“For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.” (Hebrews 9:19-21)

Last night at our Maundy Thursday observance, as we celebrated the Lord’s Supper while sitting around tables, we recalled how Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper by giving new meaning to some of the traditional elements of the Passover meal.

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”
Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.“ (Matthew 26:26-28)

Jesus’ words about the blood and covenant echo the words of Moses quoted in Hebrews 9, don’t they?

The linking of blood with covenant adds a new dimension that goes beyond satisfying the requirement of blood for the remission (forgiveness) of sins.

Nowhere is this is demonstrated so vividly as in the Feast of Passover.

Passover, as you know, recalls how the angel of death passed over houses where blood was applied to the doorposts.

In other words, the blood of the Passover lamb offered them protection.

Since “Christ is our Passover Lamb” (as Paul reminds us in I Corinthians 5:7), the blood of Christ also offers us protection even today.

You may be familiar with the expression: “I plead the blood of Christ over …………”

In her book The Blood and the Glory, Billye Brim tells this story.

An American evangelist identified as Brother Stevens, along with his wife, was conducting powerful evangelistic meetings in Canada. Many were coming into the Kingdom and many were being set free through the gospel of the Kingdom. They had left their children at home in Tennessee.

Brother Stevens was tormented by the devil with the thought that he was going to kill the Stevens’ children through rabid foxes in the woods adjoining their property. Immediately, Brother Stevens remembered the reports of friends who had seen foxes roaming on his land before he’d left Tennessee. He and three mature believers agreed in prayer, pleaded the blood of Christ over the children and by faith drew a blood line of protection around the Stevens’ property.

Later on, his brother reported that he found five dead foxes as he was walking around the edge of his property. He had the heads examined and found they were all rabid. The foxes had dropped dead when they tried to cross the blood line and enter the property.

The blood of Christ, applied to the fence posts of their property, not by paint but by faith, had offered protection and repelled the attack of the enemy.

Perhaps you need to apply the blood of Christ by faith on the doorposts of your heart for your own protection, over members of your family and even your property.

It is as simple as declaring: “I plead the blood of Christ over ……”

You too will discover that there is Power in the Blood.