HIS BLOOD – HIS LIFE

When Jesus’ blood was shed in the Garden of Gethsemane, at the whipping post, with the soldiers who plucked out His beard and crushed the crown of thorns on His head, and at the cross, the life of Almighty God was being poured out all over this earth for you and me to be free.

That blood is the life of God.  The life is in the blood.  That life of God cleansed us of all sin, of all sickness and disease, of all bondage, of all poverty, of all anxiety and frustration, of everything that came with the curse.

The very life, the very essence of God Himself was released on this earth for you and me to have and enjoy while we are here.  His life is here for us.  It is ours.  We have been cleansed and set free of all that satan brought about by stealing Adam’s authority and relationship with God his Father.  We are clean through God’s Word, Jesus Christ and His shed blood.  I have to repeat this:  We are clean.

Well, then, what brings impurities into our lives if we are clean?  Let me use an example that we all understand.  Our bodies are made clean when we wash them with soap and water.  But there are germs and bacteria here on this earth that make us dirty again.  And we wash again.

Even so, there are germs and bacteria in the spirit realm called demonic forces, principalities and powers, rulers of the darkness and wicked spirits in heavenly places.  It is their job to present trouble to us in the form of sickness and disease, poverty, lack, want, brokenness.  They know that we have been cleansed and made whole through the blood of Jesus.  We are no longer broken.  Our lives are whole in our spirits, our souls and our bodies.

The spirits also know that the acceptance of trouble comes with the mouth, what we speak.  These evil spirits, therefore, put pressure on us to speak what is wrong with us. It is our job to put pressure on them by speaking the Word of God to stay cleansed and free of the curse.  Jesus told us that we are clean through the word. He was telling us that the Word of God spoken out of our mouths will keep us free.

Every day there are opportunities to speak contrary to God’s Word.  A pain comes.  A symptom comes.  The checkbook looks empty.  The job is no more.  The children look like they are straying.  The marriage looks like it is failing.  We have a choice at each of these points to speak what we see in the natural and agree with it or to speak what God’s Word says about us.  The blood of Jesus has cleansed us of all that sin and death brought.  The Word of God keeps us cleansed.

How powerful!  THERE IS LIFE IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS!  THERE IS LIFE IN THE WORD OF GOD!  Let’s speak His Word and keep the life flow going strong in our lives

HE BORE IT ALL

When Jesus took our place as our substitute on this earth (from the time He was born until He was resurrected), He had a mission. Come and get my kids back for me. That is what the Father was saying to Him. I want my family back. I want to be able to fellowship and enjoy my children. Let’s restore them to the position of family members again.

The only way that we could become family again was for someone to take our place and bear the consequences of our disobedience. Someone had to pay the price, and that is exactly what Jesus did for us. God provided His Son to be our substitute. Jesus was born to be our substitute. I think it is time we looked closely at what He did for us, because I believe that so much of the time we take it for granted. What He did was BIG!!!!!

God had to punish sin. Jesus took the fullness of that punishment. God punished Jesus (Who became sin) for you and me. We must see Jesus on the cross being judged for our sin, smitten with our sicknesses and diseases and taking on the fullness of poverty and stress and heartache and the challenges of life here on this earth. When He punished sin in Jesus, all the consequences of sin were dealt with. No more sickness and poverty for us. It is gone. It is still in the world, but we are not of the world. We are of the Kingdom of God, where sin has been taken care of.

God punished Jesus with sin and with every effect of sin. Jesus Christ was punished with our sins, our diseases, our stress, our mental anguish, our anxieties and cares. Disease, poverty, lack, failure, etc. has lost its legal right to be in you or on you or around you. It is finished as far as you are concerned. Selah, pause and think on that for a while.

God cannot punish sin twice or He would be unjust. He cannot demand payment twice for the same debt. He demanded payment of Jesus. That is it. That settles it. He will never demand payment again. So why are you trying to pay for and work for your health, your prosperity, your peace of mind. It is PAID IN FULL!  DEBT CANCELLED!

MY DEBT TO SIN AND SICKNESS AND DISEASE AND POVERTY AND FAILURE IS CANCELLED, GONE FOREVER!