Bought By The Blood

"At no time was Jesus subjected to the violence of Satan."

Why did blood pay the price of honor for our salvation?
BECAUSE it comes from the heart.

It signifies the death of the individual, and for our salvation, it depicts the laying down of the will, shown by how the kidneys (also called “the reins” in the Scripture) were handled. Adam chose to do what he wanted to do. He chose his will over God’s will. So Jesus chose the Father’s will over His own will.

The work of the blood itself in the human body is to NOURISH, HEAL, and CLEANSE. This is the work of the blood upon our hearts and in our minds. By “the heart”, I refer to the spirit of man. We are spirits, with souls, living in a physical body. Angels and devils or unclean spirits are just spirit, and for the fallen, of no substance at all. Upon salvation (our prayer inviting Jesus to live in our heart), our spirit man is recreated to be the LIFE of God (2 Corinthians 5:17). The mind, however, must be renewed or cleansed (Romans 12:2). This is not just our work, but our obedience to the work of the Spirit. We cannot, on our own strength and wisdom, cleanse our mind and change our thought habits. The Holy Spirit makes the change in us, and we deliberately refuse to think as we have in the past.

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12:2)

Jesus’ mind was filled with the Spirit. He had no sin in His thought life. He was filled with the Spirit without measure, meaning He had Him in His fullness (John 3:34). There is a level of the Spirit which few have attained of submission to Him. There is no need to fear this. The Spirit never forces on us more than we are mature enough to handle. We will know it and understand it first. Our personal life experiences play into all He does in us and for us. What I have experienced allowed Him freedom He does not give to others. This is not to brag but to make my point. I do not wish my experiences with evil on anyone.

There is a great misunderstanding of His work with and heart for those beings which have fallen from the Kingdom of Light, as well. We think of it with our human understanding and emotions. He is not swayed by these but knows all things, all beings, and all spoken words and their intents and motives (Hebrews 4:12). We must lay down what we don’t know and stop filling in the blanks, absent of Him speaking. Because I can tell you, once more, from my personal experience, when God spoke in my darkest hour, I did not recognize Him because of what I had been told by the church. It was both right and way wrong. Bottom line, He is far Greater, far more Loving, and more Understanding than we have pictured.

What we have taught of the shed blood of Christ and of the facts of His death is Greater as well. We have humanized it and removed much of the supernatural or focused on it incorrectly, in some instances. We’ve removed the Father from Jesus’ suffering when Jesus said they were one, united in words and in works (John 14:10). We’ve turned Jesus’ death from a complete Victory of God’s wisdom, power, and authority, into a seemingly victorious dance of the devil. Let me make this clear: At no time was Jesus subjected to the violence of Satan. Jesus was always spiritually alive, always united as God, with the Father and the Spirit. They were never separated.

Here is the Victory because the Father cannot die and the Spirit cannot die. God’s Life forever defeated death. Father and Spirit did, however, feel His pain, and They do feel yours. They know our weaknesses and make intercession for us (Romans 8:26), Jesus’ Resurrection, now, ours, the salvation He provided a complete work.

“Jesus, with his human mind filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was led by the Spirit into the desert,” (Luke 4:1)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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