Blood of Jesus

“To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve His God and Father—to Him be glory and power for ever and ever!  Amen.”(Revelation 1:5).

We are called to be subjects of the Kingdom of God.  Whew doggies!  Too many times we look like the Kingdom of Those that Yell at Their Children or Those that Must Have THEIR Own Way.  We all know that we just need to get our act together.  Surely we can just get off our duffs and exercise a few times a week or if we would just get up a little bit earlier we could get that time for prayer that we should practice.  I could go on and on about all the things we should do, but don’t.  Time and time again we muster the inner fortitude to do what is right, but it eventually fails.  Then we kick ourselves for failing or give up and say I’ll never ______.  Or we go into bitterness and anger at those who expose our own failure, like our kids (who drive us to yelling) or our boss (who has such ridiculous demands) or the skinny woman with five kids (whose house and children are always immaculate).  The tapes start repeating over and over about our failures no matter how deep we bury then and how hard we strive to hide our failures.

 Well here’s the good news.

 Those tapes are right. 

You are a righteousness reject. 

That is exactly why Christ died on the cross.  You can’t get it right, so stop trying!!  You make a lousy god.  God never created you to be without Him.  You were created to be dependant on Him.  He is your righteousness.  So when you become aware of your own failures Praise God.  You have actually have perceived your need for God.  Now since He said He loves you and has (past tense-that means it’s a done deal) freed you from your sin, you apply the Blood of Jesus to this area.  When the failure tapes resurface, you stare them boldly in the face and say “You be gone from me!  You may not torment or accuse me any more.  It is Jesus Christ who redeems me, not me!” “This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe” (Romans 3:22). Then you give God the glory for the righteousness He is going to work out in you.

Once the Holy Spirit teaches you how to humble yourself and trust in Him, the light comes on.  The enemy has been stealing the redemption bought on the Cross-from your kids, spouse, friends, enemies, or whoever claims to be saved.  The Blood of Jesus saved them.  How dare any thing in heaven, earth, or hell beneath claim that the Blood was insufficient to redeem those people.  That somehow Jesus is unable to make you or anyone else He has saved fit for the Kingdom of God.  Indignation rises up in a righteous fury and spits out  “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God.”(1 Samuel 17:26). It’s time to start pitching rocks at the enemy of our souls.  By the power of the living God it is time for the heads of those giants to roll! “Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen?  It is God who justifies.  Who is he that condemns?” (Romans 8:33-34).