The Blood of Jesus

While the impetus for which one can enter into the Holiest is Jesus' blood, the reason that a blood sacrifice is offered is on account of sin. “Sin is the transgression of the law” (1 John 3:4). If the transgression of the law is sin, then the one who gave the law is the one offended by the sin of the law. “Now the law not only forbids the doing of evil, whether by thought, word, or deed, but also commands the doing of good. So to omit the good commanded is sin, as well (or ill) as is the doing of evil that is forbidden... Whatever transgresses the law of God... whether it break an affirmative or a negative precept [is sin]” (Ralph Venning, 25). Since it is God's law, sin is an offense against God. Consequently, God decrees that “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins” (Hebrews 9:22). That is, God demands a penalty proportionate to the offense; however, the greatest sacrifice a man could offer, namely his life, is not sufficient because man is finite. The payment would not fit the offense. In order to fulfill God's justice, God sent Himself in the person of His Son to offer a blood sacrifice. That is, the Lord Jesus Christ sacrificed his own life as a propitiation for the sins of His people. Therefore, Jesus' life, death, burial, and resurrection accomplished a way to God, a new and living way.