Faith and Blood 101:1

Faith is the evidence of things not seen. When we act on our faith through obedience we are showing God, man, and ourselves that we have hope, and our hope comes from the life of Jesus Christ. Jesus was obedient to his faith. His faith was the substance of things hoped for which was the joy set before him. His faith was the evidence of things not seen, salvation for the world, death, to life.

Now let us look at these nine basic functions of blood and see if they relate to faith in any way. Actually, we are just going to examine the first five. I could try to come up with some Bible verses to make the last four fit in some sort of fashion but it would just be me trying to come up with some Bible verses to make things fit in some sort of fashion. God has not shown me anything for those so I am not going to make something up. Maybe God will show you.

1: Blood supplies oxygen to the organs and tissues throughout the body via the red blood cells. These blood cells known as, hemoglobin, transport the oxygen, kind of like a piggyback ride. As the blood passes through the lungs it picks up the oxygen that the body needs, binds it to the hemoglobin then carries it to all the parts of the body.

Faith has its catalyst or ”hemoglobin” at work in your spirit man. It is called, obedience. The body gets its oxygen by breathing it in. Faith gets its “oxygen” by hearing it in.

Romans 10:17
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Oxygen is attached to the hemoglobin. The word of God is attached to your obedience. From this act of obedience God’s word spreads throughout your spirit, giving it life. If there is no obedience to God’s word, then the word of God falls on the hard path and the birds eat it up. Matthew 13:19. If there is no obedience then there is no life giving power in your spirit and your faith is basically dead. Worse than that, you, your spirit man, are basically dead.

Let me give you an example. When a person dies, do to suffocation, it is because there is no oxygen being supplied by the lungs to the blood. Most people who die in a fire, die because of a lack of oxygen, not by the fire itself. Substances other then oxygen can bind themselves to the hemoglobin; in some cases this can cause irreversible damage to the body. Carbon monoxide is extremely dangerous when absorbed into the blood. When combined with the hemoglobin, it irreversibly makes carboxyhemoglobin which reduces the amount of oxygen that can be carried in the blood and can very quickly cause suffocation.

Your spirit man operates in the same way. When it is deprived of the “oxygen” of God’s word it takes on the “Carbon monoxide” of the world and it dies.

When you allow the world’s views and words to attach themselves to your obedience it becomes disobedience. Disobedience then travels throughout your spirit bringing death.

James 2:20
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Here we see that your spirit man is much like your physical man when it is in a coma. It is not dead but there is no power, no activating functions. But God is a miracle working God and he has the power to resurrect the dead.