It's in the Blood! (Part 3)

Part 3

Look at what God said in relation to Jerusalem:  "Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made" (Ezekiel 22:4).

Adam’s blood was “innocent” until he (male & female) disobeyed God, which caused his blood to become “guilty blood”.  But praise be to God for the “innocent blood” of Jesus that cleanses!!

" But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from ALL sins" (1 John 1:7). 

Just as our own blood is vital for life, so is the PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS vital to us for life, even more so!  It is our means of “atonement” or at-one-ment!

"For the life of the flesh is in the blood:  and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls:  for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul" (Leviticus 17:11).

"And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.  It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.  For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us" (Hebrews 9:22-24).

Just as the “red blood cells” supply us with oxygen and nutrients for life and carry off the waste to keep the body cleansed, so does the “precious blood of Jesus”!

"Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.  Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life" (St. John 6:53-54).

Jesus’s blood has an “eternal” factor in it!  Eternal in the Greek is aio’nios meaning, perpetual, everlasting, for ever!  That is good news!  His blood gives us not just life but everlasting life!

"And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes?  and whence came they?  And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb" (Revelation 7:13-14).

Isn’t that amazing how you can wash your robes in the “red blood” of Jesus, and they come out white!  Don’t try it with your own blood; it won’t work.  But we know that our robe is the righteousness of God, and they are made white by the blood of the Lamb!

"And to her (the church) was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white:  for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints" (Revelation 19:8).

As you look at the robe of the high priest in Exodus 28, it was made of fine linen, and Revelation 19 reveals to us that the “fine linen” clean and white is the righteousness of saints.  That is what God has dressed us in - His righteousness!!

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin:  that we might be made the righteousness of God in him" (2 Corinthians 5:21).

"I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness" (Isaiah 61:10).

Just as “the white blood cells” are the defense of the body, so is the “blood of Jesus” our defense!

"For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" (Hebrews 9:13-14).

"For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.  For a testament is of force after men are dead:  otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.  Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. (Hebrews 9:16-18)

(Vs 26) "But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself".

(Vs 28) "So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many"!  (Read Hebrews chapter 9-10:  Christ’s sacrifice!)

It is by His blood we are redeemed!

"Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:  Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness:  that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus" (Romans 3:24-26).

"Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot" (1 Peter 1:18-19).

It is by His blood we are reconciled back to God!

"But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.  For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us:  Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace, and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby" (Ephesians 2:13-16).

By His blood we are justified!

"Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him" (Romans 5:9).

By His blood we are sanctified!

"Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?" (Hebrews 10:29).

"For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified" (Hebrews 10:14).

Last but not least, His blood has given us communion with our Heavenly Father!

"And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, 'Take, eat, this is my body.'  And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, 'Drink ye all of it, For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins" (Matthew 26:26-28).

Jesus’ blood is our overcoming power that gives us the victory over all the power of the enemy!

"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and the word of their testimony" (Revelation 12:11)!

~ Apostle Gracie Perry