Five Things Blood Brings the Bible teaches that it first of all redeems. "Forasmuch as ye
know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain
conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of
Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot"(1 Peter 1:18-19). Not only are we
redeemed from the hands of the devil, but from the hands of the law handed down by God
through Moses. Christ's death on the cross brings me out from under the law. The law
condemned me, but Christ satisfied every claim. All the gold and silver and the precious
stones of earth could never have bought me. What they could not do, the death of Christ
did. Redemption means "buying back." Third, it makes peace. "And, having made peace
through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say,
whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven" (Colossians 1:20). The world will
never know peace until it finds it in the cross of Jesus Christ. You will never know the
peace with God, peace of conscience, peace of mind, and peace of soul until you stand at the
foot of the cross and identify yourself with Christ by faith. There is the secret of peace. This
is peace with God. Fourth, it justifies. "Much more then, being now justified by his blood,
we shall be saved from wrath through him" (Romans 5:9). It changes men's standing
before God. It is a change from guilt and condemnation to pardon and forgiveness. The
forgiven sinner is not like the discharged prisoner who has served out his term and is
discharged but with no further rights of citizenship. The repentant sinner, pardoned
through the blood of Jesus Christ, regains his full citizenship. "Who shall lay any thing to
the charge of God's elect? It is God that justified. Who is he that condemned? It is Christ
that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also
maketh intercession for us" (Romans 8:33-34). Fifth, it cleanses. "But if we walk in the
light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus
Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin" (1 John 1:7). The key word in this verse is all. Not
part of our sins, but all of them. Every lie you ever told, every mean, lowdown dirty thing
that you ever did, your hypocrisy, your lustful thoughts—all are cleansed by the death of
Christ.
