When God created man, He breathed into man the breath of life. That life was contained in the substance that we call blood. Leviticus 17:11a says, “For the life of the flesh is in the blood…” The blood is not life, but it carries life.
I Peter 1:19 says, “But you were purchased with the precious blood of Christ like that of a sacrificial lamb without blemish or spot.” Jesus’ blood wasn’t like our blood. It was and is priceless. It repulses the devil and all of his demons. When we apply the Blood of Jesus to someone or to something by faith, the devil and his demons flee because the blood of Jesus is a living thing.
In his book, The Power of the Blood by Andrew Whyte, The Blood of Jesus is called “the blood of sprinkling.” In the Old Covenant the High Priest sprinkled the blood of animals once a year on the mercy seat of the ark of the covenant. In the Old Testament the mercy seat was where God met with the Israelites to deal with their sins.
Hebrews 9:19-20 says, “For when every covenant of the Law had been read out by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of slain calves and goats with water, scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people saying, (20) This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded me to deliver to you.” You and I can just imagine that by doing this, Moses got the attention of all the people who were present. The blood was sprinkled on the scroll (the word of God) and over all the people present.
In a sense, Jesus sprinkled his own blood on behalf of all people when he died at Calvary. He was crucified at the time of the Passover. As the Jews celebrated the first Passover, God had said to them that they should apply the blood of their lamb on the doorposts of their homes. God said, “When I see the blood, I will pass over you and will not allow the destroyer to slay you.” Exodus 12:23.
When the Israelites were celebrating the very first exodus, Jesus was making atonement for the second exodus. To anyone who believes in the power of His blood, there is an exodus from the penalties of sin and sickness. We can go free from whatever has enslaved us because of the Blood of Jesus. If we are in bondage to an addiction, we can go free by applying his blood to the addiction. If we are in bondage to some kind of sickness or disease, the Blood of Jesus can set us free. We just apply the Blood of Jesus to it and watch it disappear before our eyes. If we are in bondage to a particular sin that we can’t get the victory over, we apply the Blood of Jesus to the sin and keep doing this over and over. The Blood of Jesus has the power to remove the sin from us and us from the sin. If we need forgiveness from God over something that we have done, we just plead the Blood of Jesus. When we speak the Blood of Jesus, then it speaks for us before the throne of God. The Blood of Jesus pleads for our protection, for our forgiveness, for our deliverance from evil, and for our deliverance from sickness and disease.
Mary
