REDEEMING LOVE FROM THE BLOOD…
So, I know how love feels, my heart beats for me, yes, all the time yet, it beats for God, in and outside my body, all around me, going through me, pulsating all the time. I know firsthand rejection from people, family, when God comes and puts His Arms around you, tells you that you are His, adopted by Him, purchased through His blood, you belong to Him, He is Dad, the one you need.
Then and only then will you understand the redeeming love God has for you, however it is only yours if you walk in His Righteousness, in forgiveness for all or unfortunately you will never know true love.
It is a bit like that song: "Reckless Love."
Before I spoke a word, you were singing over me. You have been so, so good to me.
Before I took a breath, you breathed Your life in me. You have been so, so kind to me.
Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God.
Oh, it chases me down, fights 'til I'm found, leaves the ninety-nine.
I couldn't earn it, and I don't deserve it, still, you give Yourself away.
Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God, yeah.
How many of us have experienced love? I mean some of you have been married for ages yet when your spouse is looking for words of love, comfort, says love you with feeling, you just say, yep love you too, or not even that you just say ditto.
Can we go deeper, can we look at love, I want to show you true love yet before I do that, you need to know the meaning of true love.
Turn with me to Ephesians 1:7, 2:13
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.
But now in Christ Jesus, you who once were far away have come to be near by the blood of Christ.
In fact, let us look at chapter 2 verse 4-10
Ephesians 2: 4-10
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and seated us together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus, that in the coming ages He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace, you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
This basic message found in Ephesians is simple, thanks to religion, humans live in sin, violence, and discord with others however through Jesus Christ we have been shown a new way of living. Jesus redeemed us, brought us back, recused us, released us from sin and violence, He went to the cross and shed His Blood for us, not as a payment but a revelation to the world about sin.
We as humans are sinners, under control of the world and thanks to Adam, a sinful nature, in fact some people are just pure evil. We were dead and because of this, God’s wrath is against us and wants to send us all to hell, yet He loves us. Someone had to pay the price for our sin.
God sent His Son to die in our place, a horrible, gruesome death for our sin. Listen if we believe in Jesus, we have eternal life, but while here on earth we are to obey and carry on with His good works according to heavenly rules, not the rules of the world. GRACE GIVEN TO US BY GOD, BY FAITH.
Every single man-made division has been torn down by Jesus. He had to die a bloody, violent, sacrificial way to redeem and rescue us. Boy we have so much to celebrate in this easter season.
As I reflect, think of my life, the last few years have been difficult, different, a lot of pain and sadness, hearts broken, relationships damaged, people gone, yet he breathed new life in to places long dead. I am so humbled by my Lord and Savior, I am a sinner, I was apart from Him, yet He called me out, through the blood of His Son, He set me free, He made me new< He loves me, cares for me and has given me grace. The work He has started in me, He will continue and see it through until the day He comes, completes what He started.
NO ONE TAUGHT US TO BE SELFISH, UNKIND, SPITEFUL, WE JUST ARE, NO AMOUNT OF MONEY CAN BEGIN TO REPAIR THAT RELATIONSHIP, SIN THAT SEPARATES US FROM GOD, ONLY THE BLOOD OF ONE WHO WAS SINLESS, SPOTLESS COULD REPAIR, JESUS IS HIS NAME.
How humbling it is when we realize that it is out of His great love that He waits for us, time to repent, time to come to Him, time to forgive. We see pain, suffering and death daily, we have become accustomed to it.
DON’T YOU HAVE AN INNER LONGING FOR SOMETHING MORE?
What amazing victory, if we belong to Christ, a new creation. Whatever mess we have made is behind us, a new life has begun, we should now have a desire to share this with others, to those who are lost in sinful lives, to tell them to turn back to God, one day is going to be too late.
I mean: do you realize what Christ did for you? He could of walked away like so many of us do, yet it was the love He has for us that made Him shed His Blood as your ransom, that your salvation was brought. For us to be forgiven, is for us first to confess our sins, then He is faithful to forgive, it is only the blood of Jesus that takes away our sin, clears our mind of guilt.
SO, HOW MANY OF YOU FEEL GUITLY ABOUT SOMETHING YOU HAVE SAID OR DONE IN YOUR LIFE?
The devil will come to accuse us, that we are sinners, that we do not deserve to be forgiven.
As Christians we know all about the blood, we sing about it, yet how many of us use it and apply it daily. (the sacrifices of Abel, Noah, Isaac, Jesus happened but not without the blood.)
The best part of all of this is that you do not have to earn and pay for what has been provided for on the cross, Jesus bore the spiritual torment for our sins, mental distress for our worries, fears, sorrow as well as physical pain for our sickness and disease.
When we apply the blood of Jesus and receive its power, we need to apply it in its fullness yet there is someone who knows much better than we do about the power and authority given to us, he will do anything to keep us distracted, thoughts, people, ideas, doubt, the devil will use anything against us. Well…you are about to put him right under your feet where he belongs.
There was a story from Chip Brim, about a meeting where a young lady who was a witch doctor, demon possessed was in attendance, a group of pastors had spent hours trying to deliver her, praying as she continued to physically attack them and the demon in her speaking lies and tormenting the people in the room, Chip was in the background but as the woman spotted him and charged him at full speed, at that moment it rose up in his spirit to yell out, ‘I plead the blood’. Immediately she fell, grabbed her ears, and screamed, not the blood, not the blood. Realizing its power all the pastors gathered round and began singing, pleading the blood, within 15 minutes she was delivered, set free. If demons hate the blood, how powerful is that.
Life is all around us and at most times, it is not good you however now have a choice, to use the blood or not, the blood shed for us has enormous great power, we need to say so and declare it in our lives.
Are you with me, now the revelation is this: God is love, the greatest expression of this love towards us is the blood of Jesus. ARE YOU GETTING THIS, THAT LOVE COVERS EVERY NEED YOU WILL EVER HAVE.
EVERYTIME WE APPLY THE BLOOD; WE EXPERIENCE AN OUTPOURING OF THIS LOVE. IT IS LOVE THROUGH THE BLOOD THAT PROTECTS YOU FROM THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL.
LET US ELEVATE THE BLOOD, THE LOVE OF JESUS TO THE SAME PLACE IN OUR HEARTS THAT IT HAS IN GOD’S HEART.
LET US AWAKEN OUR SPIRIT TO THOSE POWERFUL THINGS THE BLOOD, THE LOVE HAS DONE FOR US.
LOVE, LIFE OF VICTORY, REDEMPTION, FELLOWSHIP, HEALING, PROTECTION, AUTHORITY, FAITH, GRACE.
ARE YOU READY TO FEEL THE POWER OF GOD’S LOVE, ARE YOU WANTING TO FEEL WHAT I FEEL DAILY?
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