The Free Gift Of Blood

Having chosen Moses as the person who will serve Him, in bringing His people out of the bondage of slavery in Egypt, God speaks to Moses. It is in these words that God has once again revealed His great and undying love, care, compassion and concern for His children. God shows His tender, loving kindness as Father. The LORD said, I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey – the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. Exodus 3: 7 – 8.

By faith, we believe and know that Father God also saw our wretched position and condition as perfect slaves to sin and wanted to save us, because of His undeniably deep love and concern for us. Through Jesus and in Jesus, we are removed from our wretched lives to abundant living in Him.

God sent Moses, not just to save His people from the bondage of slavery in Egypt, but to bring them up out of that land into a better place, a good and spacious land with milk and honey. Indeed, it is a place with more abundant living.  God sent Jesus, not just to save us, His people, from the bondage of sin in this earth, but to bring us up out of such living, to know abundant living in Him. Jesus has said it clearly. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10: 10 KJV. Indeed, Jesus is our perfect place. It was all God’s mind, move and mission, to save us and give us a better life, free from the bondage of sin; life in all its fullness.

Do we understand and believe that it was and still is Father God who wants salvation for us? Do we know that the same mind of God the Father, was and still is in God the Son and God the Holy Spirit? Have we ever really listened to Jesus, in His prayer to the Father, when He speaks these most hopeful, comforting and regenerative words? I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that the Scripture would be fulfilled. John 17:  11 - 12.

Have you heard Jesus? He has asked the Father to watch over His own, to protect them in this world of sin and darkness, because none of His own must be lost, except the one doomed to destruction.

How can we, as disciples of Jesus, not rejoice with hope and gladness, assurance and thanksgiving that our Saviour wants not one of us to be lost? It is in this revived and hopeful state that we move on to the Blood and what it does.

As previously stated, we now traverse the Word of God in order to receive deeper and fuller insights into the purpose of the Blood of Jesus. From this text, Exodus 12: 13, we glean three vital points about the blood. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destruction will touch you when I strike Egypt.

• The blood is a sign for all who are being saved, all who have remained in the blood-marked house in the land of Egypt. 

• The blood is the sight which God looks for on the houses in the land of Egypt.

• The blood is the surety of salvation from any destruction, in the land of Egypt. 

Can we appropriate the same for us also? Can we honestly proclaim these facts for us and the Blood of Jesus? 

Perhaps, when you and I are shown some relevant Scripture texts, our responses will be without wavering, uncertainty or procrastination.