413 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 1 - Book 35 - The Dispensation Of The Fulness Of Time

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 35 THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULLNESS OF TIME There is not this emphasis on our position in Christ. And as I said in a previous lesson there are over 90 times that Paul uses the prepositional phrase, "In Him, In Christ, In Whom" these are depicting our position. Ephesians 1:5-6 Now in verse 7 we have another prepositional phrase. Ephesians 1:7a Christ) we have (we're not working for it, and we're not hoping for it, but we have already the) redemption through his blood,..." You've got to remember that our hope of eternity rests on that blood of Christ! Ephesians 1:7a "In whom we have redemption through his blood,..." So it's redemption through His blood which also brings about - Ephesians 1:7b Adam should have answered, "We're lost!" It's like the parable of the little lamb in Luke chapter 15. Because that little fellow knew he was lost. Now we can go back to the Old Testament. Come back if you will to Job chapter 19. Job 19:25a To lose control of something, and then pay the price to buy it back. Now that's redemption. The story is about a little fellow who had spent the whole winter just laboriously building this beautiful little sail boat. Months later he and his mom were walking down the street, here in the window of a pawn shop was his little boat. Well now that's just a simple little heart touching story of a little lad, but listen that's just exactly what God did. God lost us when Adam sinned, and for 2000 years God prepares the world for the coming of the Redeemer, and all the Old Testament like Job are looking for the time when the Redeemer would come. Paul puts the cap on it, Paul puts the frosting on the cake, but ever since Adam sinned God has been preparing for the coming of this Redeemer. Now verse 20. Isaiah 59:20 Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned, (every human being from Adam on) and come short of the glory of God:" But we know God didn't stop there. So now verse 24. Romans 3:24 "Being justified freely (even though we're sinners) by his grace through the redemption (see, there it is again) that is in Christ Jesus:" Speaking of the blood of Christ that's another 1/2 hour lesson in itself. Why is the blood so unique? Well it was divine. You want to remember that Joseph was not the father of the baby Jesus, but rather it was God. And as I've pointed out over the years, the blood circulatory system always originates with the father. So Christ's blood originated with God Himself, and so when Christ was born it was divine blood that coursed though His veins. When His blood was shed it wasn't just the blood of another human being, but rather the divine blood of God Himself, so this was then the price of redemption. Now verse 25. Romans 3:25a "Whom God hath set forth (that is in Christ Jesus in verse 24) to be a propitiation (now that is what God has done. God did all that, but it was) through faith in his blood,..." If we don't believe in the shed blood of Christ and it's power for atonement we're as lost as a goose, and you might as well mark it down. There will be no one in Heaven unless he's been redeemed by faith in the blood of Christ! The blood of Christ is the only purchase price for our redemption, and we have to appropriate it by our faith. Now continuing on in verse 25. Romans 3:25b In other words the blood of Christ covered all the sins all the way back to Adam, and all the way forward to the very last person that will be born. So it was a complete purchase price for mankind's redemption. Now let's look at another one in the Book of Hebrews, and we could look at lots of them as the references for the blood of Christ are plentiful. Hebrews 9:11 Now verse 12. Now the blood of goats and calves did its work as they covered the sins of Israel, but it was nothing when compared to the Blood of Christ. Now lets read the whole verse. Hebrews 9:12. Over and over we see the blood of Christ has paid the price of redemption that had to be paid in order for God to regain control of fallen man, and He's done it, it's been paid in full. Verse 13 - Hebrews 9:13 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?" This verse is one of the absolutes of Scripture. Hebrews 9:22 Now let's move on to the Book of I Peter, chapter 1. Well we may have time for one more verse in the Book of Revelation chapter 5 Can you find it in 10 seconds? Well anyway it's back there in verse 9 that He was worthy because we've been redeemed to God by His Blood. #lesfeldick #biblestudy #bible