Legal Functions of the Blood of Jesus

 Chapter 1: The covenant transaction

Most believers know that the blood of Jesus Christ forgives sin. They have sung about the blood. They have taken communion and remembered the blood. They have bowed their heads and thanked God that their past has been pardoned. 

Yet many of those same believers rise from prayer, still carrying guilt, still fearing the enemy, still wondering whether God will receive them, and still begging for blessings that the blood has already purchased. 

  They know one thing the blood has done, but they do not know the complete covenant transaction. 

Listen to the word. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace. Notice the language of Ephesians 1:7. 

It does not say that we are attempting to obtain redemption. It says we have redemption. 

That is present possession. That is a completed fact.

The blood is not merely something you remember as part of an event that occurred centuries ago. 

The blood established your present standing before the Father. 

Picture a woman kneeling beside her bed in the darkness. She loves Almighty God. She believes in Lord Jesus Christ. Yet every sentence of her prayer begins with uncertainty. "Father, if you can still receive me, Lord, if I have been good enough, God, if you are not too disappointed in me," she is standing outside a door that God has already opened. 

Hebrews 10:19 declares, "Having  therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus."

 God did not say, "Come trembling because of your record." He said, "Come boldly because of the blood." 

The tragedy is not that the blood failed her. The tragedy is that no one taught her what the blood accomplished. 

1 John 1:7 says, "The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin." 

Romans 5:9 says that we are justified by his blood.

Hebrews 9:12 says that Christ entered the holy place by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

Colossians 1:20 says that God made peace through the blood of his cross. 

Hebrews 12:24 tells us that the blood speaketh better things than that of Abel.

Revelation 12:11 declares, "They overcame him (satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.

Cleansing, justification, redemption, peace, access, testimony, victory. The blood does not speak one weak word over the believer. It speaks the entire language of the new covenant. 

You have not been given a partial salvation.

Jesus Christ did not say it is beginning. He said it is finished. 

He did not carry part of your guilt. He did not pay a deposit upon your redemption. He did not open the door halfway and leave you to earn the right to enter. 

He offered one sacrifice, completed one covenant work, and sat down at the right hand of the Father. 

These seven functions of the blood are not seven rewards reserved for unusually spiritual Christians. They are not prizes you receive after years of struggling. 

They belong to the newborn child of God because they belong to Christ and the child of God is in Christ.

 Faith does not create them.

Prayer does not persuade God to provide them. 

Faith discovers them. Faith receives them. Faith agrees with them.

The uninformed believer begs for what may already be his / her. 

The covenant conscious believer opens the word, sees what God has declared and says, "Father, I agree with you. Let every circumstance, every accusation, and every voice of the senses bow before what the blood has established." 

But before we examine these seven provisions one by one, we must see Calvary as God intended us to see it. 

Chapter 2: The cross as substitution

The cross was not only an exhibition of suffering. It was not merely a moving religious picture.

It was substitution. It was judgment. It was payment. It was covenant. It was the moment when God dealt legally and  eternally with everything that stood between Himself and humanity. 

When Jesus Christ hung upon the cross, heaven was not  watching a helpless martyr being crushed by circumstances. God was carrying out the most complete covenant transaction that eternity had ever witnessed. 

Prophet Isaiah had looked forward through the centuries and declared, "He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our   peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed." 

Then the prophet added, "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." 

That is substitution. He took your place so completely that God could afterward give you his place. 

He was made what you were that you might become what he is. 

2 Corinthians 5:21 says, "For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." 

There is the divine exchange. Your sin was laid upon Christ. His righteousness was made available to you.

 Your old standing ended at the cross and a new standing began in his resurrection.

Under the old covenant, the priest stood continually because his work was never finished. Another sin required another offering. Another year required another entrance into the sanctuary. 

Hebrews 10:4 tells us plainly, "It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." Their blood could point forward. It could cover ceremonially. It could testify that judgment was coming, but it could not  recreate the human spirit, silence the accusing conscience, or give humanity eternal fellowship with the Father.

     Imagine an Israelite watching the priest take the sacrificial blood toward the sanctuary. The man knows that the animal is innocent. He knows that death has occurred because of sin. He watches the priest disappear from sight, but he also knows that the priest will have to return next year. 

The sacrifice has spoken, but it has not spoken the final word. 

The account remains open. The transaction awaits completion. Then Christ came. 

Hebrews 9:12 declares, "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." 

Notice those words once and eternal. If redemption is eternal, it does not expire when you feel weak. If Christ entered once, he does not have to return to Calvary whenever you stumble. 

His blood did not purchase temporary relief.

It obtained eternal redemption. 

Hebrews 10:12 says, "But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God. 

The old priest remained standing because his work continued. Jesus sat down because his work was complete. His seated position is heaven's testimony that no additional sacrifice is required. The son is not waiting for you to complete what he left unfinished. He is waiting for you to believe what he finished.

That is why his final cry from the cross carries such authority. It is finished.

The judgment was born. The price was paid. The covenant was ratified. The claims of justice were answered. 

The way to the Father was opened. 

Satan's authority over the person who would receive Christ was broken at its legal foundation. 

Do not reduce the cross to a symbol of sympathy. It is the place where God's holiness and God's love met without either being compromised. 

God did not pretend that sin did not matter. He judged it in his son. 

God did not abandon humanity to that judgment. He placed humanity's judgment upon its substitute.

 Justice was satisfied. Love was revealed. And grace was given a righteous foundation upon which to act.

1 Peter 2:24 says that Jesus, his own self, bear our sins in his own body on the tree. He did not bear them as an  illustration. He bore them as your substitute. He did not enter the heavenly sanctuary carrying your promises, your tears, or your good intentions. 

He entered with his own blood. That blood became the eternal witness that the price had been paid.

Chapter 3: Living by revelation

Now we are ready to open the covenant document and examine what that payment secured. 

We are not searching for seven disconnected blessings. 

We are looking at seven consequences of one finished act, one blood, one sacrifice, one victory, seven provisions revealing the completeness of what God accomplished in Christ. 

Now these seven functions must not be separated as though God performed seven unrelated acts. 

They are seven rays proceeding from one light. 

They are seven provisions contained in one covenant. 

They are seven answers given by one sacrifice to the entire problem created by spiritual death. 

The blood that remits sin is the same blood that cleanses the conscience. 

The blood that justifies is the blood that redeems. 

The blood that cancels the hostile record is the blood that opens the way into the Father's presence and answers every accusation of the adversary. 

Apostle Paul declared in Romans 8:32, "He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" 

God did not divide Christ. He gave him holy.

Therefore, the redemption that is in Christ is not divided. You do not receive forgiveness today and wait 10 years to qualify for access. 

You do not receive cleansing as a young believer and earn justification after you have proved yourself faithful. 

The moment you receive Christ, you are brought into the   full legal consequences of his finished work. 

Imagine that a man receives notice that a wealthy relative has died and named him as an heir. The attorney places a sealed document in his hand, but the man never opens it. He knows he has inherited something, so he lives with a vague sense of gratitude. Yet, he continues, struggling beneath debts the inheritance could satisfy. He sleeps in a rented room while a home stands in his name. He begs for assistance while resources legally belong to him. His poverty is not caused by the weakness of the inheritance. It is caused by his ignorance of its provisions. 

That is the condition of many believers. They know that Jesus Christ died for them, but they have never opened the covenant document. 

They possess eternal life, yet they speak as though spiritual death still governs them. 

They have been made righteous, yet they approach the Father as condemned criminals. 

They have been redeemed from the authority of darkness. Yet they negotiate with the adversary as though he still possesses lawful dominion over them. 

God said through Hosea, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." He did not say they were destroyed because   the covenant was weak. He did not say they were destroyed because the enemy was greater than Christ. 

Their defeat came because they did not know.

Ignorance can leave a free man living with the habits of a prisoner. 

Ignorance can leave an heir begging outside a house whose deed bears his name. 

This is why apostle Paul prayed in Ephesians 1:17-18 that God would give believers the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him and that the eyes of your understanding would be enlightened.

Apostle Paul was not praying that God would create another redemption. He was praying that believers would see the redemption already accomplished.

Revelation does not add something to Christ's work. It opens your eyes to what his work has made yours. 

Faith begins where the will of God is known.

You cannot stand confidently upon a provision you do not know exists. 

But the moment the word reveals what the blood has accomplished, faith rises and says that belongs to me because I belong to Christ. 

Romans 10:17 declares, "So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God." 

Faith is not a desperate attempt to force God's hand.

Faith is the human spirit responding to God's testimony. 

The blood does not become effective because you speak loudly. The covenant does not become valid because you feel an emotion. Your confession does not create redemption. Your confession agrees with redemption.

God establishes the fact. The word reveals the fact. 

Faith receives the fact. The mouth gives testimony to the  fact. This distinction will protect you from both unbelief and empty ritual. 

We are not treating the blood as a magical expression. 

We are not repeating words while our hearts remain ignorant of Christ. 

We are discovering what God has declared, resting our confidence in His Son, and refusing to contradict His testimony. 

1 John 5:11 says, "And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son." 

God has given the record. The question is whether you will accept His record as final. 

Five-sense knowledge may tell you what you feel. Memory may remind you of what you did. The accuser may rehearse every failure. 

But revelation knowledge points to Christ and says God's record stands. So we will begin where the gospel begins with the sin that separated humanity from God.

Chapter 4: Remission of sins

What did the blood do with that sin? Did it merely hide it? Did it postpone judgment? Did it cover the record  temporarily and leave the charge waiting beneath the surface? No. 

The first legal function of the blood is remission. 

The charge was not merely covered. It was carried away. 

Jesus declared in Matthew 26-28, "For this is my blood of the new testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins." He did not say that his blood would make sin less serious.

He did not say it would persuade God to overlook an unpaid account. 

He said his blood was shed for remission. Remission carries the thought of release, dismissal, and sending away. 

Under the old covenant, sacrifice pointed forward to the day when sin would finally be dealt with. The blood of animals testified that sin required death, but Hebrews 10:4 says, "It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats   should take away sins."

 Those sacrifices were a shadow. Christ was the substance.

They anticipated payment. He made payment. 

They were repeated because their work was incomplete. He offered himself once because his work was final.

Hebrews 9:26 says that Christ appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Notice the language, put away.

God did not move your sin into a hidden room in heaven where he could retrieve it whenever you failed. He did not preserve the old charge as leverage against you. Jesus bore it. Judgment answered it. and the blood became heaven's testimony that its penalty had been satisfied. 

Imagine a man standing before a judge while an entire record of debt is read aloud. Every figure is accurate. Every signature is genuine. The man has no defense and no ability to pay. Then another person enters, assumes the whole obligation, and satisfies it completely. The judge closes the record and declares the debt discharged. If the first man returns the next morning begging the judge to forgive the same debt, he is no longer honoring the payment. He is speaking as though the payment were incomplete. That is how many Christians pray. They repeatedly ask God to do what He has already done in Christ because they have never allowed the finality of remission to enter their consciousness. 

Divine consciousness against human consciousness.

Hebrews 10:17-18 says, "Their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. "

God's refusal to remember is not divine forgetfulness. It is a covenant declaration that the remitted charge will never again become the basis of prosecution. 

God remembers history, but He does not hold the believer's remitted sin against him/her. The blood has answered it. 

Psalm 103:12 anticipated this grace. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. 

East and west never meet. God did not place your transgressions a short distance away so they could follow you home. He removed them. 

John the Baptist looked upon Jesus and cried, "Behold the lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world." Not hides it, not excuses it, but takes it away. 

 Apostle Peter announced the same fact in Acts 10:43.   Through his name. Whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

This is received through faith in Christ, not earned through religious labor. 

The believer does not work until God becomes willing to dismiss the charge. God has acted in His son, and faith accepts His testimony.

 Now, this does not make sin harmless, nor does it give the believer permission to live carelessly. 

Remission is not God agreeing with sin. It is God condemning sin so completely in the body of Christ that the person who trusts in Him can be released from its guilt and dominion. 

Grace does not teach us to love bondage.

Grace gives us a new standing from which we can walk in freedom. When a child of God sins, he/she does not need another Calvary. He/she does not need Jesus to shed his blood again. 

1 John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and   just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 

Fellowship may be disturbed, but the foundation of redemption has not collapsed. Confession is not an attempt to purchase forgiveness with sorrow. It is agreement with God concerning the sin and a return to the light where the  blood has already made cleansing available.

 Stop introducing yourself to the Father by the name of a charge the blood removed. Do not say, "I am merely a guilty creature hoping God will tolerate me." Say what God says. "In Christ, I have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins."

 Do not build your identity around what you did.

Build it around what Christ did with what you did. The charge has been dismissed. The debt has been satisfied.

The sin has been sent away. That is the first function of the blood. But God did not stop with the record against you. 

Chapter 5: Cleansing the conscience

He went deeper. He dealt with the stain upon the conscience, the inward sense of contamination that causes a forgiven person to shrink from fellowship.

Remission answers the charge. Cleansing answers the defilement. And that is the second legal function of the blood.

There are believers who accept that God has forgiven them. Yet they still feel inwardly unclean. They remember where they have been. They remember what they have done. They remember the words spoken in anger, the years wasted in rebellion, the secret failures no other person knows. The charge may have been dismissed in heaven, but the memory continues presenting evidence in their minds. They say, "Perhaps God has forgiven me, but I cannot forgive myself." That is why the blood does more than remit. The blood cleanses.

 1 John 1:7 declares, "If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another. And the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin."

 Notice that John does not speak of a powerless religious   memory. He says the blood cleanseth. The blood has a present voice and a present ministry in the believer's fellowship with the Father. 

Hebrews 9:14 asks, "How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? The purpose of cleansing is  not merely that you might feel better about yesterday. It is that you might serve the living God today. 

A conscience occupied with guilt is continually looking backward. A conscience cleansed by the blood is free to look toward the Father, hear his word, and do His will.

Imagine a son who has disobeyed his father and then returned home. The father receives him, embraces him, and restores him to fellowship. Yet the son remains standing near the door with his head lowered. A place has been prepared for him at the table, but he will not sit down. He has been welcomed, but he behaves as though he remains rejected. The barrier is no longer in the father's heart. It exists in the son's consciousness. 

