW and heavenly man. We have been taken from both Jew and Gentile, male and female, bond or free, in the message of grace through faith in Christ. God’s love was not only fulfilled on the cross, but is being fulfilled every day through faith in Christ. Since the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ, His gospel, the gospel of Jesus Christ, has gone out throughout the whole world. The Spirit of God has given each and every generation an opportunity to repent and to call on the name of Jesus Christ for salvation. As you read this article, it comes from far away . . . . there are many miles between you and this writer, but that’s not all, it comes from even farther away. This gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ comes from the throne of God IN His eternal love for YOU.
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By One Offering
He Restored the Souls of Many
  In this ONE OFFERING for sin forever He has sanctified, set apart His children for ever, again, assuring you and giving you confidence in your salvation. His Son was precious on the cross. His salvation was through the work of His Son IN His physical suffering that He endured as the sin of the whole world was placed upon Him so that you might be a child of God FOREVER in that ONE OFFERING for sin forever. There is no power in God’s creation that can separate a child of God from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus.
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31)
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32)
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. (Romans 8:33)
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. (Romans 8:34)
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (Romans 8:35)
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. (Romans 8:36)
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. (Romans 8:37)
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, (Romans 8:38)
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:39)
  The beauty of the word eternal is that there is NO end. The eternal can never be changed. When God uses the word eternal, He has set in His mind FOREVER. God declared by all the power of the cross of Christ, and the battle that Christ endured while on the cross from the Jews, and the Romans that the battle against sin, the conflict against death, and the battle against the devil to FULFILL His plan of redemption in the fullness of time was accomplished FOREVER. The words, It is finished, was a proclamation of eternity for every child of God. There is nothing left that we could do. There is nothing required of us in the redemptive works of God. We have been born out of darkness and death to be the eternal children of God, and nothing can change our standing before God our Lord. In God’s determinate counsels, not one of His sheep will be lost. He as the good Shepherd will travel every road, climb every mountain, cross every river and ocean, walk through the many battlefields of both man and the UNSEEN for just one of His sheep. And this is why the ONE who had the power to lay down His life and to take it again, continually does the work of the good Shepherd. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. Here the Lord Jesus gives His life for the sheep. (John 10:11) In Hebrews 13:20 and 21 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, (Hebrews 13:20) Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. (Hebrews 13:21)
  Here we see Him as the Great Shepherd with all redemption power to bring about a new covenant for the sheep, and to bring them into a new pasture sealed with His own blood; thus, sealing all the promises that He had ever made to His children. You are made perfect in Christ our Lord. He stood before death on the cross. He stood before sin on the cross. He stood before the devil on the cross, and He stood before man on the cross, and then in the words, It is finished, He stood before God the Father OFFERING His Body, blood and soul in ONE OFFERING forever to perfect those who come to God THROUGH Him for ever. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. In 1st Peter Chapter 5, verse 4, we have the Chief Shepherd. He is over all things, and He expects that those who He has called to be faithful under-shepherds to act for Him and THROUGH Him as-like-shepherds fulfilling God’s righteousness in Him. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. (1st Peter 2:25) Peter presents both the Shepherd of John Chapter 10 and the Bishop, after the order of Melchisedec, as we see in Hebrews 3:1. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. The Lord Jesus under the oath of Melchisedec is both High Priest of our profession and the Bishop of your soul. It is HE who cares for you in His rank as Bishop, under His title of High Priest, under the order and oath of Melchisedec. We need to see that it is HE, the Lord Jesus, by ONE DIVINE OFFERING restored your soul on the cross, restoring the souls of many. Remember that God the Father OFFERED HIS OWN SOUL for the sacrifice of sin as ONE OFFERING to restore MANY souls.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. (Psalm 23:1) He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. (Psalm 23:2) He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. (Psalm 23:3)
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. (Isaiah 53:10)
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. (Isaiah 53:11)
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. (Isaiah 53:12)
  Three (3) times the phrase his soul is documented. Notice the placement, verses 10 + 11+ 12 = 33. You can’t make this stuff up. How does He do things like this? When you appreciate the numbers in Scripture, you understand the fine points of God’s plan of redemption, and you begin to see God working in the UNSEEN.
