1. There’s Power in the Blood
Romans 5: 1- 9
Throughout God’s provisions for man’s best, He has made BLOOD the element associated with …
PRAISE FOR HIM
&
REMISSION OF SINS
Genesis 9:4
Leviticus17: 10 – 14
Deuteronomy 12:23

2. Yet, with Jesus Christ, note the sharp contrast!
John 6:53 – Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

3. God’s demand for BLOOD in the Old Testament
Cain and Abel’s sacrifices …
Genesis 4: 1- 8
Hebrews 11: By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Romans 10:17 -- So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

4. God’s demand for BLOOD in the Old Testament Abraham and Isaac
Genesis 22: 1- 2; 5; 6 – 8
Genesis 22: 10 – 18
Hebrews 11: 17 – By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

5. God’s demand for BLOOD in the Old Testament
Moses and blood on the doors in Egypt
Exodus 12:7 -- And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
Exodus 12: And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

6. God’s demand for BLOOD in the Old Testament
Moses and blood on the doors in Egypt
Exodus 12:22 – And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.

7. God’s demand for BLOOD in the Old Testament High Priests and blood
Hebrews 9: But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
Hebrews 9: 18 – 23
Hebrews 9:

8. God’s demand for the BLOOD of Jesus Christ
Isaiah 53
Psalms 22:6b – they pierced my hands and my feet
Matthew 26:28 – This is my BLOOD of the N.T.
Hebrews 9:15 -- And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

9. God’s demand for the BLOOD of Jesus Christ
His BLOOD was upon HIS DOOR
John 10:9 – I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and so go in and out, and find pasture.
Acts 20:28
1 Timothy 3: 14 – 15
We must STAY INSIDE THIS DOOR/HOUSE to be saved! – 1 Corinthians 15:58

10. The contents of the Church are stained with His BLOOD
Redemption of our souls
1 Corinthians 15:50
1 Peter 1: 18 – 25
Revelation 5: 9 – 10
All SPIRITUAL LIFE is in the BLOOD of Christ
John 10:10b
John 1:4
Colossians 3: 1- 4

11. JOHN 3:16 The contents of the Church are stained with His BLOOD
John 6: Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Galatians 3:27 -- For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
JOHN 3:16