FAITH IN CHRIST'S
BLOOD:
KEY TO HEALTHY
LIVING
By Pastor Max Solbrekken,
D.D.
"Being justified freely by His grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a
propitiation through FAITH in His BLOOD, to declare His righteousness
for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God."
(Rom.3: 24,25)
The BLOOD of Jesus Christ that was shed
for the sins of the world - past, present and future - on Calvary's
Cross nearly 2,000 years ago will NOT benefit us unless we have faith in His
BLOOD!
Faith in the blood of Jesus Christ
opens the door of Heaven to us by bringing instant forgiveness for our sins,
purity of heart and a freedom from guilt, condemnation and shame!
Faith in the shed BLOOD of Jesus Christ
God's Pascal Lamb, breaks the bonds of Sin, opens the Prison doors and liberates the captives held by
Satan. Faith in the blood of Jesus Christ causes the Devil to flee in terror,
destroys the shackles of servitude, opens the heart to sing, rejoice and
receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with power.
Faith in the BLOOD of Jesus destroys
evil habits of lust, greed and pride. It breaks the bondage of lying, stealing,
gambling, fornicating and carousing! It liberates the spirit from guilt and
fear of the past, present and future. It prepares the spirit for fellowship
with God and our entrance into the our eternal Home!
Faith in the BLOOD of Jesus gives us
freedom from rejection and purges our conscience from the lingering bondage of
condemnation. It brings joy, peace and rejoicing to the heart and boundless
praise to our creator and Saviour!
Faith in the BLOOD of Jesus protects us
from moral failure, spiritual bankruptcy and evil spirits of depression. It
guards our thought life and helps to have a healthy lifestyle and wards of a
host of diseases as we claim the merits of His precious blood in Christ's holy
name!
Faith in the BLOOD of Jesus will break every CURSE that has been hurled against born again believers, whether by Satanists, black and white witches, medicine men or other enemies of Christ!
In our 1992 Crusade in Truskavich Ukraine, a powerful black witch from Crimea was converted to Jesus Christ and delivered from demons. For 13 years she had been a white witch dealing in love potions, but for 5 years had practiced black witchcraft, putting curses on people resulting in death.
We asked her to find a Pentecostal Church in Crimea and seek God for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and a revival would break out there as a result. Three weeks later, a Pentecostal Minister called to tell us that the former witch had been filled with the Holy Spirit and many sinners were coming to Jesus as a result of her testimony!
The night the Black Witch was delivered from demons, Galina Sergiovana Gorbachev answered the altar call. Privately, she shared that she was the sister of Mikael Sergiovich Gorbachev. They had different mothers but the same father. Galina is the daughter of Serge and Mikael is the son of Serge Gorbachev. She asked if I knew who he was and I answered, "The whole world knows who he is!" I gave her a Bible and prayed with her and committed her to he Lord! She left rejoicing in Jesus Christ!
Faith in the BLOOD of Jesus will break every CURSE that has been hurled against born again believers, whether by Satanists, black and white witches, medicine men or other enemies of Christ!
In our 1992 Crusade in Truskavich Ukraine, a powerful black witch from Crimea was converted to Jesus Christ and delivered from demons. For 13 years she had been a white witch dealing in love potions, but for 5 years had practiced black witchcraft, putting curses on people resulting in death.
We asked her to find a Pentecostal Church in Crimea and seek God for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and a revival would break out there as a result. Three weeks later, a Pentecostal Minister called to tell us that the former witch had been filled with the Holy Spirit and many sinners were coming to Jesus as a result of her testimony!
The night the Black Witch was delivered from demons, Galina Sergiovana Gorbachev answered the altar call. Privately, she shared that she was the sister of Mikael Sergiovich Gorbachev. They had different mothers but the same father. Galina is the daughter of Serge and Mikael is the son of Serge Gorbachev. She asked if I knew who he was and I answered, "The whole world knows who he is!" I gave her a Bible and prayed with her and committed her to he Lord! She left rejoicing in Jesus Christ!