  In Psalm 23, we have the Shepherd in verse 1, in verse 1st Peter Chapter 2, verse 25, we have the Shepherd and the Bishop, For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls, walking among the sheep leading them in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. He RESTORES their souls when no one else could be found to fulfill the work of redemption and deliver them from the bondage of death, the butcher of sin. (Years ago, T. Ernest Wilson, told of an occasion while visiting Israel and riding with his guide that they saw a man driving sheep from behind the flock. He said to his guide, Is that the shepherd? The guide replied, No, that is the butcher, the shepherd always walks among the sheep.)
  Does not this develop Chapter 10 of the gospel of John that Christ, as our Shepherd, walks among us, and makes His presence known? And the three times that his soul is mentioned in Isaiah 53, three times in consecutive order, and when adding the verses of 10, 11 and 12 it totals thirty-three (33) the fullness of the Godhead bodily. This puts light of the Spirit on the OFFERING of Christ to restore our soul and to lead us in the paths of righteousness for His name’S sake. Who would ever think that God would provide HIMSELF as AN OFFERING in a BODY prepared for Him from BEFORE the foundations of the earth.
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. (Genesis 22:8)
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:Â (Hebrews 10:5)
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By One Offering
The Love of God Revealed
  The Body that was prepared was prepared within the Godhead. This was the Body of God’s love. This was from the center of divine majesty, the one heart of love in the Son of His love. And He was sent from heaven’s glory to be the ONE OFFERING for ever for sin. We, as Christians, live in a world of conflict as the children of God we try to keep that conflict in the outer world, but many times, this conflict, even in our salvation, is drawn within us, and we find ourselves fighting with sin and the devil. I have often noticed that whenever I muse on the love of God, the inner conflict is subdued, and I enter into a place of comfort with God. We should remember that it was God’s love in the Person of Christ sent into the world, a world of conflict, a world of sin and wickedness, a world of deception and ungodliness, and the love of God had to walk through that world. It does us good to muse on 1st John 4:10, Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. God found us and redeemed us by His love, not our love. This love can only be known by the Spirit of God as He reveals the unfathomable love of God IN Jesus Christ. Sometimes I feel like Peter in the boat, the wind stings my face, and water drips from me, and then I see the love of God, and in the storms of life, He is my only hope, and nothing soothes the heart and spirit more then to go to Him at the right hand of God. You may think that this is just babbling, but it is not; not only does the Spirit of God within confirm the love of God, but also magnifies the Son of His love throughout my total being. There is only one heart, there is only ONE soul, there is only ONE Spirit, and yet, as the One and ONLY God, Jesus Christ was manifested upon the earth to REVEAL and BESTOW the love of God on those who would believe in Him and embrace the Son of the Father’s love. And it is not that we loved God, for He loved us, and sent the Son of His love from His heart and in His heart to redeem us to Himself. What manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God. From the muck and mire and the pigpen of sin He has washed us with His precious blood and sanctified us before God through that ONE OFFERING for ever. It is God who laid aside that Lamb from BEFORE the foundations of the world. It is God the Father that throughout time could see that Lamb put aside in His love. That one day in the history of mankind, in the fullness of time, that Body, His Son, would complete God’s path of redemption not for Himself but for others. In the footprints of the Son of His love, from a child, from His birth, the holy child, the holy One, the holy Man, He took this in His own Body to the tree of Calvary to make the atonement for the sin of the whole world. On THAT tree, the cross of agony between heaven and earth, God the Son fulfilled the fullness of time.
