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How Do We Reach The Blood Of Jesus?

The Scriptures clearly teach that Jesus, our Savior, shed His blood on the cross in order that we, through obedience to His Word, may have hope of eternal life.

In the Old Law, the pascal lamb was the type of Christ and His offering for salvation. The blood of this lamb protected those in the house in which it was applied. The paschal lamb was sacrificed for them (Exod. 12:7). Christ, giving His life, in shedding His blood for us, became our paschal lamb "...Christ our passover is sacrificed for us" (I Cor. 5:7).

The blood of the pascal lamb had to be applied to the house wherein the children of Israel dwelled, and so, the blood of Christ must be applied to the house wherein is salvation. "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood" (Acts 20:28).

Christ gave His life for His church, He purchased it with His blood, the church is His body, He is the head of His church (Col. 1:18), and He has only ONE body, or church (Matt. 16:18; Eph. 4:4). To become a member of His body (church), we must come in contact with His shed blood. The apostle Paul tells us how we come in contact, or reach the blood of Jesus: "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life" (Rom. 6:3-4).

Christ's blood was shed in His death, He was buried, and when we are baptized in Christ, we are baptized into His death where we come in contact, or reach His blood which cleanses us, or washes away our sins (Acts 22:16). From this grave of water we are raised in newness of life: "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new" (II Cor. 5:17).

By faith in God's Word, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved…” (Mark 16:16), we are baptized. Our faith is not in baptism; nor in the water, but in God, who, since He raised up Jesus, will also raise us up to walk in newness of life. Only after baptism does the blood of Christ continue to cleanse us, "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin" (I John 1:7).

Obeying His command to:  “…Repent, and be baptized…in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins..." (Acts 2:38), we become a child of God: "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ" (Gal. 3:26-27). We are then added by the Lord to His church (Acts 2:47).