The Faith of Jesus - Alonzo T. Jones

might... deliver them who through fear of death
were all their lifetime subject to bondage.” He took
part of the same flesh and blood as we have in the
bondage of sin and the fear of death, in order that
He might deliver us from the bondage of sin and
the fear of death.
And therefore again it is written: “Both He
which sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all
of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call
them brethren.”
This great truth of the blood relationship, this
blood brotherhood, of Christ with men, is taught in
the gospel in Genesis. For when God made His
everlasting covenant with Abraham, the sacrifices
were cut in two, and He, with Abraham, passed
between the pieces. By this act the Lord entered
into “the most solemn covenant known to the
Oriental” or to all mankind, --the blood-covenant, -
-and thus became blood-brother to Abraham, “a
relation which outranks every other relation in
life.”
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