And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the sons of Israel for a water of separation. It is a cleansing for sin.
(Num 19:9)
These ashes provided the children of Israel with a way to be cleansed from sin and uncleanness when they were journeying through the wilderness. This “water of separation was a literal soap that cleansed them from spiritual impurity… we could translate it as “the water of filthiness”. We live in a filthy world and we need something to cleanse us from the dirt and junk that we pick-up along the way. The ashes of the Red Heifer provide the children of Israel with a God given cleansing agent to keep them in a pure state as they walked before Him.
Like the ashes of the Red Heifer, God has also provided us with a cleansing agent as we walk through this fallen world, something to keep us from being defiled, something to keep us clean as we walk before the Lord. Look at what the book of Hebrews tells us:
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 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?
(Heb 9:13-14)
The blood of Christ cleanses our conscience; it literally is soap for our hearts and minds, making us clean so we can be free to serve the Lord. Some so called “Christians” have taught that we can only receive the blood of Jesus through sacraments obtained at church. That would leave us hanging unclean all week long, we’d be messed up from the first sin of the week all the way till the following Sunday when we could be cleansed again. That would be rotten! I hope we all realize that we have FREE ACCESS to the blood of Jesus! We can be reminded day in and out of the blood of Jesus by doing one simple thing… READING HIS WORD!
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
(Rom 12:2)
This word renewing means a complete and total change… made completely clean and fresh! We do this by looking into the Word of God. As we read the word of God, the Holy Spirit cleanses our hearts and minds, washing out all the worldly junk, cleansing us again, reminding us of the work that the blood of Jesus can do in us. They had the ashes of the Red Heifer, we have the HOLY SPIRIT! He washes us with the Word, cleansing us, making us new by the blood of Jesus!
Feeling filthy because of the dirty world we live in? Grab your Bible, get alone with Jesus, and let Him clean you out… YOU WON’T REGRET IT!
4 comments:
Today is the 16th. The only 16th of January of 2007 that you guys will ever get! And you'd better be good on this 16th of January! Or else flying hippoes will come and bomb you home!
BEWARRE!!!!!!!!!
Guys! I know that this is kinda beside the point, but if you ever have a really hard decision to make throwing a quater really helps! 'cause you know, God controls all those random affairs.
though the LORD could use a coin flip, we have something far better... we have the Holy Spirit! Praise God we don't have to flip a coin, but by the leading of the Spirit we can "discern what the will of the Lord is".
Yeah, I gues we do. But it is much more fun to flip a coin.
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