Hebrews 1
PURIFICATION FROM SINS
If Jesus had been in the tomb long enough to have had a tombstone carved out for him, I wonder what it would have said? What would you have written?
My thoughts probably would have centred around him being the Son of God, describing his love, the greatest teacher, the miracle man, or that he had done good to all mankind.
The writer to the Hebrews puts a wonderful spin on this. He was not writing a pithy statement for a tombstone, but he did summarise the work of Jesus perfectly. He said it this way: “After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.” (Hebrews 1 v 3).
Jesus provided purification for sins. That was his work while he walked this earth. The whole purpose of Jesus is so we can be forgiven, so that our dirty and disgusting sinful nature can be purified and we can be brought back into the presence of God. He opened the way for us to be like him – pure, holy, and perfect.
Jesus achieved his purpose – not just for those whose sins are easy to forgive – but even for you and me. Because he provided purification for sins, we can receive forgiveness.
May the forgiveness brought by Jesus find a home in us today.
With love in our Lord,
Robert
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