There is a real God, the Creator of the universe. He is the righteous Judge of all the universe. All people have sinned, and therefore, the terrifying judgement of God is coming on them. But because of His great love for all men, He decided to sacrifice His Son, that whoever may believe in Him will not be punished in the eternal fire, but have eternal life.
The Scripture says, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that every believing one in Him should not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
God forgives people because of the sacrifice of Jesus, His Son. On the cross, the Son of God shed His blood, because there is no forgiveness of sins without the shedding of blood, without a payment for sins (Heb 9:22).
God is love, and He is merciful and gracious, that is why He preferred to sacrifice His Son in order to forgive those who will accept Him, rather than justly judge them and send them to eternal fire. All sins call for a judgement and a punishment from the holy and righteous God, and that punishment fell on Jesus.
- The blood of Jesus Christ was poured out for the forgiveness of sins.
Jesus Christ has said, “For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.” (Matthew 26:28, Luke 22:20).
In Christ, the true disciples of Jesus have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of their trespasses, according to the riches of His grace (Eph 1:7, Col 1:14).
- The blood of Jesus Christ makes a propitiation for all humanity (1 John 2:2), because all have sinned. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that turns away the righteous wrath of God from the sinners who accept Jesus by faith (Romans 3:24-26).
It is written, “Whom God set forward (as) a propitiation by His blood, to be received by faith, for demonstrating God’s righteousness, because of His passing over former sins” (Romans 3:25).
Jesus Christ is the propitiation (or atoning sacrifice that turns away the wrath of God) not only for the sins of His disciples, but also for the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2). But only those who repent and accept Jesus and follow Him till the end, will benefit from what Christ has done. The rest of the people will be punished for their sins, because they have rejected the only propitiation and means of forgiveness available to humans. The Scripture says that there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, Who gave Himself as a ransom for all(1 Timothy 2:5-6).
- By the blood of Jesus people who accepted Christ, have been justified (Rom 5:9).
Because of the blood of Jesus, God forgives people who repent of their sins and accept His Son, Jesus Christ by faith, and considers them righteous in His sight and not guilty, even though they have committed many sins. They will be saved form His wrath in future if they continue to follow Christ and live according to His teachings (Matthew 7:21-27).
- Jesus Christ sanctified His people by His blood, when He suffered on the cross for them, which was outside the gate (Hebrews 13:12).
- Jesus Christ loves us, and He has freed us from our sins by his blood (Rev 1:5).
The disciples of Jesus have been released; they have been set free from all sins (Rev 1:5, Rom 6:1-23).
The blood of Jesus Christ was the payment that was paid to redeem people from their futile and empty way of life (1 Peter 1:18-19).
His blood was so precious, that it could pay for and purchase all people and redeem them from the slavery to sin and useless way of life. That futile way of life, people inherit from their worldly forefathers, who are not living according to the Word of the living God.
Only those who accept and obey Jesus, can benefit of this great payment, a payment with the blood of Jesus. The rest of humanity will go to the eternal fire and be punished forever.
The disciples of Jesus Christ must always remember that they have been bought with a great price, there are not their own, and they must glorify God with their body and with their spirit (Acts 20:21, 1 Co 6:10, 7:23, 2 Pe 2:1, Rev 5:9). The disciples of Jesus must never commit any willful sin, and they must not become slaves of men, and they must never live a futile, materialistic life, running after a wind.
The true disciples of Jesus must not live for the earthly things: house, car, good job, fame, power and influence, money, riches, good vacation, pleasures, amusements, entertainments etc. They must in the resurrection of the dead and must deny themselves, take up their cross, follow Jesus and lose (present as a living sacrifice) their lives for Jesus and for His gospel (Mark 8:34-38), and by doing so, they will find the true life in Jesus.
The people, whose minds are on the earthly and material things, live as the enemies of the cross of Christ and their end is the eternal destruction (Philippians 3:18-19), even though, in this life, they may pretend to be Christians and regularly participate in the services of a local church. By choosing again to live a futile life from which Christ has redeemed them by His own blood, they are making a mockery of the blood of Jesus.
- The blood of Jesus gives victory over the devil to His true disciples (Rev 12:11).
The Son of God came to destroy the works of the devil whose primary work is sinning and influencing others to sin.
The Scripture says that whoever practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8, Heb 2:14-15, 9:26).
