Beware of Man-made Spiritual altars: Christ was and is the Final Sacrifice. :

BEWARE OF MAN-MADE SPIRITUAL ALTARS! CHRIST WAS AND IS THE FINAL SACRIFICE

By Ezekiel Kimosop

I have come across a debate on Facebook regarding the admissibility of spiritual altars in church sanctuaries.

My view is that spiritual altars are part of a set of occult practices that have been surreptitously or stealthily introduced into Christian worship. They corrupt our worship.

Those promoting these practices are inescapably drawing abominations into the Christian faith while puporting to speak the mind of God. They are attempting to add to what Christ has already accomplish for us at the cross!

The truth is that Christ was and is the final sacrifice from God who was offered by our heavenly Father for our redemption. He was slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8)

Christ is God's exclusive sacrificial Lamb who was crucified for us at the cross of Calvary once and for all. His atonement was sufficient and efficacious.

In Christ, we meet God through our covenant relationship that was made possible through His shed blood.

We therefore do not require any other sacrifice or medium to reach God. Christ alone is the answer.

Jesus cried at the cross saying "it is finished!" (John 19:30).

What was finished?

1) Our separation from God on account of sinful condemnation was decidedly finished! God's wrath was appeased in Christ and those who come to Christ by faith are counted as His covenant children (John 1:12).

2) The Levitical ritual practices for the atonement of sin were finished in Christ. Never again would these practices be required by God for the atonement of our sins!

Hebrews 9:13-15 says: "For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, 14 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? 15 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."

3) We were once and for all fully and totally redeemed and liberated from any sinful condemnation.

Romans 8:1-4 says: "There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit."

Stay blessed.

© Ezekiel Kimosop  2019