Why is the blood of Christ the means of eternal life?
God set Christ forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, and life is in the blood. The blood carries the significance of His death but far more the potential power for life—eternal life—through redemption in Christ Jesus, justifying freely by His grace.
Les explains that all people, Jew and Gentile, have sinned and come short of the glory of God; we are sinners because we are sons of Adam, not because of individual acts. The remedy is that we are justified freely by His grace, His unmerited favor, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. God set Christ forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood. Les reminds us that the blood was special in God's sight, going back to Genesis 9 and Leviticus 17, because life is in the blood. Through faith in the blood of Christ, there is not only the significance of His death but far more the potential power for life—eternal life. This declares His righteousness for the remission of sins, so He is just and the justifier of the one who believeth. Boasting is excluded because the Law of Faith says believe the Gospel; salvation verses show nothing 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;