Thursday, April 25, 2013

O The Blood of Jesus by Pastor Chad



18-21 Unlike your ancestors, you didn’t come to Mount Sinai—all that volcanic blaze and earthshaking rumble—to hear God speak. The earsplitting words and soul-shaking message terrified them and they begged him to stop. When they heard the words—“If an animal touches the Mountain, it’s as good as dead”—they were afraid to move. Even Moses was terrified.
22-24 No, that’s not your experience at all. You’ve come to Mount Zion, the city where the living God resides. The invisible Jerusalem is populated by throngs of festive angels and Christian citizens. It is the city where God is Judge, with judgments that make us just. You’ve come to Jesus, who presents us with a new covenant, a fresh charter from God. He is the Mediator of this covenant. The murder of Jesus, unlike Abel’s—a homicide that cried out for vengeance—became a proclamation of grace.  (Hebrews 12:18-24/The Message)


You and I have come to the blood of Jesus which proclaims to us God’s rich grace and mercy through Christ.  The blood of Jesus is the key to spiritual life and to all godliness.  We know that if we have come to the blood of Jesus it is only be the Holy Spirit and of God’s grace that we have come.

We did not come to this blood on any merits of our own.  We were guilty, lost, defiled, helpless, and bankrupt when we came to stand under the cleansing crimson flow.  We were full of sin but the Savior called us by name and bid us to lift our eyes to him.  As we gazed upon his streaming wounds, each drop of blood cries out “It is finished…I have put an end to the power of sin…I have brought in everlasting life and righteousness.” 

If you have come to that blood once, you will keep coming back to it over and over again as your life continually looks to Jesus the author and perfector of your faith.  Your life will be about “looking to Jesus” constantly and all the more the closer you draw to him.  It’s not to Him that we “come” but it is to Him that we are always coming.  If you have ever come to the cleansing blood of Jesus and had it wash over you and have felt the cleansing power  -- you will feel the need of coming to this flow every day. 

Charles Spurgeon said, “He who does not desire to wash in it every day, has never washed in it at all.  The believer ever feels it to be his joy and privilege that there is still a fountain opened.”

We cannot live by our experiences alone.  Past experiences are not a sure foundation for us as Christians.  We must continually come to the cross and build our faith in nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness AND upon the foundation of Christ and his cleansing blood.  We need a present coming to Christ alone is the only thing that can give us real joy and comfort. 

As they did the first Passover, let us daily sprinkle the door-post of our hearts with fresh blood from His sacrifice and then feast upon the Lamb of God being assured that the destroyer will pass us by.

Pastor Chad

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