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THE POWER OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST

Blood: A liquid generally red in color that circulates through the arteries and veins (vessels)
blood) of the human body and animals, it consists of a liquid part or plasma and
suspended cells: red blood cells, leukocytes, and platelets

Its function is to distribute oxygen, nutrients, and other substances to the cells of the organism, and
collect the waste products from these.

I. ITS MEANING IN THE O.T.

A. Blood was closely associated with physical life

14For the life of all flesh is its blood; therefore, I have said to the children of Israel: Do not
You shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood;
Anyone who eats it will be cut off. Lev. 17:14
4But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. Gn.9:4

God shed blood for Adam and Eve

After they sinned, God made them animal skins to cover them.
nudes

B. To spill blood meant to kill or murder

Rubén intercedes for José when his brothers wanted to kill him.
21When Rubén heard this, he rescued him from their hands and said: Do not kill him.22And he said to them
Rubén: Do not spill blood; throw him into this pit that is in the desert, and do not
you put a hand on him; to free him thus from their hands, to make him return to his father.
Genesis 37:21-22
12Woe to him who builds a city with blood, and to him who establishes a city with iniquity!

Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice!
C. To be responsible for a death
Rubén said we are being sued for the death of José
21And they said to one another: Truly we have sinned against our brother, for
we saw the anguish of his soul when he begged us, and we did not listen to him; that is why he has come
about us this anguish.22Then Rubén answered them, saying: Did I not speak to you
And I said: Do not sin against the young man, and did you not listen? Behold, we are also demanded.
his blood. (Gn.42:21-22)
When Jesus was sentenced to death, the Jews said that his blood be upon them and
about his children Mt.27:24-25
D. Cain and Abel
Both offer offerings to Jehovah
Cain offers the best of his work
By faith, Abel offers from the firstborn of his sheep; this pleases God.
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God values obedience more than sacrifice (IS.15:22)

E. Noah. The flood ends and they descend to land.

Build an altar: he offered a sacrifice to the Lord (Gen. 8:20-21) The Lord smelled
grateful and he blessed them Gen. 9:1

F. Abram
I build an altar in Shechem
7And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said: To your descendants I will give this land. And he built there.
an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. (Gn.12:7)
I build an altar in Mamre
18Abram, therefore, moving his tent, came and dwelled in the oaks of Mamre, which is in

Hebron, and he built there an altar to the Lord. (Gn.13:18)

God tells Abram:
Bring a heifer, a goat, and a ram, a turtle dove, and a young pigeon. Gn.15:9
G. Moisés
God tells him what he has to do

In the Exodus, blood on the doorposts and lintel of the doors Ex.12:7-13
Moses learns in the desert how to approach God
Through the construction of the tabernacle
The shedding of the blood of animals
For the transgressions of the Israelite people
They covered the sin but did not remove it.
H. In the conquest of Jericho
Rahab, at the order of the spies, put a scarlet cord.
Crimson: scarlet, intense red
He was a type of the shedding of the blood of Christ.

II. MEAT WITH ITS BLOOD

This phrase refers to a human being.

17Then Jesus answered him: Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, because it was not revealed to you.
flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven (Mt.16:17)
12For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
authorities, against the governors of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts
of wickedness in heavenly places. (Eph. 6:12)
16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult immediately

with flesh and blood, (Gal. 1:16)

50But this I say, brethren: that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor
corruption inherits incorruption.51Behold, I tell you a mystery: Not all of us will sleep;
but we will all be transformed,52in a moment, in the blink of an eye, to the final
trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and
we will be transformed. ICo.15:50-52
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III. THE BLOOD OF CHRIST

Blood when it separates from the flesh does not mean life but death, life
delivered as sacrifice
By mentioning his blood, a reference is made to his atoning death.
All the symbolism of blood in the Old Testament finds its fulfillment in the blood of
Christ
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The Power of the Blood of Christ
11But now Christ is present, the high priest of the good things to come, by the more
a broader and more perfect tabernacle, not made by hands, that is, not of this creation,12and no
not by the blood of goats or calves, but by his own blood, he entered once for
always in the Most Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.13Because if the blood of
the bulls and the male goats, and the ashes of the heifer sprinkled on the unclean,
they are sanctified for the purification of the flesh,14how much more the blood of Christ, which
through the eternal Spirit he offered himself unblemished to God, he will cleanse your
consciences of dead works to serve the living God? Heb. 9:12-14

IN THE LANGUAGE OF SACRIFICES

1.God has made Christ the Propitiation with his blood (removal of
sins Ro.3:25); sprinkled with the blood of Christ (IP.1:1,2)
23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,24being justified

freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,25to whom God
heart as propitiation through faith in his blood, to manifest his justice,
because of having overlooked, in his patience, the past sins, (Rom. 3:23-25)

2. Rescued from a vain way of living by the precious blood of Christ,

(IP.1:19)
18knowing that you were rescued from your vain way of life, which you received from

your fathers, not with corruptible things, like gold or silver,19but with blood
precious of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without contamination, (IP.1:18-19)

The blood of Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin

7but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the
the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)

4. We have a clean dress by your blood

14I said to him: Sir, you know it. And he said to me: These are the ones who have come out of the great
tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
(Ap.7:14)
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5. He makes us suitable for every good work

20And the God of peace who raised our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, the great shepherd
of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,21make you suitable for every good work
that you may do his will, doing in you what is pleasing before him by
Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. (Heb. 13:20)

IN LEGAL LANGUAGE

By the blood of Christ we are justified before God

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Well much more, being justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the
anger. (Rom. 5:9, 16-18)

We can enter the sanctuary of God with confidence.

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Therefore, brothers, having boldness to enter the Holy of Holies by the blood of
Jesus Christ,20by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
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and having a great priest over the house of God,(He.10:19)

We have reconciliation and peace through the blood of the cross

20and through him to reconcile all things to himself, whether things on earth as well
those that are in the heavens, making peace through the blood of his cross (Col. 1:20)

4. We are redeemed by God through the blood of Christ

9and they sang a new song, saying: You are worthy to take the book and to open its

stamps; because you were slain, and with your blood you have redeemed us for God, from all
lineage and language and people and nation;(Rev. 5:9)
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in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his
grace, (Eph. 1:7)

5. He redeems us from our sins

and of Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the
earth. To him who loved us and washed us from our sins with his blood, (Rev. 1:5)

CONCLUSION

God does not change; His law is the same.

2. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin
3. All the symbolism of the blood of the Old Testament is fulfilled in the blood of Christ.
4. In the blood of Christ there is power, to redeem us, cleanse us, rescue us, peace with
God makes us fit for every good work.
5. Protect your life and family through the Blood of Christ