The Eternal Purpose of the Blood

"Through the shedding of Jesus' blood, we are healed delivered, and set free from the oppression of the devil."

HIS BLOOD is alive when you mess up. Somehow, because nothing is impossible with God, the Spirit of God removed every drop from where it fell and what it had soaked into, and Jesus carried it all to heaven where there is no death. It lives on the altar, ever before the Father that we are forgiven. Jesus has no blood in His glorified body (Philippians 3:21). Minister Jesse Duplantis in his visit to heaven, saw the holes in Jesus’ hands and feet and described what he saw as the glory of God. There is no need for the blood in Him now. Its eternal purpose is our cleansing and forgiveness. Through the shedding of Jesus’ blood we are healed, delivered, and set free from the oppression of the devil (Acts 10:38). Through the Word of God, our minds are renewed to think like God, to see His perspective, and to become truly one, united, with Him.

He left us His Spirit as the downpayment on the full redemption of our mind and body to be just like Jesus’. Just think about that for a moment. The Father didn’t leave us pocket change, two quarters and a dime. He left us the greatest power in existence — Him. And Jesus left us the authority of His name. Combined, we’re a dynamo. But even if we mess up, Jesus’ blood remains living for infinity, that’s never-ending forever. We need only ask, and He will forgive, and sometimes, we don’t ask, and He forgives anyway. He’d rather forgive.

I return to the apostle Paul again and again. I cannot read Ephesians 1 and think of him as a murderous fanatic. “GRACE be to you, and PEACE … BLESSED be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath BLESSED us with ALL spiritual BLESSINGS in heavenly places in Christ. According as he HATH CHOSEN us in him … Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children … according to the GOOD PLEASURE of his will, To the PRAISE of the GLORY of his grace … In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to THE RICHES OF HIS GRACE; Wherein he hath ABOUNDED toward us … (V2-8).” There is so much joy and goodness there. Blessing, adoption, praise, redemption, forgiveness, the riches of God’s grace abounding to us.

Reading verse 4 again, the wealth of God’s plan sinks deeper into my heart. “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world …” That God saw Paul and knew all the hatred he’d have, knew his ungodly reasoning, and yet would use him to spread the gospel in such a huge way. That he’d use his writings to form His Word is an amazing thing. I wonder how long it took Paul to stop self-impaling himself for being a moron. Because I’ve been there, and at some point, I had to let go of what I did wrong and accept God loves me far more than I can imagine.

The truth behind the blood of Jesus is far wider, far higher than we have realized. God chose to send His Son, and Jesus willingly gave up His life, so we could be forgiven, yes. But it was so that God could willingly and freely forgive and never need to be angry again. It was so He could be mercy and compassion all the time, every day. The prophet Isaiah spoke of God’s weariness in receiving stained sacrifices. We find this same lamentation in Malachi. “Just walk right,” He pleaded with Israel. “Stop using ungodly gifts from unrepentant hearts to be forgiven.”

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” (Isaiah 1:18)

“For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.” (Malachi 3:6-7)

He mourned their sins and their resulting destruction through His prophets. He doesn’t need to do that today. Oh, He will give warnings, but they are always tempered by the blood of Christ, which is always before the Father speaking on our behalf. New Testament prophecy is given to encourage and give direction. It turns our gazes toward the return of our King. Even what was truly spoken from the Spirit over this nation was to keep our eyes focused on Christ and our work on the earth as His hands and feet.

Jesus’ blood makes the difference between Old Covenant rules, between the works of the Law which couldn’t redeem anyone from sin and death, and the freedom of God’s generous grace. We no longer have to perform religious rites in order to be forgiven. There is no social ladder to climb, no path to the Temple. We are the temple, and all are accepted by the Father through the blood. There is no judgment nor any additional requirements for being a woman over being a man. What Paul preached that God desired was order, decorum, in the church. Minister Rick Renner has taught much on the churches Paul founded in the midst of ungodly cultures. What was needed for relationships in that day is not the same as today in this nation. At the same time, we respect all of the children of God for who they are and where they are.

Jesus’ blood makes us equal. His blood takes our sins as far from us, as far out of God’s view, as the east is from the west. Even when we mess up badly, we can come before His throne and see Him, speak to Him, laugh with Him, and know His love for us will never change. What compelled the man Jesus to do what His human mind couldn’t comprehend was the heart of the Father revealed to Him, spread out before Him in the faces of the twelve disciples and the multitudes that gathered at Jesus’ feet. Hungry for truth and the power of God which saved, healed, and set them free. No other one could do it the way He did, and no other one can be like me, like you, like that other one, except themselves.

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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