Posted on November 16, 2025 

Through the blood of Jesus salvation has come to the world. The scripture reveals five different steps that are taken on the road to salvation through the Blood of Jesus.

 

1. First Step - Forgiveness through the Blood

In whom we have redemption through His Blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace; wherein He has abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; Ephesians 1:7-8

Through the blood of Jesus, you receive the first step towards your salvation – forgiveness. Forgiveness means that God has stopped feeling angry towards you. He has pardoned you and written off your debts. You are discharged from your obligation and God is no more resentful towards you.

 

2. Second Step - Cleansing Through the Blood

But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ Cleansed us from all sin… 1 John 1:7

After being forgiven you need cleansing. This process takes you one step further than forgiveness did. You may be forgiven but there is often a scent of past evils that contaminate us.

 

3. Third Step – Sanctification Through the Blood

For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside-the camp. Wherefore, Jesus also that He might Sanctify the people with His own Blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach. Hebrew 13:11-13

Sanctification takes you even further than forgiveness and cleansing does. It means you have been set apart for a sacred religious purpose. It is only the sanctifying power of the Blood of Jesus that can move you so far from your previous evil state. This is the power that can utterly transform a criminal into a priest of God! This power is the sanctifying power of the Blood of Jesus.

Peter called himself “elect” according to the sanctification of the Spirit and sprinkling of the Blood. “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ: grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied” (1Peter 1:2). He had been elevated from being a fisherman to becoming the head of the worldwide church. How did that happen? It happened through the sanctifying power of the blood of Jesus.

 

4. Fourth Step – Redemption Through the Blood

And they sung a new song, saying, Thou are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou was slain, and Has redeemed us to God by the Blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and has made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. Revelation 5:9-10

In whom we have Redemption through His Blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace. Ephesians 1:7

The next step in this process is redemption. To redeem is to get, to win, or to buy someone or something back. To redeem a slave means to buy back a slave. Christ has legally brought us back from the devil’s slave camp. He paid for us with His Blood. When God went shopping, He paid the bill with Jesus’ Blood.

You may use something, but you may not buy it. You may use a car, but you may not buy it. You may wear a dress, but you may not buy it. God decided to forgive us and to buy us back from the devil. He wanted to have a permanent relationship with us.

God bought you from the devil’s slave camp, you now belong to Him permanently. Your forgiveness, your cleansing and your sanctification are permanent. You belong to God. The devil has no legal access to you.

 

5. Fifth Step – Reconciliation Through the Blood

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God has set forth to be a Propitiation Through Faith In His Blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Romans 3:23-26

Finally, reconciliation with God comes because you are forgiven, cleansed, sanctified and redeemed. You can now enjoy a reconciled relationship with God. This is what propitiation is all about. Propitiation involves a regaining of the favor and the goodwill that you lost with God. Through the Blood of Jesus, you will appease the heavenly Father and restore a beautiful relationship with Him.

 

6. Do you know any other man, prophet or religious leader who shed His Blood for you? Do you know anyone in this world who has shed His Blood to wash away your sins and cleanse us from unrighteousness? I don’t!

Neither is their salvation in any other: for there is NO other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. Acts 4:12