Blood of Jesus – Perspective

Part 2 in the series “Precious is the Blood”

Speaking of Jesus Christ, John 1:1 tells us, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Verse 14 adds, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

Yes, Jesus Christ was, and is, God in flesh – fully God and fully man. The Creator of man joined Himself to His creation and became one of us.

However, He did not join Himself to the Adam iteration of man. Instead, God started a whole new line.

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Part 1 in the series “Precious is the Blood”

It used to bother me when I read Old Testament passages about life being in the blood. I was trying to understand it from a natural perspective. How does blood make us alive? Yes, without blood we die, but the same is true of the heart, or brain, why not say the life is in the brain since we can’t live without it? I didn’t realize at the time that God was not so much stating a medical fact as He was decreeing a thing to make it so.

Let’s look at a few passages that equate life with blood.

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