We have already discussed how Jesus went through the Kiddushin, the ceremony and period of sanctification or a time of setting oneself apart for another.  As we said the Kiddushin consists of the Ketubah (marriage contract), Mohar (bridal price), Kiddush (the cup), the seal (The Holy Spirit), and the removal of the veil.  Remember that for us the order is a little different and this post will begin the process of us looking at our part of the Kiddushin.

Our first step within the Kiddushin is our response to Yeshua’s Mohar, His bridal price.  We must accept His acquisition, His payment, in order for it to be applied to our lives.  We see this played out in Genesis when Rebekah had to be willing to accept the price offered for her and go with Abraham’s servant to her husband Isaac. 

Jesus has bought us with a price and it was not a price of money, yet it cost Him everything.  Remember, we have already looked at Isaiah 52:3, which tells us we were redeemed without money. 

In Hebrews 9: 12 & 14-15 it says, “He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption…How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!  For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance–now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.”(NIV)

When we went through these steps as Yeshua our Messiah went through them we spoke of the communion cup that He gave to His disciples and that it was the third cup, the cup of redemption.  We are all guilty of breaking the first covenant with our sin and so there needed to be a new covenant for everyone, Jew and Gentile alike.  I Peter 1:18-19 told us that He redeemed us with His blood and Romans 3:22-25a again said, “This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.  God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood.”(NIV) 

We must have faith in His blood.  We must accept His Mohar.  We must believe in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ.  We must believe in Him! 

Galatians 3:14 says, “He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.”(NIV)  Also, in Romans 10:13 it says, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”(NIV)

Therefore, when we accept His Mohar it redeems us and cleanses even the filthiness of our conscious.  We then receive the inheritance promised to those who believe and are saved.  Never forget, that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin (Hebrews 9:22 & Leviticus 17:11).  So that by faith, by calling on His Name we (both Jew and Gentile) might receive the Spirit.  The Spirit is our seal.  This leads us directly into our next post where we will be discussing The Seal.