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, (Galatians 4:4) To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. (Galatians 4:5) And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. (Galatians 4:6) Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (Galatians 4:7)
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By One Offering
Peace with God Sealed
  In this ONE OFFERING for ever, the determinate counsels of God were sealed in the blood of God’s dear Son, His beloved Son, His ONLY Son, the Son of God’s infinite love completed the fullness of time. From the moment that heaven opened, and Mary was told that she would bear a son, it was revealed to both Joseph and Mary that His name would be Jesus. And that He would be the Son of the highest. These words came from heaven, for both heaven and earth when God the Father declared, This day have I begotten thee, it was to ALL the creation. (Psalm 2:7; Hebrews 1:5, 5) The Son of His love came to an unlovable world, but God in His infinite love could not let His creation go for God not only created the worlds, but He has a love for which He created. And for this cause, He sent the Son of His love INTO the vineyard to be lifted up on the cross before man, before sin and death and the devil. And God the Father with His love had to look on and witness what His creation (man) had done to His Son knowing that His Son had the power to call legions of angels to break the strength of Rome and the Jews, and come down from the cross, and destroy ALL, but the love of God was stronger than the nails that bound God’s Son. In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that [was] upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken [it]. (Isaiah 22:25) Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together. (Zechariah 10:4) God’s love was hung in a sure place by a sure nail in the heart of the Father for His only begotten Son. The joy of the shepherds, and the glory in the highest at the birth of Christ had turned to darkness throughout the entire world. As God’s Christ suffered in the likeness of flesh for ALL the sin of mankind, and His blood would cover ALL the blood from righteous Abel throughout the fullness of time. He could lay down His life and take it again for He was the embodiment and Creator of ALL life. Death had no power over the immortal. He who WAS and IS eternity possessed the life of eternity. In the crucifixion of Christ, we fail to see the completeness in His last words. The seventh saying of Christ on the cross took place when He had already surrendered Himself to sin and death and the works of the devil. He surrendered His prepared Body, He surrendered His soul, but He never surrendered His Spirit. His last words to heaven were, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And as the Spirit left, He gave up the Ghost. And the Body that was prepared from BEFORE the foundations of the earth and manifested in the fullness of time, the image of the invisible God entered into death: body and soul, but His Spirit was kept in the bosom of the Father for safe keeping in the heart and love of God. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. (Luke 23:46) God is Spirit, so the Spirit of God departed and ascended to heaven. As John at the Jordan, saw the Spirit of God descending upon God’s Christ, so then that same Spirit ascended back to heaven from whence it came to await the third day when Christ would finish the building of a new Temple in the resurrected Man. Of twain He made one NEW MAN by the OFFERING of ONE sacrifice for ever, so making peace with God for us.
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:Â (Romans 1:4)
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:14)
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:Â (1st Peter 3:18)
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. (Romans 8:10) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. (Romans 8:11)
  Let us follow the working of the Spirit. For God is Spirit. (John 4) And through the Spirit that raised up Christ from the dead, He will also quicken our mortal bodies with that same Spirit that raised up Christ. Now that Spirit of life is IN Christ Jesus, and through the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, He has made us free from the Law of Sin and Death. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2) This same Spirit was IN Christ, the crucified one in the Body that was prepared for Him, the Body that bore the sin of the whole world, and the soul that was OFFERED for the ONE OFFERING for ever. He has ONCE suffered for us, who are born of His Spirit of life, the SAME Spirit that brought forth these words from the Son of God in John Chapter 10, verses 17 and 18. Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. (John 10:17) No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. (John 10:18)
  Christ possessed the Spirit of life for He had and has the power of an endless life. In respect to death, death had NO claim on Him. He had to voluntarily lay down His life for no man, no court, no government, or satanic force could take it from Him. So, in the end of His suffering, this ONE OFFERING for sin for ever when all was finished, He commended His Spirit unto His Father. He had offered the Body that was prepared for Him. He had walked through the evil world unspotted by sin, He had ascended into the hill of the Lord with clean hands and a pure heart, and no guile was found in Him. He spoke the words of Spirit and Life, for in Him was life, and this life was the light of man. God had come down from heaven’s glory in Body, Soul and Spirit to offer ONE sacrifice for ever so that through His OFFERING He could sanctify His own and embrace them with His own perfection. For He OFFERED the visible Body that was God manifested in the flesh, and God OFFERED His soul. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. (Isaiah 53:10) In the sufferings of Christ, He saw the travail of His own soul. His soul had to endure the transaction of bearing sin through time. The travail was in the words, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? His soul was an OFFERING for sin, and He bore the travail of His own soul. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. (Isaiah 53:11) Now only the Spirit of God could reveal this to us. After the OFFERING of His soul, after the travail of His soul, God the Spirit said that He poured out His soul unto death. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. (Isaiah 53:12) Could it be at this point that Christ felt His very soul being poured out with His blood at the foot of the brazen altar, the cross of His death. As He commended His Spirit unto God the Father, then the Holy Ghost informs us that when that Spirit departed and only when that Spirit was in the bosom of the Father, then Christ gave up the Ghost. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. (Luke 23:46) Christ gave up the Ghost and would wait to fulfill His prophecy of building His Temple in three days and three nights. In the belly of the earth guarded by two Cherubims, one at His head, and the other at His feet, desiring as they looked on Him, to see this great plan of redemption finalized in His resurrection. Matthew 12:41, The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas [is] here.
