Journal,.
Ever wondered why so much emphasis in the Bible is placed on the blood. Well, there is much more to the issue of blood than meets the eye. The Bible says that the life is in the blood. Let’s talk about it.
On the score of Science, scientists have long since discovered that a person’s lineage can be researched through DNA testing. It is well accepted in courts. DNA can be used to prove paternity. It can be used with a high degree of accuracy to determine if an individual was involved in a certain crime. The degree of accuracy is in the millions to one. 
[DNA: A nucleic acid that carries the genetic information in the cell and is capable of self-replication and synthesis of RNA. DNA consists of two long chains of nucleotides twisted into a double helix and joined by hydrogen bonds between the complementary bases adenine and thiamine or cytosine and guanine. The sequence of nucleotides determines individual hereditary characteristics.]
I realize all of this calls for questions, but for the sake of this study lets keep things as basic as possible. Included within DNA foundational studies are chromosomes. Women have xx chromosomes. Men have xy chromosomes. Only the male has the y chromosome. The male passes this chromosome to his male children. It never passes to the daughters. The y chromosome remains unchanged through the generations.
Note: Don’t confuse what we are dealing with simply with genes. A gene is a portion of a DNA molecule. Every child receives 23 genes from each parent. Each child is equally of the father and of the mother, and receives equal attributes from both parents.
With this basic information at hand we can now look at how the blood of Jesus can be called God’s blood. God was His Father. It will help us greatly to understand in a deeper way God’s work of salvation through Jesus Christ. Listen carefully to two seemingly disparate Scriptures:
“For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God. Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.” (Acts 20:27,28)
“For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well.” (Psalm 139:13,14)
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The weaving of God
Keep in mind the ‘weaving‘ language. DNA is made up of two strands woven together.
But lets first let’s look at Paul’s statement. The apostle tells the elders of Ephesus that the blood of the cross was God’s own blood. And it is here that we must take a journey.
The blood shed at the cross is called precious blood. It was both human blood and God’s blood. This is why the apostle said,
“You were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold … but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.” (1Pet1:18,19)
How then did the blood of Christ redeem us? The apostolic writer said that Christ entered into the heavenly tabernacle with His own blood. Out of this came eternal redemption. Keep in mind that Jesus is Son of God and God incarnate. And so the Son of God took our place on the cross. (Cf. Heb9:22-26)
The work of the cross was for the sins of all humanity, from Adam’s sin, to our own sins, whether they be past, present or future. In His suffering, Jesus took the place of man. At the cross was a life exchange. Jesus exchanged His life for our lives. The judgment of all sin came upon Him. Yes, the cross was a judgment. Out of His resurrection came justification of life to the whole of humanity. John said,
“He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; but not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” (1Jn2:2)
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Our spiritual DNA traces our lineage through the Son to the Father.
Because Jesus was both God and man, it was through His cross that heaven is opened for the repentant sinner, that is, the one who will confess Jesus Christ as his own Lord and Savior. Which, in turn, brings us back to the blood.
Since the blood of Jesus was and is God’s blood, and since the blood of Jesus also represents the human family, a wonderful thing happens to the repentant person. Peter said that the Holy Spirit takes of the blood of Jesus, which, again, is God’s blood, and sprinkles it upon the heart of a believer. (1Pe1:2)
What is in the sprinkled blood? The life of God. And this is what being born from above entails. Every person born of God has had his or her heart sprinkled clean by the very blood-life of God Himself. This is why we can be called ‘children of God.’ And this is also why the apostle said that we now share in the divine nature. 
Yes, we still have our humanity. But we are a redeemed race. On this planet there are two distinct kinds of people. You have the Adam race, which includes all peoples, Jew and Gentile. And you have the race of Christians, who take their name from the Christ of God. The race of Christians carry in them the very life DNA of their Father God. Both Paul and Peter allow us to understand that we share in the divine nature. (We have to be careful not to go beyond the Scriptures with this idea of divinity. We are not little gods.)
And now we come to David’s statement, where he said,
“You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well.”
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It gets more amazing.
It is here that David defines and describes DNA weaving, thousands of years before it was discovered as a chain of life. Isn’t the Bible amazing? The Bible is the only book ever written that records history before it happens.
But there is more. David was a prophet. This means that Christ often spoke directly through David. So in this wonderful Psalm we have a corporate picture of Christ being formed in the womb of the Virgin, along with what we can receive to ourselves.
Note: Please take time to meditate on Psalm 139. You will be able to see both Christ and yourself in this Psalm. Of Christ, it can be easily said the He was woven in the womb of Mary, that He was fearfully and wonderfully made, and that His soul knows it very well. While the story does differ in certain respects, yet we are told that God knew us before we were even born and that He had plans for our lives before eternity began.
With a special view to Jesus, there is a term used exclusively for Him. The term ‘monogenes‘ means unique, one of a kind, or, one and only. ‘Monogenes‘ is used seven times with regard to Jesus. The message never varies. Jesus was uniquely the only one of His kind. This is because in Him was the very life of God. He was fearfully and wonderfully made.
How then does Psalm 139 apply to the person born from above? It applies in a very unique sense. Each believer is born from above after the order of Christ. It can be said that each believer is fearfully and wonderfully made. And though Jesus is the monogenes, we are His brothers and sisters by virtue of God’s blood.
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We have eternal salvation.
One final thought — The reason our salvation is called eternal is because of the eternal sacrifice made by God Himself. The blood is eternal. Our forgiveness is eternal. We now have eternal life. Eternal life speaks of ‘without cessation.’ It also speaks of the very life of God. Eternal life speaks of a present possession.
Paul pretty much nailed it down when he said,
“If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us, how will he not also with Him freely give us all things. … For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Cf. Rom8:31-39)
The apostle John said that the one who has the Son has the life.
Well that pretty much says it. How powerful is the blood? It is God’s keeping power. For God to lose one of those who have been saved by the blood, He would have to cut off His own hand. We are in the nail prints.
Now I’ve shared some insight into the blood of Jesus that speaks to the heart of our redemption. Yet there is one more item to consider. Christians must be careful not to add to or take away from how we are saved through the blood of Jesus. Too often today we hear many forms of the gospel. You have those who preach a 7th Day Adventist gospel, a Mormon gospel, a Jehovah’s Witnesses gospel, and many other strands of gospels that add to God’s message of our completion through the blood.
Don’t be someone who carries about a strange gospel. Do not add to the blood.
Here is where I’ll let a young lady speak of the glory of the cross. She is telling all believers not to add to the gospel things that do not belong. (Thank you Sabine.)
Take time to listen to Blair Wingo…
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In Christ always,
Buddy
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