Devotion 816

"I Will Give Them An Everlasting Name"

Reference: Isaiah Chapter 56

Everyone has blood and needs to be moved from the old blood to the new blood. The work of the cross is therefore for everyone.

In the olden days, for you to move from the old blood to the new blood, you had to bring a lamb. The lamb represented the new blood, and you represent the old blood. The lamb represented the second Adam. You represented the first Adam. Beginning with Abel and throughout generations: Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the children of Israel, David and Solomon, all had to make lamb sacrifices The lamb representing the new blood. So the old blood, you will place your hand on the lamb, the new blood, and become one with the new blood. You will then take a sharp object and cut the throat of the lamb, typifying what God will do with Jesus Christ (the new blood) on the cross. This is what John the Baptist meant when he said, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." The sin is taken away when the old blood (which is the individual) touches the new blood (which is the lamb). The union between the old blood (that is, the individual) and the new blood causes the old blood to die and resurrect in the new blood. This is the only way to come to God.
Today, we do not use a physical lamb to represent the new blood. The new blood has already come. Secondly, we do not use our hands to place on that new blood. We use our faith. We are represented by our faith. We place our faith in Jesus Christ, the new blood, and what He did on the cross, and become one with Him in death and resurrection. This is how we come to God. When we are sincere about our faith in death and resurrection with Him, then God will seal our faith with the baptism with the Holy Spirit. We have become one with God, one blood, one light, and one spirit.

Isaiah writes about an opened door not just to Israel, but to the whole world.

Let's read.

Isaiah 56:1 "Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed."

Today, He is revealing His salvation to the whole world. It's no longer hidden in bulls and goats. It's revealed by His work on the cross for anyone who will believe.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 56:2-5 "Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. [3] Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. [4] For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; [5] Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off."

The new covenant is not just for Israel, but for the whole world. It is an everlasting covenant. It is through this everlasting covenant that each believer receives an everlasting name. They are no longer sons and daughters of the first Adam, but they are now sons and daughters of God. They have received a name change from death into eternal life.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 56:6-7 "Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; [7] Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people."

Every burnt offering and sacrifice was pointing to the new blood, whereas every man or woman is an old blood. Today, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, the New Blood, has made the ultimate sacrifice. The believer simply has to accept that sacrifice and unite with that sacrifice in death and resurrection to be received by God. That was how Abel was received. That was how Israel was received. That was how the disciples were received, and that's how anybody is received today through the blood sacrifice: the old blood uniting with the new blood.

We conclude our reading.

Isaiah 56:8-12 "The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him. [9] All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest. [10] His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. [11] Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. [12] Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant."

The Lord will gather all nations through the blood sacrifice.

Isaiah 66:18 "For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory."

The glory that He accomplished on the cross by the shedding of his blood

John 10:15-16 "As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. [16] And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd."

He laid his life down for the Jew and the Gentile. He laid his life down for the whole world. The new blood for the old blood

Touch the new blood by your faith. BELIEVE and confess Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, as we’ve revealed Him from the first Adam. The new blood is available today, in Christ!

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