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September 18, 2026 at 1:15 PM 2 comments

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Previously (and very briefly), we spoke of our true identity in Christ, what that means for the believer and how important it is to comprehend it.[1] What we need to comprehend about our new identity is what that actually entails and how it occurred. I’m becoming convinced that the more we understand, embrace and internalize this extremely important truth concerning our new identity, the more we will live the truly abundant Christian life, the life that God intends every believer to live.

One of the subjects that makes all of this more real and efficacious because of how it undergirds everything related to our identity in Jesus, is to understand the fact that the precious blood of Jesus, shed for you and me, is what Christianity is built upon. Without the shedding of His blood there is no remission of sins (Hebrews 9:22).

Of every religious system, only Christianity boasts of God who so loves humanity that He did what only God could do. He became a human being (clothing His deity), lived a completely sinless life at every turn, then with final submission to the Father’s will, gave Himself willingly over to be criminally prosecuted falsely by religious leaders of His day and willingly offered Himself as the sacrificial Lamb for us, receiving on His Person the wrath of God the Father.

On the cross at Calvary, Jesus experienced the intense pain of the actual crucifixion process. Beyond that, He experienced the actual separation from the Father and the Father’s wrath that we should have experienced. During the process that ended in His death, He bled His precious blood on our behalf. But this leads us to much more beyond this truth.

There are at least three aspects of the blood of Jesus that applies to believers and we would do well to understand what they are and how they work on our behalf. Those three aspects are: to God, to us, and to Satan.

First, the blood of Jesus is directed to God. We are all familiar with the Mosaic sacrificial system, or at least, we should be. We know that the blood of bulls, goats, lambs, etc., was not able to forgive sins, but simply cover them. In the Old Testament, the penitent person brought the correct sacrifice to the Tabernacle. From there, the priests/high priest took over and inspected the sacrifice making sure it was physically spotless. Once this was done, the sacrifice was then killed as the penitent placed his hand on the head of the animal, signifying that the animal was being sacrificed for the sins of the person bringing it.

Once slaughtered, the priest would take some of the blood of the animal and sprinkle it on various places including the altar. This altar was a continual representation of God’s judgment. The blood was used to appease God’s wrath for sins committed.

Since sins were simply covered by the blood from the animal, God ultimately looked ahead to the time when God the Son, in human form, would offer Himself up as a truly (once for all, final), efficacious sin offering. Then, sins would actually be forgiven, not simply covered. All this is beautifully explained in the book of Hebrews.

For the believer who comes to God in faith believing that Jesus is who He says He is and that He died a death that we should have died, several things occur. God’s wrath was poured out onto Jesus during the time He hung on Calvary’s cross. Again, this wrath included a complete and total separation from God the Father, something that God Himself had never experienced prior to that event. Instead of us being on the receiving end of God’s wrath, Jesus bore it for us, in our place.

This truth should be uppermost in our minds every time we approach God in prayer or praise and begin each day. The blood of Jesus gives us a completely new and irrevocable standing before God. No longer are we under God’s condemnation, nor should we fear His wrath that we will ever experience (Romans 8). Because of our faith in Christ and His redemptive work, we can literally stand before God knowing that He has accepted us in the beloved (Ephesians 1:6).

No believer should ever doubt God’s graciousness poured out onto us because of the precious blood of Jesus shed for us! Our standing before God is truly righteous now because of our exercised faith in all the work that Jesus accomplished on our behalf. We are not righteous because of anything we have done. We simply believe in what Jesus has done. The blood of Jesus has made this possible. It is difficult for us to appreciate just how valuable the blood of Jesus is for us. God certainly knows. Satan also knows and we’ll get to him in a minute.

Aside from God literally stamping me as righteous, what else does the blood of Jesus accomplish for me? Christ’s shed blood has literally forgiven every sin I have done or will commit. There is no sin in my life that Christ’s blood cannot reach and His blood has done just that. We are not talking about consequences of our sin(s) in this life, because those may remain. We are talking about the criminal prosecution of our sin in the court of God. He no longer sees our sin. He no longer remembers them. He no longer counts my sin(s) against me. They are truly forgiven and forgotten by God Himself who has promised to not remember them (Hebrews 8:12 and Jeremiah 31:34). As far as God is concerned, I am fully forgiven as though I had never sinned.

This is why when Christ died, shedding His marvelous, more than efficacious blood, He died for every person who has ever lived, is living or will ever live. However (and this is a big “however”), His blood is only applied to the lives of those who come to Him in faith believing (John 3:16). But know and understand that His blood is so valuable to God that His blood has the capacity to forgive every sin of every person who ever lived, if they will but come to Him in faith believing.

It is difficult for us to appreciate the absolutely astounding supremacy of Christ’s blood. We must simply accept by faith that His blood is truly as valuable as God says it is to Him. Because of the seeming infinite value of Christ’s blood, we can know (whether we fully understand it or not), that God is fully satisfied judicially. Everything in the Mosaic sacrificial system that God designed was fully and finally fulfilled in the shedding of Christ’s blood. Nothing more is needed for me and my sin.

