The Blood Of Christ
Hebrews 9:22
says:"...without the
shedding of blood is no remission of
sins."
But when you go
to Hebrews 10:4 it
says:"For it is not
possible that the blood of bulls and
goats should take away
sins."
So if the blood
of animals is not good enough to take
sins away then what blood is 9:22
talking about, and where did we get
animal sacrifice? 9:22 could not be
talking about human blood, otherwise any
one of us could lay down our life for
the sins of the world. It takes a very
special blood to take away sins, as we
shall see. But where did we get animal
sacrifice? The first animal sacrifice
was made in Genesis
3:21:"Unto Adam also and
to his wife did the Lord God make coats
of skins, and clothed
them."
Something had to
die for the sins of Adam and Eve, and
since God didn't want to kill Adam and
Eve and start over, he gave them animal
sacrifice. To show them its purpose, he
covered them with the skins, just as the
blood covered their sins. This is such
a beautiful illustration. When Adam and
Eve sinned not only did they realize
that their bodies were exposed, but
their sin was exposed also. So in a
vain effort to hide their nakedness they
made aprons of leaves. Like so many of
us they tried to use the works of their
hands to cover their sins.We needed a
redeemer, someone who had the necesarry blood
to take away the sin of the world. That
someone, as we know, was Jesus Christ, but
how was he qualified? Most people would say
that it was because he was God, or maybe
because he lead a sinless life. Well because
he was God, he had the proper blood, and it
was the special nature of his blood that
allowed him to be sinless. Since Jesus was
God in the flesh how did he avoid the fallen
nature? Okay, in Genises 3:15 God tells Satan
"And I will put enmity
between thee and the woman, and between thy
seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head
and thou shalt bruise his heel."
Many people will recognize
this as
the first messianic prophecy, but it also
relates that the messiah will be born of a
woman without a man. I heard a preacher say
once say that the reason that God used the
woman only because she is the weaker vessel.
And that God was showing Satan that he could
use his weakest creation to defeat him. I
don't buy that for many reasons that I wont
go into here. He was merely telling it the
was that it had to be. Whatever the fruit of
that tree was, it changed the chemical makeup
of Adam and Eve's blood from what God had
given them to what we have now. If Jesus
would have had the same blood as us then his
sacrifice would have been in vain, because he
would've had the fallen nature. The fallen
nature passed from Adam as it says in I
Corinthians 15:22 "For as
in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all
be made alive."
As if the
Bible needed confirmation, doctors have found
that the mechanism for creating the blood of
the baby lies in the seed of the man.
Moreover a babies blood never mixes with the
blood of the mother. The umbilical cord is
for the exchange of oxygen, nutriton and
wastes, which is why a baby can have a
completely different blood type than it's
mother. This body of flesh and bone was never
meant to die, and barring any external
influence all death can be traced to the
blood. Even a person who lived to be a
hundred and fiftey years old, if they had no
diseases, would still die. Because the blood
looses it's capacity to sustain life. As the
Bible says in Leviticus 17:11
"For the life of the flesh is in the
blood..."
So if a person,
in the flesh, has the right to claim eternal
life that person must have a special blood.
When you come to faith in Jesus Christ you
recived eternal life. In John 3:16 it says
"For God so loved the world
that he gave hiss only begotten son that
whosoever believeth in him shall not perish
but have eternal life."
What
is it that changes in you that would give you
eternal life? It is the indwelling of the
Holy Spirit which you recieved the minute you
were saved. In Romans 8:9 we read
"But ye are not in the flesh,
but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit
of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not
the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His"
The Holy Spirit is a symbol
in the Spirit of what shall happen in the
flesh at the resurection, namely the
restoration of living waters in our veins.
Jesus called the Holy Spirit living waters in
John 7:38-39 "He that
believeth on me, as the scripture hath said,
out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
water. (But this spake he
of the Spirit, which the Holy Ghost was not
yet given; because that Jesus was not yet
Glorigied.)
So then if it is
living waters
which gives flesh and bone eternal life, then
Jesus must have had living waters in his
veins. In John 19:34 it says
"But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced
his side, and forthwith came there out blood
and water."
I heard a
pastor say once that the spear pierced one of
his organs and that is where the water came
from. I think that John was describing the
strange appearance of Jesus' blood in the
only way he could. If anyone is familiar with
Ron Wyatt, the archeologist who found Noah's
Ark among other things; he claims to have
found the Lost Ark of the Covenant. He found
it in a cave benearh the site of the
crucifixtion. When Jesus died there was an
earthquake and the Bible says that the rocks
rent. This opened a fissure in this cave, and
Jesus' blood dripped onto the mercy seat. On
the roof of that cave Wyatt found a sample of
blood! After 2000 years it was still there.
When Wyatt delivered this sample to a lab
they found that it had an extra chromosone
never seen before. When the sample was placed
in a nuetral solution it reanimated or came
back to life! Praise His holy name, he has
promised to restore that special blood to us
at the resurection. In I John 3:2 it says
"Beloved, now are we the sons
of God and it doth not yet appear what we
shall be: but we know that when he shall
appear, we shall be like him; for we shall
see him as he is."
We shall
have a glorified bodies, but they will be
solid not spirit as he said in Luke 24:39
"Behold my hands and my feet,
that is I myself: handle me and see; for a
spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me
have."
That's what we shall
be, like him and with him forever. Amen.
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