Hebrews 9:13-14 states:  For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Had the humbling experience of preaching on this text this past Sunday.  What struck me most was the incomparable blood of Christ and what the Bible says about it.  Here are no less than 13 Blessings which come to God’s elect by way of our Savior’s blood:

1. We have the new covenant in His blood (Lk. 22:20): And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

2. We have been purchased by His blood (Acts 20:28): Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

3. He is our propitiation by His blood (Rom. 3:25): Whom God put forward as propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith…

4. We have been justified by His blood (Rom. 5:9): Since therefore we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

5. We have redemption through his blood (Eph. 1:7): In him we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace.

6. We have been brought near by His blood (Eph. 2:13): But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

7. We have peace through His blood (Col. 1:20): For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things whether on earth or in heaven making peace by the blood of his cross.

8. We have our consciences purified by His blood (Heb. 9:14): how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

9. We have been sanctified through His blood (Heb. 13:12): So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.

10. We are elect according to His blood (1Pet. 1:2): …elect…according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for the obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood.

11. We are ransomed by His blood (1Pet. 1:19): …knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, no with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ…

12. We have been cleansed from all our sins by His blood (1Jn. 1:7): But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

13. We are free from sin by His blood (Rev. 1:5): …from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood.

No wonder it is call “precious”!