But What About Sin?
As Christ dies on The Cross, the privilege of Paradise is granted to a thief. A question immediately rises in our natural mind, “what about sin?”
The answer is in the Blood dripping from the body of the man hanging next to him. That Blood was sinless, unlike his own. Shed for him, the thief would be justified forever and become just as if he never sinned, making Paradise his home. All he had to do was believe in the life that was in the blood of the Christ(Lev.17:11). That life was like no other. It was divinely validated by literal resurrection from the dead. When the thief said, “Lord remember me when you come into your kingdom” (Lk.22:42), he released faith in Christ’s divine life and Resurrection. It was that faith that Christ responded to saying, “today you shall be with me in paradise.”
Thief had no other credentials for heaven. He wasn’t baptized, wasn’t a church member, he wasn’t even a good jew. He didn’t say the sinners prayer, didn’t tithe, for all we know he may have scorned Christ up until that moment of petition.
Christ’s Blood is unique. Born of a virgin, conceived of the Holy Ghost, it isn’t just human blood. You could say His Blood carried the DNA of God. This is why it’s called “precious Blood.” Because of the oceans of human blood that have flowed through the veins of mankind throughout all of history, the only divine blood flowed through The Body of Jesus.
As Jesus bled for us on The Cross, that Blood was offered as a transfer of righteousness to anyone imbibing it through faith. The thief on the cross experienced a transfusion of divine DNA. We have the righteousness of Christ, Phil.3:9.
The Resurrection is what validates The Blood. It alone proves Christ to be The Son of God and His Blood, therefore, to be The Blood of God. The thief made the virtue of Christ’s divine blood his own by believing in the Resurrection. It alone makes salvation possible.
The Blood of Christ is always the answer to the question, “what about sin?” It’s the only answer.