The Cross, Part 8

Life Is In His Blood

By Tammy Lacock

“And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.” (Hebrews 9:22)

In Hebrews 9:22, the Apostle Paul reminds us of Old Testament Jewish law. Without a death and blood sacrifice, one cannot be atoned or freed from their sins. Likewise, by Christ’s innocent blood, we are freed from sin. The difference is by Christ’s Blood, we are freed from all sin once and for all. No longer is a sacrificial animal needed because we are no longer bound by sin and death.

By the shedding of Christ’s blood, all of humanity has been redeemed. He literally washed away all sin — past, present, and future. He washed away death. We are no longer to live in sin and death because we are now freed from it. We, too, have resurrected with Christ, and we now live a brand-new life in Him. A life where our minds begin renewing as a result of our new life in Christ. One with Him, joined to His Spirit, making us one Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:17).

This week, Warren Litzman takes us on a journey into the last hours before Christ’s death on the cross. An intimate journey into the literal shedding of His blood and how by His blood, we have new life.

He begins in the Garden of Gethsemane and takes us through Christ’s death on the cross. Throughout the hours before His death, we can see how by receiving the cup and pouring all of our sins into His pure body, His blood is literally pushed out in His flesh. His life is pushed out. His blood is again pushed out by the scourging. And then again throughout His walk to Calvary. And yet again by the nails driven into his hands and feet. And by His death, His blood is finally poured out, pushing out His life once and for all for the remission of all sins.

For Christ said in His last words before His death “It is finished.” Death and sin are finished.

New Life comes only by His blood.