The Breaking of the Holy Sacrifice

As we approach Resurrection Sunday, itÂ’s imperative that we understand the sacrifice that was resurrected. The Son of God was a treasure that had to be broken before He was offered. The bruising of that body was for the healing and salvation of the nations. The gore of His mutilation is not where we are to glory. No! No! We glory in the virtue – supernatural virtue – that streams like a river from every wound. That “Holy Thing,” His total life, the very temple of His sinless body was so Holy that to touch His seamless robe in faith was to encounter supernatural power that immediately broke the power of disease. The words that came from His lips are described as a “two-edged sword” and are so powerful that demons or devils were driven into swine and then into the bottomless pit. He had but to speak and dead men stood up alive and were returned to their families.

We must come to a fresh revelation of this “Holy Son of God.” The angel, announcing to Mary, assured her that this miracle of her Son was not ordinary. “The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” (Luke 1:35) The words, “that Holy Thing,” are breathtaking words. The Son of the Living God had stepped out of the realm of His Father’s eternal presence and was even at that moment moving into the reality of flesh, and she confirmed it by stating, “… Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.” (Luke 1:38a) God, in His Son, had come to dwell with men.

Within days after He was baptized by John and met the fallen Prince of Darkness in the wilderness, He went into the synagogue at Capernaum. Men had not yet recognized His Divinity, but fallen angels remembered Him from before they were cast out of Heaven. Listen! “And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.” (Luke 4:33-34) That devil said, “I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.” What a confession from a demon, who was now a devil destroying men!

The body of Jesus Christ was so holy, so possessed of the Divine that it would not corrupt as it lay in Joseph’s tomb awaiting His ascent out of Upper Sheol. At Pentecost Peter proclaimed, “Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” (Acts 2:27) His dead body was so sinless without a First Adam nature and still possessing a fragment of Divine Blood that the process of decay could not occur in the corpse. That sinless frame, that Holy Thing, was waiting for Resurrection morning when the Only Begotten Son stepped out of Hell’s region of the righteous and arose from the dead.

When the woman with the issue of blood had lost all hope of human aid and her wealth was depleted, she determined to touch the hem of this Holy ManÂ’s robe. Faith had found a soul that knew He was the Son of God and knew that in Him was healing for her dreaded disease. Her heart said, “… If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.” (Mark 5:28) This Son of God did not see her in her approach, but knew faith had found its mark. “And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?” (Mark 5:30) This Divine Son of God was already a sacrifice on the road to Calvary and virtue – divine virtue – was awaiting the touch of faith. That stream of virtue is still flowing unhindered from the pages of the Holy Scripture. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” (Hebrews 13:8)

The Second Adam came to reverse every power of the First Adam’s fall. The First Adam made every man a sinner, but the Second Adam provided every man the hope of cleansing. We cannot condemn every man with Adam One unless we are willing to offer every man the hope of Adam Two. Every disease known to man has issued from the fall of Adam One. Even so, the healing of every disease issues from Adam Two. The Apostle Paul has confirmed it. “And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.” (I Corinthians 15:45-49)

The fullness of the Gospel has come to be of short supply among the professing church. It is not to be so among the “Salty Saints.” The sacrifice has been rent on that dreaded hill called Calvary. The virtue from His sinless and broken offering is still the source of supernatural grace and healing. Do not be hindered by the doubting multitude, but come as you are to Him as He is. The Word of God is still His flesh and bones, and He lives in every page. “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us …” (John 1:14)