 Sex
 Maleness
 Death
 Hell
 Blood
and Femaleness
Life in All Its Fullness:
The Blood
John 6:53-56
 362
references
 Added
‘family’ of altars, offerings,
sacrifices, covenants, atonement,
slaughters, etc. –
almost every page!
 Nothing
blood-thirsty
about God
 Must be related to our problem
 Must express something of the
depth of sin and the death it
produces
 LIFE
 SANCTITY
of LIFE
 Shedding of Blood = DEATH
 One Life for Another = SACRIFICE
 (Promised One who would offer
Himself - (Is 53 ‘led to the slaughter’
‘poured out’)
Emphasis on the blood of Christ (24 of 99 uses)
Matthew, Mark, Luke – once each
John 6 – four times
Acts - once
Romans – two times
I Corinthians – three times
Colossians – once
Hebrews (most references, 23) – six times
I John – once
Revelation - five
 “just
one drop of blood”
 “the crimson tide”
 “Calvary’s tide”
 “now I feel the blood applied”
 “there is a fountain filled with
blood drawn from Immanuel’s
veins”
 Not
a mechanical application of
literal blood – over-physicalizing
 Our salvation is based ultimately
on the death of Jesus – historical,
actual, real suffering, real death
on our behalf – his sacrificial
death
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Believers forgetting the Blood
 Over-spiritualizing
and thus,
forgetting the cost of the Life of
the Savior on their behalf
Blood of the covenant
poured out for forgiveness,
the church ‘obtained’ with His own
blood, propitiation, justified,
redemption through, brought near
by, making peace by the blood of His
cross, by His own blood He secured
an eternal redemption,
 purifies
our conscience,
sprinkles us, sanctifies the
people, through the blood of the
eternal covenant brought you
back from the dead, cleanses
us from all sin, ransomed us,
robes made white by the blood,
Satan conquered by the blood.
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Power relates to His Holy Nature
Value of blood is connected to life that is in it
Life in the blood
Life is in the blood (Gen 9:5, Lev 3:17)
 Blood
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 5-7
pints
 5.5 million living cells in each cubic
millimeter
 60,000 miles of blood vessels
 3,500 square yards of red cells
Valves operate 4-5,000 time per day
 Average red cell make half a million
trips from heart to extremity in four
months then is renewed
 2.5 billion heartbeats in 75 yrs
 2,000 gallons pump every day
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“No part of the flesh can live
without being in contact with this
throbbing stream of life.”
“Every cell in the human body
lives at the mercy of the blood.”
“I came here needing a
transfusion…and all you gave
me was a band-aid.”
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‘King’ situation
 Nothing immoral hinted at
 No ingestion of blood
allowed
 What does He mean?
“What is not assumed is
not healed.”
“He was so full of life that
when he wished to die he
had to borrow death from
others”
Matt 26 “This is my blood…”
 My LIFE offered to you
 No life without His – blood
 He offers total sustenance and
nourishment
His Life, pervades, permeates, offers,
gives
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At the heart of the whole sacrificial system
is a blood sacrifice. Why?
My sin has brought death into my existence
I need life and that life comes through
someone taking my death into His life.
He dies and gives me life.
Is 53:7 “laid on Him the iniquity of us all”
“caused to meet in Him”
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Power relates to His Selfless Imposition
His blood – the unreserved giving of Himself,
willing subjection
to keep us from death by taking our death –
exchanging, delivering, purchasing –
was offered to His own Holy, pure, Life
A
complete Savior offering
an absolute reconciliation in
His blood
 New
word: reconciliation
“from-toward-other”
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Power relates to overcoming all evil
The Blood is His most powerful act
Redemption is never without Transformation!
The Power of His Blood is His ability to
set us free from the all the vestiges of
evil that remain in the human heart
Redeemed means Holiness
Propitiation issues into Purity
Substitution results in Transformation
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For in him all the fullness of God was
pleased to dwell, and through him to
reconcile to himself all things, whether on
earth or in heaven, making peace by the
blood of his cross. And you, who once
were alienated and hostile in mind, doing
evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his
body of flesh by his death,
in order to present you holy and blameless
and above reproach before him,
(Col 1:19-22)
 Sprinkled
by His blood (2)
 Not conformed to former lusts (14)
 Like the Holy One be holy (15-16)
 Knowing that you were redeemed
by the precious blood of Christ (19)