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By One Offering
Righteousness was Fulfilled in Purity
  On the morning of His resurrection, the very time of that resurrection was when the day star begins to shine, as the star announced His birth to the wise men, the day star announced His resurrection.  Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. (Romans 8:11)
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. (Numbers 24:17)
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:Â (2nd Peter 1:19)
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. (Revelation 22:16)
And I will give him the morning star. (Revelation 2:28)
  As the day star arose, the Body that had not seen corruption, breathed in eternal life. This life began in ONE NEW MAN. This was a resurrected MAN in Christ Jesus risen from the dead in the power of His endless life. Scriptures confirm that His Body saw no corruption, and that death had no hold on Him. Remember, Christ was sinless in nature, He had nothing in Him to respond to sin as Adam, or for that matter, also the devil. And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. (John 14:29) Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. (John 14:30)
For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:Â (Acts 2:25)
Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: (Acts 2:26)Â
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. (Acts 2:27)
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. (Acts 2:28)
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. (Acts 2:29)
Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; (Acts 2:30)
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. (Acts 2:31)
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. (Acts 2:32)
Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. (Acts 2:33)
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, (Acts 2:34)
Until I make thy foes thy footstool. (Acts 2:35)
Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. (Acts 2:36)
  The Spirit of God in the book of Acts, Chapter 2, makes it clear that the words that David penned were prophetic about another. David was not speaking of himself but was writing the words by Christ of Christ. We fail immensely to appreciate all the prophetic value within the psalms of David. His prophetic words are laced throughout the entire New Testament. We are thankful for the Spirit of God that we can see these things through the eyes of David. This falls in line with the hope that we have in Jesus Christ that the Old Testament prophets prophesied of the day of grace. In 1st Peter Chapter 1, beginning at verse 8, to verse 12, we have the assurance of our faith in the prophecy of the men of faith in prophesying about our day when they testified before hand of the sufferings of Christ and the glory that would follow when the day star arises on the third day. When the day star arises in your heart, you will know the Man of resurrection, the One who is life, the ONE who is the bright and morning star.
