Life Is In The Blood

Life Is In The Blood

"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."  (Leviticus 17:11)

YourLifeIsNotYourOwn!  You have been bought with a price; the Lord Jesus Christ gave His life and shed His own blood for You and me!  What is life?  It's more than our car payments, mortgages, marriage and divorce, crime and holiness, sin and repentance, faith and rebellion; it is functionality in the Blood!  Without blood, there is no life!  Without the blood of Jesus applied to the souls of human beings, there is no life  ... it's just existence.

"God hath made of one blood all nations

  of men."

(Acts 17:26)

         

So, Hey, you're my brother, you're my sister  ...  we all came from one pair, man and woman, from the garden, where God took dust, gave him blood  ... and he lived  ... life is in the blood!  How can we hate one another, when life came from one red tributary of immaculate and miraculous creation by the omnipotent unseen Hand?  The answer is "the blood" of Jesus must be applied; then "life" operates in streams of love. 

"But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced

his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water."

(John 19:34)

The spiritual significance of the "water and blood" from the pierced side of Jesus Christ is the birth of the Church and redemption  ... justification and santification  ...  blood for atonement and water for purification.  "Out of your bodies shall flow rivers of living water;" this spake He of the Spirit that all should receive.  There are three that bear witness in the earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one."  (I John 5:8)  "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one."  (I John 5:7)  ONE sits on the throne  ...  (Revelation 4:3)

The Church is the bride of Christ; the Church came out of His side (blood and water), even as Eve was taken from the side of Adam.  Everything the Lord Jesus Christ does and IS has significance in the blood that He shed for all mankind to give us "Life," and that more abundantly!

"In fact, the law requires that nearly everything

be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding

of blood there is no forgiveness."

(Hebrews 9:22)

We do not have to kill bullocks or lambs as in the old testament, because Jesus Christ is the "Lamb" slain from the foundation of the world.  He shed His own blood, that we might live!  He gave His blood for the sins of all; He drank the cup in the garden, when He sweat great drops of blood, because so great was the burden of taking on every sin ever committed, upon His sinless, guiltless soul and body.  Our lives are saturated with the only blood that makes "alive;" the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ!

If you feel your life is not worth anything; you need to apply the blood!  You are so valuable to the Lord Jesus Christ that He let the "life" flow like gushing rivers, out of Himself  ...  for You!  See the blood flowing down that old wooden cross, and know that You are precious indeed! 

Receive Him as your Savior; repent of all of your sins; be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you will receive the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues as the Spirit gives you utterance.  (Acts 2:38)  Then, "LIVE!"

(Do this in remembrance of Me)

The Lord Jesus Christ told us in His Word to never forget what He did for us!  Communion halts our habitual, fast pace, earthly actions to bow and suddenly remember where "Life" comes from.  There is only ONE who can "create!"  If we're not enjoying and treasuring "living;" it's because we've forgotten why and how we got here and that: "Life Is In The Blood!"

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PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas, Pastor Kenneth Phillips)