I AM

Matthew 28:20  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you (I with you am (present tense) alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

The fullness of the essence of God in Christ  as “I AM” is always found in the present and immediate tense.  God supersedes the dimension of time.  As with faith, in ministry, God’s power will not be sent to us in the future.  His healing will not take place in the future.  His fire will not be poured out upon us in the future. At the moment that He reveals that these things are for us in a ministry situation they are forevermore and immediately there. The “I” of Jesus is presently always with us in the am of time. 

Mark 14:62  And Jesus said, I am (I am (present tense): and ye shall see the Son of man sitting(continually and constantly ruling and reigning….) On (Christ’s energy/ fuel source is power; the world in which Christ operates is God’s power; and God’s power  does the work through Christ)  the right hand of power, and coming(continually and constantly) in the clouds of heaven.

As we live and minister in the timeless dimension of the immediacy of Christ’s continual “I AM ness”, His presence is always coming and is constantly present, in the sphere of God’s power. 

His “I” always come sin the AM of time rooted in God’s power, continual ruling. and reigning.

John 8:42  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came (Defined as :”Arrival” Christ is in a present and continuing and continual state of arrival ) from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

“Came” – This uncommon word describes to come in its dimension of arriving or arrival. Christ has arrived from God into our world, or more correctly because it is in the present tense, Christ is in a continuing state of arrival, confirming the timeless immediacy of the continual now of His presence. It is imperative that we ask God to deliver us into His world of the dimensionless- ness of time. As long as see God as doing things for us in the future we will never operate in miracles.

John 8:58  (AV) Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

§        In the am of time Jesus always is in the mode of I

John 10:30  I and my Father are one. (Present tense)

Greek: “I and the Father one are” A perfect and continuous exchange of location in the father and the instrumentality of the father’s works back through Jesus.

The “I” and the “Father” are one in the same

John 10:38  But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

Greek: That in THE ME the Father just as I am Him

The I being in Jesus allows complete accessibility for all that Jesus has. Jesus now in this I allows for full effectiveness of His power and so forth.

John 14:7  (AV) If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

From now on you know Him progressively and have seen Him with perfect discernment

9  (AV) Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

The one perfectly discerning me , perfectly has discerned the Father

John 14:10  Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in(Locative- in the world of) me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth (present participle- the continuing abiding in the world of the Spirit; necessary to produce miracles)  in me, he doeth(Present tense- the father performs the miracles in proportion to our abiding in the world of the Spirit)   the works

§        We have the timeless immediacy of faith at our disposal, as well as the continual and timeless immediacy of Jesus’ presence.  However, the continual and timeless immediacy of Jesus’ presence is also with the Father at the same moment that it with us. This guarantees the absolute effectiveness of our ministry, in that it is the Father who originates, energizes, produces and executes the works through Jesus. Christ’s presence with us in its timeless immediacy generates the works of the Father in their absolute perfection and effectiveness through us. This is because His presence is also in the timeless and continual fellowship with the Father.

§        The “I” in the Father allowing for access of all that our position in Christ has attained to.

§        The Father in ME is the I allowing for total effectiveness.

§        The Father which is now the ME does the works in the ME

Greek: The Father in or inside of  “ME”, is.

John 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Greek: I in my Father, and you in me and I in you.

Jesus now teaches us that the believer lives with the Father and the Son in the same perfect exchange of location and instrumentality as the Father and the Son themselves enjoy. This is because Jesus lives in the world of the Father so that the Father simultaneously executes His works back through Jesus.

Now we also see that the believer has been placed in the world of Jesus so that Jesus can instrumentally work back His works through the believer. In reality God works through Jesus and back into us because we are in the world of Jesus and Jesus is in the world of the Father. The believer is God’s channel for God to take the invisible works of His kingdom and manifest them into them through Jesus and then visibly through them into the world order. The exact and same ability to perform miracles just as Jesus did dwells in us.

John 16:28 ¶  I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: (I have come into the world system Perfect Tense)  again, I leave (I am constantly and continually releasing the world system) the world, and go (I am constantly and continually journeying to  constantly and continually fellowship with the father) to the Father.

The perfect tense describes an event that has been accomplished and fully carried out in the past, but that its occurrence has an influence and an impact for us now and eternally forevermore. Jesus coming onto our world system is described in the perfect tense. His coming and presence for us is therefore in the timeless immediacy of the continual now.  At the very same moment that Jesus is timelessly and immediately here,

He is timelessly and immediately releasing Himself from the world system to timelessly and immediately fellowship with the Father.

