Have You Had A Blood Transfusion Yet?

Title: Have you had A Blood Transfusion?

Text: Isaiah 53:5 “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities;

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

And by His stripes we are healed

Two weeks ago, I preached on being covered by the blood out of Exodus 12:11-14, Last week I preached John 19:23-24 Close to the Cross, but far from the Blood.

A blood transfusion is a routine medical procedure in which donated blood is provided to you through a narrow tube placed within a vein in your arm.

This potentially life-saving procedure can help replace blood lost due to surgery or injury. A blood transfusion also can help if an illness prevents your body from making blood or some of your blood's components correctly.

A blood transfusion is important, there are groups that don’t believe in blood transfusion, the one I think of is the Jehovah’s witness, the other is Christian Science and maybe a couple other groups might be out there.

Two missionary doctors working in India, both surgeons, were frustrated by the unwillingness of most Indians to donate blood. To the Indians, blood was life, and they couldn’t get past the idea of sacrificing any of their precious life-force. Parents were often even unwilling to donate blood to save the lives of their own children.

One day a 12-year-old girl was brought into their hospital suffering from a severely diseased lung that needed to be removed immediately. The surgery would require at least three pints of blood. Fortunately, the girl was an AB+ blood type, a “universal recipient,” meaning that she could receive the blood of any donor, regardless of type. But the hospital had only two pints of blood on hand, so they needed one more from the family. After learning this and conferring together, the family pooled their money and offered to buy the additional pint.

Dr. Reeve Betts, one of the surgeons, explained that there was no blood to be bought, and that if the family didn’t provide it themselves, they might as well take the girl back home to die. So, the family huddled once again, and finally they pushed forward a frail old woman weighing under 100 pounds, the smallest and weakest member of the family.

Dr. Betts looked around at the healthy, well-fed men who’d made that decision, and he lost his temper. In his broken Tamil dialect, he berated the dozen or so other family members, jabbing his finger back and forth from the strong men to the frail old woman. They cowered in the face of his anger, but even then, no one stepped forward.

Finally, Reeve rolled up his own sleeve and told his colleague, Dr. Paul Brand, “I can’t stand by and let that girl die. Take my blood.” The family fell silent and watched in awe as Paul cuffed his arm, slipped the needle into his vein, and the rich, red flow of blood spurted into the bottle. A collective “ahh,” sound arose from among the family members, and Reeve heard them saying, “Look, the sahib doctor is giving his own life.” It was an act of sacrificial love in their eyes, one that witnessed to them more than any sermon ever could have, and it saved that young girl’s life.

The Strips is a promise of a Healing

But He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities;

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

And by His stripes we are healed

He promises a physical healing.

People receive blood transfusions for many reasons — such as surgery, injury, disease and bleeding disorders.

When we go to the hospital and they tell us that we need a blood transfusion because of a sickness or a disease or and Operation, that’s to help us heal. They (the doctors) will let you know that a blood transfusion is need.

A transfusion provides the part or parts of blood you need.

When the Father planned that redemption was going to be needed, he set that the blood would be the important part of our forgiveness of sin. The Old Testament in the covenant there was the place for atonement for sin. The scripture points that the blood was the life. The sacrificed animal that was brought to pay for our sin was slain and the blood was sprinkled upon the altar and upon the elements on the altar.

Hebrews 9:21-23 says “21 In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. 22 In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

23 It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.