The Life-Giving Power of the Blood of Jesus - A Communion Message

Blood poured out is a graphic picture. Two thousand years ago the lifeblood of a man was poured out. It was a deliberate act as He gave Himself an offering for mankind. Leviticus 17:11 tells us "the life of the flesh is in the blood". Ephesians 5:2, Walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and given himself for an offering… Israel as a nation was in bondage, held captive as slaves. Egypt made the lives of the children of Israel "bitter with hard bondage" (Exodus 1:14), and they "sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God" (2:23). . On that dreadful night of the Passover they were to take a lamb for a house; Exodus 12:3, a lamb without blemish. They were to kill it at Passover. Exodus 12:7, they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the door of their house. As Spurgeon put it: What if some foolish Israelite had despised the command of God and had thought, "I will sprinkle something else upon the doorposts," or, "I will adorn the lintel with jewels of gold and silver," he must have perished; nothing could save his household but the sprinkled blood. Nothing else but the blood would do. Exodus 12:11 it reads: And thus shall ye eat it, with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover. The blood is God's Escape Plan. The blood saves us from the wrath of God. Only the blood is acceptable. Abel's sacrifice was blood. Cain's was not acceptable. The blood saves completely, and we can be certain of its efficacy. It has that soul-saving power. Acts 20:28 tells of the church of God purchased with His blood.