Many believers are standing beside a table where the Father has already placed their bread. They are in the family, but guilt has taught them to think like strangers. They pray from the doorway. They worship from a distance. They hear God say, "Come." While their conscience answers, "I am not worthy." The blood answers that consciousness.

 Hebrews 10:22 says, "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience." 

God does not cleanse you so that you may remain at a distance admiring His holiness. He cleanses you so that you may draw near. The blood removes the consciousness that makes you hide and supplies the assurance that permits fellowship. 

This is not self-confidence. It is blood confidence.

 You are not claiming that you never failed. You are declaring that Christ's blood is greater than your failure. 

You are not pretending the past did not happen. You are recognizing that the past has no right to govern the person God has made you in Christ. 

David cried under the old covenant, "Create in me a clean heart, oh God." But in the new birth, God does not merely repair the old nature. 2 Corinthians 5:17 declares, "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new." 

The believer possesses a recreated spirit, born of God and brought into union with Christ.

The mind may still remember the old life, but the new creation must not take its identity from memory. It receives its identity from the Word.

 Jesus said in John 15:3, "Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you." The word tells you what the blood has accomplished. 

The senses may say, "You still feel stained." The word says, "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin."

 Memory may say, "You are still the person who committed that act." The word says, "Old things are passed away."

The accuser may say, "You have no right to approach God." The word says, "Let us draw near." 

Which testimony will govern you?

 Do not answer guilt by examining yourself until you discover some personal goodness strong enough to silence it. You will never find peace there. Answer guilt with Christ. 

Say, "My confidence is not in my spotless history. My confidence is in the spotless lamb who offered himself for me. "

Revelation 1:5 says that Jesus loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood. He loved, he washed, he acted. The initiative belonged to him.

When the Holy Spirit convicts you of a definite sin, agree with him quickly. Confess it, turn from it, receive the cleansing promised in the Word. 

But when the accuser produces only a shapeless cloud of condemnation when he whispers that you are dirty, unwanted, and permanently disqualified, do not bow to   that voice. 

Conviction points to something that must be brought into the light. Condemnation attacks your identity after the blood has spoken. 

Say it plainly. "The blood of Jesus Christ has cleansed me. I am not hiding from my Father. I walk in the light. My conscience is being brought into agreement with the finished work of Christ. I am free to serve the living God. Not tolerated, but cleansed. Not contaminated, but made fit for fellowship. Not crouching outside the Father's presence, but invited to draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith."

Chapter 6: Justification by blood

 Yet cleansing is not the end of the revelation. God did not merely wash the accused person and return him/her to the courtroom to await another verdict. The blood secured the verdict itself. 

Romans 5:9 declares that we are justified by his blood. Remission removed the charge. Cleansing removed the defilement. Justification declares your new standing. The judge has spoken and his verdict is the third legal function of the blood.

 Romans 5:9 declares, "Much more than being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him." Notice the tense. Being now justified.

Justification is not a verdict God is considering. It is not a future possibility reserved for the believer who performs well enough. It is the present standing of the person who has placed faith in Jesus Christ. To justify means more than to pardon.

 A governor may pardon a guilty man while the public record continues to identify him as the man who committed the crime. 

But in justification, God does not merely release you from punishment and leave you beneath the old identity. He declares you righteous on the ground of Christ's substitution. He gives you a new standing before His throne. 

Romans 4:25 says that Jesus was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification. 

The cross and the resurrection cannot be separated. At the cross, Christ went down beneath the judgment that belonged to fallen humanity. In the resurrection, God declared that the claims of justice had been satisfied. Jesus did not rise as a defeated substitute escaping from judgment. He rose as the victorious Lord who had completed redemption. His resurrection is heaven's receipt.

Imagine a man standing in a courtroom while the adversary presents every failure of his life. Nothing is omitted. The words he regrets are read aloud. The hidden actions are uncovered. The opportunities he wasted are placed before the court. The accused man cannot answer with his morality because his morality is imperfect. He cannot answer with his good intentions because intentions cannot erase guilt. He cannot answer with his religious labour because works cannot purchase righteousness.

Then his advocate rises. The advocate does not deny that sin occurred. He points to the cross and declares that judgment has already fallen. He presents his own blood as the evidence of payment. Then the judge speaks not because the accused man has established his innocence through performance, but because the substitute has satisfied justice, the verdict is righteous, standing through faith in Christ. 

Romans 8:33 asks, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justified. The adversary may   accuse, but he does not occupy the judgment seat. Your emotions may accuse, but they are not the judge. Your past  may testify concerning what you were, but it cannot overturn what God has declared you to be in Christ. It is God that justifieth. 

Romans 5:1 says, "Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Peace with God is not a passing sensation. It is the settled result of justification. You may feel troubled while peace with God remains legally established. 

Feelings describe the condition of your emotions. The Word reveals the condition of your relationship with God. This is where righteousness consciousness begins. 

Sin consciousness continually asks, "How can I hide from God?" Righteousness consciousness asks, "How can I please the Father who has brought me near?"

 Sin consciousness expects rejection. Righteousness consciousness expects fellowship. 

Sin consciousness makes prayer an attempt to gain acceptance. Righteousness consciousness, praise from acceptance. 

2 Corinthians 5:21 declares, "For He (Almighty God) hath made him (son) to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." It does not say that we might merely admire righteousness. It does not say that we might imitate righteousness from a distance. It says that in Christ, we are made the righteousness of God.

That does not mean your conduct has reached perfection. It means your standing is founded upon Christ. Your conduct must now be brought into agreement with that standing. You do not practice righteousness in order to persuade God to make you righteous.

Because you have been made righteous in Christ, you learn to walk as a righteous child of God. 

The branch does not struggle to earn the nature of the vine .  It bears fruit because it shares the life of the vine. 

In the same way, holiness is not an anxious effort to manufacture a relationship with God. It is the fruit of the life already received from Christ. 

Jesus said, "Abide in me and I in you." Union comes first,   fruit follows. This destroys both pride and condemnation.

Pride cannot boast because righteousness was received as a gift. Condemnation cannot rule because righteousness rests upon Christ's obedience rather than yours. 

Romans 5:17 speaks of those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness. A gift is not wages. It is received, not earned.

Suppose you fail tomorrow, the accuser will immediately attempt to move your attention from Christ to yourself. 

He will say, "Now your righteousness is gone. But if your standing came through your flawless performance, it was never the righteousness of God." Your response is not to excuse the failure. Bring it into the light. Confess it. Turn from it. Then stand again upon the same blood that justified you before the failure occurred. 

Romans 8:1 declares, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus." 

God corrects His children, but He does not return them to the courtroom of condemnation every morning. 

A father may discipline a son without disowning him. Fellowship may require restoration, but sonship rests upon birth. 

Say this until your inward man agrees with it. I am not seeking a favorable verdict. God has justified me through the blood of Jesus.

I do not approach him as a criminal hoping for mercy, but as a child whose standing rests upon Christ. My righteousness is not a record of my achievement. My righteousness is Christ.

The blood has done more than forgive what you committed. It has established who you are before God. Remission says the charge is gone. Cleansing says the stain is gone. Justification says the old verdict is gone. But a justified person must also be delivered from the dominion under which he once lived. 

Chapter 7: Redemption from dominion

God did not declare you righteous and leave you in the prison of the adversary.

He paid the price that released you and transferred you into the kingdom of his son. That is redemption. 

The fourth legal function of the blood. 

Redemption means release through the payment of a price. It is not merely sympathy for a captive. It is not encouragement shouted through the bars of a prison. 

Redemption means that a sufficient price has been paid. The claim of the former master has been answered and the captive has been set free.

 First Peter 1:18:19 says, "For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. Silver could not purchase you. Gold could not answer the claims of justice. Human effort could not break the dominion of spiritual death. The price had to be greater than the bondage. And God supplied that price in the blood of His son. 

The value of an object is revealed by the price someone is willing to pay for it. God did not purchase you with   something disposable. 

Acts 20:28 speaks of the church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood. Do not call worthless what God valued at the price of Christ. Do not identify yourself as abandoned when the son of God entered death to bring you home.

Imagine a captive who has lived behind stone walls for so many years that imprisonment has entered his thinking.

One morning the door opens. The debt responsible for his confinement has been paid and an officer says, "You are free." Yet the man remains seated in the darkness. He has learned the habits of captivity. He still waits for permission to stand. He still lowers his voice when he speaks. He still measures every step as though chains remain around his feet.

The chains are gone, but the prison survives in his consciousness. This is why the Word must renew the believer's mind. 

Redemption may be an accomplished fact while a person continues thinking like a captive. He may have been delivered from fear while still consulting fear before every decision.

He may have been released from condemnation while continuing to speak the language of guilt. He may have been brought into the kingdom of God while interpreting every circumstance as though darkness still owns him.

Colossians 1:13:14 declares that the Father hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into   the kingdom of His dear Son in whom we have redemption through his blood.

Again, notice the tense. He hath delivered us. We are not waiting for darkness to become willing to release us. God acted. He broke its claim, brought us out, and translated us into another kingdom. 

Redemption is deliverance followed by transfer. You were not released into spiritual emptiness. You were not left standing between two kingdoms, waiting to discover which one would claim you. 

You were transferred into the kingdom of God's beloved Son. You came beneath a new lord, received a new citizenship, entered a new family, and became a participant in a new covenant. 

The enemy may still attempt to influence you, but influence is not ownership. He may tempt, accuse, and deceive, but he is no longer your lawful lord.

 James 4:7 says, "Submit yourselves, therefore, to God.   Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." 

God would not command you to resist an authority that still possessed an unquestionable right to rule you.

Resistance is possible because redemption has changed your standing.

Ephesians 1:7 says, "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace." 

Redemption is located in whom in Christ. Outside of Christ, humanity stood beneath the dominion of sin and spiritual death. In Christ, the believer stands within the sphere of eternal life. 

The decisive question is no longer merely what you have done. The decisive question is where you are. If you are in Christ, his redemption is your redemption. 

Galatians 3:13 declares, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us." He did not merely teach us how to endure the curse with greater dignity. He became a curse for us."

Substitution answered what human effort could never answer. 

Verse 14 continues, "That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ.

Redemption brings you out from under one claim and into the blessing established by God. This does not mean that the believer will never face adversity. It means adversity no longer possesses the right to define his covenant identity.

Symptoms may challenge the body. 

Lack may confront the household. 

Fear may knock at the mind, but none of these has authority to rewrite the blood-sealed testimony of redemption. 

The believer looks at the circumstance and says, "You may be present, but you are not my Lord. Jesus is Lord." 

Faith does not deny the existence of the prison walls. Faith points to the open door.

 The redeemed person learns to speak from his/her new location. 

He /she does not say, "I belong to fear and perhaps God will rescue me someday." 

He / she says, "God has delivered me from the authority of darkness." 

He / she does not say, "The adversary owns my future  because of my past." 

He / she says, "I was purchased with the precious blood of Christ." 

He / she does not say, "I am trying to enter the kingdom." 

He / she says, "The Father has translated me into the kingdom of His beloved Son." 

Your body is not the property of darkness. 1 Corinthians 6:19:20 says, "Ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body. Your mind is not territory you must surrender to fear."

 Romans 12:2 tells you to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Your future is not an unpaid account in the hands of the adversary. You belong to the one who bought you. 

Do not ask the former jailer for permission to leave a prison Christ has opened. 

Do not negotiate with chains the blood has broken. 

Do not glorify the power of the old master by continually announcing that he cannot be resisted.

Stand upon the fact of redemption.

Submit yourself to God and resist every voice that contradicts your new ownership. Say it plainly. "I have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus. "I have been delivered from the authority of darkness and transferred into the kingdom of God's son. Sin is not my Lord. Fear is not my Lord. The past is not my Lord. Jesus Christ is Lord and I belong to him. Yet someone may ask,

"What of the written record? What of the ordinances that testified against me?

Chapter 8: Cancellation of records

What of the documented debt the adversary uses as the basis of accusation? Redemption has changed your ownership, but God's answer goes further. He did not leave the hostile record intact for darkness to wave before your conscience. He took that record out of the way and nailed it to the cross. That cancellation is the fifth legal function of the blood.

Colossians 2:13-15 gives us one of the most triumphant pictures in the New Testament. And you being dead in your sins, and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses, blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross, and having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Listen to the movement of those words. He quickened. He forgave. He blotted out. He took away. He nailed. He disarmed. He triumphed. The believer is not the principal actor in this passage. Goddess

redemption rests upon what God did in Christ, not upon what frightened humanity is attempting to do for itself.

Apostle Paul speaks of a handwriting that stood against us. In the ancient world, a debtor might acknowledge an obligation in writing. The document testified that a real debt existed and that payment was required. Humanity possessed such a record. God's holy law did not create sin, but it exposed sin. It revealed what righteousness required and testified that fallen humanity had failed to meet that requirement. The record was accurate. That is what made it hostile. 

Imagine entering a room where every unpaid obligation of your life has been preserved in a great ledger. Every page bears your name.

Every debt is properly recorded. Every figure is exact. You cannot erase the ink. You cannot tear out the pages. You

cannot balance the account with promises to do better. Then Christ enters, takes the entire ledger, and carries it to his cross. The debt is judged in his body.

His blood answers every lawful demand, and across the record, heaven writes, "Paid." He did not revise the amount. He can led the record. The King James version says, "He blotted it out. The ink that testified against you no longer

governs your standing before God." Paul says, "God took it out of the way. God did not move it into another courtroom where it could reappear at a more inconvenient hour. He removed it as a barrier between himself and the believer. Then he nailed it to the cross, joining the hostile record to the place where its penalty had been born.

The cross is therefore not the enemy's evidence against you. It is God's evidence that the case has been answered. The adversary is called the accuser because accusation is one of his chief weapons. He cannot undo the resurrection. He cannot remove Jesus from the right hand of the father. He

cannot restore legal authority to a debt God has canled. What he can do is bring an old copy of the accusation into your

mind and persuade you to treat it as though it were still the controlling document. He whispers, "Remember what you did." Memory opens the old file. He says, "This has been in your family for generations. Fear treats history as destiny." He says, "You made too many wrong choices. There is no release for you now." Condemnation takes a canceled

record and attempts to make it present evidence. But God says, "I took it out of the way." Do not misunderstand this truth. We are not using the blood as a magical formula. Nor are we pretending that every difficulty is caused by a mysterious document in the unseen realm.