John 17:11 ¶  And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

Greek: In order that they may be one (Present Subjunctive) in exactly the same way as us.

As the Son lives continuously from moment to moment in the world of the Father, the Father superimposes back upon those very same moments His works back through the Son. We must remember the timeless immediacy of the continual now in the workings of God.  In Jesus priestly prayer in John 17, He asks of the Father that the believers could operate in exactly this very same fashion. The present subjunctive tense is one that emphasizes the will of the person.  In other words the believer is not guaranteed that automatically he or she will operate in the timeless immediacy of continually dwelling in the world of God so that God can continually work His works back through them. Though positionally this is the true for every believer, the manifested reality of God from moment to moment flowing in His works back through the believer can only come as the believer out of his or her will dwells in the world of God from moment to moment.

To abide in Jesus is the same as living from moment to moment in the world of Jesus.

John 17:21  That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Greek: that the may be one (Present Subjunctive) in exactly the same way that you Father in me, and I in you…

The prayer of Jesus is that the believer will from moment to moment live in the world of the Spirit so that the same perfect exchange of location in God and God instrumentality working His works back through them exactly as Jesus has with the Father, can take place in the believer. The believer has the same exact ability to work the works of Jesus to the degree that he or she lives as closely and dependently as Jesus lives in the world of the Father.

22  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

Greek: That the may be one (Present Subjunctive) in exactly the same way that we one are (Present).

John 17:23  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Greek: I in them, and you in me, that they may become matured and completed into the same finished product manifesting our exact oneness; so that the world system might from moment to moment learn and know that you sent me into it with a mission, and that mission being that you loved them in exactly the same way that you loved me.

To the degree that every believer operates from moment to moment in the world of God of God so that God can simultaneously and from moment to moment work back through the believer will be the same degree that the church will become matured and completed in the oneness that the Father and the Son have.  This oneness as we have learned is the perfect exchange of Jesus being located in God and God instrumentality working His works back through Him.  As the church operates in this oneness with God, He then has absolute liberty to work His miracles in His church, revealing Jesus and His mission to love the world in exactly the same way that the Father loves Him, and thus drawing the world unto Himself through the church.

  

Gal 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Greek: Yet no longer I, but lives in the world that defines “ME”, Christ.

Matthew 28:20  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you (I with you am (present tense) alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

The fullness of the essence of God in Christ  as “I AM” is always found in the present and immediate tense.  God supercedes the dimension of time.  As with faith, in ministry, God’s power will not be sent to us in the future.  His healing will not take place in the future.  His fire will not be poured out upon us in the future. At the moment that He reveals that these things are for us in a ministry situation they are forevermore and immediately there. The “I” of Jesus is presently always with us in the am of time. 

Mark 14:62  And Jesus said, I am (I am (present tense): and ye shall see the Son of man sitting(continually and constantly ruling and reigning….) On (Christ’s energy/ fuel source is power; the world in which Christ operates is God’s power; and God’s power  does the work through Christ)  the right hand of power, and coming(continually and constantly) in the clouds of heaven.

As we live and minister in the timeless dimension of the immediacy of Christ’s continual “I AM ness”, His presence is always coming and is constantly present, in the sphere of God’s power. 

His “I” always come sin the AM of time rooted in God’s power, continual ruling. and reigning.

John 8:42  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came (Defined as :”Arrival” Christ is in a present and continuing and continual state of arrival ) from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

“Came” – This uncommon word describes to come in its dimension of arriving or arrival. Christ has arrived from God into our world, or more correctly because it is in the present tense, Christ is in a continuing state of arrival, confirming the timeless immediacy of the continual now of His presence. It is imperative that we ask God to deliver us into His world of the dimensionless- ness of time. As long as see God as doing things for us in the future we will never operate in miracles.

  

John 8:58  (AV) Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

§        In the am of time Jesus always is in the mode of I

John 10:30  I and my Father are one. (Present tense)

Greek: “I and the Father one are” A perfect and continuous exchange of location in the father and the instrumentality of the father’s works back through Jesus.

The “I” and the “Father” are one in the same

John 10:38  But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

Greek: That in THE ME the Father just as I am Him.

