THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS

The blood of Jesus is the price for the remission of sin. For by the shedding of the spotless blood of Jesus, it is made possible for us to repent and are instantly forgiven. The blood of Jesus creates a way for us to escape eternal death.

The blood of Jesus is one of the three components which make salvation of human kind a reality. Among the three components are the following;

• The person of Jesus

• The blood of Jesus

• The Cross. 

All these three are indispensable for Christianity. Yet the person of Jesus is at the center of them all. Meaning without Jesus, blood and the cross become groundless. For if the cross and the blood are, they are because of Jesus. Yet Jesus required them if to make salvation a reality.

In general terms, the significance of blood can be traced back in the Old Testament. It is so important that it was forbidden to eat it (Leviticus 7:27), (Genesis 9:4), (Deuteronomy 12:23).

For in blood is the life of the flesh (Leviticus 17:11-14). When an animal was slaughtered, blood had to pour out of it or it had to be collected in a vessel and presented at the altar.

In this, besides the beatings and the subsequent Crucifixion, the blood of Jesus had to pour out in a similar manner when He was pierced in the ribs (John 19:33-34). For by letting it flow signifies that as it flows, it washes and cleanses away the sin. For this was pretty significant for the remission of sin.

The blood of animals was used simply to cover upon sin (atonement). Why so? For man had sinned and his blood was equally infested. You can never use dirt to cleanse away dirt.

On the other hand, the blood of animals was cleaner and would be an acceptable option to God. Yet animals lacked in measure with humans and their blood equally could never wash away sin as does the blood of Jesus (Hebrews 10:4). Yet the use of animals as a tool for atonement was always significant, right from the fall of man. For you can recall that God covered Adam and Eve with animal skin (Genesis 3:21).

It thus required Jesus the Son of God whose blood is the blood of God. The blood of God is pure. Thus to say; the blood of Jesus speaks better than the blood of Abel (Hebrews 12:24).

For the blood of Abel only spoke for itself, because it lacks in the quality that the blood of Jesus is., but that of Jesus speaks for all. Whatever amount of blood, it would have never equated to the blood of Jesus. It never requires much of it, but the quality of it. The blood of Jesus has all it takes.

But further to that; the blood of Jesus is so significant in the Christian faith because it surpasses and sums up all the animal sacrifices which had to be made for individual families or persons every after a period of time at Jerusalem (Hebrews 9:12).

With the blood of Jesus, it doesn't matter poor or rich, it doesn't matter wherever. It only matters calling on His name and right away; Jesus Himself, His blood, and the cross will directly apply in you (Romans 3:25), (Ephesians 1:7).

So, much as it can all be said to be blood, and look more or less like so; the blood of Jesus benefits everybody everywhere. It continues to flow endlessly to save every individual who calls on the name of Jesus (Hebrews 10:3-14). For this is how possible Jesus has made it that everybody everywhere is made a child of God with no struggle at all and at barely no cost. If it wasn't for Jesus, countless of souls would have been destined to eternal condemnation and eventual eternal spiritual death.

Nonetheless, in additional terms; we learn the following from the blood of Jesus;

It seals and signifies God's new covenant which had been prophesied in the Old Testament (Jeremiah 31:31). This is further affirmed by the writer of Hebrews (Hebrews 10:16).

Yet more significantly, the same is confirmed by Jesus Himself (Luke 22:20), (Matthew 26:28). Thus to say; without the blood of Jesus, there wouldn't have been such a covenant.

It is the new covenant which makes it possible for the gentiles to become children of God. For whoever draws near God through His Son Jesus Christ becomes a child of God (John 1:12-13). We only become children of God by the blood of Jesus.

The blood of Jesus brings God's life in us and in all this, the pattern of the Old Testament was closely followed (Hebrews 13:11-12), (Revelation 1:5-6; 12:11; 7:14-17). Recall that the blood of Jesus is the blood of God. The blood of God is pure.

In opposition, though, the blood of man is infested with sin by way of being the offspring of the first man; Adam who rebelled against God. By this, man was counted spiritually dead. Man had been detached from God by sin. But the blood of Jesus makes it that by calling on the name of Jesus, the life of God is imputed on us. This is only made possible because of the blood of Jesus (Romans 3:25-26).

The blood of Jesus is the currency which God used to purchase His people back to Himself (Acts 20:28). For the devil had used shrewdness and treachery to get himself the allegiance and attention of man from God. No matter what this cost man, it was never an issue to the devil.

Yet it was pretty an issue to God. As that, much as the devil had lost nothing to get himself the attention and allegiance of man, God could have never done nothing to get him (man) back to Himself. This required to pour out not simply blood, but the divine blood of Jesus. His blood brings hope.

If salvation is (as surely it is), it is the blood of Jesus which makes it so. It is now a fact that man can have his sins washed and cleansed away. All because of the blood of Jesus.

There is power, healing, hope, deliverance etc in the blood of Jesus. What would we have done if Jesus had not come? Where would we be? That Jesus came and shed His blood, all such questions are satisfactorily answered.