Be Separate!
Last week we closed our thought on separation and how our process gets skewed because we see things from our perspective. I will be very honest with you. I don’t trust my own perspective most of the times. I need my perspective to be redeemed.
This week we continue looking at the things that can help us see ourselves from His perspective and not from our fallen senses. See yourself through His Blood and His Word. We will look at the Blood this week.
Until you see yourself from His perspective, your process is compromised. Your view is skewed. The way we see has been influenced by our belief, upbringing environment and culture. God is the only one that has the proper perspective. How can you change what you see?
One way to see yourself with a different perspective is to understand what the Blood of Jesus did.
Nobody speaks about the blood anymore. Back in the days, we sang: “There is power, power, wonder-working power in the blood of the Lamb.” Another well-known Hymnal was: ‘Are you washed, in the Blood, in the soul-cleansing Blood of the Lamb. Are your garments spotless are they white as snow, are you washed in the Blood of the Lamb.”
The Blood of Jesus does many things. Do you know what it can and will do? We all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God – Rom 3:23. If you are a sinner, you can only view yourself from a sinner’s perspective. How is that working for you?
The Blood provided a New Covenant for us. In this New Covenant God no longer imputes our sins to us. He put it all on Jesus and now sees you and me through the perspective of ‘It is finished.” Do you comprehend the fullness and the benefit of the Blood?
1 Cor. 11:25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
The first thing the blood does is it redeems you from your fallen state. We all need redemption. Someone asked me this past week why I believe Jesus is the only way? Great question. He is the only one that paid for my transgression. Buddha or Mohammad never did. Why do you want to believe in someone or something that cannot deal with your sin issue but can only ask you to work it out for yourself?
His Blood redeems us. Redemption means that the price was paid. The requirement for your release from sin was met.
Eph. 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
Rev. 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou was slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation
1 Pet. 1:18-19 Forasmuch 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:
Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
The second thing the Blood does is cleanse you from your sin. That has not changed and never will. The enemy fears the Blood of Jesus because of what it does. By His Blood, your sins have been completely removed, forgotten and washed away. Through His Blood, we are cleansed.
Rev 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins with His own Blood.
Matt. 26:28 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Col. 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
1 John 1:7 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 cleanses us from all sin.
Thirdly the Blood of Jesus justifies us. To be justified means that all records against you have been removed. You have been tried, but you have been acquitted of any and all wrongdoing that you were accused of. All punishment and wrath against you have been removed. Satan is the accuser of the brethren but all accusations against you have been settled and paid for by His Blood.
Rom. 5:9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Rom. 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
1 Cor. 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
The fourth thing the Blood does for us gives you peace. This peace is not the peace the world offers. This peace is a person. Jesus is the Prince of Peace. No more condemnation and guilt. You are free from shame and feeling like you are not good enough. Peace is the total destruction of chaos. Chaos is what the enemy’s kingdom is about. In the midst of what is going on in the world, you can have peace.
Col 1:20 And by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.
Rom 5:1Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Rom 14:17For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
1 Cor. 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Heb 13:20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant
The fifth thing the Blood of Jesus does is it cleanses your conscience. Your conscience is your Spirit man that speaks to you. Under the leading of the Holy Spirit, you can stop the tendency to sin and start living in a way that pleases God. This is not to earn your salvation but it is a life made possible by and through the shed Blood of Jesus. We all need our conscience cleansed.
Heb 9:12.14 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
1 Tim 3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
1 Pet 3:16Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
The sixth thing the Blood of Jesus does is that the blood sanctifies you. Sanctification is the act or process of becoming or being holy. His Blood makes us holy. God is Holy. The Blood makes it possible for us to fellowship with a Holy God.
1 Pet. 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
1 Pet. 1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Heb 10:19 Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus
Eph 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Heb 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
The seventh thing that the Blood of Jesus does is makes you more than an overcomer. No longer subject to the desires of the flesh or the old nature, you can now live and overcome temptation. You are not called to just barely make it. You are called to live a life that demonstrates the victory that Jesus bought for you on Calvary. The cross was not a place of defeat but a place of total victory.
Rom 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death.
The last thing His Blood does is it gives life. Life eternal! Eternal life is to know the Father, not just go to heaven. His blood made it possible for us to know God.
John 17:3 This is eternal life, that they might know the Father and the one whom He has sent.
John 6:53-56 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
His Blood:
- Redeems us.
- Cleanses us from sin.
- Justifies us.
- It gives you peace.
- Cleanse your conscience.
- Sanctifies you.
- It makes you an overcomer.
- It gives you life.
His Blood separated us and repurposed us for the Kingdom. With all these benefits, why do we want to discard the power of the Blood? His Blood is precious. Why does the enemy hate His Blood? He must understand the power of all that His Blood did for us.