Human choices have consequences. Harm may require restitution. Broken relationships may require confession,   patience, and rebuilding. Financial obligations should be handled with integrity. Medical conditions may require wise care. 

Redemption does not train us to evade responsibility. It enables us to face responsibility without condemnation. Yet no consequence, diagnosis, family pattern, or former allegiance possesses greater authority than the new creation reality established in Christ. 

2 Corinthians 5:17 says, "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new." Your history may explain a struggle, but it cannot become lord over your future. The blood has introduced a new governing fact. you are in Christ.

Perhaps anger has traveled through your family for generations. Perhaps fear has been handed from parent to child until it seems like part of your name. Perhaps lack, addiction, or broken relationships appear in every branch of the family tree. Do not deny the pattern. Bring it

into the light. Repent where repentance is needed. Seek help where help is wise.

Then refuse to call the pattern your covenant identity. Galatians 3:13 says, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law." Colossians 2 says, "The hostile record was nailed to his cross." Therefore, you may say, "What governed those before me will not be my master. I belong to Christ." The word of God, not the repetition of history, shall determine the direction of my life. This is how faith answers an old agreement with fear. You once said, "Nothing will ever change." Now you agree with Philippians 1:6. He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it. You once said, "I will always be bound." Now you agree with John 8:36. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. You once said, "My past has decided my future." Now you agree with Romans 8 2. The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Agreement with the word does not mean shouting at God until he becomes willing to honor Christ. It means refusing to give the canceled record more authority

than the cross. You are not asking Jesus to be crucified again. You are presenting his finished work as the answer to every voice that claims the

debt remains unpaid. And notice what followed the cancellation. Christ spoiled principalities and powers. Their

weapon was taken from them. Then he made a shoe of them openly, triumphing over them. The resurrection was not a private escape from death. It was the public announcement that sin's penalty had been born, and the authority of darkness had been broken. Say it with understanding.

The record that stood against me has been nailed to the cross. Christ has forgiven me, made me alive, and triumphed over the powers of darkness. I

will face my responsibilities, but I will not live beneath condemnation. I will learn from history, but I will not permit history to name me. The cross is

God's final answer to the hostile record. When the record is removed, the barrier is removed. When the debt is

satisfied, the door to fellowship stands open. God did not cancel what separated you from him and then command you to

secondsremain outside. He brought you near. The blood that canceled the hostile record now becomes your bloodbought right of

43:5543 minutes, 55 secondsaccess to the father. That is the sixth legal function of the blood. Ephesians 2:13 declares, "But now in Christ Jesus,

Chapter 9: Access to the father

44:0444 minutes, 4 secondsye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. You were far off, but you have been made near.

44:1144 minutes, 11 secondsYou did not travel that distance through religious effort. You did not cross it by multiplying prayers, punishing your body, or proving your sincerity. The

44:1944 minutes, 19 secondsblood brought you near. Under the old covenant, everything about the tabernacle spoke of restricted access.

44:2644 minutes, 26 secondsThere was an outer court, a holy place, and behind the veil, the holy of holies.

44:3144 minutes, 31 secondsThe people could come only so far. The priest could go farther, but only the high priest could pass beyond the veil, and he entered once each year with

44:3944 minutes, 39 secondssacrificial blood. The architecture itfself testified that sin had created distance between God and humanity.

44:4644 minutes, 46 secondsHebrews 9:7 says, "Into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood. Access was limited.

44:5644 minutes, 56 secondsAccess was mediated. Access was accompanied by the continuing testimony that the final sacrifice had not yet

45:0345 minutes, 3 secondsbeen offered. Then Jesus died. Matthew 27 to5051 says, "Jesus, when he had

45:1045 minutes, 10 secondscried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost, and behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the

45:1845 minutes, 18 secondstop to the bottom. God tore it from his side. Humanity did not climb upward and force its way into the divine presence.

45:2545 minutes, 25 secondsGod acted from above. The torn veil declared that the blood had answered the barrier and that the old architecture of distance had reached its end. The father

45:3445 minutes, 34 secondsdid not tear the veil so that his children could stand outside admiring the opening. He tore it so that they could enter. Hebrews 10:19:22

45:4345 minutes, 43 secondssays, "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, and then commands,

45:5145 minutes, 51 secondslet us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith." Notice the word, "Therefore, because the blood has been offered, because the sacrifice is

46:0046 minutescomplete, because the way has been opened, therefore draw near." Boldness is not arrogance. Arrogance approaches

God on the ground of personal superiority. Boldness approaches him on the ground of Christ's blood. Arrogance says, "God must receive me because I have performed well." Faith says, "The Father receives me because Jesus opened the way." One boasts in self, the other boasts in Christ. Imagine a child standing outside his father's study. The

door is open and the father has called his name. Yet the child remains in the hallway rehearsing every mistake he has

made that week. The father calls again, "Come in." The child answers, "I am trying to become worthy." But the invitation did not rest upon the child's

ability to make himself worthy. It rested upon the father's desire to receive him. Many Christians spend their prayer lives standing in that hallway.

They call it humility, but it is often ignorance of the blood. They say, "God, I know I do not deserve to be heard."

47:0147 minutes, 1 secondThat is true if they stand upon their own merit, but they do not come in their own name. Jesus said in John 16:23,

47:0947 minutes, 9 seconds"Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you." The name of Jesus gives the believer access because the blood of Jesus established

47:1747 minutes, 17 secondsthe covenant behind that name. You do not enter the Father's presence as an unrepresented stranger. You enter in

47:2447 minutes, 24 secondsunion with Christ. Ephesians 2:18 says, "For through him we both have access by one spirit unto the Father. The whole

47:3247 minutes, 32 secondsGodhead is revealed in that access through the son by the spirit unto the father. God is not reluctantly tolerating your presence. He planned your approach. The son provided the way.

47:4447 minutes, 44 secondsThe spirit brings you near. The father receives you. Hebrews 4:16 declares, "Let us therefore come boldly unto the

47:5247 minutes, 52 secondsthrone of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need." It does not say to come boldly after the

48:0048 minutesneed has passed. It says to come in time of need. When you feel weakest, the throne remains a throne of grace. When you have no personal strength to

48:0948 minutes, 9 secondspresent, grace invites you to receive divine help. The uninformed believer says, "My need disqualifies me." The

48:1648 minutes, 16 secondscovenant says, "Your need is the reason to come." The guilty conscience says, "Remain at a distance until you improve." The blood says, "Draw near and

48:2548 minutes, 25 secondsreceive the grace that will enable you to change." Fear says, "Perhaps the father will refuse you." Jesus says,

48:3348 minutes, 33 seconds"Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out." Access changes prayer.

48:3948 minutes, 39 secondsYou are not sending words toward a distant God and wondering whether they will cross the distance. You have been brought near. You are not seeking an

48:4748 minutes, 47 secondsaudience with a king who has never heard your name. Your life is hidden with Christ in God. You are not attempting to force open a locked door. Jesus said in

48:5648 minutes, 56 secondsJohn 10:9, "I am the door." Access also changes worship. You do not worship in order to persuade God to enter the room.

49:0549 minutes, 5 secondsThe spirit of God dwells within the believer. 1 Corinthians 3:16 asks, "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God,

49:1349 minutes, 13 secondsand that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?" Under the old covenant, humanity journeyed toward a sacred place. Under

49:2049 minutes, 20 secondsthe new covenant, God has made the believer his dwelling place. This does not make the presence of God common. It

49:2749 minutes, 27 secondsmakes fellowship holy. Familiarity with the father should deepen reverence, not weaken it. But reverence is not terror.

49:3449 minutes, 34 secondsThe child may honor his father without fearing that every approach will end in rejection. Therefore, come with open

49:4149 minutes, 41 secondsspeech. Tell the father what concerns you. Bring him the burden you have hidden from everyone else. Ask for

49:4749 minutes, 47 secondswisdom. Receive mercy. Find grace. Sit beneath his word until your mind becomes quiet and your spirit responds to his

49:5649 minutes, 56 secondslove. Do not perform for him. Fellowship with him. Say it plainly. By the blood of Jesus, I have been brought near. I

50:0450 minutes, 4 secondshave access through Christ. By the spirit unto my father, I do not come upon the ground of my perfection. I come upon the ground of his sacrifice. The

50:1350 minutes, 13 secondsdoor is open. The veil is torn. And I am welcomed in Christ. But the moment you approach with boldness, another voice may attempt to follow you into prayer.

50:2350 minutes, 23 secondsIt will remind you of yesterday. It will challenge your standing. It will say, "Who are you to speak to God with such

50:3050 minutes, 30 secondsconfidence?" That is the voice of accusation. The blood that opens the courtroom also answers the accuser

50:3750 minutes, 37 secondswithin it. It does not merely grant you access. It speaks on your behalf. That victory over accusation is the seventh

50:4450 minutes, 44 secondslegal function of the blood. Revelation 12:10 identifies the adversary as the accuser of our brethren, the one which

Chapter 10: Victory over accusation

50:5250 minutes, 52 secondsaccused them before our God day and night. His weapon is accusation. He points to failure and demands condemnation. He takes what has been

51:0051 minutesforgiven and presents it as though it were still unpaid. He uses memory as a witness, emotion as a judge, and fear as

51:0851 minutes, 8 secondsan executioner. But the next verse declares, "And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of

51:1551 minutes, 15 secondstheir testimony." They did not overcome because they had never failed. They overcame because the blood had answered their failure. They did not overcome by

51:2451 minutes, 24 secondspresenting a flawless human record. They overcame by presenting Christ's record and bringing their testimony into agreement with it. The blood of the lamb

51:3251 minutes, 32 secondsis God's evidence. The word of your testimony is your agreement with that evidence. Hebrews 12:24 says that we

51:3951 minutes, 39 secondshave come to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel. Blood speaks. Abel's

51:4851 minutes, 48 secondsblood cried from the ground after he was murdered. It testified that sin had occurred and that justice was required.

51:5651 minutes, 56 secondsThe blood of Jesus speaks from the place of accomplished redemption. It testifies that justice has been satisfied. The

52:0252 minutes, 2 secondscovenant has been established and mercy can now be given righteously. The blood speaks a better word than your failure.

52:0952 minutes, 9 secondsIt speaks a better word than your fear.

52:1252 minutes, 12 secondsIt speaks a better word than the accusation rehearsed in your mind at 3:00 in the morning. Your sin says condemned. The blood says justified.

52:2152 minutes, 21 secondsYour past says disqualified. The blood says redeemed. Distance says remain outside. The blood says draw near. Which voice will receive your testimony?

52:3352 minutes, 33 secondsImagine a believer awakening in the night beneath the weight of an old memory. The room is quiet, but within his mind a trial has begun. He sees the

52:4252 minutes, 42 secondsface of someone he disappointed. He hears words he wishes he had never spoken. The accuser says, "A true child of God would never have done that. You

52:5152 minutes, 51 secondshave no right to pray. You have no right to expect help. You have no right to stand upon the promises." If that believer attempts to defend himself with his performance, he will lose his peace.

53:0253 minutes, 2 secondsHe may answer, "But I have done many good things since then." The accuser will simply produce another failure. He may say, "I have prayed for hours." The

53:1153 minutes, 11 secondsaccuser will ask why he did not pray longer. He may say, "I have tried to be faithful." The accuser will point to the

53:1853 minutes, 18 secondsmoment he was not. Your performance is not the evidence that silences accusation. The blood is. 1 John 2:1

53:2553 minutes, 25 secondssays, "If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." An advocate speaks for

53:3253 minutes, 32 secondsanother. Jesus does not stand before the Father, pleading that your sin should be ignored. He stands as the righteous one whose sacrifice has already answered it.

53:4153 minutes, 41 secondsVerse two declares, "And he is the propitiation for our sins." Your advocate is himself the satisfaction.

53:4853 minutes, 48 secondsRomans 8:334 asks, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?" It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemnth?

53:5853 minutes, 58 secondsThen Paul gives the answer, "It is Christ that died, yay, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh

54:0754 minutes, 7 secondsintercession for us. Christ died, Christ arose, Christ is seated, Christ intercedes." Those are the four answers

54:1554 minutes, 15 secondsto accusation. When the accuser says the debt remains, point to Christ's death.

54:2154 minutes, 21 secondsWhen he says the sacrifice was insufficient, point to the resurrection.

54:2654 minutes, 26 secondsWhen he says the case is still undecided, point to Christ seated at the Father's right hand. When he says, "No

54:3354 minutes, 33 secondsone represents you before God," point to your living intercessor. This is not pretending that sin does not matter. If the Holy Spirit identifies a definite

54:4254 minutes, 42 secondswrong, bring it immediately into the light. 1 John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to

54:5054 minutes, 50 secondsforgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Make restitution where it is possible. Ask forgiveness from the person you injured.

54:5954 minutes, 59 secondsTurn from the conduct. Receive correction. But after you have agreed with God and received his cleansing, do not continue agreeing with the accuser.

55:0855 minutes, 8 secondsRepentance turns you toward the Father.

55:1055 minutes, 10 secondsCondemnation drives you away from him." The Holy Spirit points to Christ and leads you into restoration. The accuser

55:1755 minutes, 17 secondspoints to self and tells you there is no restoration. Learn to recognize the difference. Conviction is definite. That

55:2555 minutes, 25 secondsaction was wrong. Bring it into the light. Accusation is shapeless. There is something permanently wrong with you.

55:3255 minutes, 32 secondsRemain in the darkness. Conviction produces repentance and renewed fellowship. Accusation produces hopelessness and spiritual paralysis.

55:4155 minutes, 41 secondsConviction honors the blood by bringing sin to the cleansing it provides.

55:4655 minutes, 46 secondsAccusation dishonors the blood by insisting that cleansing can never be enough. Zechariah saw a picture of this

55:5255 minutes, 52 secondsconflict when Joshua the high priest stood before the angel of the Lord and Satan stood at his right hand to resist him. Joshua's garments were filthy.

