For
this is my blood of the covenant,
which
is poured out for many for the
forgiveness
of sins.
Matthew 26:28
A person can live only a few days without
water. Without food one can survive several weeks—without oxygen only a few
minutes. Without blood life ends! Blood supplies the means of travel for every
necessary component to keep our bodies functioning properly. Medical research
indicates that approximately three hundred billion red cells die and are
replaced every day—the new strong clean blood replaces the toxic day after day,
year after year throughout our life. There is power in the blood.
Life is in the blood. The Jews understood
and today practicing Jews continue to eat only kosher meat from an animal that
has had all of the blood drained in preparation for cooking. Imagine the
surprise and perhaps horror of the Jewish followers of Christ when he announced
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and
drink his blood, you have no life in you.” (John 6:53 ESV)
Christ was teaching the truth of the
spiritual life by teaching the truth of the physical life. He came to die, to
shed His blood for the redemption of mankind—you and me. After His death on the
Cross of Calvary, it would no longer be necessary to shed the blood of goats
and bulls as a sacrifice to atone for the sins of man. Christ came to be the
ultimate sacrifice.
Christ’s blood has the power to cleanse us
from our sin! Like me, you have probably heard this phrase: The red blood (of Christ) washes away my black sin and makes me white as snow. How is that possible?
There is power in the blood of Christ! Just as the blood in our bodies cleanses
toxins such as carbon dioxide from our bodies, the blood of Christ cleanses us
from sin’s toxin.
Our physical blood sustains our physical
life. The blood of Christ, the purchase price for our eternal life, washes and
sustains our life in Christ. Through His blood we are free from the burden of
sin, the grasp of satan, the guilt and condemnation that encompassed life
before Christ. It is not necessary, nor are we able to “clean up” before coming
to Christ. As we accept Christ as Savior, His cleansing blood cleans us and
transforms our life of sin washing away the toxins and replacing them with the
power of Almighty God to live life in Christ Jesus.
John 3:16 tells us that, “For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not
perish but have eternal life.” (ESV) In the blood of Christ there is hope,
there is salvation, there is LIFE eternal! There is power in the blood of
Christ, and it is available to whoever believes. Will you believe?
©JP
2013
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