Basic HTML Version
Momentarily Offering Sacrifice, March 10
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is
risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us.
Romans 8:34
.
Christ Jesus is represented as continually standing at the altar, momen-
tarily offering up the sacrifice for the sins of the world. He is a minister
of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man.... A daily and
yearly typical atonement is no longer to be made, but the atoning sacrifice
through a mediator is essential because of the constant commission of sin.
Jesus is officiating in the presence of God, offering up His shed blood, as it
had been a lamb slain....
Christ, our Mediator, and the Holy Spirit are constantly interceding in
man’s behalf, but the Spirit pleads not for us as does Christ who presents
His blood, shed from the foundation of the world; the Spirit works upon
our hearts, drawing out prayers and penitence, praise and thanksgiving....
The religious services, the prayers, the praise, the penitent confession
of sin ascend from true believers as incense to the heavenly sanctuary; but
passing through the corrupt channels of humanity, they are so defiled that
unless purified by blood, they can never be of value with God. They ascend
not in spotless purity, and unless the Intercessor who is at God’s right hand
presents and purifies all by His righteousness, it is not acceptable to God.
All incense from earthly tabernacles must be moist with the cleansing drops
of the blood of Christ. He holds before the Father the censer of His own
merits, in which there is no taint of earthly corruption. He gathers into this
censer the prayers, the praise, and the confessions of His people, and with
these He puts His own spotless righteousness. Then, perfumed with the
merits of Christ’s propitiation, the incense comes up before God wholly
and entirely acceptable....
O, that all may see that everything in obedience, in penitence, in praise
and thanksgiving must be placed upon the glowing fire of the righteousness
of Christ. The fragrance of this righteousness ascends like a cloud around
the mercy seat
[76]
14
S.D.A. Bible Commentary, 6:1077, 1078
.
75