Why is the Blood not mentioned on this website? (I’m talking about Christ’s blood)

When we talk about baptism we are thinking of the blood of Christ.  Christ’s death on the cross is what gives us the hope of everlasting life.  The blood Christ shed is part of that death.  In Matthew 26:28 Jesus talks about the fruit of the vine in what we call the Lord’s Supper, “For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”  What a lot of people miss when talking about the Blood is how we get to the Blood.    

Rom 6:3  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

The Blood of Christ saves us but you have to get to it to be saved.  When we are baptized we are baptized into his death and that is where the Blood is.  That theme is throughout the Bible.  Consider the time the children of Israel were inflicted with fiery serpents.  God told Moses to make a brass serpent for the people to look at and they would be healed.  If they didn’t look they missed out on the salvation God provided for them.  God said look to be healed and if they looked they were healed.  

Rom 6:4  Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Here is where sprinkling instead of emersion looses it. Baptism is a burial. When you are buried you go down into the dirt. The dirt is not just sprinkled on you. When we are baptized as an act of faith we are buried with Jesus into his death. 

Rom 6:5  For if we have been joined together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection;

Rom 6:6  knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.

Christ shed his blood on the cross to save us but the idea that we can have that salvation without obedience to God is crazy. How do we obey him?  We are baptized into his death.  Why?  To be raised in the likeness of his resurrection. 

Rom 6:7  For he who died has been justified from sin.

It is this process of sharing in the Blood of Christ that justifies us from Sin, or in other words, that saves us.

Rom 6:8  But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

Rom 6:9  knowing that when Christ was raised from the dead, He dies no more; death no longer has dominion over Him.  

So if we are baptized into Christ we do it because we believe that we will live with Jesus forever.  We are not obsessed with baptism, we want to get to the Blood and the way to the Blood is through obedience to God.  Through the Bible he told us to hear what he is saying.  Too often we look at the scriptures to justify what we want to believe instead of listening to the scriptures telling you what God wants.  Once we hear we have to have a believing faith.  That is more than recognition that Jesus is the Son of God, the devil does that, but it is a life-changing event that motivates us to a Christian life.  Next God tells us to Repent which means more than not sinning in the future but going back and making right the sins of the past.  After that comes confession.  This is not a secret religion and the foundation Peter gave to Jesus was the confession that Jesus was the Son of God.  And finally, the completion of our faith in the manner of Abraham that he was willing to do anything God asked of him without question and in the way of Noah in that his obedience saved him and seven others by water.  God said to be baptized into Christ’s death and he expects us to obey if we want to be saved.  Disobey God and how can you expect salvation through the Blood of Christ.

 Obey God through baptism and all the blessings of God come with it.  When we are baptized we enter the Body of Christ that we call the Church.  The Church is the Kingdom of Christ and we enter it now, not at the judgment but here and now.  And this is not a dull and boring existence, it is the abundant life that Jesus promised.  Things that seemed so important before loose their meaning when we realize how unimportant the cares of this life are when we will be with Jesus for eternity.  Such a simple plan of salvation for eternal life and yet so few people that are willing to put aside the way they want to worship to look for the way God wants to be worshiped.