The I being in Jesus allows complete accessibility for all that Jesus has. Jesus now in this I allows for full effectiveness of His power and so forth.

John 14:7  (AV) If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

From now on you know Him progressively and have seen Him with perfect discernment.

9  (AV) Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

The one perfectly discerning me , perfectly has discerned the Father

John 14:10  Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in(Locative- in the world of) me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth (present participle- the continuing abiding in the world of the Spirit; necessary to produce miracles)  in me, he doeth(Present tense- the father performs the miracles in proportion to our abiding in the world of the Spirit)   the works

§        We have the timeless immediacy of faith at our disposal, as well as the continual and timeless immediacy of Jesus’ presence.  However, the continual and timeless immediacy of Jesus’ presence is also with the Father at the same moment that it with us. This guarantees the absolute effectiveness of our ministry, in that it is the Father who originates, energizes, produces and executes the works through Jesus. Christ’s presence with us in its timeless immediacy generates the works of the Father in their absolute perfection and effectiveness through us. This is because His presence is also in the timeless and continual fellowship with the Father.

§        The “I” in the Father allowing for access of all that our position in Christ has attained to.

§        The Father in ME is the I allowing for total effectiveness.

§        The Father which is now the ME does the works in the ME

Greek: The Father in or inside of  “ME”, is.

John 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

Greek: I in my Father, and you in me and I in you.

Jesus now teaches us that the believer lives with the Father and the Son in the same perfect exchange of location and instrumentality as the Father and the Son themselves enjoy. This is because Jesus lives in the world of the Father so that the Father simultaneously executes His works back through Jesus.

Now we also see that the believer has been placed in the world of Jesus so that Jesus can instrumentally work back His works through the believer. In reality God works through Jesus and back into us because we are in the world of Jesus and Jesus is in the world of the Father. The believer is God’s channel for God to take the invisible works of His kingdom and manifest them into them through Jesus and then visibly through them into the world order. The exact and same ability to perform miracles just as Jesus did dwells in us.

John 16:28 ¶  I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: (I have come into the world system Perfect Tense)  again, I leave (I am constantly and continually releasing the world system) the world, and go (I am constantly and continually journeying to  constantly and continually fellowship with the father) to the Father.

The perfect tense describes an event that has been accomplished and fully carried out in the past, but that its occurrence has an influence and an impact for us now and eternally forevermore. Jesus coming onto our world system is described in the perfect tense. His coming and presence for us is therefore in the timeless immediacy of the continual now.  At the very same moment that Jesus is timelessly and immediately here,

He is timelessly and immediately releasing Himself from the world system to timelessly and immediately fellowship with the Father.

John 17:11 ¶  And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

Greek: In order that they may be one (Present Subjunctive) in exactly the same way as us.

As the Son lives continuously from moment to moment in the world of the Father, the Father superimposes back upon those very same moments His works back through the Son. We must remember the timeless immediacy of the continual now in the workings of God.  In Jesus priestly prayer in John 17, He asks of the Father that the believers could operate in exactly this very same fashion. The present subjunctive tense is one that emphasizes the will of the person.  In other words the believer is not guaranteed that automatically he or she will operate in the timeless immediacy of continually dwelling in the world of God so that God can continually work His works back through them. Though positionally this is the true for every believer, the manifested reality of God from moment to moment flowing in His works back through the believer can only come as the believer out of his or her will dwells in the world of God from moment to moment.

To abide in Jesus is the same as living from moment to moment in the world of Jesus.

John 17:21  That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Greek: that the may be one (Present Subjunctive) in exactly the same way that you Father in me, and I in you…

The prayer of Jesus is that the believer will from moment to moment live in the world of the Spirit so that the same perfect exchange of location in God and God instrumentality working His works back through them exactly as Jesus has with the Father, can take place in the believer. The believer has the same exact ability to work the works of Jesus to the degree that he or she lives as closely and dependently as Jesus lives in the world of the Father.

22  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

Greek: That the may be one (Present Subjunctive) in exactly the same way that we one are (Present)

John 17:23  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Greek: I in them, and you in me, that they may become matured and completed into the same finished product manifesting our exact oneness; so that the world system might from moment to moment learn and know that you sent me into it with a mission, and that mission being that you loved them in exactly the same way that you loved me.

