The Promise Of The Eternal Inheritance
As you read through the Bible (I highly recommend that you adopt a daily Bible reading program; see website below for help with this), each year about this time you will arrive in the books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Some of this can be tedious, and the temptation may be to skip these sections. It seems you have to wade through all the rules, laws, offerings, sacrifices, priestly protocols, tithes, judicial statutes, etc. Your first thought may be, this is part of a system no longer binding or relevant, so why read through it?
May I submit to the Bible reader, without this background, you
would find it impossible to understand statements like this in Hebrews.
"But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to
come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is,
not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own
blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal
redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer,
sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more
shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself
without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living
God? And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of
death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that
those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance."
– Heb. 9:11-15
The good news is, you can be a participant in the New Covenant, by the activity
of your faith in Christ. Hence, you can "receive the promise
of eternal inheritance."
By Warren E. Berkley
Final Page
From Expository Files 10.4; April 2003
