But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. ~ Exodus 34:20 Every firstborn creature must be the Lords, but since the ass was unclean, it could not be presented in sacrifice. What then? Should it be allowed to go free from the universal law? By no means. God admits of no exceptions. The ass is His due, but He will not accept it. He will not abate the claim, but yet He cannot be pleased with the victim. What sacrifice is accepatable unto God for redemption of sins? A lamb that shall be without blemish, a male of the first year {Exodus 12:5}. No way of escape of eternal death remained but by redemption. The creature must be saved by the substitution of a lamb in its place; or if not redeemed, it must die. Here is a lesson for our unclean souls. We are the asses that are unclean and cant be redeemed without the Lamb of God without blemish and without spot as our righteous substitute in our place, or we must die eternally. Let all the world know of thy gratitude to that spotless Lamb who has already bled for thee, and so redeemed thee from the fatal curse of the law. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit {Rom. 8:3-4}. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him {2 Cor. 5:21}. And again, For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison [Satans prison of spiritual darkness/ignorance ~ Isa. 42:7,22, Isa. 49:9, Isa. 61:1, Ps. 107:10-16, 2 Tim. 24-26, Heb. 2:14-15] {1 Peter 3:18-20}. Assuredly there was no comparison between the value of the soul of man and the life of the Lord Jesus, and yet the Lamb dies, and man, the ass, is spared. My soul, admire the boundless love of God to thee and others of the human race. Worms are bought with the blood of the Son of the Highest! Dust and ashes redeemed with a price far above silver and gold! What a doom had been mine for a surety had not the blessed redemption been found! The breaking of the neck of the ass was but a momentary penalty, but who shall measure the wrath of God to come to which no limit can be imagined? Weep no longer O my soul for behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, the Lamb that wast slain is NOW worthy to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; hast made us unto our God kings and priests {Rev. 5}. Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently {1 Peter 1:18-22}.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:24:48 +0000
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