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BLOOD
OF JESUS
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HAS PROVIDED YOU WITH THIS BLOOD OF JESUS STUDY. THE BLOOD OF JESUS
IS THE MOST VALUABLE COMMODITY TO MANKIND. MANY ARE NOT CLEAR ON
EXACTLY WHAT THE BLOOD OF JESUS MEANS AND HOW THE BLOOD OF JESUS
AFFECTS THE CHRISTIAN WALK. LET US SEEK AND FIND THE TRUTH OF THE
BLOOD OF JESUS TOGETHER, SHALL WE?
So . . . what is the TRUTH?
Here is TRUTH ...
THE
BLOOD
OF JESUS IS VERY SIGNIFICANT IN OUR LIVES.
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I 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.
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BLOOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN USED TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR SINS
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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. |
The story goes all
the way back to the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, and a celebration
called Passover.
The Hebrews were enslaved in Egypt for over 400
years and the Lord saw their affliction and heard the cries of His
people, so He sent Moses to bring the children of Israel out of Egypt
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EXODUS 3:7-10
And the LORD said, I have
surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and
have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know
their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the
hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land
unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and
honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and
the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites. Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of
Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression
wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. Come now therefore, and I
will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my
people the children of Israel out of Egypt |
Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt, didn’t want to let the
people of Israel go, so God sent plagues upon Egypt, but Pharaoh was
stubborn and wouldn’t heed God’s commandment to free them. The tenth
and last plague that the Lord brought upon Egypt in those days, was
that every firstborn of Egypt, both man and beast, would die.
In order to save His chosen people alive while the
destroyer went through Egypt, the children of Israel were to bring in
an unblemished lamb on the 10th day of the 1st
month of the Jewish calendar and keep this lamb for 4 days. Then on
the 14th day of the first month, the Israelites were to
kill their lamb and place the
blood of the lamb on their
homes so that the angel of death (the destroyer) would pass over them.
To celebrate their freedom, they were told to do
this every year after that AS IT WOULD BE A
HOLY DAY,
and the celebration was called Passover. This event was a shadow of an
event to come … The death of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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COLOSSIANS
2:16-17
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or
in respect of an
holy day,
or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days:
Which are a shadow of things to come;
but the body is of Christ |
SEE THE FEAST SHADOW STUDY TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE REFERENCE TO
PASSOVER BEING A SHADOW OF EVENTS TO COME.
BUT BE SURE TO RETURN TO THIS STUDY.
Soon after God’s people were free and journeying
through the wilderness on their way to the Promised Land, the Old
Testament was established with the children of Israel.
What is a testament and how is it established? Well,
just like with a will and testament, it is a covenant that is put into
effect when the testator dies … or with the shedding of
blood.
The blood
of the old covenant came from sacrifices. The people brought
sacrifices to the priest, and Moses
sprinkled the
blood
of
the sacrifices on the people to cleanse them of their sins. After the
original covenant was made, different sacrifices were made daily,
weekly, monthly and yearly.
By and by, mankind turned away from the laws of God,
so much so, that all the sacrificing in the world wouldn’t cleanse
away the sin, so God sent Jesus, who through the shedding of His
blood,
brought in the New Testament. The new covenant is this:
No more sacrifices are needed, but simply by
believing in Jesus life, death and resurrection, and that He is the
Son of God, we need only repent and our sins are forgiven.
We are sprinkled
(cleansed) by the
blood
of Jesus.
Just as the SHADOW reflected, the sacrifice of
Jesus’ blood
happened
during the feast of Passover. Jesus, known as the Lamb of God, without
blemish (sin), came into Jerusalem on the 10th day of the 1st
month and was with the people for 4 days. He was killed by the choice
of His own people on the 14th day of the first month, just
as the Jewish people were celebrating the Passover. We are saved by
the
blood of the Lamb.
PARTAKING OF THE
BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST
How does one become sinless to be worthy of God …
Because it is written ... We are all sinners?
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ROMANS 3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
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BUT ... We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t
sin.
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I JOHN 5:18-19
We know that whosoever is born
of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth
himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. And we know that
we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness |
It’s not we
that sin but the sinful nature within us. That’s why we feel bad after
and repent. Paul explains it best ...
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ROMANS
7:14-25
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold
under sin. For that which
I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I
hate, that do I. If then I
do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is
good. Now then it is no
more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
For I know that in me
(that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing:
for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is
good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the
evil which I would not, that I do.
Now if I do that I would not, it
is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present
with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
But I see another law in
my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me
into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
O wretched man that I am! who shall
deliver me from the body of this
death? I thank God through
Jesus Christ our Lord. So
then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the
flesh the law of sin |
We were BORN INTO the sin of Adam and Eve (it's in our
blood).
SEE THE ORIGINAL SIN STUDY TO LEARN MORE OF THIS
TRUTH.
BUT BE SURE TO RETURN TO THIS STUDY.
So, the only way to become worthy of our Father, is
to become one with Jesus, because He’s the only one who is sinless,
and we do this by partaking of His
blood.
Before we go into detail of how to partake of the
body and
blood
of Jesus, there’s another interesting
thing that we should know about Him.
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I JOHN 5:6
This is He that came by
water
and blood,
even Jesus Christ; not by
water only, but by
water
and blood.
