Thursday | 23 October 2025
The inheritance of a spiritual body, which we receive when our immortal physical body is clothed with our heavenly body on the day of resurrection, is necessary for eternal life in the fellowship of Yahweh as citizens of the new heavens and earth. The freedom or liberty of the new creation needs the spiritual resurrection body for its expression. For this reason, there were two elements of Christ’s journey as an offering for sin, through which He glorified the Father as the Son of God, and was progressively glorified as the Son of Man with the glory that He had before as Yahweh Son. These two elements of the one sin offering were typified by the scapegoat and the Lord’s goat.
On His journey from mortality to immortality, Christ, as the scapegoat, exhausted every alternative to the liberty and freedom that belongs to the expression of love as a son of God. In doing so, only what lives to God, symbolised as the Lord’s goat, remained. Explaining this implication of Christ’s offering as the Lamb of God, Paul wrote, ‘For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God’. Rom 6:10.
As sin was taken out to forgetfulness and exhausted, the Lord’s goat was then left as an everlasting burnt offering of free choice, in which a son of God is able to express the seed of their name given to their identity by the Father. Because of Christ’s offering as the Lamb of God, the Fall can never happen again, once we receive our spiritual body. As we participate in His offering now, our sin and its motives are taken out to forgetfulness, and we are progressively being brought forth of His substance, being free to live only to God.
Further Study:
Romans 6
References:
Rom 6:10
For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.