56:0156 minutes, 1 secondHe could not deny their condition. Yet the Lord rebuked the adversary and commanded, "Take away the filthy garments from him." Then he said to

56:0956 minutes, 9 secondsJoshua, "Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee." God did not tell Joshua to defeat the accuser by

56:1756 minutes, 17 secondsclaiming that his garments had never been dirty. God removed the filthy garments and supplied a clean one. Grace did not deny the problem. Grace answered

56:2556 minutes, 25 secondsit. That is your position in Christ. You do not say, "I never sinned." You say, "Christ bore my sin." You do not say, "I

56:3456 minutes, 34 secondshave earned righteousness." You say God made Christ my righteousness. You do not say the accuser has no evidence of human

56:4156 minutes, 41 secondsweakness. You say his evidence cannot overturn the verdict established through the blood. Now let your testimony agree

56:4956 minutes, 49 secondswith heaven. Say I overcome by the blood of the lamb and by the word of my testimony. Jesus is my advocate. His

56:5756 minutes, 57 secondsblood speaks for me. God has justified me and no accusation can reverse his verdict. I reject condemnation, receive

57:0557 minutes, 5 secondscorrection, and walk in the light with my father. Say it when feelings agree and say it when they do not. Say it when

57:1257 minutes, 12 secondsyour mind is peaceful, and say it when memory is shouting. You are not attempting to make the blood speak. It is already speaking. You are bringing

57:2057 minutes, 20 secondsyour voice into agreement with its testimony. This is the seventh function. The blood gives victory over accusation.

57:2757 minutes, 27 secondsThe enemy may file his charge, but he cannot produce a sacrifice greater than Christ's. He may quote your past, but he

57:3457 minutes, 34 secondscannot remove Jesus from the right hand of God. He may appeal to your emotions, but he cannot overturn the judgment of

57:4157 minutes, 41 secondsthe father. Now, the whole covenant picture stands before us. Remission removed the charge. Cleansing removed the defilement. Justification supplied

Chapter 11: Completeness in Christ

57:4957 minutes, 49 secondsthe verdict. Redemption changed your dominion. Cancellation removed the hostile record. Access opened the father's presence. Victory through the

57:5757 minutes, 57 secondsblood silenced the accuser. Seven functions. one sacrifice, one finished work, one blood that still speaks. Do

58:0658 minutes, 6 secondsnot permit these seven functions to become seven isolated doctrines stored in separate rooms of your mind. They are

58:1358 minutes, 13 secondsone redemption. They flow from one sacrifice, one covenant, one victorious Lord. When Jesus offered his blood, he

58:2158 minutes, 21 secondsdid not purchase remission and leave cleansing undecided. He did not provide justification while postponing redemption. He did not cancel the

58:2958 minutes, 29 secondshostile record and then leave the door to the Father locked. The work was complete. Hebrews 10:14 declares, "For

58:3758 minutes, 37 secondsby one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified." One offering, not a succession of unfinished attempts. Not Christ doing one part

58:4658 minutes, 46 secondswhile you struggle to complete the remainder. One offering established the foundation of your entire standing before God. When Jesus cried, "It is

58:5558 minutes, 55 secondsfinished." Remission was there. Your sin was carried away. Cleansing was there.

59:0059 minutesYour conscience could be purified from dead works. Justification was there. God could declare righteous the person who believed in Jesus. Redemption was there.

59:0959 minutes, 9 secondsThe captive could be delivered from the authority of darkness. Cancellation was there. The hostile record could be nailed to the cross. Access was there.

59:1759 minutes, 17 secondsThe veil could be torn and humanity brought near. Victory was there. The accuser could be answered by the blood of the lamb. Everything was present in

59:2659 minutes, 26 secondsthe finished work. Suppose a man receives a key ring containing seven keys, each opening a different door in the same house. He uses one key to enter

59:3559 minutes, 35 secondsthe front room, but assumes the others are merely decorations. He lives for years in that single room, unaware that the same gift has given him access to

59:4459 minutes, 44 secondsthe kitchen, the library, the bedrooms, the storehouse, and the place of fellowship. He is truly inside the house, but he is living within a

59:5259 minutes, 52 secondsfraction of what was given to him. Many believers have entered through the door of forgiveness and stopped there. They thank God that they will go to heaven

1:00:001 hoursomeday, but they do not know that the blood has given them a cleansed conscience today. They do not know that justification gives them peace with God

1:00:081 hour, 8 secondstoday. They do not know that redemption has changed their spiritual citizenship today. They do not know that the hostile record has been cancelled today. They do

1:00:171 hour, 17 secondsnot know that access to the father belongs to them today. They do not know that the blood answers accusation today.

1:00:241 hour, 24 secondsThe inheritance is complete, but their knowledge is partial. Colossians 2:10 says, "And ye are complete in him, which

1:00:321 hour, 32 secondsis the head of all principality and power. You are not complete in your feelings. You are not complete in your religious accomplishments. You are

1:00:391 hour, 39 secondscomplete in him. Your experience may still be developing. Your mind may still require renewal. And your conduct must continue growing into agreement with the

1:00:481 hour, 48 secondsword. But the covenant foundation beneath you is Christ himself. This is where faith must become intelligent.

1:00:561 hour, 56 secondsFaith is not excitement without knowledge. Faith is not repeating phrases in the hope that volume will move God. Faith comes by hearing the

1:01:041 hour, 1 minute, 4 secondsword, rests upon what God has said, and acts as though God's testimony is true. You may whisper and still possess faith.

1:01:121 hour, 1 minute, 12 secondsYou may tremble and still possess faith.

1:01:151 hour, 1 minute, 15 secondsThe woman who touched the hem of Jesus's garment was afraid, but she acted upon what she believed. The father in Mark 9

1:01:211 hour, 1 minute, 21 secondscried, "Lord, I believe. Help thou mine unbelief." And he still brought his need to Christ. Faith is not the absence of

1:01:291 hour, 1 minute, 29 secondsevery conflicting emotion. Faith is the decision to give God's word final authority while emotions are still learning to agree. Therefore, the

1:01:371 hour, 1 minute, 37 secondseffectiveness of the blood does not depend upon your ability to produce a certain feeling. On the day you feel victorious, the blood speaks. On the day

1:01:461 hour, 1 minute, 46 secondsyou feel weak, the blood speaks. When prayer seems alive, the blood speaks.

1:01:511 hour, 1 minute, 51 secondsWhen the room feels silent, the blood speaks. Its authority rests upon the value of Christ, not the intensity of your mood. The blood also does not

1:02:001 hour, 2 minutesbecome more powerful because you repeat the phrase I plead the blood many times.

1:02:061 hour, 2 minutes, 6 secondsThose words can express genuine faith, but they are not a charm. The power is not in a formula. The power is in the

1:02:141 hour, 2 minutes, 14 secondsperson who gave his life, the covenant his death established, and the resurrection that declared his victory.

1:02:201 hour, 2 minutes, 20 secondsYour confession matters because confession means agreement. Romans 10:10 says, "With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth

1:02:291 hour, 2 minutes, 29 secondsconfession is made unto salvation." God establishes the fact. The word reveals the fact. The heart believes the fact.

1:02:361 hour, 2 minutes, 36 secondsThe mouth confesses the fact. Then conduct begins to conform to the fact.

1:02:401 hour, 2 minutes, 40 secondsYou do not confess remission in order to persuade God to remove your sin. You confess because he removed it in Christ.

1:02:471 hour, 2 minutes, 47 secondsYou do not confess cleansing to manufacture purity. You confess because the blood cleanses. You do not confess justification to win a favorably

1:02:561 hour, 2 minutes, 56 secondsverdict. You confess because God has justified you. You do not confess redemption to purchase freedom. You confess because Christ paid the price.

1:03:061 hour, 3 minutes, 6 secondsYou do not confess cancellation because the cross needs your assistance. You confess because the hostile record was nailed there. You do not confess access

1:03:151 hour, 3 minutes, 15 secondsto force the father's door open. You confess because the veil has been torn.

1:03:201 hour, 3 minutes, 20 secondsYou do not testify against accusation in order to make Jesus your advocate. You testify because he already stands at the

1:03:281 hour, 3 minutes, 28 secondsfather's right hand. This is covenant agreement. It is not humanity trying to make God faithful. It is humanity

1:03:351 hour, 3 minutes, 35 secondsdiscovering that God has been faithful and arranging its thoughts, words, and actions around that revelation. Let these seven truths form one picture

1:03:441 hour, 3 minutes, 44 secondswithin you. No charge, no stain, no condemnation, no former ownership, no hostile record, no closed door, and no

1:03:521 hour, 3 minutes, 52 secondsunanswered accusation. Not because you became your own savior, but because Jesus completed his work. Now the question becomes practical. How does a

Chapter 12: Practical covenant life

1:04:011 hour, 4 minutes, 1 secondbeliever carry this knowledge into Monday morning? How does covenant truth govern the moment when fear arrives?

1:04:081 hour, 4 minutes, 8 secondsWhen the body reports pain, when money is scarce, when memory accuses, or when prayer seems unanswered? Revelation must

1:04:161 hour, 4 minutes, 16 secondsbecome a daily posture. We must now move from merely knowing what the blood accomplished to living in conscious agreement with it. from begging for an

1:04:241 hour, 4 minutes, 24 secondsunfinished work to standing upon an accomplished redemption. Covenant confidence does not mean commanding God as though he were your servant. It does

1:04:331 hour, 4 minutes, 33 secondsnot mean treating prayer as a legal trick by which you force heaven to obey your wishes. God is the author of the covenant. He established its terms,

1:04:421 hour, 4 minutes, 42 secondssupplied its sacrifice, and raised the guarantor from the dead. Faith does not place God beneath your authority. Faith

1:04:491 hour, 4 minutes, 49 secondsplaces you beneath the authority of his word. 1 John 5:14 says, "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if

1:04:571 hour, 4 minutes, 57 secondswe ask anything according to his will, he heareth us." Confidence begins with his will, and his will is revealed in

1:05:041 hour, 5 minutes, 4 secondshis word. Faith does not invent a promise and demand that God honor it.

1:05:081 hour, 5 minutes, 8 secondsFaith discovers what God has spoken and says, "Let it be unto me according to thy word." There is a vast difference between begging, born of uncertainty,

1:05:161 hour, 5 minutes, 16 secondsand asking, born of fellowship. Jesus said in Matthew 7:7, "Ask and it shall be given you." Asking is not unbelief.

1:05:251 hour, 5 minutes, 25 secondsJesus taught us to ask, but begging speaks as though the father must be persuaded to become good. Covenant prayer asks with the assurance that he

1:05:331 hour, 5 minutes, 33 secondsthat spared not his own son will not abandon the child who comes through Christ. The beggar says, "God, if you

1:05:411 hour, 5 minutes, 41 secondscould somehow make a way, faith says,"Father, you have made the way in Christ. Show me how to walk in it." The

1:05:481 hour, 5 minutes, 48 secondsbeggar says,"Lord, perhaps you will receive me." Faith says, "I come by the blood of Jesus." The beggar says, "I do

1:05:551 hour, 5 minutes, 55 secondsnot know whether the enemy still owns me." Faith says, "The Father has delivered me from the authority of darkness." This is not arrogance, it is

1:06:041 hour, 6 minutes, 4 secondsagreement. Suppose a mother receives a troubling report about her child. Fear immediately begins constructing a

1:06:111 hour, 6 minutes, 11 secondsfuture. It shows her pictures of disaster. It places words in her mouth. Everything is going to fall apart.

1:06:181 hour, 6 minutes, 18 secondsNothing will ever change. Our family has always suffered this way. If she does not recognize the voice, she may turn fears predictions into her daily

1:06:271 hour, 6 minutes, 27 secondsconfession. Covenant agreement does not require her to deny the report. She can acknowledge the facts, seek wise

1:06:341 hour, 6 minutes, 34 secondscounsel, obtain proper care, and take every responsible step available to her.

1:06:391 hour, 6 minutes, 39 secondsBut she refuses to enthrone the report above the word. She says, "This circumstance is real, but it is not

1:06:461 hour, 6 minutes, 46 secondsLord. Jesus is Lord. Fear will not govern my mind, and despair will not write the ending of this story."

1:06:531 hour, 6 minutes, 53 secondsPhilippians 4:6 7 says, "In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made

1:07:011 hour, 7 minutes, 1 secondknown unto God." Then it promises that the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and

1:07:081 hour, 7 minutes, 8 secondsminds through Christ Jesus. Prayer presents the need. Thanksgiving recognizes the faithfulness of the father. Peace guards the mind while the believer takes the next obedient step.

1:07:191 hour, 7 minutes, 19 secondsWhen your body reports pain, do not pretend there is no pain. Sense knowledge accurately reports what the senses detect. But sense knowledge is

1:07:271 hour, 7 minutes, 27 secondsnot the only source of knowledge. The word reveals Christ's redemptive work and the father's compassionate nature.

1:07:341 hour, 7 minutes, 34 secondsBring the body before God. Pray. Receive appropriate care. Rest when rest is needed. Then refuse to let fear

1:07:411 hour, 7 minutes, 41 secondsinterpret every symptom as a final sentence. 1 Peter 2:24 says of Jesus, "Who his own self bear our sins in his

1:07:501 hour, 7 minutes, 50 secondsown body on the tree and declares, "By whose stripes ye were healed, let that word become the anchor of hope." Do not

1:07:571 hour, 7 minutes, 57 secondsturn it into condemnation against a suffering person. Do not accuse someone of faithlessness because healing is not yet visible. Stand with compassion, wisdom, patience, and confidence in God.

1:08:091 hour, 8 minutes, 9 secondsFaith does not beat the wounded. Faith carries them toward Christ. When financial pressure comes, covenant agreement does not deny the figures on

1:08:181 hour, 8 minutes, 18 secondsthe page. It does not call wastefulness, faith, or ignore an honest debt. It looks at the account, asks God for

1:08:251 hour, 8 minutes, 25 secondswisdom, makes a responsible plan, works diligently, and refuses the identity of abandonment. Philippians 4:19 says, "My

1:08:331 hour, 8 minutes, 33 secondsGod shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus." The believer answers lack with trust,

1:08:401 hour, 8 minutes, 40 secondsthen places his hands upon the work God gives him to do. When accusation comes, do not answer it with a list of personal achievements. Answer it with the blood.