To the degree that every believer operates from moment to moment in the world of God of God so that God can simultaneously and from moment to moment work back through the believer will be the same degree that the church will become matured and completed in the oneness that the Father and the Son have.  This oneness as we have learned is the perfect exchange of Jesus being located in God and God instrumentality working His works back through Him.  As the church operates in this oneness with God, He then has absolute liberty to work His miracles in His church, revealing Jesus and His mission to love the world in exactly the same way that the Father loves Him, and thus drawing the world unto Himself through the church.

Gal 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Greek: Yet no longer I, but lives in the world that defines “ME”, Christ.

The Precious Blood of Christ

Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new (the freshness of something new) testament, (covenant) which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Testament In the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, the word for testament is more correctly translated as covenant. The idea of a covenant as defined by W.E. Vine in “An Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words” is a “mutual undertaking between two parties or more, each binding himself to fulfill obligation.” 

· Many saints fail to realize that we are in covenant with the Lord Jesus and our ability to experience all that He has already accomplished for us is conditional to our obedience. The Lord took it upon Himself to accomplish most of the responsibilities of this New Covenant. Our responsibility lies in serving the Lord by the voice of His Spirit, with uncompromising obedience. 

· New : This is a most interesting word. It is defines as the freshness of something brand new, as is the case of a new car. The New Covenant has the ability to convert all things and make them brand new in quality, if we fulfill our obligations in keeping covenant with the Lord through obedience. 

2 Cor 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature (creation): old (archaic) things are passed away ; behold, all things are become new 

· Second Corinthians five and seventeen utilizes this exact word for “new”. At the instance of our becoming born again, everything that was within us of the old creation passed away. At that same moment, the Lord made all things fresh and brand new. Of course, we all get old and die, but everything that pertains to our spiritual life has become like the brand new car. 

· Paul uses the perfect verb tense to describe all things as becoming new. The perfect tense describes an event that has occurred in time but its results and impact goes on forevermore. 

· Being in Christ has caused all, which is not of Him to be abolished forever and to be replaced with a fresh newness, which will never get old again. 

· Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new (the freshness of something new) testament, (covenant) which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 

· Shed Means to pour out lavishly and abundantly. The blood of Christ is poured out for us in this way. I say, is poured out, rather than saying was poured out, because the verb tense is in the present. In Mark 14:24 and Luke 22:20, the Lord, likewise, uses this same present tense. What was going through the mind of Jesus when He described a future event in the present? The New Covenant can only maintain its eternal “newness” through the blood, which is eternally poured out to keep it new. The question for you and me is, what happens when we start to disobey and fail to keep covenant with the Lord? The blood of Christ is found only in the New Covenant. If we willfully move out from the confines of the New Covenant in disobedience, the blood is not available and we will remain in the archaic condition of bondages and sins. 

· The next scripture, First John 1:7 follows the same train of thought.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship ( sharing in common) one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 

· Greek (my paraphrase): But if we should conduct our life in the light, in the same manner as He (conducts Himself) in the light, we associate one with the other. This association allows for the Lord and us to participate and share with one another. This sharing in common allows us to obtain the things of God as the blood of Jesus Christ His Son continuously cleanses us (so that we can obtain) 

· In the measure that we order our lives in obedience to the Lord is to the same extent that we will have fellowship with the Lord. Fellowship, or the sharing in common, allows us to participate in the things of God so that we can obtain from Him. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us in proportion to our obedience and we obtain proportionally to the cleansing by the blood. Conduct, association, participation, obtaining, and the blood of the New Covenant present with ever act of obedience so that we may obtain. 

Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new (the freshness of something new) testament, (covenant) which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

· Remission – Remission is defined as the sending away of something. The blood belonging to the New Covenant constantly sends away sins as we fulfill our obligations with the covenant through obedience. Wherever we step out of covenant, “the blood that sends away,” will not be present. 

2 Timothy 2:26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. 

· Greek: That they may return to soberness out of the snare of the devil, having being hunted down and caught alive by him, in order to do his will. 

· Watchman Nee, talked on the issue of passivity, the devil, and the Christian. Though the Word of God never uses the term “passivity” in reality this ia Satan’s most effective method of lying against the body of Christ. The Lord always seeks to bring our will in conformity to His will. Our will however still remains free. True freedom, is the freedom to obey God. The devil likewise wants to conform us to obeying his will. The Lord allows our will to be free, as He lovingly compels us to obey Him. Satan, as “the one who hunts down and catches alive,” wants to take us captive through our passivity to his will. 

