The Blood Speaks on Earth |
Understanding the Problem from God's Point of View:
1 Jn. 5:7-9
-The earth knows the witness of Jesus' Blood by the Presence of
the Holy Spirit within us. The Holy Spirit verifies within us that the Blood
of Jesus washes and cleanses us from all sin, that it gives us eternal life,
and that we can stand in the Presence of God.
Hope:
Jn. 16:7-11
; 6:63
; Rom. 8:16
; 1 Cor. 2:12-13
-Holy Spirit within us
convicts of sin, of righteousness and judgment, gives us life, assures us
that we are children of God, leads and guides us into all truth and enables
us to proclaim the things of God to others.
Matt. 3:17 ; Jn. 3:34 ; Matt. 7:5 ; Rom. 1:4 -The Father is behind everything:the whole plan of redemption is His plan and His work. It is His Son who came to earth to make salvation possible. Father is bearing witness to his Son through everything that is happening on the earth, in the hearts and lives of believers and in the church. He proclaimed Christ to be His Son at His baptism.
Jn. 1:1 ; l Jn. 1:1 -There is the witness of the word, the Lord Jesus Himself. The word refers to Jesus Christ. Jesus came into the world to speak the words of God. the very words God would say to man. The word is the image, the idea, the very expression of God. Through the word Jesus Christ Himself bears witness that He is the Son of God.
Change:
Heb. 12:22-24
; Matt. 26:28
; Heb. 8:6-10
; 1 Jn. 2:1-2
-Jesus is
the only mediator who can present man perfect before God by His Blood. He
stands as the Ideal and Perfect Man whose sacrifce was and is perfect. Abel's
blood spoke vengeance, Jesus' Blood cries us for man to be forgiven and cleansed
of sin. The Blood of Jesus cries out for mercy even upon those who would
kill, reject, deny and curse Him.
Heb. 12:24-29 ; 13:20-21 ; Titus 3:5-7 -Do not make light of the blood and approach the communion table as a ritual, a routine act. We are to proclaim that we are washed and cleansed, all remembrance of sin is in the grave, now our thoughts are on Him, and we are to act accordingly, in the spirit of love, mercy, and compassion. No longer sin-conscious but God-conscious, and ever so. His eternal Blood is always making me perfect, and working in me to be pleasing in His sight. All I have to do is obey.
Rom. 3:25-27
; 2 Cor. 4:13-18
-We are the product of God's voice, by the word
of Jesus and the Holy Spirit within. God begins and finishes every good work.
Our job is to exercise the law of faith in the word, law of faith in Jesus,
and the law of faith in the Holy Spirit and the law of faith in the Blood.
The word we can misinterpret, the Holy Spirit we can disobey, but the blood
can never fail as I dwell upon the shed blood. The Blood never fails.