Through the blood of Jesus and by the word of their testimony, the true disciples of Jesus conquer the devil, for they do not love their lives even unto death (Rev 12:11). There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Rom 8:1), and the accuser of the brothers cannot win by his accusation, because the blood of Jesus was shed for the sins of His people to justify and cleanse them from their sins.
- The Blood of Jesus Christ, God’ Son is continually cleansing from all sin those Christians who walk in the light, and repent and confess their sins, when they stumble and sin involuntarily (1 John 1:5-10).
It is written, “But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). The condition to receive a continual cleansing and remaining in a real fellowship with the living God, Who is light, is to walk in the light, which means to practice continually and wholeheartedly any truth you have heard and known. The cleansing by the blood of Jesus is complete and perfect, so the one who repents and confesses his or her sins, is being cleansed from all sins and from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:7-9). Thus, he or she becomes absolutely pure, no speck of sin or unrighteousness remains. But the one, who refuses to repent and confess, is sinning terribly against God by calling Him a liar (1 John 1:10).
But people who walk in darkness (willfully sinning), do not have a communion with the living God (1 John 1:6, 8, 10) and are not being cleansed by the blood of Jesus, and they are accumulating more and more wrath on themselves for the day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous judgement of God (Rom 2:4-6, Heb 10:26-31).
- Through the blood of Jesus, the people who accept Him are reconciled with God and have peace with Him (Col 1:20).
The true disciples of Jesus are no longer God’s enemies, but His children. But they must never make themselves friends of the world, otherwise they will make themselves enemies of God again (James 4:4). God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble (James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5). People who are walking humbly, in submission and obedience to God, are always staying in that reconciled state of acceptance by God, but those who become proud and choose to live a worldly, futile life again, even though Christ has redeemed them from it by His own blood, make themselves enemies of God, and will be resisted by God. If they continue in sinning and not repenting, they will not benefit from the reconciliation wrought by Christ. People who do not repent, will suffer an eternal destruction.
- Because of the blood of Jesus, the people, who in the past were far from God and strangers, have been brought near, and became members of God’s own family, when they accepted Christ (Eph 2:13-22).
The true disciple of Jesus are God’s own children, they are led By His Spirit, and are His heirs (Romans 8:14-17). It is an enormous privilege and honor to be a member of God’s own family. By His blood Jesus ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation (Rev 5:9).
- By the blood of Jesus, His genuine disciples can have confidence to enter the holy places (Heb 10:19).
The disciples of Jesus have an open access to the Father (God) through the blood of Jesus, and can draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, in order to receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16).
- By the blood of Jesus, the new covenant was established (Matt. 26:28), and it is an eternal covenant (Heb. 13:20).
To be in a covenant with the Creator of the universe, is enormous privilege and honor, and was made available because of the blood of Jesus.
- The blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, purifies our conscience from dead works and thus qualifying us to serve the living God (Hebrews 9:14).
The guilt of our sins would accompany us and bother us during our entire life, if there were not the blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus completely purifies the conscience of the true disciples, and no sense of guilt or shame remains, if the sins are really repented of and confessed sincerely, and the forgiveness received by faith. All other sacrifices could not make and did not make the worshiper perfect in conscience (Heb 9:9-10), but the blood of Jesus did(Hebrews 9:11-14). By one offering Jesus Christ has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified(Hebrews 10:14).
- The disciples of Jesus must treat the blood of Jesus with the highest respect by walking in obedience to God’s Word.
They must never profane or treat as an ordinary thing the blood of Jesus by which they are sanctified (Hebrews 10:29). When the Christians sin willfully and carelessly, they are treating the blood of Jesus as profane thing, not a big deal. There are terrible and eternal consequences for that, when people say, “I will sin and then I will confess, no problem.” They have forgotten what the Word of God says about it.
It is written: “26 For (if) we are sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, (there) no more remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and the zeal of fire which is about to devour the opposers. 28 Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses, without mercy, bytwo or three witnesses, dies; 29 of how much worse punishment shall be counted worthy (the one), who trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know the One Who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” 31 It is a fearful (thing) to fall into the hands of the living God” (Hebrews 10:26-31).
- In the book of Revelation, it is written that the disciples of Jesus who are coming out of great tribulation, have washed their robes in the blood of Jesus and made them white, which represents righteousness and purity, which are produced by the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God (Revelation 7:14).
Nobody can have white robes by his own good works or behavior, but only by the blood of Jesus Christ. But being washed from their sins by the blood of Jesus, His disciples must obey Him and follow Him all the days of their life.