THE HOLY SPIRIT & THE BLOOD OF JESUS!
When Jesus Christ hung on Calvary's Cross dying for the sins
of lost humanity - past, present and future - the blessed Holy Spirit was
reconciling the world unto Himself.
As His Heavenly Father was judging Jesus of Nazareth on our
behalf, to meet the Demands of Divine Justice, the Holy Spirit was making
Salvation available for every lost soul who will receive Him as Saviour and
Lord!
St. Paul wrote: "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he
is a new creation: Old things are passed away; behold all things are become
new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus
Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.
"That is, GOD WAS IN CHRIST, reconciling the World unto
Himself, not imputing their trespasses
unto them; and hath committed unto us the Word of Reconciliation." (2
Cor.5:17-19)
The Key: God was in Christ! This is the great work
of the cross, unseen to human eyes, known and directed by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was in Christ reconciling, straightening out things between God and man. God the Holy Spirit, was in Christ saving the world while His Son was dying, shedding His precious
and holy Blood! Amazing Grace, Abundant Mercy, Forgiving Love, Omnipotent
Power, Omniscient Wisdom! Amen.
The Blood of Christ did not die! The Holy Spirit guarded
Jesus' body and blood while our Saviour was in Abraham's bosom in Hades. On the
Third Day He raised Jesus Christ from the grave and our LORD carried His Own
blood into the Holy of Holies in Heaven where it resides today interceding day and night for
us, together with our Saviour!
The Holy Spirit lives in and works out from the Precious
Blood of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! That is why we can sing:
What can wash away my sins?
Nothing but the Blood of Jesus
What can make me whole
again? Nothing but the Blood of Jesus
O' precious is the flow;
that makes me white as snow
No other fount I know;
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD!
Pointing to Jesus Christ of Nazareth, John the Baptist, declared: "Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world." (John 1: 29). His prophecy stirred some of his disciples to follow 'The Nazarene', spreading His Gospel far and wide!
John the Baptist was 'spot on' in his amazing statement that Jesus was the Chosen One, the God-Man, who would redeem fallen Mankind through His sacrificial death on the 'cursed tree' and His glorious resurrection from the dead! (Phil.2: 5-11)
Millions of lambs had died on Jewish altars for more than 2,000 years, waiting for God's Pascal Lamb, the Jewish Messiah to fulfill God's prophecy to Lucifer:
"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; It shall bruise (crush) thy head and thou bruise His heel." (Gen.3: 15)
Here God laid out His 'Plan of the Ages'. A virgin woman would give birth to the Messiah who would crush the Serpent's head. The SEED of the woman (Christ) would suffer a wound to His heel (death on the cross) but Satan's head would be CRUSHED (when Christ arose) and be eternally defeated!
Seven hundred years before His birth, Isaiah prophesied Christ's vicarious death for our sins and diseases: "Surely He hath borne our sicknesses and carried our pains: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.
"But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed." (Is. 53: 4, 5)
St. Paul stated: "Christ hath redeemed us from the CURSE of the law, being made a curse for us, for it written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree." (Gal.3: 13; Deut. 28: 1-68)
"Blotting out the hand writing of ordinances (statement of guilt) that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of then openly, triumphing over them in it." (Col.2:14, 15)
Here is a dramatic picture of Jesus, which was given to St. John: "And I beheld...a LAMB AS IT HAD BEEN SLAIN... And they sung a new song, saying,
"Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof for Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by Thy BLOOD out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. " (Rev.5: 6, 9)
Anointed by the Holy Spirit, St. John wrote: "But if we walk in the Light (God the Father) as He is in the Light (The Son is in the Father), we have fellowship one with another, and the BLOOD of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin." (1 John 1:7).
THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, SHED FOR US ON
GOLGOTHA, HAS PURCHASED OUR ETERNAL SALVATION!
(1) WE RECEIVE FORGIVENESS OF OUR SINS THROUGH HIS BLOOD.
