Life and Blood
Deuteronomy 12:21-30
Synopsis Deuteronomy 12:21-30 2/15/2018
Moses reminded the people of the laws concerning sacrifices as they prepared to enter the Promised Land. They were allowed to eat meat wherever they wanted. But they could only eat the meat of sacrifices at the tabernacle. And they were never permitted to consume the blood.
Moses explained that if the people followed God’s commands then they would live and prosper in the land forever.
Life and Blood
God gives life. The life is in the blood. When death to the body comes, then the life returns to the ground, to the creation, the God of creation. To want to somehow hold on to that is less than the possibility of your life.
The Blood of Christ
You’ve been grafted on, after all. And now your life isn’t an atom of blood momentarily distinct from the God of creation. Your life comes to you through the engrafting, through the life, through the spirit.
“Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me” John 6:56-57
