How to Apply the Blood of Jesus

Introduction

This study was born from a conversation I had with a dear friend, in which she said about the fact that “we need to apply the blood of Jesus”. This got me really thinking. How can I, practically apply the blood of Jesus? In the Old Testament, blood was applied by usually dipping hyssop into the blood of a sacrificed animal and then applying it or sprinkling it with that.

In the society and culture that most of us live in now, we don’t like to think too much about blood do we? Our meat, fish and poultry is mainly killed for us and all ‘the necessary’ is done for us and when we get to purchase it, it’s all packed nicely for us.

However, when the bible was written, life was totally different. Not only in eating habits but also because the sacrificial system of worship was still very much in play and the reader would understand far more differently than we do now.

The bible makes it clear that without the shedding of blood, there can be no forgiveness or remission of sin (Hebrews 9:22).

How then do we apply the precious blood of Jesus? Well, it’s just like a lot of other things in the bible; we have to apply it by faith.

Faith comes by hearing and, hearing the through the word of Christ (Romans 10:17).

Unless we know what God’s Word says about the blood of Jesus, we have nothing with which to apply our faith. Therefore, knowledge is key! Of course, it goes beyond just mere head knowledge, although this is a good starting point. It needs to travel that 18 inches or so from our heads into our hearts and we need to actually believe it!

“Without knowledge the people perish.” So Hosea tells us.

The bible makes it clear that all believers are now kings and priests (Revelation 1:6). Therefore, gone are the days when we must rely on a priest to apply the blood for us. We are responsible; not just for us, but for our families and loved ones too!

In preparing for this, I read a book by Andrew Murray, which was absolutely amazing. However, I wanted to do something myself. And so I just want to also share this, that anybody else could have done something like this as well. Through the amazing technology we have now to hand either with our phones, ipads, etc. I just did a search of the entire New Testament and copied the verses down that mentioned the blood of Christ. Then, I just put them under headings that I thought applied. Some verses were a bit perplexing and needed some further study.

This study contains words that are really necessary to understand, words like redemption. It’s amazing how one word can actually contain so much that it merits a whole study on its own. To avoid this, I have put a link in, where appropriate, for further study.

Under each sub-heading the verses mentioned are in order of appearance in the New Testament.

So, let’s begin and look at what the scriptures say about this amazing, precious blood of Jesus:

Redeemed, Purchased, Justification & Atonement by the Blood

Redemption
For further study:
https://faithworks.life/our-beliefs-redemption/

Justification
For further study:

https://faithworks.life/our-beliefs-justification/

Atonement

As used in the scriptures, to atone is to suffer the penalty for sins, thereby removing the effects of sin from the repentant sinner and allowing him or her to be reconciled to God. Jesus Christ was the only one capable of carrying out the Atonement for all mankind.

Acts 20:28

Therefore, take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. (NKJV)

What a responsibility to be an overseer of the church – the weight of this responsibility being in the fact that the church; the called out ones (ekklesia) cost God the blood of His Son.

Romans 3:25

God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished (NIV)

Romans 5:9

Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. (ESV)

Ephesians 1:7

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, (ESV)

Hebrews 9:12

he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. (ESV)

1 Peter 1:18-19

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. (ESV)

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood (ESV)

Revelation 5:9

and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

Forgiveness Through the Blood

Matthew 26:28 (Mark 14:24, Luke 22:20)

for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. (ESV)

Hebrews 9:18-22

Therefore, not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. (ESV)

It was a one time sacrifice, no further ones needed and surpasses, by far the blood of animals or birds:

Hebrews 9:25

Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, (ESV)

Hebrews 10:4

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. (ESV)

Reconciliation Through the Blood

Ephesians 2:13

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. (ESV)

Colossians 1:20

and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. (ESV)

Cleansing Through the Blood

Hebrews 9:14

How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God! (NIV)

1 John 1:7

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. (ESV)

1 Peter 1:19

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. (ESV)

Revelation 7:14

I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (ESV)

Sanctification Through the Blood

Sanctification

For further study:
https://faithworks.life/what-we-believe-sanctification/

Hebrews 13:11-12

For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp. So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. (ESV)

Cleansed by the Blood to Serve God

Hebrews 9:14

Dwelling in the Holy Place Through the Blood

John 6:56

Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. (ESV)

Hebrews 10:19

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, (ESV)

Life Through the Blood

John 6:53-55

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. (ESV)

Resurrection life through the blood:

Hebrews 13;20

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, (ESV)

Victory Through the Blood

1 John 5:5-8

Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. (ESV)

The revelation of Jesus that was revealed to John as He (Jesus) comes as a warrior to defeat the Beast:

Revelation 19:13

He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God.

Revelation 12:11

And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. (ESV)

Treat with Reverence & Care

1 Corinthians 10:16

Is the cup of blessing which we bless [at the Lord’s Supper] not a sharing in the blood of Christ? [Indeed it is.] Is the bread which we break not a sharing in the body of Christ? [Indeed it is.] (AMP)

1 Corinthians 11:25

In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” (ESV)

1 Corinthians 11:27

Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. (ESV)

Hebrews 10:29

How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?

Speaks a Better Word

Hebrews 12:24

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

The blood of Abel speaks of vengeance. The blood of Jesus speaks of mercy and forgiveness.