THE BLOOD IS PRIMARILY FOR GOD The Blood is for atonement and has to do first with our standing before God. We need forgiveness for the sins we have committed, lest we come under judgment; and they are forgiven, not because God overlooks what we have done but because he sees the Blood. The blood is therefore not primarily for us but for God. ……..page 17 GOD IS SATISFIED It is God’s holiness, God’s righteousness which demands that a sinless life should be given for man. There is life in the Blood, and that Blood has to be poured out for me, for my sins. God is the One who requires it to be so. God is the One who demands that the Blood be presented, in order to satisfy his own righteousness, and it is he who says: “When I see the blood, I will pass over you”. The blood of Christ wholly satisfies God…….page 19 THE BELIEVER’S ACCESS TO GOD The Blood has satisfied God; it must satisfy us also. It has therefore a second value that is man-ward, in the cleansing of our conscience. When we come to the Epistle to the Hebrews we find that the Blood does this. We are to have “hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience” (Heb. 10:22) This is the most important. Look carefully at what it says. The writer does not tell us that the Blood of the Lord Jesus cleanses our hearts, and then stop there in his statement. We are wrong to connect the heart with the Blood in quite that way. It may show a misunderstanding of the sphere in which the Blood operates to pray, “Lord, cleanse my heart from sin by the Blood”. The heart, God says is “desperately sick” (Jer.17:9) and he must do something more fundamental then cleanse it: he must give us a new one….. page 20, 21 So far in chapter one he is explaining to the people that when God looks at us when we come to Him Boldly, then all he sees is the Blood because that is His requirement. Very profound! Basic stuff, but good reading…… I would encourage reading it! | 
