Friday, August 16, 2013

Faith In His Blood

Hidden away in the Scriptures of the Holy Bible is the true power source for all things Christianity.  Those four little but powerful words are found in Romans 3:25 - Faith in His Blood.  Religionists and conviction-ites will never bring this up to you.  They will focus on and direct your attention to everything but these four monosyllable words - Faith in His Blood.  Because the religionist knows once you realize how simple and free Salvation really is through childlike trust in the Blood of Jesus, that you will leave them behind like a bad habit.  The religionist wants your attendance at his church building and your money most of all, not for your soul to be saved from the wrath to come and the love of sin. When you go to church the next few months, just make a note of how many times anyone mentions *Faith in His Blood*.  Trust to God Incarnate's Precious Blood.  Faith in His Blood is key to your eternal destiny; that is why it is never brought up.

This is what the slick religionist will not tell you plainly:  While you keep on neglecting and rejecting Jesus Christ, you are the object of the daily anger of God Himself.  God looks at you as a rebel, as one who revolts against Him, and defies Him to His face.  The holiness of God abhors your sins.  How can you continue to live on in enmity against the God who has been so gracious to you?  Free justification is now available to you by simple faith in the Blood of the crucified Incarnate God of Calvary's Cross.  Redemption, peace, pardon, reconciliation, forgiveness of sins, atonement, justification, and adoption are all available through Faith in the Blood of the Incarnate God.  The religionut will not tell you this:  Jesus' Blood is the divine Remedy for your sin problem.

Christ Jesus bore your sins in His own body, and then He suffered the everlasting punishment due to your sins, so you could be graciously rescued from the awful penalty you deserved. There is no escaping the penalty due to your sins without your implicit trust in the Blood of Jesus Christ.  The only safe way to face Eternity is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.  Exercise faith in Jesus' Blood. You must be a sinner saved by Blood alone.

Now understand - True Repentance is a result of your Faith in the Blood of Jesus; don't get the cart before the horse. Repentance is the gift and work of the Holy Spirit in you.  If you ever repent of any sin, God must get all the glory, not you.  There is no Salvation in you at all, only in Jesus' Blood.  After you truly trust in the Blood of Jesus, you will begin to hate your sins that nailed Him to the Cross.  Your sins must be taken away by the Blood of Christ alone (Revelation 1:5), not by your repentance.  

The forgiveness of sins, that is, all sin, of lip, life, secret and open, past, present and future comes through your reliance on the propitiatory, atoning Sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.  Sin has brought every man into captivity and slavery, and the only Person who can redeem (release) you from sin's tyrannical bondage is Christ Jesus. The Law's deadly sentence was carried out on Jesus at Calvary. You must be ransomed out of the hands of sin and Satan which are stronger than you.  Only the Blood of God can free you from the Law and its curse and condemnation.  Christ's sinless obedience and bloody death is your only hope of escaping the wrath to come.  Are you a sinner saved by Blood?  

The pardon of human sin can never be without Blood.  God is able to forgive human sin, because He has punished our sins on Christ. Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God.  He to rescue me from danger interposed His Precious Blood.  My Substitute took my sins, and now He has released me, and I am clear before God forever. I have nothing else but the Blood of Jesus Christ to trust my defenseless soul to now. All the repentance, baptisms and good works put together in the whole world could not forgive the smallest sin, or rid you of any guilt.  The sinless life of Jesus is the life that God demanded as the penalty due for your sins, and nothing but His life blood will ever satisfy the holy demands of Almighty God.  God cannot save our souls apart from the soul-saving Blood of the Lamb of God.

The Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, freely shed His own blood to pay the Ransom and Redemption price for all your sins. Without shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins.  Remission is the putting away of a debt, that is, your sin debt that has been incurred to God's Justice up until now.  Only the Blood of God's own Son can cancel your sin debt.  Jesus doesn't forgive sins piecemeal; He forgives all your sins outright, once and for all.  Fix your faith entirely on Jesus' Atoning Blood.

We all deserve to die and go to Hell as the penalty for our sins against our Maker.  We justly deserve to bear God's wrath against our sins.  Sin has separated us from our Maker, and by nature we are in bondage to sin and to the kingdom of darkness (Satan).  The only way Reconciliation could ever happen is if God humbled Himself and reached down to sinners.  God did this when He became a sinless man and offered up Himself as an Atoning Sacrifice for human sin.  Reconciliation is a change in relationship from hostility to harmony, from conflict to peace.  It is not your works that reconciles you to God, but it is faith in the Finished Work of the Lord Jesus Christ that fully reconciles you to God.  The redemption price was paid by Jesus with His own blood to liberate us from our sins' bondage.  The Blood of Jesus paid the sin debt (remission), and wiped the slate clean.

