Observing Yom-Kippur – The Blood Sacrifice
Observing Yom-Kippur – The Blood Sacrifice.
“According to the law of Moses, nearly everything was purified with blood. For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.” (Hebrews 9:22).
There’s Power In The Blood By Lari White
Unlikely Cleansing Agent. At first glance, blood is hardly a likely washing detergent to remove stains. Actually, one of the properties of blood is that it causes permanent stains, a opposed to removes them. The spiritual reality, though, is that blood is designed by God to be a universal solvent, the Lord’s spot remover of our sin-tainted souls. Blood is the only substance that cleanses us from the effects of sin. Blood is the only spiritual detergent powerful enough to make us pure and clean. Blood means the presence of life, which in God’s scheme of things is more powerful than death. So blood purifies, it cleans the spiritual slate in each of us, enabling us to start over as we dwell inside Christ and His righteousness. Only His pure blood is able to restore our innocence.
Oh The Blood Of Jesus | The Altar Music | Official Music Video (youtube.com)
The Miracle of Blood. The tangible reality of human blood suggests the sanctity of blood in the spiritual world. We depend on human blood for our physical survival, and we depend on Christ’s blood for our spiritual survival. Human blood is a glorious, miraculous fact of physical life: Blood is the fluid in our body that transports live-giving oxygen and nutrition to our lungs and body tissues; it promotes clotting and thus prevents tragic blood loss; it carries disease-fighting antibodies and develops our immune system; it carries away waste products to the kidneys and liver and so is vital to cleansing our body and blood; it brings chemical hormones to give directions to our body; it regulates our body temperature. Human blood takes only 30 seconds to travel from the heart through the body and back to the heart. The average adult human body contains about 1.3 gallons of blood, roughly 8% of our body weight. The average adult heart pumps 1.5 million barrels of blood through a circulatory system of over 100,000 miles of blood vessels. If we stretched one person’s blood vessels end-to-end, it would circle the earth two and a half times over!
the blood lyric video-Naomi Raine ft. Dante Bowe (youtube.com)
“If we keep living in the pure light as He is in the light, we share fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, continually cleanses us from all sin.” (1 John 1:7).
Perhaps the most astounding aspect of human blood is that simple human blood cannot be replicated by genius scientists in the lab. With all our advances in creating artificial knees and shoulders, inventing artificial intelligence that can operate at lightning speed to direct robots and computers… Even with human brilliance on display everywhere these days, the researchers and designers are nonetheless unable to replicate a simple ounce of blood. The human blood sample created by God turns out to be beyond the reach of human genius. Human blood literally cannot be produced or replicated in a lab. There is no such thing as artificial blood as good as the original. It appears that Creator God has reserved the makings of blood to Himself. Blood is sacred and deserves our ultimate respect. But God says to all of us, “Hands off, lab technicians! Blood is my special creation, and I will not allow mere man to recreate this mystery of Mine. Blood is too precious to leave in the hands of man. I will keep this recipe a secret, for if you were allowed to solve the mystery of blood, then life itself is in danger of being replicated by mankind. In case you haven’t noticed, life is in the blood.”
The Blood (Lyric Video) // Emmy Rose (youtube.com)
Blood is sacred, says the Lord. Blood is holy, set apart from other aspects of creation. In the eyes of God, blood represents life. Life itself depends on blood. In fact, “the life of the flesh is in the blood.” (Lev. 17:11). Blood is a life principle flowing into the very structure of created life. Since the Fall in the Garden, the world has had a disastrous problem: sin. The result of sin is death. And the result of blood is life. So it naturally follows that blood is somehow the remedy for sin. Blood has to be involved if forgiveness is to happen, if life proves victorious over death. In God’s plan of redemption, His universal solvent is blood, it dissolves the presence and authority of sin.
Oh The Cross (Live) – UPPERROOM (youtube.com)
The Blood of the Sacrifice. “Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer could cleanse people’s bodies from ceremonial impurity. Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful deeds so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered Himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins.” (Hebrews 9:13-14). God designed a blood sacrifice system in the Old Covenant that atoned for, that covered over, the sins of the Chosen People. As a God of justice and righteousness, He demanded a punishment for sin, and the blood of an animal sacrifice was put in place to satisfy that demand. Pure blood from unblemished and utterly innocent animals. Innocent blood was the only answer to the guilt of sin. But this sacrificial system was not meant to be permanently in place. It was ultimately an incomplete system in many ways. It required ongoing sacrifices; it was only a temporary atonement until the person sinned again; it was merely for external purposes, making the person ceremonially clean; it didn’t necessarily change the heart of the person making the offering. So the Mosaic system was adequate and God-ordained for a time. But it was only a shadow, a hint of a better system coming along in God’s perfect timing. It was a necessary beginning to what turned out to be a perfect end. In the Old Covenant, the Mosaic sacrifice was necessary but insufficient. The best was yet to come in the fullness of time.
Shane & Shane: There Is A Fountain (Full of Love) (youtube.com)
There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel’s veins,
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains!
Lose all their guilty stains!
The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day,
And there may I, though vile as he, wash all my sins away!
Wash all my sins away!
Dear dying Lamb, Your precious blood will never lose its power,
Till all the ransomed Church of God be saved to sin no more!
Be saved to sin no more!
E’er since by faith I saw the stream Your flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme and will be till I die!
And will be till I die!
When this poor lisping, stamm’ring tongue lies silent in the grave,
Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I’ll sing Your power to save!
I’ll sing Your power to save!
Glory Be to Jesus – Christian Song with Lyrics (youtube.com
Jesus the Pure Sacrifice. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice hinted at in the animal sacrifice system. He fulfilled all the requirements of the Old Covenant system… an unblemished, pure, innocent victim offering blood for atonement. Jesus completed the sacrificial system, so only one sacrifice, His, was needed. His blood brought forgiveness of all sins, by all people, for all time. At a superficial glance, it looks like God is out for blood. But God “doesn’t want blood, He wants life.” Only Jesus Christ, the Son of God, can offer his blood for eternal life, “the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world” (John 1:29). In Jewish tradition, the discovery of an unblemished red heifer signals the coming of the Messiah. Truer words were never spoken.
“May the kindness of God’s grace and peace overflow to you from Him who is, and who was, and who is coming… To Him who loves us and has washed us from our sins by His own blood and made us a kingdom of priests to serve His God and Father – to Him be glory and dominion throughout the eternity of eternities! Amen!” (Revelation 1:5).