Hebrews 9:19-22 For when every command had been proclaimed by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll itself and all the people, saying, This is the blood of the covenant that God has ordained for you. In the same way, he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the articles of worship with blood. According to the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. Zechariah 9:9 “Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout in triumph, Daughter Jerusalem! Look, your King is coming to you; he is righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey” Big Idea: Without Christ's death, we could not be forgiven our sins. Hebrews 9:19-20 For when every command had been proclaimed by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll itself and all the people saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has ordained for you.” AI Image of Moses Sprinkling Blood upon the scroll Psalm 51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Isaiah 1:18 “Though your sins are scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are crimson red, they will be like wool. Hebrews 9:21-22a In the same way, he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the articles of worship with blood. According to the law almost everything is purified with blood… …(the sprinkling of blood) meant that the persons and objects were now acceptable to God. Warren Wiersbe, in The Bible Exposition Commentary Hebrews 9:22b …and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. Painting the Lintel and Doorpost with blood of Passover Lamb John 1:29 “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” Graphic from Full of Eyes of Christ as the true Passover Lamb When Jesus celebrated His final Passover with His disciples, He departed from the standard liturgy in the middle of the celebration. He added a new meaning to the Passover celebration as He took the unleavened bread, attaching a new significance to it when He said, “This is My body which is broken for you.” Then, after the supper had been completed, He took the wine and he said, in effect, “I’m attaching a new significance to this element as you celebrate the Passover because this wine is my blood. Not the blood of the lamb in the Old Testament whose blood was marked on the doorpost, but now this cup is my blood.” In essence, Jesus was saying, “I am the Passover; I am the Pascal Lamb; I am the one who will be sacrificed for you. It is by My blood being marked over the door of your life that you will escape the wrath of God.” So He said: “From now on, this is My blood, which is shed for you for the remission of your sins. This is the blood of a new covenant.” This new covenant that He instituted that very night fulfills the old covenant, giving it its fullest and most meaningful expression. R.C. Sproul You may work your fingers to the bone, but you can never weave a righteousness that shall cover your nakedness before God. Charles Spurgeon, in his sermon “The Blood Of The Testament.” “The Passover lamb functioned as a penal substitute, dying in place of the firstborn sons of the Israelites, in order that they might escape the wrath of God.” Steve Jeffrey, Michael Ovey, and Andrew Sach, in Pierced for Our Transgressions: Recovering the Glory of Penal Substitution. Penal Substitutionary Atonement - A substitute pays the penalty to bring atonement. Jesus is our substitute. “It is perfectly true that the Christ of modern naturalistic reconstruction never could have suffered for the sins of others; but it is very different in the case of the Lord of Glory… peace comes only when a man recognizes that all his striving to be right with God, all his feverish endeavor to keep the law before he can be saved, is unnecessary, and that the Lord Jesus has wiped out the handwriting that was against him by dying instead of him on the cross.” Gresham Machen, in Christianity and Liberalism Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Next Step: I will repent and submit my life to Jesus.