The price of your redemption: the blood of Christ. Eph 1:7; Heb 10:19; Heb 13:20; Heb 9:14

Back to EPH 1:7

 

EPH 1:7-8 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, 8 which He lavished upon us.

 

/“through his blood” — dia[dia] plus the genitive of a(ima[haima] =metaphor for the substitutionary spiritual death of Christ.\

 

The issue is found in the blood. Never in human history has one principle, one doctrine, been so abused in the scripture.

 

The blood of Jesus Christ is mentioned quite frequently in the New Testament and its counterpart, the representation of it, the blood of animal sacrifices in the Old Testament.

 

With regard to the doctrine of the blood there are several things that must be kept in mind.

 

/First of all, Jesus Christ did not bleed to death. Nor does His physical death have anything to do with salvation, except to indicate the fact that it was finished.\

 

Salvation was completed while Christ was alive on the cross.

           

 

/The Blood of Christ

           

1.The blood of Christ is represented by animal blood in the Old Testament. Blood is said to be the seat of animal life.\

 

/LEV 17:11

'For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.' \

 

This is not talking about people, it is talking about animals. The life of mankind is in the soul, not the blood. This indicates that an animal does not have a soul. And for the animal lovers we can say that whatever they have, they do not have a soul like ours. Ok?  

           

/2. Animal blood was used in the Old Testament sacrifices to represent the spiritual death of Christ on the cross — Leviticus chapters 1-3.\

 

Therefore we have a representative analogy between the blood of animals in the Old Testament and the spiritual death of Christ on the cross, so that:

 

/In the New Testament whenever the blood of Christ is mentioned it is referring to His spiritual death just as the animals refers to that in the Old Testament.\

 

 

 

 

/COL 1:20

and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.\

 

HEB 10:8 After saying above, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hast not desired, nor hast Thou taken pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the Law),

 

HEB 10:9 then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Thy will." He takes away the first in order to establish the second.

 

HEB 10:10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

 

HEB 10:11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;

 

HEB 10:12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,

 

HEB 10:13 waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet.

 

HEB 10:14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

 

HEB 10:15 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,

 

HEB 10:16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them

After those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws upon their heart,

And upon their mind I will write them,"

He then says,

 

HEB 10:17 "And their sins and their lawless deeds

I will remember no more."

 

HEB 10:18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.

 

HEB 10:19 Since therefore, brethren, we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

 

HEB 10:20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,

 

HEB 10:21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

 

HEB 10:22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

 

   

HEB 13:20 Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord,

 

HEB 13:21 equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

 

/1 Peter 1:1

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen \

 

/1 Peter 1:2

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in fullest measure. \

 

/3. The doctrine of redemption was communicated in the Old Testament by means of animal sacrifices — Hebrews 9:22.\

 

HEB 9:11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation;

 

HEB 9:12 and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

 

HEB 9:13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh,

 

HEB 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

 

HEB 9:15 And for this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

 

HEB 9:16 For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it.

 

HEB 9:17 For a covenant is valid only when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives.

 

HEB 9:18 Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood.

 

HEB 9:19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

 

HEB 9:20 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you."

 

HEB 9:21 And in the same way he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood.

 

HEB 9:22 And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

 

/4. Christ did not die physically on the cross by bleeding to death - John 19:30,33,34.\

 

John 19:28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty." 

 

John 19:29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop, and brought it up to His mouth.

 

John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And Hebowed His head, and gave up His spirit.

 

John 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

 

John 19:32 The soldiers therefore came, and broke the legs of the first man, and of the other man who was crucified with Him;

 

John 19:33 but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs;

 

John 19:34 but one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.

 

When Christ died physically His blood was still in His body — John 19:34.

 

John 19:35 And he who has seen has borne witness, and his witness is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

 

John 19:36 For these things came to pass, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "Not a bone of Him shall be broken."

 

John 19:37 And again another Scripture says, "They shall look on Him whom they pierced."

 

The physical death of Christ occurred as an act of His own volition, not by bleeding - John 10:18.

 

/John 10:18

"No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father."\

 

After His work of salvation was completed Jesus Christ dismissed His spirit into the presence of the Father Luke 23:46; Matthew 27:50.

 

/Luke 23:46

And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into Thy hands I commit My spirit." And having said this, He breathed His last. \

 

/5. Therefore the blood of Christ is a part of a representative analogy between the physical death of the animal in the Old Testament sacrifice and the spiritual death of Christ on the cross bearing our sins, 2 Co 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24.\

 

 

 

/2 Cor 5:21

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.\

 

/1 Peter 2:24

and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.\

 

/6. The blood of Christ depicts four doctrines of soteriology: a) Expiation (atonement) REV 1:5. Expiation means that Christ paid the penalty of sin.\

 

And blood of the animal dying physically represents Christ dying spiritually for our sins.

 

/REV 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us, and released us from our sins by His blood, \

 

/b) Redemption, EPH 1:7; COL 1:14; 1 Peter 1:18,19.\

 

/COL 1:13-14

For He delivered us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.\

 

/1 Peter 1:18-19

knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.\

 

/c) Justification, ROM 5:9 where we are said to be justified by His blood.\

 

ROM 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

 

ROM 5:9Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

 

/d) Sanctification, HEB 13:12, we are sanctified by His blood.\

 

/HEB 13:12

Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.\

 

/All of these refer to the spiritual death of Christ on the cross making it possible for us to be free from the penalty of sin [expiation], liberated from the slavemarket of sin [redemption], receive the righteousness of God imputed [justification], and set apart unto God forever [sanctification]. \

           

/7. The blood of Christ is also the basis for the rebound technique — Leviticus chapters 4 and 5; cf. 1 John 1:7 with 1 John 1:9.\

 

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

 

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

 

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

 

1 John 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.