The Finished Work of Christ

Yesterday we had a powerful sermon from Pastor Prince. I just wanted to share the aspect of his sermon that ministered most to me. He said in Numbers 19, God told the Israelites to bring an offering of a red heifer without blemish, in which there is no spot and on which a yoke has not been laid. The priest would take it outside the camp and it shall be slaughtered before him. The heifer shall be burned and its ashes shall be gathered and stored outside the camp. The ashes shall be kept for the water of purification; it is for purifying from sin.

Pastor Prince said that Jesus is like the red heifer for He has no spot and no burden has ever been laid on him. He is the perfect sacrifice. After God's judgment has been poured out on the red heifer, the ashes remain. Ashes represents the finished work of Christ because ashes is the final form of any matter. No fire can ever burn again in the area of the ashes. What it simply means is this: when we walk in the finished work of Christ, we stand where the fire of God's judgment has been exacted on Christ and we will be safe from the judgment. When we walk in His finished work, we don't have to suffer what Christ has already suffered. That is precisely why Christ came to earth, suffered and died for us!

My friends, Christ died young so that we could live long; He died poor so that we can be rich; He died in pain so that we will never be sick or in pain; He died a lonely man so that we will always be surrounded by family and friends. That is why we always need to be reminded about the finished work of Christ so that the consciousness of sin will not be on our hearts. We need to stand on the firm foundation that because of Christ's perfect sacrifice, we are forever righteous before God. What a great exchange happened on the Cross!