Destined to Reign 15th Anniversary Celebration (Special Sermon)
Alright turn to your Bibles to the Word of God in Romans Chapter 3. It is important for us to remember that there cannot be forgiveness, there cannot be remission of sins; remission means sending away, literally the word remitted means your debts are remitted that means they are sent away into oblivion. It will no longer come back to haunt you.
So the Bible used the word remission of sins, it’s the same Greek word for forgiveness, aphiemi, sending away, remission. Without the shedding of blood the Bible says in Hebrews, there is no forgiveness or remission of sins. Without the shedding of blood, it cannot just be blood, it’s got to be holy blood, blameless blood, sinless blood.
Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. And then we see the gospel story of how God sent His Son. God could have sent Jesus stepping out of a cave, a full grown Man, but then, that would not minister to our comfort because we will think of Him as a Being from heaven but He doesn’t understand me as a man.
So Jesus came to go through all the gamut of human emotions, to go through all the experiences of a child, a toddler, a baby, a toddler, childhood, teenager and then growth, manhood. The Bible tells us He went through it all. He went through it all as a Man, but He is not just Man.
He was born of a virgin and I’ve shared during Christmas time how that the necessity for the virgin birth, that science has discovered that the mother’s blood does not go into the baby through the placenta. Once science thought that that was so but now it’s proven beyond the shadow of any doubt, that the mother does not give blood to the baby. Why is that important because Mary’s blood has sin.
Are you listening? So it is proven that the placenta takes away the waste of the baby and gives food to the baby. Amen. The blood is determined by His Father in heaven. Amen. Nonetheless I’m sure that Jesus’ bodily characteristics looks a lot like His mother Mary. Amen. But remember this that the Bible says that Mary is favoured among, when the angel appeared to her, it says you are favoured among not above women.