· Any time that we give ground to the enemy through disobedience, Satan immediately tempts us with feelings of guilt, condemnation, oppression, passivity, and complacency until we are captured alive by him if we continue in our disobedience. Much of the body of Christ today is generally passive. We are passive in our study of the Word of God. We are passive in our prayer life. We are passive in our commitment to the Lord. I can guarantee you that the devil’s methods of passivity are at work upon us. Passivity to the Word keeps us in ignorance to the will and the ways of God that is our only avenue to obtain the blessings of God. 

· Let me expound a bit on this. Please look with me at the following scriptures out of Ephesians one, six through eight. 

Eph 1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted (charming and lovely) in the beloved. 

7 In whom we have redemption (the ransom payment of slaves that has freed us) through his blood, the forgiveness (sending away) of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 

Greek ( my paraphrase) In whom we have the liberation of slaves brought about by the Lord Jesus’ satisfactory ransom payment. This ransom payment is His blood. The blood serves as God’s ransom payment because it has the ability to send our sins away. 

· Verse six and seven of Ephesians chapter one tells us that because the blood of the Lord has sent away our sins away, we are now (“accepted”) charming, and lovely, in the eyes of the Father. 

8 Wherein(Greek: which) he hath abounded (caused us to abound) toward ( into) us in all wisdom and prudence;

· I am uncertain in verse eight if what the Lord caused us to receive in abundance is His grace and the riches that make it up, or if it is His redemption. It matters not much at this point. The importance of verse eight is that the abundance of the Lord’s blessings to us is limited by wisdom and prudence. Wisdom is our understanding of the will and the ways of God, and our submission of every part of our lives to that will. Prudence is our step-by-step, daily execution of this will, as we are guided by the voice of the Holy Spirit. The abundance of God’s riches and blessings are released in proportion to how much we conform our daily conduct to God’s wisdom and prudence. 

· Toward is a wonderful word. In reality it is the word “into.” The saints who have become charming and lovely to God are now the receptacles “into” which God desires to funnel all that He is, and all that He has. The more obedience, the more funneling! 

· The devil knows that the more passive and complacent that he can keep us in our study of the Word, the less that we will know of God’s wisdom and prudence, and the reduction will be in the abundance of the blessings of the Lord to us. Remember, it is not what we think that we are performing of the word of God but in reality are not, that releases the riches of God. The Lord’s blessings are only funneled upon what we do in accordance to accurate reality of the Word in His wisdom and prudence. This is why we witness so many ministries and churches that sow much and reap little. The Lord will not bless the doctrines of men, which is our continuous and inaccurate performance of the Word of God; no matter how good they sound or look. 

· Likewise, the devil will take us alive and keep us complacent and lazy in our prayer life. He knows quite well that only what is accomplished through intercession in God’s dwelling place (in the third heaven) that will have any eternal effect for us (in the first heaven.) 

· Finally, a successful Christian life that is a threat to the devil is one of spiritual athletic agony and wearisome labor. Such a life is accomplished by violent spiritual believers who take the kingdom of God by violence; never passivity! 

Luke 22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. 

Luke twenty-two and twenty is a very powerful scripture. In my blood is in the Greek “dative case of location.” Let me explain this fancy terminology to you. Where do you and I live? We live on the earth or are located in the earth. Because we are located in the earthly world we are affected by, and are part of everything that belongs to the world. The New Covenant is located in the blood, or more accurately in the world of the blood of Jesus. All that the blood of Jesus accomplishes affects everything in the New Covenant. As long as we maintain ourselves in covenant with the Lord, we automatically live inside of the world of the blood of Jesus Christ. Wow! 

My beloved, our uncompromising obedience to the Lord is our safety and protection from the devil, and our cleansing from all sin and bondage. You and I plea the blood of Jesus daily, and rightfully so. It is vital to claim the blood, especially before the devil. More powerful though is to live constantly inside the world of the blood of Jesus as we keep covenant with the Lord. 

As I was sharing this revelation with my wife Mary the Lord gave her a two-fold picture. The first part of the picture was that of the believer traveling through one of the Lord’s arteries as he or she kept obedience to the Lord.

