The Blood of Christ

Part 1 of several parts


The Bible tells us in detail, over and over of how precious is the Blood of Jesus Christ. If we study His Word we find that Christ’s flesh came from Mary, and Christ’s blood was supplied by God through the Holy Ghost. Christ’s blood was sinless blood and Christ was sinless. Christ’s blood was Divine Blood and Christ was Divine. Christ’s blood was innocent blood and Christ was innocent. Christ’s blood was incorruptible blood and Christ was incorruptible.

[b]Paul tells us that Christ was made of the “seed of David according to the flesh":[/b]

" 1. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, 2. (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) 3. CONCERNING HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, WHICH WAS MADE OF THE SEED OF DAVID ACCORDING TO THE FLESH; 4. And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: 5. By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name: 6. Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ: 7. To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 1:1-7)

We find Christ’s lineage given to us in Luke (3:23-28) through Mary, which goes back to King David, and then still further back to the beginning of time, all the way to Adam, who was the son of God! Christ’s linage is also given to us through Joseph in the Book of Matthew (Ch 1:1-17) and shows us the lineage through Joseph from Abraham to King David to Joseph. Since Christ was not Joseph’s physical son, but came from Mary’s loins through the power of the Holy Ghost, we know that his flesh was supplied by Mary and here lineage, that goes all the way back to David.

We also know through scripture that the Holy Spirit overcame Mary, and she conceived:

“And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. 31. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. 32. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: 33. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. 34. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? 35. And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” [Luke 1:30-35 ]

Mary was a direct descendant of King David which gave Jesus the right to ascend the Jewish throne, both through Mary and through adoption by his foster father, Joseph. Mary's genealogy is supplied in Luke 3:23-38. Dr. Henry Morris explains the genealogy in Luke:
"Joseph was clearly the son of Jacob (Matthew 1:16, so this verse [Luke 3:23 - says 'son of Heli'] should be understood to mean 'son-in-law of Heli.' thus, the genealogy of Christ in Luke is actually the genealogy of Mary, while Matthew gives that of Joseph. Actually, the word 'son' is not in the original, so it would be legitimate to supply either 'son' or 'son-in-law' in this context. Since Matthew and Luke clearly record much common material, it is certain that neither one could unknowingly incorporate such a flagrant apparent mistake as the wrong genealogy in his record. As it is, however, the two genealogies show that both parents were descendants of David--Joseph through Solomon (Matthew 1:7-15), thus inheriting the legal right to the throne of David, and Mary through Nathan (Luke 3:23-31), her line thus carrying the seed of David, since Solomon's line had been refused the throne because of Jechoniah's sin" [Dr. Henry M. Morris, The Defender's Study Bible, note for Luke 3:23 (Iowa Falls, Iowa: World Publishing, Inc., 1995).]

Thus we see that Jesus was clearly legally related to both parents (to Mary, by being born from her, and to Joseph by legal adoption)!
For thousands of years, every human child has been born with an inherited sin nature and sinful flesh (Romans 3:23 & 8:3). This is a result of our sinful first parent, Adam and to whom we are all genetically related. Each generation (without exception) has sinned (Rom. 3:23) and passed on its sinful nature and the curse of death, to each succeeding generation (the biblical doctrine of imputation of sin - Romans 5:12-19). There is only one exception in history to this. Although Jesus grew in the womb of Mary, in the same manner as any baby, he was different from all other babies. The reason? His blood was inherited from the Holy Spirit, and his flesh was inherited from Mary. The blood of Adam did not flow in His veins, as it flows in mine and yours.

Part 1 of several parts

The Blood of Christ

Part 2 of several parts

The following is from the works of M.R. Dehan, M.D. and titled “The Chemistry of the
Blood”

The Bible is a Book of blood. The Bible declares itself to be a “living” Book, the only living Book in the world and it is able to impart life to those who will believe with their hearts what it teaches.

In Hebrews 4:12 we read “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

The word translated “quick” in this verse is “Alive”, or “Living”. The Word of God is a living Word, wholly distinct from all other books for just one reason- it contains blood circulating through every page and in every verse. From Genesis to Revelation we see the stream of blood which imparts to this Book the very life of God. Without the blood the Bible would be like any other book and of no more value, for the Bible plainly teaches that THE LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD.

The one basic, fundamental principle that is found in the Bible is given to us in Leviticus 17:11 and states: “ 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.”

The same inspired principle appears again in 17:14: “For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof.”

Life, that mysterious something which scientists have never been able to define or fathom is said by God to be in the blood of the flesh, so that there can be no life without the blood. Although that is true of all flesh, we are mainly interested in human blood and particularly in the blood of the Man Jesus Christ because His blood was not only life as we think physically, but ETERNAL life as well.

