WHAT CAN WASH AWAY MY SIN?
… Nothing but the Blood of Jesus

• How is the Blood of Christ connected to our Salvation?

.. To our Justification?

JUSTIFICATION

• “Justification” being the legal and formal acquittal from guilt by God as Judge, The pronouncement of the sinner as righteous…”

• Strong’s defines this word as an “acquittal

(for Christ’s sake).. “to render (i.e. show or regard as ) innocent.”

Romans 4:25

“He was delivered over to death for our

sins and was raised to life for our

justification.”

Romans 5:16

“Again, the gift of God is not like the

result of the one man's sin: The judgment

followed one sin and brought

condemnation, but the gift followed many

trespasses and brought justification”

Romans 5:18

“Consequently, just as the result of one

trespass was condemnation for all men,

so also the result of one act of

righteousness was justification that

brings life for all men.”

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

• How am I justified before God?

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

• At what point am I counted as justified before God?

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

• Can I know for sure that I am Justified?

Romans 5:1-2

“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God”

“JUSTIFIED BY FAITH”

• Faith in the Sacrifice of Christ

Romans 5:6-8

“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Romans 5:17

“For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.”

“JUSTIFIED BY FAITH”

• Faith in the Sacrifice of Christ

John1:29

“The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”

Matthew 26:28

“This is my blood of the covenant, which
is poured out for many for the
forgiveness of sins.”

Acts 20:28

“Keep watch over yourselves and all the
flock of which the Holy Spirit has made
you overseers. Be shepherds of the
church of God, which he bought with his
own blood.

Romans 3:25

“God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—”

Romans 5:9


“Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him!”

Ephesians 1:7


“In him we have redemption through his
blood, the forgiveness of sins, in
accordance with the riches of God's
grace…”

Ephesians 2:13

“But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.”

Colossians 1:19-22


“For God was pleased to have all his
fullness dwell in him, and through him to
reconcile to himself all things, whether
things on earth or things in heaven, by
making peace through his blood, shed
on the cross.”

1 Peter 1:18-19

“For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.”

Revelation 1:5


“…and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood…”

• “ But whereas the essential of the type lay in the fact that blood was shed, the essential of the antitype lies in this, that the blood shed was that of Christ. Hence, in connection with Jewish sacrifices, ‘the blood’ is mentioned without reference to the victim from which it flowed, but in connection with the great antitypical sacrifice of the New Testament the words, ‘the blood’ never stand alone; the One Who shed the blood is invariably SPECIFIED, FOR IT IS THE Person that gives value to the work; the saving efficacy of the Death depends entirely upon the fact that He Who died was the Son of God.”

• (from Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words)

“JUSTIFIED BY FAITH”

• Faith in the Sacrifice of Christ

• Power of the Blood of Christ

• Our Atoning Sacrifice

For Sins

Romans 3:20-26

“Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.

But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.”

Cont.

“God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished-- he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.”

• “In the Old Testament the Mercy Seat in the Holy of Holies could be made a place of propitiation (atonement) by sacrifice (Hebrew 9:5). Now however, the blood-sprinkled body of Christ on the cross has become the Mercy Seat of sinners once and for all. The Mercy Seat is thus a continual throne of grace. What otherwise would be an awful judgment throne becomes an altar of infinite mercy.”

• -Merrill Unger

Romans 6:4

“We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.”

Have you been baptized into the death of Jesus?