The Power of The Blood

THE POWER OF THE BLOOD

The Power of the Blood 1a Modern Bibles today tend to diminish the

power of the blood Many modern “scribes” suggest that the

blood was merely a man’s blood and that the focus is on the death not the blood

The Holy Bible, AV 1611, there is true witness to the power of the blood from beginning to end


What the Scriptures Teach about THE BLOOD

NOT WITHOUT BLOOD Hebrews 9:7 But into the second

went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

NOT WITHOUT BLOOD` Hebrews 9:18 Whereupon neither

the first testament was dedicated without blood.

Treating The Bible As A Whole

The importance of treating the Bible as a whole.

The whole Bible reveals to us what is actually the HEART OF GOD.

As we look at the whole Bible

we begin to discover what the foundation truths of the Bible are and what should demand our attention.

By looking at the whole Bible we find what remains unchanged in spite of any dispensational changes.

We will discover the GLORIOUS POWER OF THE

BLOOD OF JESUS and the wonderful blessings that

this blood has brought us.

The Wonder of Redemption THE BLOOD IS THE POWER OF

REDEMPTION and you will see this as we follow through the Bible from the beginning to the end of God’s revelation of Himself to man as recorded in the Bible.

The Life Is in the Blood Leviticus 17:11 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.

It becomes abundantly clear

that there is no scriptural idea from Genesis to Revelations more consistently and prominently kept before us than the words “THE BLOOD.”

A Fountain Opened A Fountain Opened to the House of

David a fountain filled with blood drawn

from Emanuel’s veins Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall

be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

Let’s see what the scriptures

teach us about THE BLOOD 1 In the Old Testament 2 In the Teachings of Jesus Christ

Himself 3 in what the Apostles Teach 4 in what the Revelation Teaches

THE BLOOD in the Old Testament

THE BLOOD begins right at Eden The first covering that God makes

for man is not by vegetation but by the shedding of blood to provide a sheepskin.

BLOOD IS SHED

BLOOD is the Centre BLOOD is the centre of the first act

of true worship Abel brings the lambs of his flock to

the Lord as a sacrifice and this is the first act of acceptable worship recorded in the Bible.

BLOOD IS SHED - sheep slaughtered

In this first act of true worship blood is initiated:

Genesis 4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a

more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

An Acceptable Sacrifice By Faith

By faith Abel offers an acceptable sacrifice

and the Bible calls him a believer. He has the record that he “pleased

God.” His faith and God’s good pleasure in

him are connected with the SHEDDING OF BLOOD in sacrifice of the lamb.

This Sets The Foundation This sets the foundation that will be

seen over and over again from the beginning of the history of mankind throughout the scriptures.

The deep significance that there can be no approach to God, no fellowship with him by faith, no enjoyment of his favour, apart from THE BLOOD.

We move forward for 1600 years

and we come to The Flood, which was God’s judgement on sin by the destruction of the world of mankind.

God brings about a new earth

from that awful baptism of water. Also note that although born out of

the baptism of water there has to be a baptism with blood.

the first recorded act of Noah, after he had left the Ark, was the offering of a burnt sacrifice to God.

BLOOD IS SHED As with Abel, so with Noah at a new

beginning, it was “NOT WITHOUT BLOOD.”

Sin prevailed again and God laid an entirely new

foundation with the establishment of his kingdom on earth but it is still established with the SHEDDING OF BLOOD in a sacrifice made by faith.

Abraham has a call from God

and in the miraculous birth of Isaac, God undertook to form a people to serve him.

But this purpose is not brought about apart from the shedding of THE BLOOD.

This is seen in the most trying hour of Abraham’s life.

A Covenant Relationship God had already entered into a

covenant relationship with Abraham .

His faith had already been severely tried and had stood the test.

It was reckoned or counted unto him for righteousness.

Yet he must learn that Isaac,

the son of promise, who belonged wholly to God can be truly surrendered to God only by death – by the SHEDDING OF BLOOD.

Isaac must die. For Abraham, as well as for Isaac,

only by death could freedom from the self life be gained.

Abraham Must Offer Isaac Abraham must offer Isaac on the

altar and be prepared to SHED BLOOD.

This is the revelation of the Divine truth.

That it is only through death that a life can be truly consecrated to God.

It is only possible through death

and the SHEDDING OF BLOOD But you can see that his life was

spared and a ram was offered in his place.

