On Redemption by the Blood of Jesus

   

According to Leviticus 17:11, the life of man and beast resides in the blood. Even though a person can die without shedding his blood, nevertheless, when the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing and carrying life to every cell in the body, and the person dies.

Sin has corrupted man's life and blood and causes his death in body, soul, and spirit. In Leviticus 17:12, God commanded all mankind to never eat blood because that would symbolize the willful partaking of sin itself.

The blood that flowed in the veins of Jesus was pure and holy blood with no stain of sin whatsoever. Thus, the blood of Jesus contained the power of an everlasting life. The blood of Jesus was the holy life of God Himself while He was on the earth. When God the Father allowed Jesus to be nailed to the cross, He also allowed the devil to throw all of mankind's sins at Jesus because the devil thought that the terrible suffering those sins would cause Jesus would break Him, cause Him to sin, and in this way, the devil could kill God permanently. What the devil had tried to do by tempting Jesus, he was then trying to do by force.

But Jesus beat the devil at his own game. Jesus willfully took all of the sins of mankind upon Himself on the cross, and His holy blood washed all of them away. When the Roman's soldier's spear pierced Jesus' side, every drop of blood and water left in Jesus' body flowed out. Every sin had been washed away.

Those who believe that Jesus did this for them possess the everlasting life of a resurrected Christ. The power of sin only caused a temporary, three-day death of God. Since the body and blood of Jesus was wholly united with the life of God, and the life is in the blood, then when Jesus became kosher on the cross, He died.

During this three day period, Jesus ascended to heaven and applied His shed blood to the Mercy Seat in the Holy of Holies in heaven. His Father saw this, and He was satisfied that Jesus had accomplished a perfect act of pure love. Jesus had sacrificed His own blood and life to rescue mankind from sin, death, and hell. The Father could accept such an act of pure love because there could be no sin in it whatsoever. Because of the self-sacrifice displayed in the love of Jesus, God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were reunited in the resurrection of the spiritual body of Jesus with the power, through the Holy Spirit, to wash away the sins of believers with the holy blood of Jesus and impart to them the everlasting life of God. In this way, the everlasting life of the believer depends on the perfect life of Jesus, His holy shed blood on the cross, His burial and descent into hell to take away our sins, and His resurrection to give us His everlasting life. I Corinthians 6:11; Hebrews 9:12; I Corinthians 15:1-4; I Peter 1:18-19; Revelation 1:5.