Day 5

The Blood

“And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification.” 

Romans 5:16

In covenant, blood is representative of spiritual identity - the true self. 

When we take of the cup in communion, we honor and remember Christ giving us His identity. His life has become our own. 

Blood represents life. “The life of all flesh is in the blood…” Leviticus 17:11, 14. From the very beginning, the wages of sin were death, i.e. the pouring out of life, or shedding of blood (Hebrews 9:22). In the first covenant, it was the blood of continual animal sacrifices and offerings that substituted a covering for Israel’s sins. In the new and greater covenant we have in Christ, it is His own blood which provides a true covering for all sin since the beginning. “Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.” Hebrews 9:12.

Covenant is always an exchange. Jesus took our blood (John 1:14) and gave us His in return. He took our spiritual identity and gave us His own, that of a child of God. 

When we take of the communion cup, we are remembering and honoring the fact that we are one with Christ. Our position before the Father is the same. We can come before the throne of God with the confidence of the Son that He will receive us. We are accepted in the Beloved (Ephesians 1:6).

In the same way that we have confidence that the Father receives us, we have confidence in dealing with the enemy and all forms of oppression. Sin cannot dominate us any more than it could dominate Jesus (Romans 6:14 - for sin no longer has dominion over you. You are not under the law - you’re in a new covenant position - One with Christ). He conquered sin once and for all… on my behalf through covenant exchange of identity. If I am in Him positionally, I have authority over sin, I have authority over the devil, and over every power of darkness (Colossians 2:15). 

My authority over the enemy, and my position of favor and grace with God are all due to the covenant that Jesus established with God on my behalf. 

My covenant with God IN CHRIST is His sure word to me. What a promise! 

I drink the communion cup and realize that the blood of Christ, the life of Christ, the identity of Christ, the sonship of Christ, is mine. Everything He is, I am too. I am one with Him. 

“And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.”

John 17:22-23