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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Hebrews 9:16-28
"Without shedding of blood is no remission" (v. 22; read also Leviticus 17:11). What every sacrifice of the old covenant proclaimed, what Abel by faith had already understood (Hebrews 11:4) is here confirmed in the most categoric of statements. For "the wages of sin is death" and the blood poured out on the ground is the proof that the wages have been paid (Deuteronomy 12:23-24). The blood of Christ was "shed for many for the remission of sins" (Matthew 26:28). Who are these many? All who believe! The precious blood of the Lord Jesus, continually in God’s sight, shelters them from His wrath. For "it is appointed unto men once to die . . ." No reincarnation is offered to them. Yet everything is not finished at death, and death is a small matter compared with what follows it. What is after death? One word is sufficient to show this . . . "after this the judgment" (2 Timothy 4:1; Revelation 20:12). Man without God has two terrible realities before him: death and judgment. But the redeemed possess two happy certainties: the forgiveness of all their sins and the Lord’s return for their final deliverance (v. 28). May each one of our readers be among "them that look for him"!
