Issuing In Blood And Water
ISSUING IN BLOOD AND WATER
John 19:34 says, "But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water." Two substances came out of the Lord's pierced side: blood and water. Blood is for redemption, dealing with sins (John 1:29; Heb. 9:22) for the purchase of the church (Acts 20:28), and water is for imparting life, dealing with death (John 12:24; 3:14-15) for the producing of the church (Eph. 5:29-31). On the negative side, the Lord's death takes away our sins; on the positive side, it imparts life into us. Hence, it has two aspects: the redemptive aspect and the life-imparting aspect. The redemptive aspect is for the life-imparting aspect. The rec ord of the three other Gospels is only for the re demptive aspect of the Lord's death, but John's record is not only for the redemptive aspect but also for the life-imparting aspect. In Matthew 27:45, 51; Mark 15:33; and Luke 23:44-45, "dark ness," as a symbol of sin, appeared, and "the veil of the temple," which separated man from God, "was rent." Those were signs related to the Lord's redemptive death. Furthermore, the words spo ken by the Lord on the cross in Luke 23:34, "Father, forgive them," and in Matthew 27:46,