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: (1st Peter 1:8) Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. (1st Peter 1:9) Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: (1st Peter 1:10) Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. (1st Peter 1:11) Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. (1st Peter 1:12)
  Christ came out of the darkness of the tomb to give us light in our hearts, and eternal life in our bodies, souls and spirit. He possessed the Spirit of life for He has the power of an endless life. In this respect, death had no claim on Him. As the earthy body of Adam saw corruption in his death, the incorruptible Body from heaven in ALL purity could not be corrupted. God would not suffer that Body of perfection to see corruption. In the Body of one NEW MAN on the day of Christ’s resurrection, Christ rose from the dead for death had no hold on this most holy thing. There are always those who cannot separate themselves from Adam and try to drag their corruption into the divine life of the Son of God. It is within the nature of man to see Christ in the same pit of sin as they are, for it is sin that blinds their eyes, and will not allow them to see the purity and the glories of heaven IN Jesus Christ. Just the fact of His translation before Peter, James and John, when they beheld the glory of God, it was IN the SON. The glory of God can NEVER be corrupted. That glory, that was IN Jesus Christ on the mount, was always with Him and in Him in the Spirit of glory. It is Christ who is the light and perfection of God. He is the divine Urim and Thummim. (Exodus 28:30) (As a tiny side note: Urim and Thummim is documented seven (7) times in Scripture.) It is this Christ whom God the Father gave as a gift of life to a world of death. The Holy Spirit has gone through great lengths in Scripture to show and to preserve the very purity of Christ from any form of sin or corruption. Whether in life or in death, Christ was beyond corruption as the Son of God, for He was NOT a created being. He did not have the nature of man, He did not have the heart of man, nor the spirit and soul of man. He was divinely prepared in a holy and righteous Body that Adam knows nothing about. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: (Hebrews 10:5) Perfection of the OFFERING had to be prepared. One could not bring a lamb with a blemish without or within. The Israelite of the Old Testament economy would go out into his flock and select a new born lamb, a male, out of his flock, and then he would take it to himself and place it in a separate place, and nourish that lamb as an only child. He would not let that lamb be spotted or defiled by the world. Then when the Israelite needed to offer, he would take his most precious possession, the lamb without spot without and within, and present it before the brazen altar. Then the Israelite would place his hands upon the head of his darling lamb, and confess his sin, and then take the life of that lamb that would be OFFERED on the brazen altar watching as the blood poured out at the base of the altar. This was just a type, a picture, of how the holy and righteous child Jesus was sent into this world, and nourished as a man, and then He stood before the tribunal of God when God the Father placed the sin of the whole world upon the Lamb of God, so that God, in His Son, would complete ALL righteousness. He could OFFER His Body as the atoning Body for all sin. He would fulfill all righteousness as He told John on the banks of the Jordan. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? (Matthew 3:14) And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. (Matthew 3:15)
  Here is the meaning of fulfilling all righteousness: God could not justify man unless God could remove ALL that was against mankind, and doing this, in His own Person, He could complete and fulfill ALL righteousness in His judgment of man allowing His grace to be poured out to man. Through the death and sacrifice of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ opened a door of hope for ALL mankind in the righteousness of Christ. He, Himself, in His character, in His walk, in His life and light had to fulfill ALL righteousness. God Himself had to make a way for man to come to the Father, and this is why Christ as the Lamb, as the sacrifice, as the fulfiller of all righteousness proclaimed of Himself that He is the WAY of redemption, that He is the TRUTH of redemption, and that He is the LIFE of redemption for NO man could come to the Father UNTIL the work of redemption was finished in Jesus Christ. NO person man can put on the righteousness of God except through God’s righteous Son, Jesus Christ which God fulfilled in the fullness of time by ONE OFFERING for ever.
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By One Offering
Salvation and Righteousness Imparted Forever God IN Christ, OFFERED everything to us in that ONE OFFERING.
  To fulfill all righteousness, the Lamb of perfection had to come on the day of atonement. On the day of atonement, in the death of the Lord Jesus, the veil in the Temple was rent from top to bottom. God had opened the veil to the holy of holies and on the day of resurrection, the Lord Jesus ascended into the holy of holies and placed His blood, as Melchisedec, on the mercy seat. If you don’t believe these things then study Exodus and Leviticus, walk in the footprints of Aaron on the day of atonement, and you will see that when Christ OFFERED Himself, He fulfilled ALL that was given to Aaron, in a heavenly sense, on this divine day of atonement when Christ gave Himself from the brazen altar, the cross. Through the dark hours of His suffering, a sweet savor ascended up to God the Father in the beauties and in the righteousness of the Lamb slain from the foundations of the world. And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. (Ephesians 5:2) Christ fulfilled ALL righteousness. The determinate counsels of God were finalized in the blood of Christ. Now God could justify Himself in His determinate counsels for all sin was set aside in the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord, and from now on it would be that love that would justify man before the Almighty God. Those who cry out and embrace the Son of God’s love in their hearts enter into that ONE OFFERING FOREVER in the Son of God’s love. When God looks upon His redeemed, it is NOT through our own righteousness, but it is the righteousness of His Son. We have nothing to offer to God. He OFFERED everything to us in that ONE OFFERING. And yet, mankind states that His OFFERING was not enough, and continues in his sin, slowly opening throughout his lifetime the iron gates of hell, plummeting into the pit of torment awaiting the second death, where unrepentant man he will be tormented in the lake of fire for all eternity.
