This week we want to look at the Blood from a different angle. There is a great story that happens at the beginning of time as we know it recorded.
Adam and Eve had two sons. Cain and Able were the first two son’s that they had. In Gen 4, we read the story of these two men. Cain was a farmer that farmed with vegetables, while Able was a farmer of sheep. Both of them decided to bring an offering to God. Cain brought some fruit of his harvest, and Able brought some firstborn lambs to sacrifice. Not getting into too much detail, but the story says that God respected Able’s offering but not Cain’s. Cain got mad at Able, and he decides to kill his brother in secret.
God visits Cain and warns him about the sin that is waiting to trap him – Gen 4:7. Cain still goes ahead and kills his brother. God comes to revisit Cain to ask him about Abel.
Gen 4:10 And He said: “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.”
Abel’s blood had a voice. A voice that cries out for revenge. A voice that cries out for justice and punishment.
Abortion is a very unpopular topic, but the truth must speak. Millions of unborn babies’ blood are crying out for justice. Where is righteousness to defend them? Blood is spilled, and the perpetrators forget about it, but their blood still speaks, crying out for revenge. Blood has a voice that God can hear. Innocent people being killed in a genocide, children being trafficked, women violated, people are suffering from injustice because of their skin color, all their blood is crying out, and God hears them. Their blood has a voice.
Where does the blood of Jesus make a difference? We all know He suffered and died. He shed his blood for the remission of sin. His blood is the voice that answers them. Look at what scripture says.
Heb 12:24 To Jesus, the mediator of the New Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
Jesus’ blood also has a voice. As Jesus was hanging on that cross, suffering for the sins of the world, beaten and bruised for our iniquities, shedding His blood for the remission of our sins, He prayed. He gave a voice to his blood: “Father forgive them; they don’t know what they are doing.”
His blood has a voice that is crying, not for revenge but reconciliation. His blood is calling for restoration and redemption. His blood wants justice by mercy and grace, not by punishment. His blood speaks of better things.
By His blood, we have the forgiveness of all our sins. By His blood, we are reconciled back to God. When we were yet sinners, His blood justified us and saved us from the wrath of God.
Rom 5:9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
While all the injustice in the world is crying out for revenge, His blood is crying out for forgiveness.
The most powerful thing is happening. God is not ignoring the injustice; he is answering the voice of the blood of Jesus. He is not imputing our sins to us, thereby reconciling us to Himself.
2 Cor 5:18-20 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
What a wonderful truth. Jesus’ blood is more powerful and can set us free. We use to sing this song in Church:
There is victory for me; there is victory for me,
In the blood of Christ my savior, there is victory for me.
For me, yes me, for me, yes me.
In the blood of Christ my savior there is victory.
