Redemption Through The Blood!

REDEMP'TION, n. L. redemptio. See Redeem. Websters Dictionary

1. Repurchase of captured goods or prisoners; the act of procuring the deliverance of persons or things from the possession and power of captors by the payment of an equivalent; ransom; release; as the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo.

6. In theology, the purchase of God's favor by the death and sufferings of Christ; THE RANSOM OR DELIVERANCE OF SINNERS FROM THE BONDAGE OF SIN AND THE PENALTIES OF GOD'S VIOLATED LAW BY THE (BLOOD) ATONEMENT OF CHRIST.

Many people might not know what redemption is, and might be ignorant of the importance of blood, so I thought I might write on this subject. We humans, are squeamish at the sight of blood. Many people faint at the mere sight of blood. It is vile and disgusting to many of us, but it is quite the opposite to God. God sees it as extremely important. God does not faint at blood. It is very precious to Him. God says to Israel in the old testament...

Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

Atonement in this case means to appease the wrath and justice of God. When we sin, we incur a debt with God. We tend to view sin as no big deal, because it is so common, but to God it is a very big deal. God cannot allow sin in His sight. We have a very big problem. We have sinned possibly hundreds of thousands of times. We thought we were getting away with it, but we are not. God is keeping track of every thing. Even our own conscience tells us that we ought to do right, and when we don't we feel guilt. Not only that, we all have a sense of justice and judgment. When we see someone do something wrong, we feel that they deserve punishment. We have incurred a huge debt with God... Let's say a trillion spiritual dollars. We have no way of paying it. All our righteousness only works out to about one dollar. God looks through the record books and sees that He will have to eternally damn us to hell's debtor prison because we are morally bankrupt. We have incurred such a debt, that we could never in a million years pay it off. That means that if we were to never sin again, and do only good things, we would still fall short. We have sinned against God and we deserve the fires of hell for eternity. God requires perfection. He expects it. That is God's standard and we have have fallen way short. There needs to be a ransom paid to save us from the wrath and judgment to come, and it must be in paid in blood.

The moral law of the universe requires blood as payment for sin.

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

The life of the person or animal is in the blood. When the blood runs out, the body dies. Blood is the most precious thing there is, and the law requires it as grounds to forgive sin. WE NEED BLOOD OR WE ARE DAMNED! Do we see the seriousness of the situation?! Without righteous blood, our sins cannot be justly forgiven. Our right doing will forever be insufficient! No amount of righteousness can make us right with God.

John 1:29 ¶ The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD!

God supplied His own spotless Lamb, His own Son, whose name is Jesus! He came and shed His perfect righteous blood to appease the wrath and justice of God! God's own Son died on a cross and paid the ransom we owed. He died in our place! His blood paid the debt that we owed!

Eph 1:7 In whom (In Jesus) we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

What a marvelous verse! Christ entered into the holy place with His own blood, having (stating in is past tense) obtained eternal redemption for us. Awesome!
That is wonderful news indeed! "But", you ask, "Where does religion fit into all of this?"
Better news! It doesn't! Its completely free with no strings attached. Believe it and be saved!