It's the Blood that Matters
How do you react to the sight of blood? Human or animal, the sight of blood gets our attention. You and I have only seen human or animal blood.
Why all the chatter about blood?
Simple-Jesus’ blood cleans us from sin. The physical-blood removes the unseen spiritual effect and presence of sin. Does this really matter? It does. The human physical body doesn't last. Few live beyond 90 years. Most people do not give thought to life after death. There is. Life on earth is here and now. What happens when we die?
We know about funerals...there are caskets and urns. We know about ashes-to-ashes dust to dust. The body can be sort of neatly "put away." We fill cemeteries with them. Ashes are dissolved by water.
We come to the soul. The soul is what makes you and me. The soul gives personality. The human soul cannot be buried or burned. The human soul is not confined by a casket or urn. The soul has no shelf life. Your soul is forever.
Because the soul exists forever blood matters. Heaven and hell are real. Blood is the way to heaven. Not any blood will do. Only fully human, fully God blood will work. Only the blood of Jesus cleans the human soul of the filth of sin. This is the reason for the chatter about blood.
Hebrews 9:11-15 explains it this way:
Redemption Through the Blood of Christ
[11] "But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) [12] he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. [13] For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, [14] how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
[15] Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant."
You wonder-why is the blood of Jesus so important?
Jesus’ blood was shed:
+ONCE FOR ALL.
+TO PROVIDE ETERNAL REDEMPTION.
+TO CLEANSE OUR CONSCIENCES FROM ACTS THAT LEAD TO DEATH.
+THAT JESUS MAY BE THE MEDIATOR OF A NEW AGREEMENT WITH GOD.
+THE WE MAY BE FORGIVEN AND FOREVER RANSOMED FROM SIN.
Yes, the blood of Jesus matters.
Jesus is God's perfect guarantee that life does not end with death.
Forever Life begins at death.