The Power of the BloodExemple

The Blood: Our Climate Control System The blood flowing through your body warms your system to a temperature of around 98.6 degrees. The blood of Jesus also prevents our spiritual temperatures from growing cold. Matthew 24:12 speaks of coldness in a person’s life: “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.” But in Romans 12:11, the Apostle Paul admonished us: “Never flag in zeal, be aglow with the Spirit, serve the Lord” (RSV). In a sense, Jesus’ blood is your spiritual “climate control.” How can you stay “on fire” for God in this sinful, cold world? Stay energized with the blood of Jesus! His shed blood provides you with spiritual fuel. Recognition of all that the blood has accomplished will warm up your relationship with God—it will raise your spiritual temperature! After denying Jesus, Peter followed the Lord “at a distance” (Mark 14:54). What separated Peter from the Lord? Peter had become spiritually cool because of fear. That fear drove him to warm his hands by an enemy’s fire. Peter’s spiritual temperature plummeted—that created a distance between himself and God. Sometimes we see Christians backslide—usually due to unconfessed sin that cools their spiritual temperatures. How heartbreaking! Especially when Ephesians 2:13 tells us that Jesus’ blood brings us near to God. The blood was shed by Jesus to bind our hearts and wills to our Maker. In Revelation 3:16, God warned, “…Because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.” God wants us to be hot! He has provided us with the shed blood of His Son to keep our spiritual temperatures turned up to “high.”