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What Did Jesus' Death Change?
April 13, 2019

We are moving into an important season of Holy Days, and for First-Century Apostolic Christians like me, we look to the Christian Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread instead of Easter. Why that is is a topic we will look at next week. This week we will consider the death of Jesus and what His death ended. We begin with Jesus on the cross feeling abandoned asking God why he had been abandoned. Because Jesus was speaking Aramaic, the locals thought he was instead asking the prophet Elijah to save him.

Matthew 27:45-50
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias. And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.

Jesus knowing that all things were accomplished and sensing his physical life would soon end, asked for water and instead was given vinegar. He then died.

John 19:28-30
After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

When Jesus died, the veil of the temple was torn from top to bottom. It was that veil that previously provided the barrier between the people and the Holy of Holies where on the Day of Atonement, the high priest would intercede for the people for the remission sin, with the offering of animal sacrifices.

Matthew 27:50-51
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

Hebrews records that the death of Jesus once for all is the offering for those who are sanctified by God, and that with this once for all sacrifice, God would not remember the sins and iniquities of the sanctified, Christians.

Hebrews 10:5-18
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

As Christians, because there is forgiveness of sins and iniquities through the sacrifice of Jesus once for all, there no longer is the need for sacrifices and offerings for sin as was previously the case. What did the death of Jesus change? The death of Jesus changed the need for sacrifice and offering as his death sanctified us, or set us apart for God. It was by this one offering, the sacrifice of Jesus that Christians are perfected for ever.

All verses are from the King James Version.
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