So BLOOD WAS SHED. Through the blood that then flowed

on Mount Moriah his life is spared. He and the people which sprang

from him live before God “NOT WITHOUT BLOOD.”

By that BLOOD he was in a figure raised again from

the dead. The great lesson substitution is here

clearly taught yet again.

400 years passed by and Isaac has become, in Egypt, the

people of Israel. Through deliverance from Egyptian

bondage Israel was to be recognised as God’s firstborn among the nations.

Again it is “NOT WITHOUT BLOOD.”

Neither the electing grace of God, nor his covenant with Abraham, nor the exercise of his power, which could so easily have destroyed their oppressors, could do away with the necessity of THE BLOOD.

What THE BLOOD Accomplished

What THE BLOOD accomplished in Mount Moriah for one person, who was the father of the nation, must now be experienced by that very nation.

By the sprinkling of the door frames of the Israelites with the BLOOD of the Passover Lamb.

The Institution of the Passover

as an enduring ordinance was with the words “when I see the BLOOD I will pass over you.”

The people were taught that life can be obtained only by the death of the substitute.

NOT WITHOUT BLOOD

Life Was Possible Only By Blood

Life was possible for them only through THE BLOOD of life given in their place and appropriated by the sprinkling of that blood.

Later at Mount Sinai 50 days later this lesson was

reinforced Israel had reached Mount Sinai. God had given His Law as the

foundation of his Covenant. This covenant must now be

established, but as it is expressly stated in

Hebrews 9:7 But into the second went the high

priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

“NOT WITHOUT BLOOD” the sacrificial BLOOD must be

sprinkled, first on the altar, and then on the book of the covenant, representing God’s side of that covenant; then on the people, with the declaration, “this is THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT.

Exodus 24:4-8 And Moses wrote all the words of the

LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.

8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.

It was in that BLOOD the Covenant had its foundation and

power. It is by THE BLOOD alone, that God

and man can be brought into covenant Fellowship.

That which had been foreshadowed

in Eden, on Mount Ararat, on Mount Moriah and in Egypt was now confirmed at the foot of Mount Sinai in a most solemn manner.

Without BLOOD THERE COULD BE NO ACCESS BY SINFUL MAN TO A HOLY GOD.

There is a marked difference between

the manner of applying the blood in the former cases as compared with this.

At Moriah the life was redeemed by the shedding of the blood.

In Egypt it was sprinkled on the doorposts of the houses; but in Mount Saini it was sprinkled on the people themselves.

The contact was closer, the application all-powerful.

Right After The Covenant Immediately after the establishment

of the covenant the command was given “let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them”

Exodus 25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

Build The House They were to enjoy the full

blessedness of having the God of the covenant abiding among them.

Through his grace they may find him and serve him in his house.

After the Blood Came the Pattern

He, himself, gave, with the minutest care, directions for the arrangement and service of that house.

But notice that THE BLOOD is at the centre and the reason of all this.

Let’s look at our Heavenly King and his earthly temple for a moment.

The first thing visible is the

ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING where the sprinkling of blood continues, without ceasing, from morning till evening.

Go in further into the Holy Place

and the most conspicuous thing is the golden altar of incense, which also, together with the veil, are constantly sprinkled with the BLOOD.

Look into This House of Worship

Ask about what lies beyond the Holy Place and you will find out that it is the MOST HOLY PLACE where God himself dwells.

If you ask how he dwells there and how he is approached you will be told simply “NOT WITHOUT BLOOD.”

Look Beyond the Veil The golden throne where his glory

shines is, itself, sprinkled with THE BLOOD once every year when the HIGH PRIEST ALONE ENTERS TO BRING IN THE BLOOD and to worship God.

The highest act in that worship is the sprinkling of THE BLOOD.

Enquire in His Temple If you dig into this a little further

you will be told that always, and for everything, THE BLOOD is the one thing that is needful.

NOT WITHOUT BLOOD

At the consecration of the House of Worship, or the Priests: at

the birth of a child, in the deepest sorrow on account of sin, in the light of the festival, always, and in everything, the way to fellowship with God is through THE BLOOD alone.

This continues for 1500 years.

At Sinai, in the desert, at Shiloh, in the Temple on Mount Moriah, at Jerusalem, this continued right up until the Lord Jesus came to make an end of all shadows by bringing in the substance, and so establishing a fellowship with the Holy One in the Spirit of Truth.