1:08:501 hour, 8 minutes, 50 secondsWhen temptation comes, do not say, "This is simply who I am," answer it with redemption. When shame says, "Remain

1:08:571 hour, 8 minutes, 57 secondsoutside," answer it with access. When the past presents its old record, answer it with the cross. There is a practical

1:09:051 hour, 9 minutes, 5 secondssequence you can follow whenever pressure challenges covenant truth.

1:09:091 hour, 9 minutes, 9 secondsFirst, identify the accusation. Ask, "What is this circumstance attempting to make me believe about God, about

1:09:161 hour, 9 minutes, 16 secondsChrist's work, or about who I am in him?" Fear may say, "God has abandoned you." Shame may say you are still

1:09:231 hour, 9 minutes, 23 secondscondemned. Lack may say the Father will not provide wisdom. Pain may say there is no reason to hope. Bring the hidden

1:09:301 hour, 9 minutes, 30 secondssentence into the light. Second, locate the covenant promise that answers it.

1:09:351 hour, 9 minutes, 35 secondsJesus answered temptation by saying, "It is written," he did not search his emotions for authority. He stood upon the word. If condemnation attacks, go to

1:09:441 hour, 9 minutes, 44 secondsRomans 8:1. If fear attacks, go to 2 Timothy 1:7. God hath not given us the

1:09:511 hour, 9 minutes, 51 secondsspirit of fear. If uncertainty attacks, go to James 15. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God. If isolation

1:10:001 hour, 10 minutesattacks, go to Hebrews 13:5, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." Third, speak agreement with the promise.

1:10:081 hour, 10 minutes, 8 seconds2 Corinthians 4:13 says, "We having the same spirit of faith according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have

1:10:171 hour, 10 minutes, 17 secondsI spoken." Speak because you believe, not because you imagine sound waves, possess independent power. Your mouth gives expression to the government of

1:10:251 hour, 10 minutes, 25 secondsyour heart. Say, "Fear is present, but it will not govern me. God is with me. I have access to his wisdom, and I will

1:10:321 hour, 10 minutes, 32 secondsobey what he shows me." Fourth, act consistently with the word. James 21:17 says, "Faith, if it hath not works, is

1:10:401 hour, 10 minutes, 40 secondsdead, being alone. If you believe God gives wisdom, take the step wisdom requires." If you believe you have been cleansed, stop returning to the conduct

1:10:491 hour, 10 minutes, 49 secondsthat defiled your conscience. If you believe you are redeemed, resist the habit that claims to own you. If you believe you have access, pray instead of

1:10:581 hour, 10 minutes, 58 secondsretreating into isolation. Fifth, remain thankful while circumstances are changing. Thanksgiving is not pretending

1:11:051 hour, 11 minutes, 5 secondsthe answer is visible. It is honoring the character of God before sight has caught up with faith. Abraham was strong

1:11:121 hour, 11 minutes, 12 secondsin faith, giving glory to God. He did not deny the condition of his body.

1:11:171 hour, 11 minutes, 17 secondsRomans 4 says he considered the natural facts without allowing those facts to make him stagger at the promise. He became fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform.

1:11:291 hour, 11 minutes, 29 secondsThat is the posture of covenant faith.

1:11:311 hour, 11 minutes, 31 secondsEyes open to the circumstance, heart anchored in the promise, mouth agreeing with God, hands prepared to obey, and

1:11:381 hour, 11 minutes, 38 secondsthanksgiving, guarding the interval between prayer and manifestation. Do this daily before the accusations of the

1:11:451 hour, 11 minutes, 45 secondsworld begin speaking. Let the word speak. Before fear writes its forecast, read the covenant record. Before you

1:11:521 hour, 11 minutes, 52 secondsdescribe yourself by your weakness, declare what the blood has accomplished, you are not trying to make redemption true through repetition. You are

1:12:001 hour, 12 minutesrenewing your mind until your thoughts, speech, and conduct agree with what is already true in Christ. Now, we will

Chapter 13: The believer's confession

1:12:081 hour, 12 minutes, 8 secondsgather all seven functions into one confession. Do not hurry through it.

1:12:121 hour, 12 minutes, 12 secondsThese are not empty sentences. Let each declaration rest upon the scripture we have opened. Let your mouth agree with

1:12:191 hour, 12 minutes, 19 secondsremission, cleansing, justification, redemption, cancellation, access, and victory. The blood has spoken. Now give

1:12:291 hour, 12 minutes, 29 secondsthe word of your testimony. Now I want you to speak these truths aloud, not because the volume of your voice gives power to the blood, but because

1:12:371 hour, 12 minutes, 37 secondsconfession brings your heart and mouth into agreement with God. Romans 10:10 says, "With the heart man believeth unto

1:12:451 hour, 12 minutes, 45 secondsrighteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Let the word govern your testimony." Say this, "By the blood of Jesus, my sins

1:12:541 hour, 12 minutes, 54 secondshave been remitted." Jesus said, "This is my blood of the new testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins. I believe his blood was

1:13:021 hour, 13 minutes, 2 secondssufficient. The charge against me has been dismissed. My sin was not hidden, excused, or postponed. Christ bore it.

1:13:101 hour, 13 minutes, 10 secondsjudgment answered it, and God has removed it. As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed my

1:13:171 hour, 13 minutes, 17 secondstransgressions from me. I will not carry what Jesus carried for me. I will not rebuild an account God has closed. In

1:13:251 hour, 13 minutes, 25 secondsChrist, I have remission. Pause and let that truth enter your consciousness. You are not begging God to send away the sin

1:13:331 hour, 13 minutes, 33 secondsChrist already bore. You are thanking him because the charge has been removed.

1:13:381 hour, 13 minutes, 38 secondsNow say, "By the blood of Jesus, I have been cleansed." The word declares, "The blood of Jesus Christ, his son,

1:13:461 hour, 13 minutes, 46 secondscleanseth us from all sin." My confidence is not in a spotless human history. My confidence is in the spotless lamb. His blood purges my

1:13:541 hour, 13 minutes, 54 secondsconscience from dead works so that I may serve the living God. I refuse the identity of the defiled and rejected. I walk in the light. I receive cleansing.

1:14:041 hour, 14 minutes, 4 secondsI draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith. I am not hiding from my father in Christ. I am clean. Perhaps

1:14:121 hour, 14 minutes, 12 secondsmemory is answering you. Perhaps it is showing you what you did and where you failed. Do not argue with memory upon

1:14:191 hour, 14 minutes, 19 secondsthe ground of your conduct. Answer it with Christ. The memory may be accurate concerning your past, but it has no

1:14:261 hour, 14 minutes, 26 secondsauthority to rewrite God's declaration concerning your present standing. Now say, "By the blood of Jesus, I have been

1:14:331 hour, 14 minutes, 33 secondsjustified." Romans 5:9 says that I am justified by his blood. God has rendered his verdict. My righteousness is not my

1:14:411 hour, 14 minutes, 41 secondsachievement. It is his gift. Christ was made sin for me that I might be made the righteousness of God in him. Therefore,

1:14:491 hour, 14 minutes, 49 secondsI have peace with God through my Lord Jesus Christ. I do not approach the throne as a criminal hoping the judge will overlook me. I come as a child

1:14:571 hour, 14 minutes, 57 secondswhose standing rests upon Jesus. It is God who justifies me. No accusation can reverse his verdict. Let righteousness consciousness replace sin consciousness.

1:15:091 hour, 15 minutes, 9 secondsYou are not boasting in yourself. You are boasting in Christ. You are not saying you have never failed. You are saying his obedience is greater than

1:15:171 hour, 15 minutes, 17 secondsyour failure. Now say, by the precious blood of Christ, I have been redeemed. I was not purchased with silver or gold,

1:15:251 hour, 15 minutes, 25 secondsbut with the blood of the lamb, without blemish and without spot. The Father has delivered me from the authority of darkness and translated me into the

1:15:331 hour, 15 minutes, 33 secondskingdom of his beloved son. Fear is not my master. Sin is not my master. My past is not my master. Jesus Christ is Lord.

1:15:431 hour, 15 minutes, 43 secondsMy spirit belongs to him. My mind is being renewed by his word. My body was bought with a price and I will glorify

1:15:501 hour, 15 minutes, 50 secondsGod in it. My family and my future are placed beneath the lordship of Christ. I am redeemed. Do not negotiate with the old master. Submit yourself to God.

1:16:001 hour, 16 minutesResist the devil. Stand in the liberty with which Christ has made you free. The prison door is open. Walk out in

1:16:071 hour, 16 minutes, 7 secondsobedience. Now say, "Through the cross of Christ, the hostile record has been cancelled. God has forgiven me all

1:16:141 hour, 16 minutes, 14 secondstrespasses, blotted out the handwriting that was against me, taken it out of the way, and nailed it to the cross." The

1:16:211 hour, 16 minutes, 21 secondsadversary cannot collect a debt Jesus paid. Old agreements with fear, shame, bitterness, and defeat will not govern

1:16:291 hour, 16 minutes, 29 secondsme. Destructive patterns in my history do not possess the right to determine my identity. If any man is in Christ, he is

1:16:361 hour, 16 minutes, 36 secondsa new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new.

1:16:421 hour, 16 minutes, 42 secondsI accept responsibility for my choices, but I refuse condemnation. The cross is God's final answer to the record that

1:16:491 hour, 16 minutes, 49 secondsstood against me. Bring your family before the Father in your heart. Do not condemn those who came before you. Do not speak fear over those who come after

1:16:581 hour, 16 minutes, 58 secondsyou. Say, "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Let the new covenant, not the repetition of old

1:17:051 hour, 17 minutes, 5 secondspain, become the testimony you hand to the next generation." Now say, "By the blood of Jesus, I have access to the

1:17:131 hour, 17 minutes, 13 secondsFather. I who was far off have been made near by the blood of Christ. The veil is torn, the way is open. Through Jesus, I

1:17:201 hour, 17 minutes, 20 secondshave access by one spirit unto the Father. I come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to

1:17:271 hour, 17 minutes, 27 secondshelp in time of need. I do not come because my performance is perfect. I come because Christ's sacrifice is

1:17:341 hour, 17 minutes, 34 secondsperfect. I am not an intruder. I am not an abandoned orphan. I am a covenant child welcomed in the beloved. Bring

1:17:431 hour, 17 minutes, 43 secondsyour needs before him now. Bring your body. Bring your household. Bring your work, your decisions, and the burden you

1:17:501 hour, 17 minutes, 50 secondshave carried in silence. Do not stand in the hallway when the Father has called you near. Ask for wisdom. Receive mercy.

1:17:581 hour, 17 minutes, 58 secondsFind grace. Finally, say, "I overcome by the blood of the lamb, and by the word of my testimony." The blood of Jesus

1:18:061 hour, 18 minutes, 6 secondsspeaks a better word than my sin, my fear, my weakness, or the accusation of the enemy. Jesus Christ died. He rose

1:18:131 hour, 18 minutes, 13 secondsagain. He is seated at the right hand of the father. and he makes intercession for me. He is my advocate. When

1:18:211 hour, 18 minutes, 21 secondsconviction comes, I will repent and walk in the light. When condemnation comes, I will answer it with the blood. God has

1:18:291 hour, 18 minutes, 29 secondsjustified me. Christ represents me. The accuser cannot overturn the father's verdict. Now gather the whole confession

1:18:361 hour, 18 minutes, 36 secondsinto one declaration. My sins are remitted. My conscience is cleansed. I am justified. I am redeemed. The hostile

1:18:441 hour, 18 minutes, 44 secondsrecord is canceled. I have access to my father. I overcome accusation by the blood of the lamb and the word of my

1:18:511 hour, 18 minutes, 51 secondstestimony. This is not based upon how strong I feel. It is based upon what Jesus finished. This is not confidence

1:18:581 hour, 18 minutes, 58 secondsin my record. It is confidence in his blood. Hold that confession when the body reports pain. Seek wisdom. Receive

1:19:061 hour, 19 minutes, 6 secondsproper care and refuse to let fear become Lord. Hold it when financial pressure speaks. Work faithfully. Act

1:19:131 hour, 19 minutes, 13 secondsresponsibly and trust the father as your source. Hold it when your family faces conflict. Walk in love, forgive, speak

1:19:201 hour, 19 minutes, 20 secondstruth, and refuse to repeat the old history. Hold it when the enemy reminds you of yesterday. Point him to the cross and declare what God says about you

1:19:281 hour, 19 minutes, 28 secondstoday. The blood has remitted. The blood has cleansed. The blood has justified.

1:19:341 hour, 19 minutes, 34 secondsThe blood has redeemed. The cross has canceled the hostile record. The blood has opened the way. The blood speaks

1:19:411 hour, 19 minutes, 41 secondsagainst every accusation. Now rest in what it says. The covenant does not depend upon your ability to feel strong

1:19:491 hour, 19 minutes, 49 secondsevery hour. Its strength rests upon the eternal sufficiency of Jesus Christ.

1:19:541 hour, 19 minutes, 54 secondsThere will be mornings when you awaken and do not feel victorious. The first voice you hear may be the voice of yesterday's failure. Your body may feel

1:20:031 hour, 20 minutes, 3 secondsweak. Your circumstances may appear unchanged. The answer you prayed for may not yet be visible. In that hour,

1:20:101 hour, 20 minutes, 10 secondsremember this. The covenant does not rest upon the strength of your feelings. It rests upon the faithfulness of God.

