Daily Devotional

THE BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS IS A STATEMENT OF LOVE

September 6

eloved, the blood of Jesus is not a magical thing. However, the very mention of the precious blood of Jesus interests the Holy Spirit in a loving and healing manner. When the Father decided to offer up His Son Jesus on the Cross, He also decided to use the blood of the cross of Jesus as a holy and powerful statement of His own measureless love for human beings on the planet earth. Of course, the Lord Jesus gave His Body to be broken for our sins. But since God is so loving and so fully committed to the gracious redemption of all human beings, He fulfilled to the highest His own statement in the Bible: "Greater love hath no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends." (John 15:13) Notice the words, "Greater love hath no man." It is of the nature and person of God that He does no less for us than the supreme act of laying down His life. He did not send an angel out of heaven with a message for us to repent and believe. He did not send scrolls of divine instructions out of the atmosphere with simple commands and holy ideas for us to use with which to change our lives--- instead, He sent His most precious and dearest Son to leave the splendor and glory of heaven to come to the earth. He came here with the express purpose of dying in our place. The Father uses the blood of His Son Jesus as the highest statement in all creation that He really did love us at Calvary and He really does love us now. So, when we talk of being born again into His Glorious Kingdom of Light and divine love, God uses the term "sprinkling of the blood"(Hebrew 9:21) to describe the fact that through that marvelous confession and repentance by the power of the name of Jesus, the blood which He shed for us is applied in the strictest and most holy manner to attack and cover the foulest of sins and sinners. At the application of this holy blood, all of hell is put on immediate notice that you beloved are "past from death unto life . . ." (John 5:24) by an amazing transaction with God from heaven. Satan is told directly by the Father, "You now no longer have any claim whatsoever on this Child of the King. Back off, get out and don’t come back!" Why don't you rejoice with your Father over this great fact!

Prayer

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Father, how can you love so deeply and unchangeably? I offer to you my most heartfelt thanks and blessings for the great gift of your Son Jesus, and of the release of His mighty blood to completely cover all my sins. I praise you in Jesus' name, amen!