The second part of the picture was similar to the kid’s TV show, “The Magic School Bus.” In some of its episodes, the teacher, Miss Frizzle and her class, ride in the magic school bus, which becomes small and traverses through the blood vessels of a human body. The Lord showed Mary that the magic school bus is the rhema word of God with us inside traveling through the Lord’s veins as we obey it. 

My friends, if you are doing your very best to obey the Lord in all that He commands, confess with boldness to the devil that you live in the world of the blood of Jesus. 

For those of you who witness to the cults that deny that Jesus Christ is God, the next scripture is for you. Does it not say that God purchased the church with His own blood? 

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 

Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 

Propitiation- The Greek tells us that God has placed before the public eye “CHRIST AS A PROPITIATION.” 

To propitiate, from God’s mindset, is His becoming favorably inclined towards us. This is because Jesus paid the blood ransom money that sent our sins away, making us charming and lovely to His eyes. God now has the legal ability to shower all of His blessings upon us. The fullness of His blessings is His inheritance, which will take an eternity for us to receive. 

Ephesians 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 

Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Through faith in his blood We are required to place our faith in the blood of the Lord Jesus and all that it does for us. 

1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion ( “a” communion, not “the” communion)of the blood of Christ? 

The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

· Marvin Vincent, the Greek scholar translates the first part of First Corinthians ten and sixteen in the following way. “ The cup over which the familiar formula of blessing is pronounced.” 

· The communion of the blood Communion is the word for fellowship. As we have discussed in First John one and seven, fellowship is defined as an association, participation, and a sharing in common. In this case, the cup represents our spiritual participation and sharing in all the benefits that the blood of Christ has in store for us. 

· 1 Corinthians 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 

· We are told that that the cup is likewise the New Covenant of the Lord. Let us see why. 

26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come. 

Greek: For at any time that you choose to eat this bread and drink this cup, you publicly proclaim and declare with thoroughness all that the death of the Lord Jesus signifies, until the time that He chooses to come. 

· The New Covenant located in the blood of Jesus is inaugurated with the death of the Lord Jesus by the shedding of the same. Our partaking of the cup becomes a spiritual display of the New Covenant and the death of Christ, which it fully declares. 

· We must receive all of these things by faith. The importance of this can be found in two scriptures that we studied; Romans 3:25 and 1 Cor.10:16. Our faith in the blood of Christ releases our communion with it and allows us to obtain from it in proportion to our faith. 

Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ 

· Greek paraphrase; you were once far off, not only in distance but alienated from God and without access to the things that belong to Him. Now by His blood, you have become close to Him and enjoy full access to Him and His things. 

· This scripture is a good example of how we must commune with the blood of Jesus in order to receive by faith its benefits. 

Colossians 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. 

Greek ( paraphrase) He brought about the state of freshness and newness to the whole universe through the blood of His cross. He is able to harmonize all things back to Himself whether upon the earth or in heaven through the blood of His cross. 

· By “harmony” I mean that the all that pertains to the universe is subjected to Christ, under His headship, and can now be restored to its original condition and purpose, which God had for them prior to the fall. Christ shed His blood for the whole universe, partially in preparation for the eternal ages to come. We can therefore confess before Satan, that Jesus has harmonized everything in us to His original plan and state. Satan, therefore, cannot touch us.

· Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained ( to find, discover, or to meet upon) eternal redemption( loosening) for us. 

Greek: By His own blood He entered once and for all, and remains in the holiest place. He has obtained for us therefore an everlasting loosening not only of our sins but also from the penalties associated with them. 

In the Old Testament, once a year, on one day, that being the Day of Atonement, the high priest would go into the holiest place with the blood of animals and purge the sins of the nation of Israel. We have a better sacrifice than the nation of Israel. Through His spotless blood, the Lord Jesus entered permanently into the holiest place of the heavenly temple securing for us a permanent and everlasting purging of sins. We are free from sin forever! 

Hebrews 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 

Greek: For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling what is common (what is in the world at large) and profane is able to separate unto God (from the world at large and towards His purposes) in regards to the purity of the flesh 

Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot (to be without moral stain or blemish.) to God, purge your conscience from dead works ( corpse like works) to serve the living God? 

The blood of bulls and calves could only furnish the house of Israel with purity of the flesh. On the other hand, the blood of Jesus not only purifies our flesh but also cleanses our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Our conscience is a simple barometer of what lies within us whether good or evil.

