PREDIGTNOTIZEN
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Purified by the Blood
* When Father God sent His only begotten Son, Jesus, to the earth, it was for a specific task and a specific reason.
* He came to die, to shed His blood, to cut a covenant between God and man.
* His blood was poured out and an everlasting covenant of grace, mercy, and forgiveness was established on behalf of all those who believe in Him and receive His sacrifice.
Matthew 26:26-29 (NIV) says:
“While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, ‘Take and eat; this is my body.’
Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, ‘Drink from it, all of you.
This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s kingdom.’ “
What is a Covenant?
A covenant is the most solemn, binding agreement known to man.
It is a life-and-death relationship based on promises, responsibilities, and blessings, sealed by the shedding of blood.
In a covenant, two parties become one.
Everything they are and everything they have is shared.
A covenant says,
“If you have a need, I will meet it. If you are attacked, I will fight for you. If you are weak, I will strengthen you. Your enemies are my enemies, and your friends are my friends — even unto death.”
It is not just a contract.
It is a life-bond.
Old Testament Covenant
In the Old Testament, God made covenants with men.
He cut covenant with Noah, sealing it with the sign of the rainbow.
He cut covenant with Abraham, promising to bless him and his descendants.
Every covenant involved blood — innocent animals were sacrificed to demonstrate the seriousness of the agreement.
Blood symbolized life. Without the shedding of blood, there was no covenant.
The people of Israel lived by covenant — it defined their lives, their laws, their land, and their destiny.
Covenant in Human History (Tribal Examples)
Across the world, blood covenant was understood even outside of Israel.
In many African tribes, for example, two tribes would come together to cut covenant:
• The leaders would cut their hands and mingle their blood, symbolizing that they were now one blood.
• They would exchange gifts — often weapons, clothing, or other treasures — declaring that everything one tribe had was now available to the other.
• They would even take on each other’s names, declaring their identities permanently linked.
Breaking covenant was considered the highest crime — punishable by death.
Covenant was sacred.
In the same way, God has made a sacred blood covenant with us — through Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 2:14-18 (NKJV) says:
“Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same,
that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham.
Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren,
that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God,
to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.”
We are created flesh and blood.
Jesus came to earth, also becoming flesh and blood — God in the body of a man — to die for us.
That is what this covenant is about:
God came to share in all our sufferings, to die as a sacrificial Lamb, to destroy the devil, and to release us from the bondage of fear and death.
He did not come to save angels — there is no redemption for fallen angels — but He came to save us from sin, fear, and death.
Hebrews 9:11-15 (NKJV) says:
“But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come,
with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.
Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,
how much more shall the blood of Christ,
who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God,
cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death,
for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant,
that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.”
The blood of Jesus is powerful enough to wash away every sin without exception.
He cleanses our conscience from dead works, from dead religion, from tradition — bringing us into a living, breathing relationship with the Father that we never had before.
In His blood is the fulfillment of the promise of eternal inheritance for all who will believe.
Romans 3:22-26 (NIV) says:
“This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood.
He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished
he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time,
so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.”
We have all sinned and fallen short of God’s glory.
But the good news — the joy that the angels declared at Christ’s coming — is that Jesus Christ was born to die,
an atoning sacrifice,
redeeming us from sin and judgment,
bringing us into right standing with the Father if we believe.
Colossians 1:13-14 (NKJV) says:
“He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.”
Through Jesus, the Father has delivered us from the kingdom of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son.
Through Jesus’ blood, we are redeemed, and our sins are forgiven and washed away forever.
Hebrews 9:22 (NKJV) says:
“And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.”
Because of the blood of Jesus — and only the blood of Jesus — we stand pure and holy before the Lord of Hosts.
Without the blood, there is no forgiveness.
Without the blood, there is no salvation.
Without the blood, there is no eternal life.
But because of the blood, we have peace, we have victory, we have freedom, and we have the promise of eternal inheritance!
