The apostle Peter wrote the following to Christians to encourage them as they were faced with persecution and suffering.
1 Peter 1:18-19
For you know that God paid a ransom to save from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver. It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless lamb of God.

In the natural, we think of silver and gold as being incorruptible, and we know blood is corruptible. But, Peter said silver and gold are corruptible, and he said the blood of Christ is incorruptible. Does this mean that the blood that was in the body of Jesus was not corruptible? If one had the literal blood of Jesus in a container, he would not be any better off as far as his being saved from his sins is concerned. How then is the blood of Christ incorruptible? How are we redeemed by It?

SIGNIFICANCE OF BLOOD IN THE BIBLE
Under the law of Moses, God forbade the eating of blood. He gave as the reason: For the life of the flesh is in its blood. I have given you the blood on the altar to purify you, making you right with the Lord.(Lev 17:11). The life of every creature is in its blood. That is why I have said to the people of Israel,'You must never eat or drink blood, for the life of any creature is in its blood.'So whoever consumes blood will be cur off from the community. (LEV 17:14)

The Bible not only stresses that physical life is in blood, it also teaches that spiritual life is signified by blood. In Ezekiel 3:16-19: Prophet Ezekiel was called to be a watchman, a familar image for OT prophets. The watchman was a lookout for the community. He was responsible for providing advance warning of approaching the enemies so that the people could take refuge in time. In this case, the enemy they had to fear was not a human invader but God. As difficult is task was, the blood of those he failed to warn would be on his head if he remained silent.This means that if Ezekiel failed to warn a wicked man, God held Ezekiel responsible for the man's being lost or dying in his iniquity. Ezekiel was responsible for the man's spiritual life, and in the text the blood of the wicked man stood for his spiritual life.

When Judas took the thirty pieces of silver back to those who gave them to him for betraying Jesus, he said, "I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood" (Matthew 27:4). This means that Judas realized he had betrayed a man whose life was pure and sinless. "Innocent blood" means innocent life.

"When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but rather a tumult was made, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude saying, 'I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.' Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us and on our children" (Mat. 27:24-25). Pilate was trying to escape the responsibility of causing Jesus to lose his life, so he said he was innocent of the blood of Jesus. He was saying he was innocent of the blood of Jesus. He was saying he was responsible for the taking of the life of Jesus. The crowd responded to Pilate and said they would take the responsibility for taking the life of Jesus, or they were willing to have his blood on them and their children.

Later the Jews did not like it because they sensed that the apostles intended to bring the blood of Jesus upon them (Acts 5:28). The apostles were also trying to bring the blood of Jesus upon those Jews, to have it applied to them in a spiritual sense so they could be saved from their sins.

WHY CAN JESUS' BLOOD SAVE ALL?

Just how precious is the blood of Christ? Why is it that his precious blood can save all sinners? As the song says, "There is power in the blood." How can there be so much power in the blood of Jesus? "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace" (Ephesians 1:7). The reason the blood of Jesus is so powerful and can save all people from their sins is because his life was so much greater than ours. He did not sin! (1 Pet. 2:22-25).

Apostle Paul stresses that he refers to the personal holiness and sinlessness of Jesus, or as he says "I say at this time his righteousness." This is the reason we can have faith in his blood. We can have faith in the blood of Jesus because his life was perfect. The only reason the death of Jesus is significant is because of the perfect life he lived. His blood stands for his life. This is the sense in which his blood is incorruptible.

OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BLOOD OF JESUS

How do we relate with the blood of Jesus?

1. By accepting the convenant and testament of Jesus Christ.
This convenant is God's unilateral commitment to establish salvation for mankind, fulfilling the promise to Abraham. This is the shedding of the blood of Jesus Christ as a sacrifice for sin.

2. Partaking in the Lord's supper.
Matthew 26:28, Jesus confirmed that when we drink the wine which signifies his blood, the power of the confirmation of the convenant between God and Mankind is manifested on our souls.

3. Worshiping God in the Church.
Acts 20:28 states that the church was purchased by the blood of Christ. One cannot be saved out of that which was purchased by the blood of Christ. For Christ loved the Church and gave up his life for the Church(Eph 5:25). In the New Testament "the church" means "the saved." One can no more be saved out of that church than he can be saved out of the saved. Instead of looking for a church that suits him, one should look in the New Testament and see what church the Lord wants him to be in. That is why a christian should apply Eph 1:17 by asking God to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in the knowledge of God and undestanding the confident hope he has given to those he called 'his holy people' who are his rich and glorious inheritance.


4. Get baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
One acquires what Jesus made available on Calvary's cross when he believes in him and trusts him by repenting of his sins, and confessing him as the Son of God, and by being baptized into him for the remission of his sins. Baptism is for the remission of sins in the sense that when one is baptized by the authority of Jesus, or in his name, he is baptized into Christ and into his death, and thus acquires what the Lord made available when he shed his blood (Rom. 6:3). Being baptized one gets into the spiritual relationship called in the New Testament "in Christ," or in the church, where the blood of Christ saves.

God bless