How To Be Washed in the Blood

Here Rajk999 says something somewhat like what I have written and re-written on this Forum for years.

Jesus also washes people clean by his sacrifice. Its a two part process.

" For if we being enemies, were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more we will be saved in His life, having been reconciled." (Rom. 5:10)

Concerning Romans 5:10 above.

Notice it is not being saved in our self effort or in our self improvement or self striving to turn over a new leaf and better ourselves. it is to be saved in the realm of Christ's life dispensed into those reconciled.

" ... much more we will be saved in His life ..."

" Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision.

For we are the circumcision, the ones who serve by the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh." (Phil. 3:3)

Coming back to the OP of how to be washed in the blood.

it is not too hard. It is to BELIEVE in the redemption of Christ.
Believe in the power of the blood of Jesus to cleanse away your sins.

The HOW TO is really to believe and stand upon with praise and thanksgiving. Do so and do so often.

Of the top of my head I recall a couple of reactions to this thread.

ThinkOfOne - as usual wants to say there is no such thing as redemption through the blood of Christ in the Bible.
That is obviously wrong.

Divegeester - Being a cautious (don't go too far Unitarian) says in essence - ie. Don't go so extreme. WASHED?? Just "sprinkled" is biblical.

This objection is not as serious as the first one.
I'll take sprinkled and even more washed.

Then there's Rajk999. He thinks trusting in the blood to redeem us is a copout to not doing your religious duty to self improve.

To Rajk999 all trust in Christ's work and in Christ's life is shirking one's religious duty, "mouth worship", and loving to still live in sin.
You couldn't dislodge him from this prejudice with a crowbar. He's stuck there, maybe for the rest of his life.

The HOW TO be WASHED (OK sprinkled or purged or freed or released or cleansed too) is to believe and stand upon the facts stated in the Bible.

Stand on it in the face of Satan's accusations.
And stand upon it often. We believers never outgrow the need to stand upon Christ's redemption no matter how "improved" you think you have become.

"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 every sin." (1 John 1:7)

"Knowing that it was not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, that you were redeemed from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers,

But with precious blood, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot, the blood of Christ." ( 1 Peter 1:18,19)

Originally posted by @rajk999
Some great references there.

Originally posted by @thinkofone
What are also of importance are the parallels between Jeremiah 31 and Ezekiel 18

Jeremiah 31
29 [b]“In those days they will not say again,
‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
30“But everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be ...[text shortened]... re under the blood of Jesus" when in fact it has nothing to do with being "washed in the blood".

Originally posted by @sonship
How would you go about proving that the dealing of sins in those passages is related to [b]eternal destinies?

David sinned in stealing a man's wife and arranging to have him murdered. David was forgiven by God.

However, David did not escape some amount of "recompense" in the difficulties of his consequences for his sin. He was sorely discipline ...[text shortened]... es no necessarily mean escape from all discipline resulting from the consequences of one's sins.[/b]

Originally posted by @thinkofone
[b]Eternal redemption does not tie God's hands so that there could be no "recompense" in kind for errors committed.

Redemption from eternal condemnation does no necessarily mean escape from all discipline resulting from the consequences of one's sins.

Evidently God sees things differently:

Ezekiel 18
21 "But if the wicked man turns from a ...[text shortened]... e remembered against him[/b]; because of his righteousness which he has practiced, he will live.[/b]

There will be a great deal of piety in ThinkOfOne's explanations. One should not forget that underneath all his expositions is Atheism.

No matter to what degree he engages in theological talk, with theological terms, theological expressions and concepts and principles, underneath all this talk there is no Theos.

Ie. " I am going to explain to you all how God works, how God thinks, God's ways, and what God said and even how God forgives." That is his public posture.

Behind all of that is his secretive commitment.
"Only man exists. There is no God."

Originally posted by @sonship
My question to you was how would you prove that to be related to eternal destinies?

You haven't demonstrated that yet.
And I am not saying that you can't. But I am asking you to demonstrate how you would.

if you know you can't then just say so.

Originally posted by @thinkofone
C'mon jaywill.

What "discipline resulting from the consequences of one's sins" could there possibly be for an individual when " “All his transgressions which he has committed will not be remembered against him"?

Originally posted by @romans1009
The discipline can and does take place on earth.

“And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with ...[text shortened]... he peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.”

(Hebrews 12:5-11)

Originally posted by @thinkofone
You don't seem to understand the context of the question.

The question was rhetorical, but I'll rephrase since it seems to have gone over your head:
How can there be "discipline resulting from the consequences of one's sins" when " “All his transgressions which he has committed will not be remembered against him"?

Originally posted by @romans1009
I believe the second part is referring to eternity. The Bible is clear that the Lord will discipline His children while they are on earth. It’s part of the process of sanctification and the testing of one’s faith.

Originally posted by @thinkofone
C'mon jaywill.

What "discipline resulting from the consequences of one's sins" could there possibly be for an individual when " “All his transgressions which he has committed will not be remembered against him"?