When Jesus went to the Cross, it was God's divine plan to reconcile sinners back to Himself.  The Cross was God's way of atoning for human sin in order to satisfy the inflexible demands of His justice and to propitiate His wrath that was consistent with His holiness, love, grace and mercy. The Blood of Jesus Christ makes sinners who deserve Hell acceptable in God's sight and makes them fit to live eternally in God's presence.  Christ Jesus' atoning bloody death was a Substitution for guilty sinners; His Blood was the Propitiation to God, and the way of Reconciliation and Redemption between the Holy Creator and a sinful creature.

Jesus bore your sins and your sins' penalty on the Cross. Jesus bore your sins and died in the place of you, so He could turn the wrath of God you deserved away from your soul.  Jesus became Sin when He bore our sins on the Cross.  All of my sins was credited to Christ's account, and His spotless perfection (Righteousness) was credited to my account.  Jesus paid the full penalty for my sins, and God no longer holds them against me.  On Calvary's Cross, God the Father treated Jesus as if He has lived my life with all its sin, so that God could treat me as if I lived Christ's life of pure holiness.  My sinful life was legally charged to Jesus on the Cross as if He had live it, so that His Righteous life could be credited to me, as if I had lived it.

Whosoever believes in Jesus' Blood shall receive immediate forgiveness of sins and is not condemned. Ask Jesus now to forgive your sins through His Blood, and you are forgiven unreservedly and eternally. Immediate and present pardon of your sins is given to you freely in an instant the moment you believe in Jesus' Precious Blood.  You need to make an immediate decision for Christ, that is, a rejection of your self-righteousness and an implicit trusting to His Righteousness.  Consider your ways and turn at once to the Lord Jesus Christ.  Trust your soul with Him.  Your soul has nothing else to rest on but Christ's Blood and Righteousness. Receive Him by faith here and now.

I am guilty and hell-deserving, but I have believed in Jesus' Blood; I now know that my many sins are all freely forgiven for Jesus' sake; I am clothed in Christ's Righteousness, and accepted in the Beloved; there is now no condemnation to me in Christ Jesus. I am resting safely on the Great Atoning Sacrifice.  Only the Holy Spirit can convince a sinner of his evil sins of unbelief and rejection of Christ, and woo the sinner to repent and trust to Christ alone.  You are always prone to sin, but if you trust in Christ and give yourself up to Him, He will change your inward nature and cravings, and you will love Him, and not your sins. You need to be saved from the propensity and love to sin as well as the guilt and punishment due to sins. Believe that Jesus Christ died for you in particular.  The Lamb of God and the Cross are worthy of your careful observation.  The one God who made all the worlds died for you.

God Himself came into this world in the person of Jesus of Nazareth; the very one who was offended by human sin, He condescended to become the sinless, atoning Sacrifice to put away human sin.  The Invisible Creator put on a body of human flesh; He lived here as a Jewish man, yet He was God manifest in the flesh.  If you were stand before a prison full of criminals who were condemned to die, and informed that a free pardon for their crimes could be obtained in a certain way, there would be a hush and they would listen closely, they would not criticize the manner of pardon, because if they truly wanted pardon, they would be taken in the way of release from prison.  But sin-loving human nature will not have Christ's free pardon of sin, because the human heart insanely loves the sin that will inevitably damn it.  Mark it down, you must either be saved or lost; you must have your sins forgiven, or you will be damned forever, and the only way of the free forgiveness of sins is by simple trust and confidence in Jesus' blood.

Please God, not yourself.  You cannot afford to live in sin, or to die in your sin. Sin may have some temporal pleasure in it, but all sin end in eternal loss and ruin.  Look now to the Lamb of God who loved you to death; come to Him right now through Faith in His Blood.  Take care that your faith be simple and fixed solely on Jesus' Precious Blood.  Rest your soul only on Christ's Atoning Blood for all your Salvation.  Whatever you may do, always remember and cling to these four short words of Scripture with all your heart from Romans 3:25 - Faith in His Blood.  Worthy is the Lamb that was slain and has redeemed us to God by His Blood!