  In Hebrews Chapter 1, it is the Son of God who loves righteousness. Righteousness is the sceptre of His life, and He HATES iniquity, the opposite of righteousness. But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. (Hebrews 1:8) Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. (Hebrews 1:9)
  It is unto God the Son that the Father said, Thy throne, O God. The strength of that throne is the sceptre of righteousness which the Son fulfilled. To fulfill ALL righteousness God had to not only witness to earth and to man, but also witness to the angels in heaven. God, the Son, in the Body that was prepared for Him was manifested on earth to give a divine witness of the truth and of the righteousness of God. Christ NEVER varied from His position of holiness. He was sent as that holy thing. He grew as that holy child and fulfilled ALL of God’s righteousness as that Holy One. He walked in PERFECT righteousness before His Father in heaven, and before man on the earth. His scepter of righteousness was His guide through His earthly life, for He HATED iniquity. Through the Holy Spirit in the epistles of Peter, Paul and John, the Spirit of God testifies of the life of Christ IN that righteousness without sin. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15) He could not be tempted by the devil, or by the world, or by man for that sceptre of righteousness stood between Him and all temptation. This is why in Chapter 4 of the gospel of Matthew the throne of God, and the Temple of God could not be breeched because Christ had and has that scepter of righteousness. Christ also was without spot, without blemish, that scepter of righteousness put a halo round about Him. In the power of His divine Being He could not be tempted, for God cannot be tempted. Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. (1st Peter 2:22) Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. (1st Peter 2:22) So the Holy Spirit again testified that Christ did no sin. We all know that man in Adam knows sin, and he knows about sin. Sin is part of man’s natural life. His mind, his heart, his soul and his spirit gravitate to sin because within man is the seed of sin from Adam. However, with Christ, He was God’s Seed from above. He was that Seed of righteousness. Christ was the Man from heaven . . . the opposite of Adam, for Adam was a man of the earth. The Man from heaven knew NO sin. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2nd Corinthians 5:21) Sin was not in all the Savior’s thoughts. His walk on earth was to wield that righteous scepter for at the end of His walk on earth, on the cross of Calvary, with that scepter of righteousness He took away the sin of the world. He came to do away with the iniquity of man. So, IN Him there was NO sin. Absolutely nothing of Adam was in Him, He was totally made IN heaven, in the presence of God, in the LIKENESS of flesh, but apart from Adam’s flesh. In the Lord Jesus there was NO seed of sin as there was in Adam and his descendants. And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. (John 2:5)
  Then you have the tempter, the enemy of God, Satan, the fallen angel Lucifer, the old serpent of deception. No matter how many times the devil tried to overthrow the Son of God, whether by his own means or by using man, the Lord Jesus stated that the Prince of this world (that serpent) had nothing within Him. That scepter of righteousness was an impregnable wall against ALL sin. Here’s where we find the OFFERING, the ONE OFFERING, the ONE OFFERING forever, the ONE OFFERING for eternity, the ONE OFFERING for man on the cross IN His righteousness. He allowed the sin of the whole world to be placed upon Him. The love of God mingled with the righteousness of God, and that scepter of righteousness became a place of forgiveness, a place where man could be justified before God in the righteousness of Christ. Sin was put aside by the judicial court of righteousness. Adam was replaced by the Man of glory. The door of heaven was opened by that holy thing sent down from heaven to redeem man unto Himself for God was IN Christ redeeming the world unto Himself. God sent His own Son in the likeness of flesh to bear the sin of the whole world in His own Body on the tree. The proclamation went out that if anyone repents believing on the Son of God that God raised Him from the dead, the divine judicial court of righteousness will declare that person FREE in Christ. For he has been freed by the Spirit of life that is within Christ Jesus. This Spirit of life has freed that man from the Law of Sin and Death. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2) From the Body that was prepared in heaven, and the joy that was set before Him, He came to bear the sin of the whole world. His love could not let man, or His creation go. And so, to create a NEW populace of man, those who would dwell in heaven, He came in the Body prepared for Him as a bridge over troubled waters. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. (Hebrews 10:5) Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. (John 14:30)