1:20:181 hour, 20 minutes, 18 secondsSecond Timothy 2:13 says, "If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful. He cannot deny himself." Your emotions may rise

1:20:261 hour, 20 minutes, 26 secondsand fall, but Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. The blood does not lose its authority when

1:20:331 hour, 20 minutes, 33 secondsyou feel discouraged. The advocate does not abandon his place when your confidence trembles. The father does not sew the veil together because you had a

1:20:411 hour, 20 minutes, 41 secondsdifficult day. Do not measure the completeness of redemption by the condition of the morning. Measure the morning by the completeness of

1:20:481 hour, 20 minutes, 48 secondsredemption. A young believer may understand only one of these truths today. He may still be learning how to bring his thoughts into agreement with

1:20:571 hour, 20 minutes, 57 secondsthe word. The father does not reject him because his knowledge is incomplete. A child belongs to the family before he understands all the privileges of

1:21:051 hour, 21 minutes, 5 secondssunship. But as he grows, he learns what his father has given him, and he begins to live with the confidence of belonging. That is your invitation. Grow

1:21:151 hour, 21 minutes, 15 secondsin the knowledge of what the blood has accomplished. Take one function each day and meditate upon it. On the first day, say, "My sins have been remitted." On

1:21:231 hour, 21 minutes, 23 secondsthe second, say, "My conscience has been cleansed." On the third, say, "God has justified me." On the fourth, say,

1:21:311 hour, 21 minutes, 31 seconds"Christ has redeemed me." On the fifth say, "The hostile record was nailed to the cross." On the sixth, say, "I have

1:21:401 hour, 21 minutes, 40 secondsaccess to my father." On the seventh, say, "I overcome accusation by the blood of the lamb." Do not repeat those words

1:21:471 hour, 21 minutes, 47 secondshurriedly. Open the scriptures. Read them until the word becomes greater in your consciousness than the voice of guilt. Joshua 1:8 says, "Thou shalt

1:21:561 hour, 21 minutes, 56 secondsmeditate therein day and night." Meditation is the process by which revelation moves from the page into the inward man until the heart begins to

1:22:041 hour, 22 minutes, 4 secondsanswer circumstances with God's own testimony. The blood has not given you permission to become careless. It has given you freedom to become obedient

1:22:131 hour, 22 minutes, 13 secondswithout fear. Titus 2:12 says that the grace of God teaches us to deny ungodliness and live soberly,

1:22:211 hour, 22 minutes, 21 secondsrighteously, and godly. Grace does not make holiness unnecessary. Grace makes holiness possible without condemnation.

1:22:281 hour, 22 minutes, 28 secondsYou do not obey in order to become a child. You obey because the life of the father is within you. When you fall, do

1:22:351 hour, 22 minutes, 35 secondsnot run from the light. Run to it. When you are corrected, do not mistake correction for rejection. When you face a battle, do not interpret the battle as evidence that redemption has failed.

1:22:461 hour, 22 minutes, 46 secondsStand. Ephesians 6:13 says, "Having done all, to stand." Standing is not passivity. It is the refusal to

1:22:541 hour, 22 minutes, 54 secondssurrender covenant ground while you continue praying, obeying, learning, and acting wisely. You are not a beggar

1:23:021 hour, 23 minutes, 2 secondsattempting to move an unwilling God. You are a child coming to a willing father through the blood of a perfect son. You are not condemned. You are justified.

1:23:111 hour, 23 minutes, 11 secondsYou are not abandoned. You have been brought near. You are not owned by darkness. You have been redeemed. You are not defenseless before accusation.

1:23:191 hour, 23 minutes, 19 secondsYou have an advocate with the father.

1:23:221 hour, 23 minutes, 22 secondsThe blood speaks for your identity. It says you are in Christ. The blood speaks over your family. It says an old history

1:23:291 hour, 23 minutes, 29 secondsdoes not possess greater authority than the new covenant. The blood speaks in your weakness. It says grace is available at the throne. The blood

1:23:371 hour, 23 minutes, 37 secondsspeaks in spiritual conflict. It says Christ has triumphed over principalities and powers. Yet your final confidence

1:23:451 hour, 23 minutes, 45 secondsmust never rest in the perfection of your confession. There may be moments when you do not know what to say. There may be nights when your prayer is no

1:23:521 hour, 23 minutes, 52 secondsmore than the name of Jesus. Romans 8:26 says, "The spirit also helpeth our infirmities. Your security is not

1:24:001 hour, 24 minutesfounded upon your ability to speak without error. It is founded upon Christ's ability to save completely."

1:24:061 hour, 24 minutes, 6 secondsHebrews 7:25 declares, "He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. He lives.

1:24:171 hour, 24 minutes, 17 secondsHe intercedes. He holds the covenant.

1:24:201 hour, 24 minutes, 20 secondsYour salvation is not resting upon a dead memory, but upon a living high priest. So rest not the rest of indifference, but the rest of faith.

1:24:291 hour, 24 minutes, 29 secondsWork from rest. Pray from access. Resist the enemy from redemption. Confess the word from justification. Walk in the

1:24:361 hour, 24 minutes, 36 secondslight from cleansing. Face your past from remission. Answer accusation with the blood. One sacrifice. One covenant.

1:24:451 hour, 24 minutes, 45 secondsone eternal redemption. The charge has been removed. The conscience has been cleansed. The verdict has been rendered.

1:24:521 hour, 24 minutes, 52 secondsThe captive has been redeemed. The hostile record has been cancelled. The door has been opened. The accuser has been answered. The blood speaks a better

1:25:001 hour, 25 minutesword. Believe that word. Agree with that word. Live from that word. And when every other voice becomes silent, the

1:25:081 hour, 25 minutes, 8 secondsblood of Jesus Christ will still be speaking before the throne of God,

Chapter 1: The covenant transaction

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Most believers know that the blood of Jesus forgives sin. They have sung about the blood. They have taken communion and

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remembered the blood. They have bowed their heads and thanked God that their past has been pardoned. Yet many of those same believers rise from prayer,

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still carrying guilt, still fearing the enemy, still wondering whether God will receive them, and still begging for blessings that the blood has already

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purchased. They know one thing the blood has done, but they do not know the complete covenant transaction. Listen to

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the word. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his

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grace. Notice the language of Ephesians 1:7. It does not say that we are attempting to obtain redemption. It says

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we have redemption. That is present possession. That is a completed fact.

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The blood is not merely something you remember as part of an event that occurred centuries ago. The blood established your present standing before

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the father. Picture a woman kneeling beside her bed in the darkness. She loves God. She believes in Jesus. Yet

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every sentence of her prayer begins with uncertainty. Father, if you can still receive me, Lord, if I have been good enough, God, if you are not too

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disappointed in me, she is standing outside a door that God has already opened. Hebrews 10:19 declares, "Having

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therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus." God did not say, "Come trembling because of your record." He said, "Come boldly

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because of the blood." The tragedy is not that the blood failed her. The tragedy is that no one taught her what the blood accomplished. 1 John 1:7 says,

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"The blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanseth us from all sin." Romans 5:9 says that we are justified by his blood.

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Hebrews 9:12 says that Christ entered the holy place by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

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Colossians 1:20 says that God made peace through the blood of his cross. Hebrews 12:24 tells us that the blood speaketh better things than that of Abel.

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Revelation 12 11 declares, "They overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony,

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cleansing, justification, redemption, peace, access, testimony, victory." The blood does not speak one weak word over

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the believer. It speaks the entire language of the new covenant. You have not been given a partial salvation.

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Jesus did not say it is beginning. He said it is finished. He did not carry part of your guilt. He did not pay a

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deposit upon your redemption. He did not open the door halfway and leave you to earn the right to enter. He offered one

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sacrifice, completed one covenant work, and sat down at the right hand of the father. These seven functions of the

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blood are not seven rewards reserved for unusually spiritual Christians. They are not prizes you receive after years of

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struggling. They belong to the newborn child of God because they belong to Christ and the child of God is in Christ. Faith does not create them.

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Prayer does not persuade God to provide them. Faith discovers them. Faith receives them. Faith agrees with them.

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The uninformed believer begs for what may already be his. The covenant conscious believer opens the word, sees

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what God has declared and says, "Father, I agree with you. Let every circumstance, every accusation, and

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every voice of the senses bow before what the blood has established." But before we examine these seven provisions one by one, we must see Calvary as God

Chapter 2: The cross as substitution

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intended us to see it. The cross was not only an exhibition of suffering. It was not merely a moving religious picture.

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It was substitution. It was judgment. It was payment. It was covenant. It was the moment when God dealt legally and

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eternally with everything that stood between himself and humanity. When Jesus hung upon the cross, heaven was not

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watching a helpless martyr being crushed by circumstances. God was carrying out the most complete covenant transaction that eternity had ever witnessed. Isaiah

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had looked forward through the centuries and declared, "He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our

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peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. Then the prophet added, "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity

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of us all." That is substitution. He took your place so completely that God could afterward give you his place. He

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was made what you were that you might become what he is. 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, "For he hath made him to be sin

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for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." There is the divine exchange. Your sin

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was laid upon Christ. His righteousness was made available to you. Your old standing ended at the cross and a new standing began in his resurrection.

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Under the old covenant, the priest stood continually because his work was never finished. Another sin required another offering. Another year required another

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entrance into the sanctuary. Hebrews 10:4 tells us plainly, "It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of

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goats should take away sins. Their blood could point forward. It could cover ceremonially. It could testify that judgment was coming, but it could not

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recreate the human spirit, silence the accusing conscience, or give humanity eternal fellowship with the father.

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Imagine an Israelite watching the priest take the sacrificial blood toward the sanctuary. The man knows that the animal is innocent. He knows that death has

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occurred because of sin. He watches the priest disappear from sight, but he also knows that the priest will have to return next year. The sacrifice has

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spoken, but it has not spoken the final word. The account remains open. The transaction awaits completion. Then

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Christ came. Hebrews 9:12 declares, "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered

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in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." Notice those words once and eternal. If

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redemption is eternal, it does not expire when you feel weak. If Christ entered once, he does not have to return to Calvary whenever you stumble. His blood did not purchase temporary relief.

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It obtained eternal redemption. Hebrews 10:12 says, "But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever,

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sat down on the right hand of God. The old priest remained standing because his work continued. Jesus sat down because his work was complete. His seated

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position is heaven's testimony that no additional sacrifice is required. The son is not waiting for you to complete what he left unfinished. He is waiting for you to believe what he finished.

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That is why his final cry from the cross carries such authority. It is finished.

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The judgment was born. The price was paid. The covenant was ratified. The claims of justice were answered. The way

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to the father was opened. Satan's authority over the person who would receive Christ was broken at its legal foundation. Do not reduce the cross to a

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symbol of sympathy. It is the place where God's holiness and God's love met without either being compromised. God did not pretend that sin did not matter.

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He judged it in his son. God did not abandon humanity to that judgment. He placed humanity's judgment upon its

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substitute. Justice was satisfied. Love was revealed. and grace was given a righteous foundation upon which to act.

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1 Peter 2:24 says that Jesus, his own self, bear our sins in his own body on the tree. He did not bear them as an

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illustration. He bore them as your substitute. He did not enter the heavenly sanctuary carrying your promises, your tears, or your good

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intentions. He entered with his own blood. That blood became the eternal witness that the price had been paid.

Chapter 3: Living by revelation

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Now we are ready to open the covenant document and examine what that payment secured. We are not searching for seven disconnected blessings. We are looking

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at seven consequences of one finished act, one blood, one sacrifice, one victory, seven provisions revealing the

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completeness of what God accomplished in Christ. Now these seven functions must not be separated as though God performed

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seven unrelated acts. They are seven rays proceeding from one light. They are seven provisions contained in one covenant. They are seven answers given

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by one sacrifice to the entire problem created by spiritual death. The blood that remits sin is the same blood that

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cleanses the conscience. The blood that justifies is the blood that redeems. The blood that cancels the hostile record is

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the blood that opens the way into the father's presence and answers every accusation of the adversary. Paul

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declared in Romans 8:32, "He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him

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also freely give us all things?" God did not divide Christ. He gave him holy.

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Therefore, the redemption that is in Christ is not divided. You do not receive forgiveness today and wait 10 years to qualify for access. You do not

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receive cleansing as a young believer and earn justification after you have proved yourself faithful. The moment you receive Christ, you are brought into the

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full legal consequences of his finished work. Imagine that a man receives notice that a wealthy relative has died and named him as an heir. The attorney

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places a sealed document in his hand, but the man never opens it. He knows he has inherited something, so he lives with a vague sense of gratitude. Yet, he

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continues, struggling beneath debts the inheritance could satisfy. He sleeps in a rented room while a home stands in his

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name. He begs for assistance while resources legally belong to him. His poverty is not caused by the weakness of

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the inheritance. It is caused by his ignorance of its provisions. That is the condition of many believers. They know

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that Jesus died for them, but they have never opened the covenant document. They possess eternal life, yet they speak as

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though spiritual death still governs them. They have been made righteous, yet they approach the father as condemned criminals. They have been redeemed from

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the authority of darkness. Yet they negotiate with the adversary as though he still possesses lawful dominion over

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them. God said through Hosea, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." He did not say they were destroyed because

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the covenant was weak. He did not say they were destroyed because the enemy was greater than Christ. Their defeat came because they did not know.

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Ignorance can leave a free man living with the habits of a prisoner. Ignorance can leave an heir begging outside a house whose deed bears his name. This is

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why Paul prayed in Ephesians 1:17 18 that God would give believers the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the

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knowledge of him and that the eyes of your understanding would be enlightened.

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Paul was not praying that God would create another redemption. He was praying that believers would see the redemption already accomplished.

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Revelation does not add something to Christ's work. It opens your eyes to what his work has made yours. Faith begins where the will of God is known.

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You cannot stand confidently upon a provision you do not know exists. But the moment the word reveals what the blood has accomplished, faith rises and

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says that belongs to me because I belong to Christ. Romans 10:17 declares, "So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing

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by the word of God." Faith is not a desperate attempt to force God's hand.

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Faith is the human spirit responding to God's testimony. The blood does not become effective because you speak loudly. The covenant does not become

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valid because you feel an emotion. Your confession does not create redemption. Your confession agrees with redemption.

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God establishes the fact. The word reveals the fact. Faith receives the fact. The mouth gives testimony to the

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fact. This distinction will protect you from both unbelief and empty ritual. We are not treating the blood as a magical

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expression. We are not repeating words while our hearts remain ignorant of Christ. We are discovering what God has declared, resting our confidence in his

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son, and refusing to contradict his testimony. 1 John 5:11 says, "And this is the record that God hath given to us

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eternal life, and this life is in his son." God has given the record. The question is whether you will accept his record as final. Sense knowledge may

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tell you what you feel. Memory may remind you of what you did. The accuser may rehearse every failure. But revelation knowledge points to Christ

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and says God's record stands. So we will begin where the gospel begins with the sin that separated humanity from God.

