Sin is in your blood, and one or the other is controlling the pattern of your life. In fact, your blood is the source of all of life for your flesh. Your blood is the life of your body. The moment your blood is drained from your body, the body becomes nothing but a lifeless shell. It is over for the body, and in the grave it goes. We must learn the truth of our blood and how all life is effected by the blood. Note what Moses wrote by the Holy Spirit, "For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel(Jews not Gentiles), Ye(Children of Israel) shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off." (Leviticus 17:11,14). "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye(Children of Israel) not eat." (Genesis 9:4).

All living flesh has life, and life is in the blood and this fact settles the truth that all of redemption is also by the blood, just not our blood. The only atonement is divine blood, or sinless blood. As quoted above, the Father said by His Spirit, "I have given it (blood) to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls." The only effect that human programs of improvement have on people is cosmetic and short-lived. Whether it is humanistic psychology or the Worldly Chruchism, or Denominationalism, these programs are totally helpless to change the sin nature that is in our flesh. Only the sinless blood of Jesus Christ can and will regenerate the soul of sinful man.

Until one trusts in the blood payment of Jesus Christ, which frees a man or a woman, they will be shackled by the sin that is in their flesh, and in their blood, and the pulled down. Yes, many people have reformed and redirected patterns of life. A large number of self-help programs and preachers have aided many in learning how to cope and manage their life a little better. However, b ecause of the sin that is still present in their blood, most of these people continue to revert back and forth. They are helpless to effect a lasting change and not go back.

Sin Is In The Blood

This obvious fact seems to have escaped most Bible Believers today. Sin is not just a free act or an individual expression that has no bearing on the one's own life. Your life stream is your blood and every emotion is clearly a reflection of that life stream. This is why sin is so destructive and impacting. Our Apostle Paul nailed sin and its effect as strong as any Bible writer in the entire Bible. Listen carefully! "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" (Romans 7:14-15,17-21,23-24).

This stream of sin that the Apostle Paul identified was locked also in his fleshly very nature. His flesh was wretched and miserable. His blood was contaminated and there was no answer until he identified the "law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus." (Romans 8:2). It is exciting to look at chapter seven where man is a captive and wretched and then move to chapter eight where he is "quickened by the same Spirit that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead." It is very clear that this corruption was in man's nature and flooded his entire life stream. His blood was contaminated by sin. Sin was in the man's blood and there was no physical or man made  escape. But, the sin offering of the Son of God was uncontaminated, sinless, and perfect blood that can be applied to man's sinful condition . When this occurs, there is a cleansing; sanctification, and a justification, and the creature becomes a "new creation." The nature is still there, that is in the flesh, but its power has been broken and the creature is "quickened" by His Spirit that dwelleth in the believing soul.

Look at the Holy Spirit's words, "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." (Romans 8:2,4,6,9,11).

The Spirit of the living God is ready once you trust the finished Cross Work of Christ to break every ounce of the destruction that operates in your life. The sin nature is a tool in Satan's hand to "kill, steal, and destroy." (John 10:10). Our doubts, frustrations, anger, rebellion, stubbornness, etc. all are the emotions  affected by our blood caused by this selfish sin nature . When we live in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit, pray in the Spirit, sing in the Spirit, and simply live in the power of the life of Jesus Christ. It must become our lifestyle, not just a visit to church or a few minutes of prayer every day, but living in the Spirit, and not after the flesh, is victorious living all day long.

Look at Romans 8 again "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." (Romans 8:1-11).