How to benefit from itWhat it accomplishes

• Gives life to sinners, Jno 14:6; Col. 3:4• We only have spiritual life because He

died, Jno. 3:16-17–Love of God, Rom. 5:8–Grace of God, Heb. 2:9

• We must appreciate what the blood of Christ (death) accomplishes

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• His blood (sacrificial death) must be applied to our sins, 1 Tim. 2:6– God applies the blood of Christ to the sins

of those who have faith in Jesus, Rom. 3:26– Baptized into His death, Rom. 6:3– Action of faith obtains cleansing, Acts 22:16• Christians: Confess sin and pray,

1 Jno. 1:9; Acts 8:223

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• Remission of sins, Jno. 1:29– Pardon, Heb. 9:22; 10:17-18 (Acts 3:19)• Dedicated His new covenant,

Matt. 26:28; Heb. 9:15-17– Announced on Pentecost, Acts 2– Lord’s Supper memorializes and proclaims

the death by which we possess covenant blessings (1 Cor. 11:26); 1 Pet. 1:3-5

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• Reconciliation with God, Col. 1:19-23– “The meaning of the word is simply at-

one-ment, i.e., the state of being at one or being reconciled, so that atonement is reconciliation.” (Easton’s Dictionary)

– Atonement is the effect of the offering of Christ’s life (shedding blood, Eph. 2:16)

– Now received, Rom. 5:10-115

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• Redemption through blood, Eph. 1:7– Forgiveness: “a releasing effected by

payment of ransom…redemption… deliverance…liberation procured by the payment of a ransom” (Thayer), Rev. 5:9

– Jesus gave His life as the ransom price for sinners, Matt. 20:28; 1 Pet. 1:18-19

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• Justification by His blood, Rom. 5:9; 3:24– Declared just, rendered righteous, innocent– Faultless: Freed from the guilt of sin and

from its just penalty, Rom. 5:1; Gal. 2:16

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• Propitiation by His death, Rom. 3:25 (1 Jno. 4:10)– To appease wrath and thus obtain mercy– As High Priest, Christ secures mercy for

sinners with His blood, Heb. 9:11-12 (cf. Lev. 16:15-16)

– We may enter God’s presence because of His blood, Heb. 10:19-22

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• Sanctification with His own blood, Heb. 13:12– “To separate from profane things and

dedicate to God” (Thayer)• Cleanses conscience from dead works (sin),

Heb. 9:14• Perfected forever, Heb. 10:14•Washing (purifying), Rev. 1:5

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• Purchased His church with His own blood, Acts 20:28– Promise of salvation, Eph. 5:23– Cleansed/sanctified by blood, Eph. 5:25-26– Must be in His church to be saved by blood– Entrance into this blood-bought body,

Acts 2:36-41, 47• Faith, confess faith, repent, be baptized

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•Without the blood of Christ applied to our sins we are forever lost–With it, we “receive the promise of

the eternal inheritance,” Heb. 9:15•Without the word of his cross

we would not know how to be saved (1 Cor. 1:18)–With it we, are being saved by the

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