Chapter 4: Remission of sins

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What did the blood do with that sin? Did it merely hide it? Did it postpone judgment? Did it cover the record

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temporarily and leave the charge waiting beneath the surface? No. The first legal function of the blood is remission. The

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charge was not merely covered. It was carried away. Jesus declared in Matthew 26-28, "For this is my blood of the new

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testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins." He did not say that his blood would make sin less serious.

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He did not say it would persuade God to overlook an unpaid account. He said his blood was shed for remission. Remission carries the thought of release,

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dismissal, and sending away. Under the old covenant, sacrifice pointed forward to the day when sin would finally be

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dealt with. The blood of animals testified that sin required death, but Hebrews 10:4 says, "It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats

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should take away sins." Those sacrifices were a shadow. Christ was the substance.

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They anticipated payment. He made payment. They were repeated because their work was incomplete. He offered himself once because his work was final.

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Hebrews 9:26 says that Christ appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Notice the language, put away.

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God did not move your sin into a hidden room in heaven where he could retrieve it whenever you failed. He did not preserve the old charge as leverage

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against you. Jesus bore it. Judgment answered it. and the blood became heaven's testimony that its penalty had

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been satisfied. Imagine a man standing before a judge while an entire record of debt is read aloud. Every figure is accurate. Every signature is genuine.

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The man has no defense and no ability to pay. Then another person enters, assumes the whole obligation, and satisfies it

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completely. The judge closes the record and declares the debt discharged. If the first man returns the next morning begging the judge to forgive the same

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debt, he is no longer honoring the payment. He is speaking as though the payment were incomplete. That is how

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many Christians pray. They repeatedly ask God to do what he has already done in Christ because they have never allowed the finality of remission to

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enter their consciousness. Hebrews 10:17:18 says, "Their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now

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where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. God's refusal to remember is not divine forgetfulness. It

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is a covenant declaration that the remitted charge will never again become the basis of prosecution. God remembers history, but he does not hold the

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believer's remitted sin against him. The blood has answered it. Psalm 103:12 anticipated this grace. As far as the

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east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. East and west never meet. God did not place

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your transgressions a short distance away so they could follow you home. He removed them. John the Baptist looked upon Jesus and cried, "Behold the lamb

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of God which taketh away the sin of the world, not hides it, not excuses it, takes it away." Peter announced the same fact in Acts 10:43.

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through his name. Whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

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This is received through faith in Christ, not earned through religious labor. The believer does not work until God becomes willing to dismiss the

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charge. God has acted in his son, and faith accepts his testimony. Now, this does not make sin harmless, nor does it

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give the believer permission to live carelessly. Remission is not God agreeing with sin. It is God condemning sin so completely in the body of Christ

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that the person who trusts in him can be released from its guilt and dominion. Grace does not teach us to love bondage.

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Grace gives us a new standing from which we can walk in freedom. When a child of God sins, he does not need another

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Calvary. He does not need Jesus to shed his blood again. 1 John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and

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just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Fellowship may be disturbed, but the foundation of redemption has not

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collapsed. Confession is not an attempt to purchase forgiveness with sorrow. It is agreement with God concerning the sin and a return to the light where the

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blood has already made cleansing available. Stop introducing yourself to the father by the name of a charge the blood removed. Do not say, "I am merely

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a guilty creature hoping God will tolerate me." Say what God says. In Christ, I have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins. Do not build your identity around what you did.

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Build it around what Christ did with what you did. The charge has been dismissed. The debt has been satisfied.

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The sin has been sent away. That is the first function of the blood. But God did not stop with the record against you. He

Chapter 5: Cleansing the conscience

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went deeper. He dealt with the stain upon the conscience, the inward sense of contamination that causes a forgiven person to shrink from fellowship.

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Remission answers the charge. Cleansing answers the defilement. And that is the second legal function of the blood.

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There are believers who accept that God has forgiven them. Yet they still feel inwardly unclean. They remember where

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they have been. They remember what they have done. They remember the words spoken in anger, the years wasted in rebellion, the secret failures no other

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person knows. The charge may have been dismissed in heaven, but the memory continues presenting evidence in their minds. They say, "Perhaps God has

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forgiven me, but I cannot forgive myself." That is why the blood does more than remit. The blood cleanses. 1 John

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1:7 declares, "If we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another. And the

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blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. Notice that John does not speak of a powerless religious

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memory. He says the blood cleanseth. The blood has a present voice and a present ministry in the believer's fellowship

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with the father. Hebrews 9:14 asks, "How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered

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himself without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? The purpose of cleansing is

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not merely that you might feel better about yesterday. It is that you might serve the living God today. A conscience occupied with guilt is continually

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looking backward. A conscience cleansed by the blood is free to look toward the father, hear his word, and do his will.

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Imagine a son who has disobeyed his father and then returned home. The father receives him, embraces him, and

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restores him to fellowship. Yet the son remains standing near the door with his head lowered. A place has been prepared for him at the table, but he will not

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sit down. He has been welcomed, but he behaves as though he remains rejected.

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The barrier is no longer in the father's heart. It exists in the son's consciousness. Many believers are standing beside a table where the father

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has already placed their bread. They are in the family, but guilt has taught them to think like strangers. They pray from the doorway. They worship from a

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distance. They hear God say, "Come." While their conscience answers, "I am not worthy." The blood answers that

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consciousness. Hebrews 10:22 says, "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts

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sprinkled from an evil conscience." God does not cleanse you so that you may remain at a distance admiring his holiness. He cleanses you so that you

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may draw near. The blood removes the consciousness that makes you hide and supplies the assurance that permits fellowship. This is not self-confidence.

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It is blood confidence. You are not claiming that you never failed. You are declaring that Christ's blood is greater than your failure. You are not

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pretending the past did not happen. You are recognizing that the past has no right to govern the person God has made you in Christ. David cried under the old

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covenant, "Create in me a clean heart, oh God." But in the new birth, God does not merely repair the old nature. 2

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Corinthians 5:17 declares, "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all

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things are become new." The believer possesses a recreated spirit, born of God and brought into union with Christ.

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The mind may still remember the old life, but the new creation must not take its identity from memory. It receives its identity from the word. Jesus said

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in John 15:3, "Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you." The word tells you what the blood has

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accomplished. The senses may say, "You still feel stained." The word says, "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from

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all sin." Memory may say, "You are still the person who committed that act." The word says, "Old things are passed away."

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The accuser may say, "You have no right to approach God." The word says, "Let us draw near." Which testimony will govern

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you? Do not answer guilt by examining yourself until you discover some personal goodness strong enough to silence it. You will never find peace

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there. Answer guilt with Christ. Say, "My confidence is not in my spotless history. My confidence is in the

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spotless lamb who offered himself for me. Revelation 1:5 says that Jesus loved us and washed us from our sins in his

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own blood. He loved, he washed, he acted. The initiative belonged to him.

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When the Holy Spirit convicts you of a definite sin, agree with him quickly.

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Confess it, turn from it, receive the cleansing promised in the word. But when the accuser produces only a shapeless

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cloud of condemnation when he whispers that you are dirty, unwanted, and permanently disqualified, do not bow to

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that voice. Conviction points to something that must be brought into the light. Condemnation attacks your identity after the blood has spoken. Say

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it plainly. The blood of Jesus has cleansed me. I am not hiding from my father. I walk in the light. My conscience is being brought into

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agreement with the finished work of Christ. I am free to serve the living God. Not tolerated, but cleansed. Not

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contaminated, but made fit for fellowship. Not crouching outside the Father's presence, but invited to draw near with a true heart and full

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assurance of faith. Yet cleansing is not the end of the revelation. God did not merely wash the accused person and

Chapter 6: Justification by blood

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return him to the courtroom to await another verdict. The blood secured the verdict itself. Romans 5:9 declares that

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we are justified by his blood. Remission removed the charge. Cleansing removed the defilement. Justification declares

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your new standing. The judge has spoken and his verdict is the third legal function of the blood. Romans 5:9

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declares, "Much more than being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him." Notice the tense. Being now justified.

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Justification is not a verdict God is considering. It is not a future possibility reserved for the believer who performs well enough. It is the

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present standing of the person who has placed faith in Jesus Christ. To justify means more than to pardon. A governor

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may pardon a guilty man while the public record continues to identify him as the man who committed the crime. But in

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justification, God does not merely release you from punishment and leave you beneath the old identity. He declares you righteous on the ground of

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Christ's substitution. He gives you a new standing before his throne. Romans 4:25 says that Jesus was delivered for

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our offenses and was raised again for our justification. The cross and the resurrection cannot be separated. At the

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cross, Christ went down beneath the judgment that belonged to fallen humanity. In the resurrection, God declared that the claims of justice had

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been satisfied. Jesus did not rise as a defeated substitute escaping from judgment. He rose as the victorious Lord

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who had completed redemption. His resurrection is heaven's receipt.

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Imagine a man standing in a courtroom while the adversary presents every failure of his life. Nothing is omitted.

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The words he regrets are read aloud. The hidden actions are uncovered. The opportunities he wasted are placed before the court. The accused man cannot

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answer with his morality because his morality is imperfect. He cannot answer with his good intentions because intentions cannot erase guilt. He cannot

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answer with his religious labor because works cannot purchase righteousness.

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Then his advocate rises. The advocate does not deny that sin occurred. He points to the cross and declares that judgment has already fallen. He presents

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his own blood as the evidence of payment. Then the judge speaks not because the accused man has established his innocence through performance, but

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because the substitute has satisfied justice, the verdict is righteous, standing through faith in Christ. Romans

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8:33 asks, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. The adversary may

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accuse, but he does not occupy the judgment seat. Your emotions may accuse, but they are not the judge. Your past

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may testify concerning what you were, but it cannot overturn what God has declared you to be in Christ. It is God

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that justifieth. Romans 5:1 says, "Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord

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Jesus Christ." Peace with God is not a passing sensation. It is the settled result of justification. You may feel troubled while peace with God remains

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legally established. Feelings describe the condition of your emotions. The word reveals the condition of your relationship with God. This is where

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righteousness consciousness begins. Sin consciousness continually asks, "How can I hide from God?" Righteousness

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consciousness asks, "How can I please the Father who has brought me near?" Sin consciousness expects rejection.

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Righteousness consciousness expects fellowship. Sin consciousness makes prayer an attempt to gain acceptance.

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righteousness, consciousness, praise from acceptance. 2 Corinthians 5:21 declares, "For he hath made him to be

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sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." It does not say that we might

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merely admire righteousness. It does not say that we might imitate righteousness from a distance. It says that in Christ, we are made the righteousness of God.

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That does not mean your conduct has reached perfection. It means your standing is founded upon Christ. Your conduct must now be brought into

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agreement with that standing. You do not practice righteousness in order to persuade God to make you righteous.

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Because you have been made righteous in Christ, you learn to walk as a righteous child of God. The branch does not struggle to earn the nature of the vine.

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It bears fruit because it shares the life of the vine. In the same way, holiness is not an anxious effort to manufacture a relationship with God. It

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is the fruit of the life already received from Christ. Jesus said, "Abide in me and I in you." Union comes first,

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fruit follows. This destroys both pride and condemnation.

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Pride cannot boast because righteousness was received as a gift. Condemnation cannot rule because righteousness rests

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upon Christ's obedience rather than yours. Romans 5:17 speaks of those who receive abundance of grace and of the

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gift of righteousness. A gift is not wages. It is received, not earned.

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Suppose you fail tomorrow, the accuser will immediately attempt to move your attention from Christ to yourself. He will say, "Now your righteousness is

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gone. But if your standing came through your flawless performance, it was never the righteousness of God." Your response

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is not to excuse the failure. Bring it into the light. Confess it. Turn from it. Then stand again upon the same blood

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that justified you before the failure occurred. Romans 8:1 declares, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them

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which are in Christ Jesus." God corrects his children, but he does not return them to the courtroom of condemnation every morning. A father may discipline a

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son without disowning him. Fellowship may require restoration, but sunship rests upon birth. Say this until your

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inward man agrees with it. I am not seeking a favorable verdict. God has justified me through the blood of Jesus.

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I do not approach him as a criminal hoping for mercy, but as a child whose standing rests upon Christ. My righteousness is not a record of my achievement. My righteousness is Christ.

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The blood has done more than forgive what you committed. It has established who you are before God. Remission says the charge is gone. Cleansing says the

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stain is gone. Justification says the old verdict is gone. But a justified person must also be delivered from the

Chapter 7: Redemption from dominion

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dominion under which he once lived. God did not declare you righteous and leave you in the prisonard of the adversary.

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He paid the price that released you and transferred you into the kingdom of his son. That is redemption. The fourth

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legal function of the blood. Redemption means release through the payment of a price. It is not merely sympathy for a

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captive. It is not encouragement shouted through the bars of a prison. Redemption means that a sufficient price has been paid. The claim of the former master has

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been answered and the captive has been set free. First Peter 1:18:19 says, "For as much as ye know that ye were not

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redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without

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blemish and without spot. Silver could not purchase you. Gold could not answer the claims of justice. Human effort could not break the dominion of

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spiritual death. The price had to be greater than the bondage. And God supplied that price in the blood of his

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son. The value of an object is revealed by the price someone is willing to pay for it. God did not purchase you with

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something disposable. Acts 20:28 speaks of the church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood. Do not

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call worthless what God valued at the price of Christ. Do not identify yourself as abandoned when the son of God entered death to bring you home.

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Imagine a captive who has lived behind stone walls for so many years that imprisonment has entered his thinking.

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One morning the door opens. The debt responsible for his confinement has been paid and an officer says, "You are free." Yet the man remains seated in the

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darkness. He has learned the habits of captivity. He still waits for permission to stand. He still lowers his voice when

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he speaks. He still measures every step as though chains remain around his feet.

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The chains are gone, but the prison survives in his consciousness. This is why the word must renew the believer's mind. Redemption may be an accomplished

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fact while a person continues thinking like a captive. He may have been delivered from fear while still consulting fear before every decision.

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He may have been released from condemnation while continuing to speak the language of guilt. He may have been brought into the kingdom of God while interpreting every circumstance as though darkness still owns him.

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Colossians 1:13:14 declares that the father hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into

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the kingdom of his dear son in whom we have redemption through his blood.