"In Whom we have redemption through
His blood, even the forgiveness of sin, according
to the riches of His grace". (Eph. 1:7)
(II) WE RECEIVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD!
"For as much as ye know that ye
were not redeemed with corruptible
things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition
from your fathers; But with the precious
blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:" (1
Peter 1:18-19)
"Take heed therefore unto
yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you
overseers, to feed the church of God, which He hath purchased with His own
blood." (Acts 20:28)
(III) WE RECEIVE CLEANSING FROM SIN THROUGH HIS BLOOD!
"But if
we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with
another, And the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sins.” (1
John 1:7)
(IV) WE ARE LOOSED FROM OUR SINS BY HIS BLOOD!
"And
from Jesus Christ, Who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the
dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. Unto Him that loved us, and
washed us from our sins in His own blood." (Rev. 1:5)
(V) WE ARE JUSTIFIED THROUGH HIS BLOOD!
"Much more then, being now
justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him." (Rom.
5:9) "Being justified freely by
His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
“Whom God hath set forth to be a
propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare the righteousness for the
remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;" (Rom.
3:24-25)
(VI) WE RECEIVE PEACE THROUGH HIS BLOOD!
"And having made peace through the
death of His cross, by Him to receive all things unto himself;" (Col.
1:20)
(VII) WE RECEIVE ACCESS TO THE FATHER
THROUGH HIS BLOOD!
"Having therefore, brethren,
boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living
way, which He hath consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His
flesh;" (Heb. 10:19-20)
(VIII) WE RECEIVE
DIVINE HEALING THROUGH HIS BLOOD!
"But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for
our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His
stripes we are healed." (Is. 53:5)
"Who His own self bare our sins in
His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto
righteousness: by Whose stripes ye were healed." (1 Pet. 2:24)
(IX) WE RECEIVE VICTORY OVER THE DEVIL THROUGH HIS BLOOD!
"And they overcame him (Satan) by
the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony." (Rev. 12:11)
(X) WE ARE SANCTIFIED THROUGH HIS BLOOD!
"Wherefore Jesus also, that He
might sanctify His people with His own blood, suffered without the gate."
(Heb. 13:12)
(XI) WE RECEIVE A CLEAR (PURGED) CONSCIENCE THROUGH HIS BLOOD!
"How much more shall the blood of
Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience (mind) from dead works, to serve the Living God?"
(Heb. 9:14)
(XII) WE RECEIVE ETERNAL GLORY THROUGH HIS BLOOD!
"These are they which come out of
great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood
of the Lamb.
“Therefore are they before the throne of
God, and serve Him day and night in His temple: and He that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them…For the Lamb which
is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living
fountains of water: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."
(Rev. 7:14-17)
CHRIST’S CROSS & OUR SINS!
The
world has a way of crucifying those whom it does not like. Jesus told the
truth. The world could not stand the truth. The world put Him to death. What sin really crucified Christ? Was it
Peter’s denial? Judas’ betrayal? The disciples’cowardice? Can we blame Pilate
for conforming to the crowd’s demands? Does the fault lie with those who cried,
“Crucify Him”? Did the priests weigh in on the crime? It was all these: Denial!
Betrayal! Cowardice! Conformity! Pride! Jealousy! These sins nailed Christ to the
tree. And we are troubled when we see that these very sins reside in us all.
Therefore it is our pride, our conformity, our betrayal which crucified the
Lord Jesus! The cross of Christ speaks of our sin. But, for those who admit
weakness and spiritual poverty, the cross becomes the power of God unto
salvation.” - Author
unknown
My Dear Friend:
I pray that this message has touched you
heart and life as it has mine! The power of the precious blood of Jesus Christ
is awesome. It is greater than any other power and is available for us
today!
There is life – spiritual and physical, and
divine health – flowing from the wounds of our Saviour to us EVEN NOW. Receive Him now as your Lord
and Master and you will receive Eternal Life and become a child of God! He has
promised never to leave you nor forsake you. He will be with you for time and
eternity! Amen.
