Blood Sermon Ideas
Blood is liquid life, and the Bible drips with it—from the blood of Abel "crying out" from the stained earthly soil of Genesis 4:10 to the heavenly rider wearing a "robe dipped in blood" while leading the celestial army in Revelation 19:13. As blood is intimately connected with life itself (Deuteronomy 12:23), and God is the author of life (Acts 3:15), God is the owner of blood. That insight grounds the Bible's prohibitions against murder (Genesis 9:6) and against the eating of "flesh with its life, that is, its blood" (Genesis 9:4; cf. Acts 21:25).
What does the Bible say about blood?
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See also Atonement
Of sacrifice and covenants
Our sermons can explore how the connections of life with blood and death with the shedding of blood explain the atoning function of the sacrificial system. As the wages of sin is death, blood becomes redemption's natural currency: forgiveness comes through the shedding of blood (Hebrews 9:22). Hence, blood has the sacred weight to seal covenants and must be sacrificially splattered, smeared, sprinkled, and poured throughout the book of Leviticus.
- Genesis 9:4, don't eat flesh with its blood (cf. Acts 21:25)
- Genesis 9:6, don't murder, because we are made in God's image
- Exodus 24:8, Moses and the blood of the covenant
- Leviticus 1, instructions for the burnt offering
- Matthew 26:28, the blood of the covenant in the Lord's Supper
- Acts 3:15, God is the author of life
- Romans 6:23, the wages of sin is death
- Hebrews 9:22, blood purifies
Peace through Jesus's blood
In the New Testament, the sacramental, covenantal, and sacrificial meanings of blood converge in the life of God flowing through the veins of the Messiah. Through the blood of the cross, God reconciled all things, whether on earth or in heaven.