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有时我们的孩子在外面玩得微微出汗，我们通常会对他们说：“好吧，洗个澡，快速冲洗一下。” 还有些时候他们在外面玩了几个小时，那么他们需要的就不是快速冲洗了——而是深度清洗或在浴缸里浸泡。

在某种程度上，旧约律法的洁净只是一种快速冲洗。它不是一种彻底的洁净。但人们需要彻头彻尾的洁净。我们都需要从我们的罪中得到完全的洁净。旧约律法指向一个人，他能提供完全、深入的洁净。这个人就是耶稣基督，祂为我们受死，使我们彻底得着洁净。

旧约律法包含了洁净的仪式。但这种洁净永不会完全。人们还会被污秽。

然而，耶稣为我们所做的牺牲，能彻底洁净我们，它提供了深入的洁净，使我们得着新生命。正如希伯来书所说，基督的血，为我们而洒，“能洗净我们的心，除去我们的死行，使我们侍奉那永生神！”（参来9:14）

凡信靠基督的人，我们都在祂的血中被洗净了，与罪隔绝，得以侍奉祂。

When our kids play outside and get a bit sweaty, we will often say to them, “OK, jump in the shower and do a quick rinse-off.” Other times, when they have played outside for hours and they need more than just a quick rinse—they need a deep-cleaning shower or a soak in the tub.

In some ways, the old covenant laws of cleansing after a time of uncleanness provided just a quick rinse. It wasn’t a deep-down cleaning. But the people needed to be cleansed through and through. We all need to be fully cleansed from our lives of sin.What the old laws pointed to was someone who could provide a full, deep cleaning. That someone is Jesus Christ, whose death for our sake provided purification once for all.

The Old Testament law included ceremonial practices of washing to be clean. But the cleaning was never complete. People would get dirty again.

Jesus’ sacrifice for us, however, cleans us thoroughly, providing such a deep-down cleaning that we receive new life. As Hebrews 9:14 explains, the blood of Christ, shed for our sake, cleanses “our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!”

or all who trust in Christ, we are washed in his blood, fully cleansed from sin so that we may serve him!