NOT WITHOUT BLOOD

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OUR LORD JESUS TEACHES WHAT OUR LORD JESUS TEACHES US

ABOUT THE BLOOD With his coming all the old things are

passed away and all things become new. Hebrews 8:13 In that he saith, A new

covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

THE BLOOD does not pass away

THE BLOOD, however, does not pass away because it is not a shadow or an old thing

NOT WITHOUT BLOOD

John the Baptist announces

the coming of the Lord Jesus and speaks of him as filling the double office as “the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world” and then as “the one who would baptised with the Holy Spirit.”

It Is Ever the Blood the BLOOD of the Lamb of God is to

be poured out This must take place before the

outpouring of the Spirit can happen. Only when all that the Old Testament

taught about THE BLOOD has been fulfilled can the Holy Spirit given.

The Lord Jesus Christ Himself

plainly says that his death on the cross was the purpose for which he came into the world; that it was the necessary condition of the redemption of life which he came to bring.

He clearly states that in connection

with his death the shedding of his BLOOD was totally necessary.

THE BREAD OF LIFE REMEMBER THE LIFE IS IN THE

BLOOD He speaks of himself as “THE BREAD

OF LIFE of his flesh.

THIS BREAD OF LIFE OF HIS FLESH

he gives for the life of the world.

Four times he emphatically says about HIS

BLOOD:

First “except ye… Drink this BLOOD ye

have no life in you.” John 6:53 Then Jesus said unto

them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

Second “He that drinketh my BLOOD HATH

EVERLASTING LIFE.” John 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh,

and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Third “MY BLOOD is drink indeed.” John 6:55 For my flesh is meat

indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

Forth “He that drinketh my BLOOD

DWELLETH IN ME AND I IN HIM” John 6:56 He that eateth my flesh,

and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

OUR LORD JESUS DECLARES

The fundamental fact that he himself, as the son of the father, who came to restore to us our lost life, can do this in no other way than by dying for us; by shedding his blood for us; and then making us partakers of its power.

Our Lord confirmed the teaching

of the Old Testament offerings that man can live only through the death of another and that he has obtained a life through resurrection to immortality.

NOT WITHOUT BLOOD

But Christ himself cannot make us partakers of that eternal

life which he has purchased for us, save by the shedding of his BLOOD, and causing us to drink it.

Marvellous is the truth! “NOT WITHOUT BLOOD”

Only by the Shedding of Blood can eternal life be ours.

NOTE WELL our Lord’s Declaration

of the same truth on the last night before his death. Before he completed the great work of his life by

giving it “is a ransom for many.” He instructed, at the Last Supper, saying, “this is the

cup of the New Testament in MY BLOOD that is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins. Drink ye all of it.”

Matthew 26:27-28 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; 28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Without the shedding of his BLOOD

there is no remission of sins. This is the REFORMATION Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in

meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

The Blood Brings the Reformation

Without remission of sins there is no life.

But by the shedding of his BLOOD he has obtained a new life for us.

THE DRINKING OF HIS BLOOD

By what he calls “the drinking of his blood.”

He shares his life with us. The blood shed is Atonement, which

frees us from sin, the guilt of sin: and from death, the punishment of sin; the blood, which by faith we drink, bestows on us his life.

The BLOOD he shed was, in the first place, FOR us and is then

given TO us. It is evident that the Lord Jesus

Christ reveals the truth about himself:

NOT WITHOUT BLOOD

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The Power of the Blood What the Scriptures Teach about THE

BLOOD

THE TEACHING OF THE APOSTLES

UNDER THE INSPIRATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

After his resurrection and ascension,

our Lord is not any longer known by the Apostles “after the flesh.”

Now, all that was symbolical has passed away, and the deep spiritual truths, expressed by symbols, are unveiled.

The Prominent Place of the Blood

But there is no unveiling of THE BLOOD.

The Blood is not a mere symbol the passes away

It still occupies the prominent place. It is not a shadow of things to come. It is the substance that continues

through any dispensation

Let’s turn to Hebrews, which was purposely written to show

that the Temple service had become unprofitable, and was intended by God to pass away, now that Christ had come.

The Blood a Symbol, a Shadow?

Here, if anywhere, it might be expected that the Holy Spirit would emphasise the true spirituality of God’s purpose, yet the Blood of Jesus was spoken of in such a manner that imparts a new value to the phrase and is not considered to be symbolic at all.

