Life Is In The Blood - (NBS1)

Solemn Assembly
Psalm 42:1-5
Psalm 13

My people perish for lack of knowledge!

Key Verses

• I Corinthians 4:1
  • Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
• Ephesians 1:3-12
  • Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

The Mystery and the Power of the Blood

• Life is In the Blood
• The Covenant Flow
• The Cup of Blessing

"Pleading the blood!"

Life Is In The Blood

• 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 atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.”
• Hebrews 9:22 “And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.”
• Genesis 3:21 “Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.”
  • God broke the Sabbath rest with the work of atonement
  • God revealed the only covering for sin

The Spiritual Connection

• A Sacred Substance
  • Ephesians 5:25b-26
• Blood has a voice!
  • Genesis 4:10-11
  • Genesis 9:4,6
  • Hebrews 11:4

The Blood Sanction

• Genesis 9:4-7 “But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man. “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man. And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply in it.”
• Genesis 42:22 “And Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Therefore behold, his blood is now required of us.”

Better Man & Better Blood

• Hebrews 12:24
  • “We have come “to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.””
• Matthew 1:18
  • “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.”
• Luke 1:26-38
• Hebrews 6:17-20