What is the potential power of faith in the blood of Christ?
Faith in the blood of Christ carries the potential power of life, specifically eternal life. The blood signifies His death, but more importantly it conveys life, because life is in the blood. Through faith in His blood, believers receive redemption, justification freely by grace, and the remission of sins.
Les explains that all people are lawbreakers and sinners by nature, sons of Adam, and that we sin because we are sinners, not because we sin. The remedy is that we are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. God set forth Christ to be a propitiation through faith in His blood. The blood was special in God's sight because life is in the blood. So through faith in the blood of Christ, there is the significance of His death, but far more the potential power for life, eternal life. This declares His righteousness for the remission of sins, and He remains just while justifying the one who believeth. Boasting is excluded because the Law of Faith says, believe the Gospel; salvation verses do not speak of what we can do, except believe.
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Why can't you separate the shedding of Christ's blood from faith in it?
Scripture joins Christ's blood and faith as two inseparable elements of propitiation. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission, and without faith there is no salvation; both must be brought together. Faith is taking God at His Word, so the blood's provision is received only by believing what God has said.
What does the blood of Christ accomplish beyond paying for sin?
Christ’s blood accomplishes propitiation through faith, redemption or buying back, and free justification by God’s grace. Beyond paying for sin, it carries the potential power of life itself—eternal life—because life is in the blood. It also declares God’s righteousness, showing Him just and the justifier of the one who believes.
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Why do we place faith in Jesus' blood?
Faith in Christ's blood is for the remission of past sins and, through God's forbearance, to declare His righteousness at this time.