[u][i][b]All related by Blood[/b][/i][/u]

All men are related by the blood of Adam, sinful and polluted blood, dead in trespasses and in sins. Scripture teaches that God-

“And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth” (Acts 17:26)

All men have a “common” origin in Adam. All men are blood relatives of Adam, whether they be white or black, Jew or Gentile, pagan or cultured. Their blood carries the sentence of death because of Adam’s sin, and for this reason all men die a common death, with no exceptions. Remember that THE LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD, and so if man must die it is because there is death in the blood. Although we do not know the nature of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, we do know the eating of it caused “blood poisoning” and resulted in death, for God had said:

“The day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

So potent was this poison that six thousand years later, all who are related to Adam by human birth still succumb to that poison of sin, which is carried in some way in the blood. A review of the story of Adam’s creation will make clear this truth. We are told that God formed man out of the dust of the earth. Up to this time Adam was a lifeless clump of clay. Materially he was just so much dust, and merely molded into the shape of a man, but without life; he was a mere dummy. Then the record in God’s Word tells us that---

“God…breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

The breath of God put something in man that made him ALIVE. That something was blood. It must have been. It be nothing else: for we have already shown that “THE LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD and so when life was added by the breath of God, He imparted blood to that clump of clay in the shape of a man, and man became a living soul. Adam’s body was of the ground. His blood was the separated gift of God, for God is Life and the Author of all life.

Part 2 of several parts

[b]The Blood of Christ[/b]

Part 3 of several posts

The following is from the works of M.R. Dehan, M.D. and titled “The Chemistry of the
Blood”


[u][b]Sin and Death[/b][/u]

Then man sinned and ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and HE DIED- DIED SPRITUALLY and ultimately, physically. Since LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD, when man died, something happened to the blood. Sin affected the blood of man, not his body, except indirectly, because it is supplied by the blood. For this very reason flesh can only be called sinful flesh because it is nourished and fed and sustained by sinful blood. And since God hath made of one blood all nations (Acts 17:26), sin is present in all of Adam’s progeny. For in that one sinned, all have sinned.

[b]The Virgin Birth[/b]

This very fact that sin affected the blood of man necessitated the VIRGIN BIRTH OF Christ if He was to be a son of Adam and yet a sinless man. For this very reason Christ could partake of Adam’s flesh, which is not inherently sinful, but He could NOT partake of Adam’s blood, which was completely sinful. God provided a way by which Jesus, born of a woman (not man), could be a perfect human being, but, because He had not a drop of Adam’s blood in His veins, He did not share in Adam’s sin. The plan of redemption revolves around the blood:
13. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:13-14)

The whole plan of redemption rests upon the power of the blood the Lord Jesus Christ. The blood is the only tissue that is unlimited in its movement within the body. Almost all other body tissues are fixed, such as muscle, bone, never, fat and skin. They remain where they are. The blood is the only tissue that is not fixed, but circulates throughout the body to every living cell. There are other fluid products of the body, such as saliva and gastric juices, tears and bile, but those are not tissues, but secretions, and are not parts of the body but products of that body. The blood alone is the liquid tissue that can reach every single cell in the body and, therefore, unites all the members with the head and the individual members as well.

[u][b]Jesus Sinless[/b][/u]

The Bible teaches in addition that Jesus was a sinless man. Whereas all men from Adam to this day are born with Adam’s sinful nature and therefore are subject to the curse and eternal death, the Man Jesus was without sin and therefore deathless, until He took the sin of others upon Himself and died their death.

God has made of one blood all the nations of the earth. Even though Jesus, therefore, received His flesh, His body from a sinful race He could still be sinless as long as sinful blood was not in His body. God provided a way whereby Jesus could be perfectly human according to the flesh and yet not have the blood of sinful humanity. That was the problem solved by the virgin birth.

Part 3

[b]The Blood of Christ[/b]

Part 4

Origin of the Blood

It is understood that the blood which flows in an unborn babe’s arteries and veins is not derived from the mother but is produced within the body of the fetus. It is only after the sperm has entered the ovum and a fetus begins to develop that blood appears. As a very simple illustration of this, think of the egg of a hen. An unfertilized egg is simply an ovum on a much larger scale than the human ovum. You may incubate this unfertilized hen’s egg, but it will never develop. It will dry up completely but no chick will result. But let that egg be fertilized by the introduction of the male sperm and incubation will bring to light the presence of LIFE IN AN EMBRYO. After a few hours it visibly develops. In a little while red streaks occur, denoting the presence of blood. AND LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD according to Scripture, for

Moses says:

For the life of the flesh is in the blood (Leviticus 1 7:11)

For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof
Leviticus 17:14)


Mother’s Blood Separate

It is unnecessary that a single drop of blood be given to the developing embryo in the womb of the mother. Such is the case according to scientists. The mother provides the fetus with the nutritive elements for the building of that little body in the secret of her womb, but all the blood which forms in it is formed in the embryo itself. From the time of conception to the time of birth of the infant not one single drop of blood ever passes from mother to child. The placenta, that mass of temporary tissue known better as “afterbirth”, forming the link between mother and child, is so constructed that although all the soluble nutritive elements such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates, salts, minerals and even antibodies pass freely from mother to child and the waster products of the child’s metabolism are passed back to the mother’s circulation, no actual interchange of a single drop of blood ever occurs normally. All the blood which is in that child is produced within the child itself. The mother contributes no blood at all.


