His Blood Was Poured Out As Liquid Love So That We Love!
O negative blood cells are called "universal" meaning they can be transfused to almost any patient in need. Individuals with O negative blood can only receive O negative blood in an emergency situation.
Being the universal blood, O negative blood is usually the blood that they carry on medical helicopters so that they don't have to think before giving blood in a life or death situation. O negative blood is also the safest type to administer to newborn infants with under developed immune systems.
Needless to say, O negative blood is a liquid offering to some who are in jeopardy of losing their lives.
Jesus Christ's self sacrificing liquid offering was poured out as a sacrifice so that ALL MANKIND would LIVE and not die.
Leviticus foreshadows the importance of Christ's blood in the sacrifice for sins.
Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.
Christ's life was in His blood. A perfect life. A life that could atone for ALL SIN because Jesus perfectly did the will of the Father. Through Him self donating His body in the way that He did, He was and is the personification of LOVE.
An important part of the daily sacrifices performed by the people of Israel included a drink offering.
Numbers 28:7
Its drink offering shall be a quarter him for each lamb. In the Holy Place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD.
Hebrews 10:14
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
Hebrews 10:18-22
Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Jesus is THE UNIVERSAL DONOR! Because of His perfect sacrifice and the pouring out of His blood we have access to a new and living way, He rescued us from sheer death and opened for us a way into the Holy Place, into direct communion and fellowship with the Father.
What should be our response for such a manifestation of pure Love through the shedding of His pure blood?
Hebrews 10 continues...
Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir one another to love and good works, not neglecting meeting together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
There is a purpose behind our being purified by His blood. Sharing in a life of love and service with God's people. Meeting together regularly to encourage and uplift one another. His blood gives us life not so that we live as individuals but as the body of Christ!
1 John 3:16
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Our response to His great sacrifice should include gratitude as well as LOVE for one another! If we do not love one another, how will people know that we are Christians?
In John 13:35, Jesus tells us;
"A new commandment I give to you,
that you also are to LOVE one another.
By THIS all people will know that you are my disciples,
if you have love for one another."
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