November 13

Hebrews 10:1-18
The body of the Lord Jesus Christ was prepared for the specific purpose of being offered as a sacrifice to God the Father to pay the wages of sin and death in our place. To be a suitable offering He had to be perfect and He had to be able to pay for all time, the holy demands or our righteous God. It was God's will that Jesus do this. It was prophesied 1000 years before His birth that this was the purpose of His coming (Psalm 40:7,8). Through His death Jesus justified us.
It was not only for our justification that Jesus' body was prepared. It was also for our sanctification. Sanctification, among other things, is the working out of His holiness in our lives. It results in our obedience. Because He obeyed the will of God in doing the impossible, so also, we, through His body, are able to do the impossible. He did it once and for all. One of the things I hate about cleaning is that it has to keep being done. In His sanctifying work, Jesus cleans us up. The provision for that impossible outworking in our lives was done once and for all. It is all His doing. He is indeed holy and effective! Indeed we serve a glorious King! Speak His glory to someone today!
--Pastor John