New Covenant of Love in His Blood (Lent 39, 2024)

On the church calendar, today is Good Friday and our eyes turn to the Cross.  The Crucifixion is the clearest display of God’s love toward us.  God couldn’t just let hell win and claim the souls of men without offering mankind a way out … but He had to do it while still maintaining both His justice and His holiness.

God does not love us because of the blood of Christ.  He has loved us from eternity past. Rather, the blood of Christ is God’s love to us and every reason for us to love Him in return.  He sacrificed everything to save our souls and give us a home with Him in heaven.

Jesus said, “It is finished.”
With that, He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
(John 19:30) 

It’s a new covenant in His blood. So why is the blood so rarely pictured?

Exercise:  On social media, they often blur out items of sensitive viewing, death, blood, violence, etc.  The movie “Passion of the Christ” attempted to depict, to some degree, the gruesome violence of the Crucifixion.  Ponder why you think most artistic renditions of the Crucifixion involve only a little blood when that was the imperative payment for sin.