Have you ever been at the beach, scribbled something on the
sand and then the waves from the sea comes ashore, wipes off completely what
had been written and there is no sign of it at all? This is exactly what
happens when our sins have been washed away in the blood of Jesus. There is no
trace, no memory, it is completely washed away by the precious blood of Jesus.
There is so much power in the blood of Jesus. The blood of
Jesus washes away our sins and makes us clean, as white as snow. There is no
remembrance of past sins when our sins have been washed by the blood of Jesus.
The blood sets us free from the curse, which is caused by sin, so that we might
receive the blessings of Abraham. It doesn’t matter how bad the sin is there is
hope because God loves us so much and his mercies are new every morning. God is
always willing to forgive us “Come now, let us reason together says the
Lord though your sins are like scarlet they shall be as white as snow, though
they are like crimson they shall be as wool. If you are willing and obedient
you shall eat the good of the land”. The moment you make Jesus
Christ the Lord of your life you are redeemed from the curse. The curse is
death, sin, sickness, disease, poverty, lack, depression etc.
Death is the curse and the penalty for sin. So every time we
sin, the penalty is death. Even if physical death does not happen immediately
it opens up a door for death to occur in other areas of our lives, death in our
bodies, death in our businesses, death in our marriages, death in our finances,
death in its various forms and then physical death. To atone for sin blood must
be shed because the life is in the blood, so someone who is without sin must
bear the punishment in place of the person who is forgiven. ‘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’. Leviticus 17:11 (KJV) without shedding of the blood
there is no forgiveness. Heb 9:22
In the old testament the high priest offered the blood of
animals, but our high priest Jesus Christ gave his own life as a sacrifice for
sin with his own blood, he could pay the ultimate penalty for our sin because
he was without sin. He entered the most holy place once and for all and
obtained eternal redemption. If the blood of goats and bulls could
cleanse the body, how much more will the sacred blood of the Messiah thoroughly
cleanse our consciences from dead works Heb 9: 12-14 The blood of Jesus makes
us whole, the blood of Jesus makes us what God has created us to be, the very
life of God flows in us through the blood of Jesus there is so much power in
the blood of Jesus. And remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray
has no favorites. He will judge or reward you according to what you do. So you
must live in reverent fear of him during your time here as “temporary
residents.” For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty
life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or
silver, which lose their value. It was the precious blood of Christ, the
sinless, spotless Lamb of God. 1 Peter 1: 17-19 God paid a high price for
our redemption so we should not waste it.
God is light, and there is no darkness in him at
all. So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living
in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. But if we
are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with
each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. To
walk in the light does not mean that we have no sin, but we continually cleanse
ourselves by the blood, but this does not mean we are to walk in darkness
because if we are walking in darkness then we don’t have fellowship with God.
I once heard the late Reinhard Bonnke say an atheist told
him there is no power in the blood of Jesus because the blood of Jesus has been
available on the earth for 2000 years but the world is worse than it was 2000
years ago so the blood of Jesus has not made the world become better but worse
. Reinard Bonkee then responded to the atheist saying “there is still soap in
this world but yet many people are still dirty”, he said “let me explain how
soap works in case you don’t know. If I am dirty and I stand next to a piece of
soap I will not automatically become clean, even if I worked in a soap factory
I will not be automatically clean. If you want to know what soap can do then
you need to reach the soap take it and apply it, and so it is with the blood of
Jesus, it is not enough to know it, it is not enough to sing about it, it is
not enough to preach about it , but you have to reach it, apply it to your
sinful life and when you do, something will happen to you that has already
happened to billions of people across the world, then you will say there is
power in the blood of Jesus. I enjoin you to make use of the power of the blood
of Jesus that is available to you and your life will never remain the same.
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