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This symbolizes that Jesus came in the flesh and
blood.
Awesome huh? But what of the WATER?
Read this from John’s account of when Jesus was taken down
from the cross:
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JOHN 19:34
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His
side, and forthwith (at once) came there out
blood
and
water.
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It only makes sense that Jesus came by
water
and blood
when he took human form as to die for our sins.
GENESIS 1:26
And God said, Let US make
man in OUR image, after OUR likeness.
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Let’s investigate this.
Note that the Bible says US and
OUR
when God is talking. That’s because OUR and US
is God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. The TRINITY ... THREE IN ONE.
Sooooo, since we (as humans) were made in His image, we also have
three parts but are one.
SEE THE TRINITY STUDY TO LEARN MORE OF THIS TRUTH.
BUT BE SURE TO RETURN TO THIS STUDY.
THE BIBLE IS CLEAR THAT WE ARE CREATED IN GOD'S
IMAGE.
SO WE TOO WERE CREATED AS A TRINITY OF SORTS.
I JOHN 5:7-8
For there
are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word (Jesus),
and the Holy Ghost: and these THREE ARE ONE. And there are three that
bear witness IN EARTH, the Spirit, and the
water, and the
blood:
and these THREE AGREE IN ONE.
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Therefore we, as humans, are made of three parts or
depths.
The SPIRIT,
WATER, AND
BLOOD.
THE SPIRIT
The SPIRIT is the spirit that God assigns each soul
that is born and that we humans surrender when we die (you give up the
ghost or spirit).
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was:
and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. |
THE WATER
The
WATER is obviously the body
since it is made up of mostly
water.
Remember that John made it clear that the WATER
represents that Jesus came in the FLESH.
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I JOHN 5:6
This is He that came by
water and
blood,
even Jesus Christ; not by water
only, but by
water and
blood.
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THE BLOOD
The BLOOD
is our soul … our life.
DNA blood
samples can be used to identify a specific person.
As it is written ... Abel's BLOOD
(his soul) cried out
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GENESIS 4:10
And he said, What hast thou
done? The voice of thy
brother's BLOOD crieth unto me from the ground |
We’re all pretty familiar with the body
and
blood
of Jesus, from the story of the Last
Supper, but let’s look a little deeper into this
water
that John is talking about. In John’s Gospel there’s a story about a
woman from Samaria. Jesus told her that He is the
living water,
and that whoever drinks of the
water that He gives will
never thirst again, but the
water that He shall give
will be a well of water
springing up into everlasting life
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JOHN
4:14
But whosoever drinketh of the water
that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall
give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting
life
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Then, while teaching at Capernaum, He told the
Jewish people:
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JOHN 6:53-56
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.
Whoso eateth my flesh, and
drinketh my blood, hath eternal life;
and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed,
and my blood is drink indeed. He
that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in
him
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At the Last Supper Jesus confirmed this again when
He gave the Apostles the cup of wine, (known as the cup of eternal
salvation) and said:
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MATTHEW 26:28
For this is my
blood
of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of
sins.
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Now, at the Last Supper, Jesus said to eat and drink
in His memory. Now, each time when we eat and drink, we have an
opportunity to remember that Jesus’
blood
was shed for us, and that we continually renew His life in us. Many
choose to do this before they eat each meal, they say a little prayer.
Some denominations call this communion (sharing in the body and
blood
of Christ), and it is only offered at certain times. But I ask you, is
it the consecrating of bread and wine that removes your sins, or was
it the act of Jesus dying on the cross, that takes away the sins of
the world, once for all?
We’ve also learned that we need forgiveness
regularly, not once a week or once a month, so why wouldn’t Jesus
choose the Last Supper ... a meal … something that we partake of
daily . . . regularly, to use as the perfect occasion to
remind us that He died for us and to confess our sins and be forgiven
DAILY.
And what about penance? Is it OUR works that bring
forgiveness? Didn’t Jesus already pay the price? To be repentant comes
from your heart and our Lord forgives us. To suggest that in order to
be forgiven, one must recite a specific prayer, do some community
service or anything of that nature ... is like saying that YOU are in
some way working off your sins, or that YOU somehow have a hand in the
forgiveness process and all in all ... it’s saying that what Jesus
did, dying on the cross for you, wasn’t enough and that YOUR works
will be the healing factor. TRUTH is ... It is much more SPIRITUAL
than all that. Jesus paid our price and that price is ETERNAL.
Paul warns what will happen if we don’t respect the
blood of Jesus:
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HEBREWS 10:26-29
For if we sin willfully after that we have received
the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for
sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery
indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised
Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how
much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who
hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the
blood
of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and
hath done despite unto the Spirit of Grace?
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I will close this study by sharing something with
you that the Apostle Paul said ...
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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, make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His
sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever.
Amen.
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MY FRIEND ...
IF YOU BELIEVE IN JESUS AND ASK FORGIVENESS OF
OUR LOVING, MERCIFUL FATHER ...
THE ATONEMENT FOR YOUR SINS HAS BEEN STAMPED
PAID IN FULL
THERE IS NO NEED TO PUNISH YOURSELVES FURTHER.
Take care and have
a SON-derful day.
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