A dead work is anything that we do outside of the voice of the Holy Spirit whether by performance, guilt, religious programs and fleshly strivings. The blood of bulls and goats could never purify the spirit and soul of man or woman from these fleshly efforts to serve the living God. Serving the living God, is serving God as an adopted son or daughter. Our service as sons and daughters is a simple obedience to the voice of the Holy Spirit apart from the performance, guilt and compulsion brought about the dead works of fleshly efforts. 

Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 

· Greek: And almost all things with blood are cleansed according to the law. Apart from the blood shedding (through the giving up of a life) can there be the sending away of sins. 

Heb 9:23 ¶ It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 

· Greek: It is necessary that the earthly copy of the things which are in the heavens themselves be purified with the blood of bulls and goats, but the heavenly original with more excellent sacrifices than these. 

24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 

· Greek: Christ did not enter into the holies made with human hands which is merely a copy resembling the authentic. He entered into heaven itself to make Him visible before the face of the God on our behalf. 

· For one, Christ has done exceedingly above what the earthly high priest could do. The high priest could only enter into an imperfect earthly copy of the tabernacle that dwells in heaven. There, he could present the blood before the glory of God, which dwelt on the mercy seat above the Ark of the Covenant. Jesus, however, when into heavens itself, into the authentic tabernacle, and presented Himself before the very face of God, not just His earthly glory. 

· This has insured us with an absolute purging of our sins and an assurance of a completely thorough salvation. As we live in this imperfect world, we can still believe for total freedom in every part of our lives, or at least our continual progress towards it. 

Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost ( completely, perfectly, utterly) that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them 

Heb 9:23 ¶ It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 

· In verse twenty-three we observe that the earthly tabernacle was cleansed with the blood of bulls and goats so that priestly ministry could take place. How much more effective can our ministries be if the authentic heavenly tabernacle has been cleansed with the blood of Jesus? There is no excuse for each of us to be powerfully used by the Lord if we serve the living God and not dead works.

Galatians 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk ( military steps in rank and order) in the Spirit. 

· Greek: If we are living in the Spirit, let us march in the steps of a soldier with the Spirit’s wishes. 

Heb 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, Greek: We have at all times therefore a fearless confidence before God that gives us an entrance into the holies by the blood of Jesus.

· Boldness is one of my favorite New Testament words. It simply means, “ to tell it like it is.” Because the blood of Christ has made us charming and lovely before the eyes of God we now have boldness with Him. 

· Boldness urges us to come before God, having nothing to hide from Him, without shame or guilt, fully confident and assured, and with the ability to speak intimately, frankly and with reverential bluntness. 

Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 

Greek: Let us continuously approach God with a heart that is genuine and real (not religious) because we are fully confident. This confidence comes through our faith in all that Christ has done for us. We base this faith on the fact that our hearts were once in the past sprinkled from an evil conscience, but the impact of this event has a lasting and eternal impact. Likewise, our bodies were once in the past washed with pure water (the blood of Christ), but the impact of this event has a lasting and eternal impact. 

· We see the perfect tense used in Hebrews ten and twenty two. The salvation of the Lord accomplished for us two thousand years ago continues effective now and forevermore. 

Hebrews 11:28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. 

Greek: By faith he Moses performed the Passover and the pouring of the blood lest the destroyer of the firstborn might do them violence and cause them injury.

· This is a very important scripture in spiritual warfare. Our claiming of the blood of Jesus towards Satan will stop in part the violence and injury that he would cause to our loved ones and us. 

· However we must not forget to perform the Passover in conjunction with claiming the blood of Jesus so that our protection will be complete. 

· For us to day, the Passover signifies our complete exiting from the land of sin; our eating of the unleavened bread, which is a holy life before God; our not fearing man or Satan, but stepping out instead into a life of faith and obedience, which will take us into the promised land of freedom and our spiritual vocation. 

1 Peter 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 

· Greek: Knowing that with things which perish such as silver and gold (which cannot pay the sufficient ransom payment to liberate slaves) you were bought, from your empty manner of life handed down to you from your ancestors.

19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish (internal purity) and without spot.(external staining by sin) 

· Greek: But by the precious and highly honored blood as of a lamb void of internal blemishes and thus unspotted externally by the world and Satan. 

· This is the costly price of our deliverance that is ever before God and allows us to have boldness with Him. Likewise this must be our confession before