  Now we have seen the power, the majesty, the glory, and the holiness and the righteousness of that ONE OFFERING for ever. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. (Hebrews 10:14) God not only shows us the perfection of this OFFERING, but He then applies this OFFERING to all those who have been brought into the family of God. His children, His sons, are sanctified, set apart IN Christ’s righteousness FOR EVER. As the OFFERING had no blemish without or within, so now the children of God are seen by God IN that OFFERING without blemish and without spot. To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. (Hebrews 12:23) We see just men made perfect IN Christ Jesus. We see them in their spirits, showing that Christ NOT only restores our souls, but gives us the blessing of His Spirit within. Just men are made perfect in Christ Jesus, for in the fulness of time the heavenly King, the Man of glory came with the scepter of righteousness. In the fulness of time He scanned and looked over ALL time, yesterday, today and forever. He came to perfect His righteousness IN man by not only giving the gift of salvation, but freely giving His righteousness, and erasing the iniquity. Isaiah 53:6 documents it this way, All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. The just men of faith are made just and perfect forever in the PERFECT OFFERING, the ONE OFFERING for sin FOREVER IN Jesus Christ from righteous Abel to the last saint. This was brought to pass in the fulness of time, for they without us could not be made perfect. For God’s perfection had not yet come in the fulness of time. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: (Hebrews 11:39) God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. (Hebrews 11:40)
 Now those who are perfected are perfected in God’s perfect gift. This perfect Gift is Jesus Christ our Lord. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. (James 1:17) Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. John 4:10) Once salvation is imparted, it will never depart.
  In this wonderful verse in the epistle of James 1:17, we seem to delete the word perfect. Can we agree that the only perfect Gift from above was Christ our Lord, and that we cannot be made perfect except that we are IN Him? We MUST enter into the sacrifice and OFFERING of the Son of God. The apostle Paul viewed it this way when he said that he was crucified with Christ in Galatians 2:20. As this perfect Gift from above (in Chapter 4 of the gospel of John) on earth, Christ announced Himself as the Gift of God. To see all these perfections in Christ one must have His Spirit of perfection within, then we are able to see all the wonders of this ONE OFFERING forever by the Son of God. When Adam (man) looks upon the cross and sees the Son of God, he does not see the preciousness of God, but only sees a man on a cross. Only through the new birth can the scales fall from the eyes of a person born blind so that they may see both the tangible and the intangible of faith. For faith opens the eyes of the heart to the spiritual world of the UNSEEN. Faith transforms the mind to be subject to the mind of Christ. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 2:5) As the children of God with the mind of Christ, we need to view the world through the prism of God’s word, dividing the light from darkness, beholding line upon line and precept upon precept, seeing the reality of sin and the terrible destruction of this plague that Adam brought into the world, and death by sin. Yes, sin is the executioner of all mankind for sin bringeth forth death. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. (Romans 5:12) The brightness of God’s glory and the express image of His Person has offered ONE sacrifice FOREVER to sanctify those who come to God through Him for ever. Once salvation is imparted, it will never depart. For this cause Christ came into the world to redeem a people for heaven. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself by ONE OFFERING for ever.
Amen and Selah.
Copyright 2023, Michael Haigh
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