How very different from the blood bond Christ offers. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. Life is in the blood.
Blood is the dynamic, mobile, flowing substance that flows through the whole body.
We are a sanctified people. Sanctified just means set apart. We are a set a part people. We are set apart by our choice to accept birth in the body through which flows the loveblood of Jesus. It deleted all references to Jesus' blood from a host of familiar songs.