11 Awesome Blessings for You from the Blood of Jesus
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Introduction to Our Many Blessings from the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ
Summary: The blood of Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior, was shed on the cross to bring sinful mankind to God — forgiven and born again into the very family of God. Numerous awesome blessings flow to believers from Christ's blood shed for us. We'll look at eleven of those blessings, and most likely the Lord will show you even more as you read His Word the Bible. Please read on and rejoice!
Jesus Blood Brings Us Into His New Covenant, Superseding the Old
Until the Cross of Jesus, the Jews were under the Old Covenant, guided by and under the Law of Moses. Anticipating His soon-coming death, Jesus had his "last supper" with His disciples. Taking the cup, He made the shocking statement: "This is the NEW covenant in my BLOOD."
The blood of Jesus Christ, shed on the cross only hours later, fulfilled the Old Covenant and instituted the New Covenant — by the shedding of His blood. The prophetic symbolism of the Old Testament's sacrificed Passover lambs was fully, once for all, fulfilled in His death on the Cross. The apostle Paul clearly stated this: "Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed" (1 Corinthians 5:7).
Through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, believers in Him enter this New Covenant, to which the apostle John added this inspired insight: "The Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ" (John 1:17).
In the Communion We “Remember” His Blood-Shedding Death to Bring Us to God
The communion service, instituted by Jesus, is intended to bring vividly to our remembrance His death for us and our sins, also His resurrection and His yet-future second coming to earth.
The apostle Paul explained this when referring to the communion (some call it "the Lord's table") in 1 Corinthians 11:26 — "For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes." Beautiful! In one simple verse Paul tells us that in the communion we look back thankfully to the Lord's death for our sins. And we also look ahead with great hope to the return of Jesus to earth to be forever with His faithful followers and to bring judgment to those who have rejected Him.
His Blood “Bought” Us, It “Redeemed” Us, and Our Sins Are Forgiven Through It
The Bible tells us that before we came to Jesus for salvation, we were dead in our sins (Ephesians 2:1,5). We were by nature the children of the devil, not of God (John 8:40-45). We were captives in the kingdom of darkness (Colossians 1:13-14).
But all who come to Jesus in faith and repentance for sins are delivered from those horrible conditions. At the price of His own blood shed for us, Jesus "bought" us, He "redeemed" us and forgave our sins.
We Are Justified by His Blood and are Saved from God’s Wrath
My good friend, the late Christian writer George T. Kurian, wrote in his "Nelson's New Christian Dictionary," page 418: "A justified person is one who is approved of and is acceptable to God. Righteousness may be imputed, a process by which Christ's righteousness becomes transferred or imparted to the sinner and the sinner is transformed through the Holy Spirit into a righteous person."
We cannot earn this justification in God's sight. It comes entirely, as the apostle Paul wrote, from what Jesus did — shedding His blood for us, so that we may be forgiven, may receive His righteousness in us, and may become born-again sons and daughters of God Almighty. And as such, we receive another blessing. We are "saved from God's wrath" that was due to us for our sins. How? by Jesus' blood!
By His Blood at the Cross, Jesus Brought Jews and Gentiles Together In Him
Prior to Christ's Cross, there was an ongoing rift between Jews and Gentiles. In fact, even after the Cross, the very early Christian church was thoroughly Jewish and for a while was slow to accept Gentiles into the Church (Acts 11:1-18).
But soon the Jewish Church leaders realized from unmistakable evidence from God that Gentiles too were able to come to Jesus and become born-again Christians. The inspired writer Paul explained this in his Ephesian epistle (the verses just above). He said that "by the blood of Christ" the once excluded Gentiles were to be fully received into the Christian faith. And out of that reconciliation by Christ's shed blood, He has made of believing Jews and Gentiles "one new man" (Eph. 2:15) in God's eyes. Recognizing that truth, the Jewish Christian Paul became the "apostle to the Gentiles" (Romans 11:13). He preached the Gospel to the Gentiles for many years in nations bordering the northern Mediterrean Sea and saw thousands of Gentiles come to Jesus, with many churches planted by Paul among them.