God’s Wonderful Provision

How wonderfully God prepared for the virgin birth of His Son. When He created woman He made her so that no blood would be able to pass from her to her offspring. In order to produce a sinless man who would yet be the son of Adam, God provided a way whereby that man would have a human body derived from Adam but have blood from a separate source. Some have tried to answer the question, “How could He be sinless & yet born of woman?” By making Mary the “Immaculate Virgin”. That however, does not answer the question of how Jesus was sinless.

It is plainly taught in Scripture that Jesus partook of human flesh without partaking of the effect of Adam’s blood. In Hebrews 2:14 we read:


Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himself
Likewise took part of the same…..


You will notice that the “children” that is, the human children, are said to be partakers of flesh and blood, and then, speaking of Jesus, this verse says that He himself likewise took part of the same. The word “took part” as applying to Christ is an entirely different word from “partakers” as applied to the children. In the margin of my bible, I read that the word translated, “took part” implies “taking part in something outside one’s self.” The Greek word for partakers if KOYNONEHO and means “to share fully,” so that all of Adam’s children share fully in Adam’s flesh and blood. When we read that Jesus “took part of the same” the word METECHO which means “to take part but not all.” The children take both flesh and blood of Adam but Christ took only part, that is, the flesh part, whereas the blood was the result of supernatural conception.

Jesus was a perfect human being after the flesh. He was of the seed of David according to the flesh, but blood is that part of a man which is the divine addition. In the creation of man, Adam’s body was made from the dust of the earth, but God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Since life is in the blood, this act resulted in the formation of blood in Adam’s body, but the first Adam’s blood was corrupted and sin is in all mankind since God hath made of one blood all nations. In the last Adam and the second man, new and divine and sinless blood was produced in a body that was the seed of Adam and by this resulted in the production of:

Divine Blood

Conception by the Holy Ghost was the only way the virgin birth could be accomplished. Mary nourished the body of Jesus and He became the seed of David according to the flesh. The Holy Spirit contributed the blood of Jesus. It is sinless blood. It is divine blood. It is precious blood, for there has never been any other like it. It is--------

Part 4

[b]The Blood of Christ[/b]

Part 5

The following is from the works of M.R. Dehan, M.D. and titled “The Chemistry of the Blood”


Innocent Blood

I have betrayed the innocent blood, Judas confessed in Matthew 27:4. Our Lord was innocent. He became like unto us in all things – sin only excepted; like unto us with one exception – instead of being conceived by a human father, He was conceived by a divine father. As a result, biologically, He had divine blood, sinless blood. Because this blood is sinless it is:

Incorruptible Blood

Sin made human blood corruptible. Soon after death, decay sets in and it begins in the blood. That is why meat must be drained well of its blood. That is why embalmers place the embalming fluid in the blood. David said that Jesus’ body should not see corruption. Though He was dead three days and three nights, His body did not corrupt. Because He was sinless they could not put Him to death but instead He laid down His life voluntarily that He might take it up again.

He arose by His own power, because death had no claim on Him except the claim of other’s sin, and when that was paid – Death cannot keep his prey-Jesus, my Savior; He tore the bars away – Jesus, my Lord. Up from the grave he arose,
with a mighty triumph o’er His foes.

Sinner, have you received this Savior and have you been washed in His Precious Blood? If not, you are still under the curse and the awful sentence of death. Why not accept Him today and hear Him as He says:

God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died
For us. Much more then, BEING NOW JUSTIFIED BY HIS BLOOD, we shall be saved from Wrath through Him (Romans 5:8,9)


God bless,

Stever

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Ron Bailey

In reply to Philologos question:"Does he mean genetically? sinful blood?

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Mike Balog

I appreciated this long quotation from T Austin Sparks. It is very easy for Christians to get swept into superstition. The 'blood of Christ' had no magical qualities in itself. It splashed on the soldiers who crucified him but did not change them thereby. The blood is of worth not it itself, but because of He who shed it. The 'blood of Christ' is Bible shorthand for 'the life of the Son poured out for us at Calvary'.

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Ron Bailey