How is the power of Christ's shed blood applied to us?

Les explains that the power of Christ's shed blood is not applied by drinking literal blood, as some are taught, but by faith. He points to the phrase “justified by His blood,” meaning through faith in His blood. He illustrates this with “God's chemistry”: in the physical realm, something placed in blood comes out blood red or dark brown, but in God's chemistry, when something is placed in the blood of Christ, it comes out white as new fallen snow. Being justified is a judicial act of God declaring us just as if we had never sinned—like Adam before he fell, though not in the physical sense.