Life in the Blood

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Leviticus 17:14 says, “For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.”

     If you have stayed any time in the hospital, you probably had a person come up with a piece of rubber, which they tie around your arm and say, “You are going to feel a little stick.”  That is usually an understatement as the phlebotomist looks for a vein from which to draw a blood sample.  Sample means up to four vials of blood which they then take to the laboratory to examine.  This takes place usually about every four hours, around the clock.  They check your arm band with a red light then take your blood.  From that sample, however, they are able to come up with three pages, single spaced, of items that they have learned from the little bials of blood.  A long list of minerals is read out, the amount of glucose in your blood, how many red and white cells there are,  The lab people learn a lot from tha and pass it on the doctors who are prescribing antibiotics and other medications based on your total vital signs.

     God makes a statement in this passage which is significant in several ways and it is, “...the life of all flesh is in the blood…”  One of the reasons for the [assage was to instruct the people not to be eating the blood of any animal.   We can also look at the above passage and see the type of something that was going to happen in the future and that was the shedding of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins.  Because of that action at Calvary, the sinner can find life only this time it is referring to eternal life.  For the believer, it is to say that eternal life is in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Society of course, frowns on such a statement as being gross and disgusting.  Some have even t aken songs out of their hymnals that would refer to the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.    Ephesians 1:7 says, “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;:Hebrews 0:22 says, “And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.”  The shedding of blood was necessary if there was going to be “life” for anyone in heaven.  That was the requirement for the payment of sin and it was accomplished at Calvary.  We can say, “yes” there is life in the blood.  Praise God for the salvation that  He has made possible for us.