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Blood, thus, not only equals atonement but also salvation, for the Lord has given His life as God’s perfect payment for sin and as His sacrificial gift so that believers can receive an eternal life with the Father. This shed blood actually symbolizes believers’ new life and their Positional Sanctification or Justification, their new standing in God, which ironically only could be achieved after the Lord has issued forth His blood. In fact, since blood always has been a sign of life, then the Lord’s blood flowing out of His side, landing on those standing beneath His Cross, really doesn’t suggest His death. On the contrary, the Apostle John’s recounting of the blood and water that flowed from Jesus the Christ’s side is to show Bible readers that from the Old Testament to the New Testament, God has given blood and water various meanings, some of which might seem obscure.

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These above-cited verses support the belief that it is necessary for the people who have a problem grasping the full importance of the water that is shed from the Cross to realize that the apostle’s recording of this historical fact in John 19:34-that both blood and water flow from the Lord’s side-is not just to show that blood and water are connected to the Lord’s death. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. In fact, even the symbolic language found in the book of Revelation identifies Jesus the Christ as being the source of the Living Water that both the Old Testament prophets and the New Testament apostles’ eschatological imagery point to, for the Apostle John writes in Revelation:Īnd he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. Moreover, the Old Testament prophets’ eschatological imagery or prophecy of Living Water also ALWAYS points to Jesus the Christ as being the source of this Living Water. Isaiah 43:19, 44:3 Zechariah 14:8, Ezekiel 47:1-11).įor sure, every time the Old Testament prophets speak about the Living Water, or rivers of water, or fountains of water, they eschatologically are associating this water with the Holy Spirit. Unfortunately, the problem most people have with this streaming water results from individuals’ failure to understand that the eschatological imagery or prophecy that Jesus the Christ refers to in “ He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” ( John 7:38, KJV) is the fulfillment of this Old Testament Scripture: “ Therefore with joy shall ye draw out of the wells of salvation” ( Isaiah 12:3, KJV cf. This Christ-released power of the Holy Spirit also is that which gradually transforms born again and saved believers so that they eventually can receive new glorified bodies.Ĭoncerning the POWER that Jesus the Christ releases after He is pierced in His side, there are many people who do not have any problem understanding the importance of the Lord’s shed blood yet, they often cannot grasp the significance of the sudden flow of water that the Apostle John also says came out of Jesus the Christ’s pierced side.

Furthermore, on Calvary, after the Lord is pierced in His side, He also releases His Living Water or the power of the Holy Spirit, which supernaturally regenerates spiritually dead humans by giving new life to those who believe that Jesus the Christ is God in the flesh. Ironically, it is His Cleansing Blood that removes sins’ stains while simultaneously creating believers ’ stainless (purified or sanitized) clothing-believers are clothed in the Lord’s righteousness. Certainly, there definitely is POWER in the pain our Lord experiences on Calvary, for it is only after He is beaten, flogged, spat on, nailed to the Cross, and then pierced in His side that Jesus the Christ is allowed to release the power of His Cleansing Blood into the lives of the people who believe that He is God in the flesh.

In this eyewitness account, “But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water” ( John 19:34, KJV), the Apostle John is describing for us POWER in pain.