Of all that came forward from

the old that passed away THE BLOOD remains in the prominent place of revelation.

It is “by his OWN BLOOD he entered into the holy place” Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood

of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

In fact it is “the blood of Christ which purges

your conscience: Hebrews 9:14 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?

The Blood Our Boldness The blood gives us boldness to enter

IN: Hebrews 10:19 Having therefore,

brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

We’ve come into the mediator

of the New Covenant and the Blood of Sprinkling:

Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

We are sanctified and set apart

by His Own Blood: see this for yourself:

Hebrews 13:11-13 For the bodies of those beasts, whose

blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. 12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. 13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

The Blood Our Covenant THE BLOOD OF THE EVERLASTING

COVENANT Hebrews 13:20 Now the God of

peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

NOT WITHOUT BLOOD By such words the Holy Spirit

teaches us that the BLOOD is really the central power of the entire redemption.

The BLOOD powers the REFORMATION

NOT WITHOUT BLOOD is as valid in the New Testament as

in the Old Testament.

Nothing but the BLOOD of Jesus,

showed in his death for sin, can cover sin on God’s side or remove sin on ours.

The Apostles say the same thing:

Paul tells us “being justified freely by his Grace through the redemption that is sin Christ Jesus…… through faith in HIS BLOOD”

Romans 3:24-25 Being justified freely by his grace

through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 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;

in Corinthians Paul tells us:

“the cup of blessing which we bless is the Communion of the BLOOD OF CHRIST”

1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

In Colossians Paul tells us: “THE BLOOD OF HIS CROSS” – in which

he unites the BLOOD and the CROSS Colossians 1:20 And, having made

peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

In Galatians Paul tells us: “I will glory in the CROSS (BLOOD) OF

OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST… By whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world”

Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

In Ephesians Paul tells us: “we have redemption through HIS

BLOOD” Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have

redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

in Ephesians again Paul tells us:

“we are made nigh by THE BLOOD OF CHRIST”

Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Peter tells us: “Elect….Unto obedience and

sprinkling of the BLOOD OF JESUS” 1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the

foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

Again Peter tells us: we are redeemed “by the precious BLOOD

OF CHRIST” 1 Peter 1:18-19 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; 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

John tells us: “little children…….THE BLOOD OF

JESUS CHRIST his Son cleanseth us from all sin”

1 John 1:7 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 cleanseth us from all sin.

John tells us again: the Son is He “who came not by

water only but by water and BLOOD” 1 John 5:6 This is he that came by

water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.

All of these agree together they all make mention of the BLOOD

and they glory in it as the power by which eternal redemption through Jesus is fully accomplished and then applied by the Holy Spirit.

The Sum of Their Teaching The sum total of the Apostles

teaching is: NOT WITHOUT BLOOD

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The Witness of the Book of Revelation

What Heaven Has to Say Concerning THE BLOOD

Washed in the Blood THE BLOOD still reta this ins its

prominent place God gives preeminence to THE

BLOOD in this book about the revelation of the glory of God’s throne and or the blessedness of those around it.

The Slain Lamb on the Throne

John sees on the throne itself “a Lamb as it had been slain”

Revelation 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

The Elders sing a new song as they fall down before the Slain

Lamb: “thou art worthy….for thou wast

slain and hast redeemed us to God by THY BLOOD”

Revelation 5:8-9 And when he had taken the book, the four

beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

The Great Company a great company which no man can

number: who are these?: “They have washed their robes, and

made them white in the BLOOD OF THE LAMB.”

Have Washed Their Robes Revelation 7:14 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.

The Son of Victory The song of victory over the defeat

of Saint: “they overcame him by the BLOOD OF THE LAMB”

Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

In this, the glory of heaven the great purposes of God; the

wonderful love of the Son of God; the power of his redemption; the joy and thanksgiving of the redeemed

are all expressed within “THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB”

Shiloh Is Come his garments washed in wine, his

clothes and the blood of grapes

Genesis 49:8-12 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy

hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. 9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

The Testimony of the Whole Book

from the Beginning to the End of Scripture

from the Garden of Eden to the Estate of Heaven’s Zion

The Old Testament the New Testament: the old covenant the new covenant

Runs this scarlet thread, this crimson flow, through the scriptures

This Scarlet Thread This Crimson Flow

THE BLOOD unites the beginning and the end

THE BLOOD restores what sin had destroyed

and so we can come unto God but NOT WITHOUT BLOOD

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