Jesus Reconciled Us to God and Made Peace Available Between God and Us Sinners
The Lord's Word says to mankind that our sins and iniquities "have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you" (Isaiah 59:2). Why is this so? It's because sin is an intolerable offense to our perfectly holy God, our Creator, who is "too pure to look on evil; you [God] cannot tolerate wrongdoing" (Habakkuk 1:13).
Thankfully, Jesus remedied our separation from God by His death on the cross, where He shed His own blood as a sacrifice to cleanse all who receive Him from sin. It is faith in Him and His shed blood that reconciles us to God. Jesus bridged the gap that sin built between us and God.
As a result, "through His blood" we lost sinners can be forgiven and come to peace with God and receive in our souls the very peace of God.
By the Shed Blood of Jesus, We Are Able to Be Presented to the Father as Holy, Without Blemish, and Free from Accusation
By Jesus' death and His blood spilled on the cross for us, Jesus is able to sanctify us, to make us holy in God's sight, free of blemishes and accusations. We of course must participate in that and strive for a holy life. But it is Jesus' blood applied to us that enables us to become increasingly conformed to His holy, perfect character.
God is desirous of seeing His people denying fleshly lusts and pressing into holiness in all areas of our life. We read in His Word (1 Peter 1:16, NLT): "You must be holy, for I am holy."
We Sinners and Our Consciences Are Cleansed from Sin by Jesus’ Blood
In the natural, blood stains. But in the spiritual realm, Jesus' blood cleanses, it "washes us from our sins in His own blood." When we come to God, through Jesus, in sincere repentance and faith (Acts 20:21), our sins — all of them — are cleansed and washed away by the Lord's blood.
Then we can experience, by His blood, the wonderful assurance of such Scriptures as: Hebrews 10:17, KJV - "Their sins and iniquities will I [God] remember no more"; and Micah 7:19 - God will "hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea"; and Psalm 103:12, NLT - "He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west"; and you can delightfully, thankfully confess (Isaiah 38:17, NKJV) - "You [God] have cast all my sins behind Your back." And all of this is a blessing from the blood of Jesus our Lord!
The Blood of the Crucified and Risen “Lamb of God,” Jesus, Enables Us to Triumph Over Satan
This verse describes a battle in the heavenlies between God's angels and Satan's fallen angels — God's army wins! The simple yet beautiful truth here for us is that victory over Satan and his evil spirits is guaranteed by the blood of Jesus Christ! Let that truth sink deeply into your soul, and live it out with ongoing victory in spiritual warfare.
Christ’s Blood, Shed at the Cross, Is Able to Make Us Holy
Here is a simple truth that must energize every aspect of living our lives for the Lord. Jesus suffered and shed His blood with a purpose: "to make the people holy through His own blood." Our Lord and Savior Himself is perfectly, spotlessly holy and sinless. His desire is that, enabled by the power of His blood, we too may press into biblical holiness and the goal of being "conformed to the image of His [God's] Son" (Romans 8:29).
By Jesus’ Blood We Have Confidence to Enter into the Very Presence of God
By faith in Jesus and His blood shed for our salvation, we have the amazing privilege of being allowed into the very presence of God Almighty — His Most Holy Place. Now while on this earth, we can enter God's intimate, glorious presence in prayer, in worship, in His Word. After death the believer passes into the heavenly, personal, face-to-face presence of God Almighty. As the hymn says, "What a day that will be!" And all because the Savior Jesus shed His blood for you and me.
A Heartfelt Appeal from the Lord's Word to You
The supreme example of God's love for you was His sending His Son Jesus to die on the cross for the forgiveness of your sins, and to accept you into His family as a son or daughter of God Almighty. How do we receive that? Acts 20:21 (KJV) says it simply and clearly in the apostle Paul's Gospel message — We come to Him through "repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ." If you choose to do that today — coming to God through Jesus Christ and His blood shed to forgive your sins — He will give you what the Bible calls a new birth into His family, and you will become an heir of a glorious etenal life with the Lord.
If God's Word and His Holy Spirit have touched your heart today and you desire that — to be forgiven and received by God into eternal life — please allow the late, respected evangelist Billy Graham to guide you to a simple prayer to receive life in the Lord Jesus Christ. You'll be eternally rejoicing if you make that choice.
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