But apart from the blood creating my new standing before God, it also speaks directly to Satan, our constant accuser. This is where we often fall down due to a lack of understanding. When Satan comes to accuse us, we often fail to correctly respond to his charges. The reason for this is because we tend to fall back on ourselves, instead of on Christ and His blood. We might think we have something that helps us, when in point of fact, there is nothing in our flesh that offers any help at all.

The actual truth is that His blood – and only His blood – cleanses us from all of sins (1 John 1:7). This continues as we walk in the light, says John. What does that mean? It means simply that the Light of God’s truth shines into our hearts and informs our minds so that we more fully understand that God and God alone cleanses us from all our sins. The more we understand this, the greater our joy will be in the Lord.

So, when Satan comes to accuse us because of a sin in our life, our approach should be twofold. First, we should agree that we have sinned and confess that sin to the Father. Second, we should also understand and not be afraid to say that Christ’s blood has covered that sin. When James says to resist the devil and he will flee from you (James 4:7), I believe he is essentially stating that when faced with accusations from Satan, we should agree that our sin is sin, but then immediately submit ourselves to God recognizing that each and every sin we commit is fully expunged by the precious blood of our Savior. In this way, we are resisting Satan and not giving into his accusations emotionally. Satan’s goal is to make us feel defeated and worthless. If we give into that, we are not resisting him, but falling under his deception to our emotional defeat.

In essence then, the blood of Jesus has not only forgiven every sin I have or will ever commit, but Jesus’ blood has also done something more where Satan and Self are concerned. Christ’s blood has actually broken my servitude to sin! Christ has freed me from my sin problem. Yes, I will still sin from time to time and hopefully, the longer I am a believer, the less I will sin. But the chains of servitude keeping me bound to sin are completely broken and nullified. Christ has purchased us and we are no longer slaves to Satan or sin. We now have a choice, all because of the precious, extremely valuable blood of Jesus! As we focus on that, it becomes real within us allowing us to live for God instead of ourselves.

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:32)

It is in the understanding of the truth that makes us realize we are truly free. In this newfound freedom, Paul encourages us to continually offer ourselves as living sacrifices to God (Romans 12:1-2), so that we do not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

If we fail to understand the truth of what Jesus has done for us, we will continue living as though we are still slaves to sin and self. The blood of Jesus has not only forgiven us all of our individual sins, but has also legally separated us from our servitude to sin itself. The chains to our previous enslavement are broken.

We now have a choice as to whether or not we will sin. Satan no longer has a hold on us at all, unless we fail to understand the truth of our new position in Christ. He accuses us, yes, but if we understand our standing before God and what the blood of Christ has accomplished for us, we will no longer be deceived into believing that we cannot avoid sinning or that we are worthless and unsalvageable to God. On the contrary, we not only can avoid sinning, but should avoid sinning! Only the blood of Jesus makes this possible and nothing else!

I’d like to emphasize that none of this truth regarding Christ’s blood is based on how we feel about it! It has nothing to do with our feelings. It has everything to do with the facts of the matter. Imagine a prisoner being fully paroled with no stipulations, yet continued living outside prison as though still in prison. That would be absurd, yet we Christians do this all the time because we fail to comprehend our new life in Christ.

We are forgiven fully. We now stand before God marked fully righteous. Our enslavement to sin is broken and we now have a choice in the matter. There is not one thing I can do in and of myself that will improve my standing before God because it is all based on Jesus and His shed blood for me and you and your faith in His redemptive work.

Moreover, His blood is also efficacious for my continuing sanctification. This is something that so many leaders within Christendom seem to have gotten wrong. Too often, they fall back on works to include them as part of our sanctification stating that we cannot know that we have eternal life or assurance of salvation unless we essentially work for it some way or some how persevering until the end of our lives. I’m seriously disappointed with many of those leaders who have and continue to advocate this unbiblical position (John MacArthur, John Piper, et al).

The same blood that cleanses me from all my filth and unrighteousness initially, also separates me to live the Christian life as something that glorifies God afterwards. Satan of course wants to keep me in the dark, but the more I understand that Christ’s blood separates me from my sins and my disposition toward sin in general, the more I will live a life that brings Him glory and produces joy abundantly within me.

As one author notes, “I need forgiveness for my sins, but I also need deliverance from the power of sin. The former touches my conscience, the latter my life.“[2] In other words, Christ’s blood is not only fully efficacious to forgive every sin I ever commit, but it has destroyed the chains that kept me enslaved to sin so that I now might live to God instead of myself. The blood of Jesus deals with what we have done – the sins committed – while the cross of Christ as a whole “…strikes at the root of our capacity to sin.”[3]

These truths are so high and marvelous they are difficult to fully comprehend, yet it is of the utmost importance that we begin to understand them, asking the Lord to shed the knowledge and understanding of them into our hearts so that we begin to better realize just how we are now enabled to live.

We will deal more with this soon as we begin to look at specific chapters in Romans. Without the blood of Jesus there is no forgiveness of our sin. Without the blood there is no ability to live as He has literally freed us to live!

Join me in offering heartfelt praise and adoration to the only God who did what He did, all because of His measureless love for us!

[1] https://studygrowknowblog.com/2026/09/01/my-new-and-true-identity/

[2] Watchmen Nee, The Normal Christian Life, 1957, p3

[3] Ibid, p5

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