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Again, notice the tense. He hath delivered us. We are not waiting for darkness to become willing to release us. God acted. He broke its claim,

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brought us out, and translated us into another kingdom. Redemption is deliverance followed by transfer. You

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were not released into spiritual emptiness. You were not left standing between two kingdoms, waiting to discover which one would claim you. You

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were transferred into the kingdom of God's beloved son. You came beneath a new lord, received a new citizenship, entered a new family, and became a

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participant in a new covenant. The enemy may still attempt to influence you, but influence is not ownership. He may

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tempt, accuse, and deceive, but he is no longer your lawful lord. James 4:7 says, "Submit yourselves, therefore, to God.

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Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. God would not command you to resist an authority that still possessed an unquestionable right to rule you.

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Resistance is possible because redemption has changed your standing." Ephesians 1:7 says, "In whom we have

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redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace." Redemption is located in whom in Christ. Outside of

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Christ, humanity stood beneath the dominion of sin and spiritual death. In Christ, the believer stands within the

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sphere of eternal life. The decisive question is no longer merely what you have done. The decisive question is where you are. If you are in Christ, his

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redemption is your redemption. Galatians 3:13 declares, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a

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curse for us. He did not merely teach us how to endure the curse with greater dignity. He became a curse for us."

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Substitution answered what human effort could never answer. Verse 14 continues, "That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ.

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Redemption brings you out from under one claim and into the blessing established by God. This does not mean that the

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believer will never face adversity. It means adversity no longer possesses the right to define his covenant identity.

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Symptoms may challenge the body. Lack may confront the household. Fear may knock at the mind, but none of these has authority to rewrite the blood-sealed

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testimony of redemption. The believer looks at the circumstance and says, "You may be present, but you are not my Lord.

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Jesus is Lord." Faith does not deny the existence of the prison walls. Faith points to the open door. The redeemed

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person learns to speak from his new location. He does not say, "I belong to fear and perhaps God will rescue me

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someday." He says, "God has delivered me from the authority of darkness." He does not say, "The adversary owns my future

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because of my past." He says, "I was purchased with the precious blood of Christ." He does not say, "I am trying to enter the kingdom." He says, "The

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Father has translated me into the kingdom of his beloved son." Your body is not the property of darkness. 1

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Corinthians 6:19:20 says, "Ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your

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body. Your mind is not territory you must surrender to fear." Romans 12:2 tells you to be transformed by the

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renewing of your mind. Your future is not an unpaid account in the hands of the adversary. You belong to the one who

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bought you. Do not ask the former jailer for permission to leave a prison Christ has opened. Do not negotiate with chains

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the blood has broken. Do not glorify the power of the old master by continually announcing that he cannot be resisted.

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Stand upon the fact of redemption.

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Submit yourself to God and resist every voice that contradicts your new ownership. Say it plainly. I have been

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redeemed by the blood of Jesus. I have been delivered from the authority of darkness and transferred into the kingdom of God's son. Sin is not my

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Lord. Fear is not my Lord. The past is not my Lord. Jesus Christ is Lord and I belong to him. Yet someone may ask,

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"What of the written record? What of the ordinances that testified against me?

Chapter 8: Cancellation of records

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What of the documented debt the adversary uses as the basis of accusation? Redemption has changed your ownership, but God's answer goes

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further. He did not leave the hostile record intact for darkness to wave before your conscience. He took that record out of the way and nailed it to

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the cross. That cancellation is the fifth legal function of the blood.

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Colossians 2:13:15 gives us one of the most triumphant pictures in the New Testament. And you being dead in your

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sins, and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses, blotting out the handwriting of

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ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross, and having spoiled principalities and

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powers, he made a shoe of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Listen to the movement of those words. He quickened. He forgave. He blotted out.

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He took away. He nailed. He disarmed. He triumphed. The believer is not the principal actor in this passage. Goddess

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redemption rests upon what God did in Christ, not upon what frightened humanity is attempting to do for itself.

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Paul speaks of a handwriting that stood against us. In the ancient world, a debtor might acknowledge an obligation in writing. The document testified that

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a real debt existed and that payment was required. Humanity possessed such a record. God's holy law did not create

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sin, but it exposed sin. It revealed what righteousness required and testified that fallen humanity had

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failed to meet that requirement. The record was accurate. That is what made it hostile. Imagine entering a room

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where every unpaid obligation of your life has been preserved in a great ledger. Every page bears your name.

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Every debt is properly recorded. Every figure is exact. You cannot erase the ink. You cannot tear out the pages. You

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cannot balance the account with promises to do better. Then Christ enters, takes the entire ledger, and carries it to his cross. The debt is judged in his body.

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His blood answers every lawful demand, and across the record, heaven writes, "Paid." He did not revise the amount. He

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canled the record. The King James version says, "He blotted it out. The ink that testified against you no longer

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governs your standing before God." Paul says, "God took it out of the way. God did not move it into another courtroom where it could reappear at a more

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inconvenient hour. He removed it as a barrier between himself and the believer. Then he nailed it to the cross, joining the hostile record to the place where its penalty had been born.

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The cross is therefore not the enemy's evidence against you. It is God's evidence that the case has been answered. The adversary is called the

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accuser because accusation is one of his chief weapons. He cannot undo the resurrection. He cannot remove Jesus from the right hand of the father. He

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cannot restore legal authority to a debt God has canled. What he can do is bring an old copy of the accusation into your

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mind and persuade you to treat it as though it were still the controlling document. He whispers, "Remember what

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you did." Memory opens the old file. He says, "This has been in your family for generations. Fear treats history as

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destiny." He says, "You made too many wrong choices. There is no release for you now." Condemnation takes a canceled

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record and attempts to make it present evidence. But God says, "I took it out of the way." Do not misunderstand this

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truth. We are not using the blood as a magical formula. Nor are we pretending that every difficulty is caused by a mysterious document in the unseen realm.

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Human choices have consequences. Harm may require restitution. Broken relationships may require confession,

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patience, and rebuilding. Financial obligations should be handled with integrity. Medical conditions may require wise care. Redemption does not

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train us to evade responsibility. It enables us to face responsibility without condemnation. Yet no

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consequence, diagnosis, family pattern, or former allegiance possesses greater authority than the new creation reality

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established in Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed

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away. Behold, all things are become new." Your history may explain a struggle, but it cannot become lord over

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your future. The blood has introduced a new governing fact. you are in Christ.

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Perhaps anger has traveled through your family for generations. Perhaps fear has been handed from parent to child until it seems like part of your name. Perhaps

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lack, addiction, or broken relationships appear in every branch of the family tree. Do not deny the pattern. Bring it

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into the light. Repent where repentance is needed. Seek help where help is wise.

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Then refuse to call the pattern your covenant identity. Galatians 3:13 says, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse

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of the law." Colossians 2 says, "The hostile record was nailed to his cross." Therefore, you may say, "What governed

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those before me will not be my master. I belong to Christ." The word of God, not the repetition of history, shall

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determine the direction of my life. This is how faith answers an old agreement with fear. You once said, "Nothing will

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ever change." Now you agree with Philippians 1:6. He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it. You

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once said, "I will always be bound." Now you agree with John 8:36. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall

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be free indeed. You once said, "My past has decided my future." Now you agree with Romans 8 2. The law of the spirit

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of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

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Agreement with the word does not mean shouting at God until he becomes willing to honor Christ. It means refusing to give the canceled record more authority

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than the cross. You are not asking Jesus to be crucified again. You are presenting his finished work as the answer to every voice that claims the

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debt remains unpaid. And notice what followed the cancellation. Christ spoiled principalities and powers. Their

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weapon was taken from them. Then he made a shoe of them openly, triumphing over them. The resurrection was not a private

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escape from death. It was the public announcement that sin's penalty had been born, and the authority of darkness had been broken. Say it with understanding.

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The record that stood against me has been nailed to the cross. Christ has forgiven me, made me alive, and triumphed over the powers of darkness. I

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will face my responsibilities, but I will not live beneath condemnation. I will learn from history, but I will not permit history to name me. The cross is

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God's final answer to the hostile record. When the record is removed, the barrier is removed. When the debt is

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satisfied, the door to fellowship stands open. God did not cancel what separated you from him and then command you to

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remain outside. He brought you near. The blood that canceled the hostile record now becomes your bloodbought right of

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access to the father. That is the sixth legal function of the blood. Ephesians 2:13 declares, "But now in Christ Jesus,

Chapter 9: Access to the father

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ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. You were far off, but you have been made near.

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You did not travel that distance through religious effort. You did not cross it by multiplying prayers, punishing your body, or proving your sincerity. The

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blood brought you near. Under the old covenant, everything about the tabernacle spoke of restricted access.

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There was an outer court, a holy place, and behind the veil, the holy of holies.

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The people could come only so far. The priest could go farther, but only the high priest could pass beyond the veil, and he entered once each year with

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sacrificial blood. The architecture itself testified that sin had created distance between God and humanity.

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Hebrews 9:7 says, "Into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood. Access was limited.

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Access was mediated. Access was accompanied by the continuing testimony that the final sacrifice had not yet

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been offered. Then Jesus died. Matthew 27 to5051 says, "Jesus, when he had

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cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost, and behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the

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top to the bottom. God tore it from his side. Humanity did not climb upward and force its way into the divine presence.

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God acted from above. The torn veil declared that the blood had answered the barrier and that the old architecture of distance had reached its end. The father

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did not tear the veil so that his children could stand outside admiring the opening. He tore it so that they could enter. Hebrews 10:19:22

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says, "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, and then commands,

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let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith." Notice the word, "Therefore, because the blood has been offered, because the sacrifice is

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complete, because the way has been opened, therefore draw near." Boldness is not arrogance. Arrogance approaches

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God on the ground of personal superiority. Boldness approaches him on the ground of Christ's blood. Arrogance

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says, "God must receive me because I have performed well." Faith says, "The Father receives me because Jesus opened

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the way." One boasts in self, the other boasts in Christ. Imagine a child standing outside his father's study. The

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door is open and the father has called his name. Yet the child remains in the hallway rehearsing every mistake he has

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made that week. The father calls again, "Come in." The child answers, "I am trying to become worthy." But the invitation did not rest upon the child's

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ability to make himself worthy. It rested upon the father's desire to receive him. Many Christians spend their prayer lives standing in that hallway.

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They call it humility, but it is often ignorance of the blood. They say, "God, I know I do not deserve to be heard."

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That is true if they stand upon their own merit, but they do not come in their own name. Jesus said in John 16:23,

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"Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you." The name of Jesus gives the believer access because the blood of Jesus established

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the covenant behind that name. You do not enter the Father's presence as an unrepresented stranger. You enter in

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union with Christ. Ephesians 2:18 says, "For through him we both have access by one spirit unto the Father. The whole

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Godhead is revealed in that access through the son by the spirit unto the father. God is not reluctantly tolerating your presence. He planned your approach. The son provided the way.

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The spirit brings you near. The father receives you. Hebrews 4:16 declares, "Let us therefore come boldly unto the

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throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need." It does not say to come boldly after the

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need has passed. It says to come in time of need. When you feel weakest, the throne remains a throne of grace. When you have no personal strength to

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present, grace invites you to receive divine help. The uninformed believer says, "My need disqualifies me." The

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covenant says, "Your need is the reason to come." The guilty conscience says, "Remain at a distance until you improve." The blood says, "Draw near and

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receive the grace that will enable you to change." Fear says, "Perhaps the father will refuse you." Jesus says,

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"Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out." Access changes prayer.

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You are not sending words toward a distant God and wondering whether they will cross the distance. You have been brought near. You are not seeking an

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audience with a king who has never heard your name. Your life is hidden with Christ in God. You are not attempting to force open a locked door. Jesus said in

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John 10:9, "I am the door." Access also changes worship. You do not worship in order to persuade God to enter the room.

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The spirit of God dwells within the believer. 1 Corinthians 3:16 asks, "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God,

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and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?" Under the old covenant, humanity journeyed toward a sacred place. Under

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the new covenant, God has made the believer his dwelling place. This does not make the presence of God common. It

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makes fellowship holy. Familiarity with the father should deepen reverence, not weaken it. But reverence is not terror.

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The child may honor his father without fearing that every approach will end in rejection. Therefore, come with open

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speech. Tell the father what concerns you. Bring him the burden you have hidden from everyone else. Ask for

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wisdom. Receive mercy. Find grace. Sit beneath his word until your mind becomes quiet and your spirit responds to his

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love. Do not perform for him. Fellowship with him. Say it plainly. By the blood of Jesus, I have been brought near. I

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have access through Christ. By the spirit unto my father, I do not come upon the ground of my perfection. I come upon the ground of his sacrifice. The

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door is open. The veil is torn. And I am welcomed in Christ. But the moment you approach with boldness, another voice may attempt to follow you into prayer.

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It will remind you of yesterday. It will challenge your standing. It will say, "Who are you to speak to God with such

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confidence?" That is the voice of accusation. The blood that opens the courtroom also answers the accuser

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within it. It does not merely grant you access. It speaks on your behalf. That victory over accusation is the seventh

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legal function of the blood. Revelation 12:10 identifies the adversary as the accuser of our brethren, the one which

Chapter 10: Victory over accusation

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accused them before our God day and night. His weapon is accusation. He points to failure and demands condemnation. He takes what has been

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forgiven and presents it as though it were still unpaid. He uses memory as a witness, emotion as a judge, and fear as

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an executioner. But the next verse declares, "And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of

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their testimony." They did not overcome because they had never failed. They overcame because the blood had answered their failure. They did not overcome by

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presenting a flawless human record. They overcame by presenting Christ's record and bringing their testimony into agreement with it. The blood of the lamb

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is God's evidence. The word of your testimony is your agreement with that evidence. Hebrews 12:24 says that we

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have come to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel. Blood speaks. Abel's

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blood cried from the ground after he was murdered. It testified that sin had occurred and that justice was required.

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The blood of Jesus speaks from the place of accomplished redemption. It testifies that justice has been satisfied. The

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covenant has been established and mercy can now be given righteously. The blood speaks a better word than your failure.

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It speaks a better word than your fear.

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It speaks a better word than the accusation rehearsed in your mind at 3:00 in the morning. Your sin says condemned. The blood says justified.

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Your past says disqualified. The blood says redeemed. Distance says remain outside. The blood says draw near. Which voice will receive your testimony?

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Imagine a believer awakening in the night beneath the weight of an old memory. The room is quiet, but within his mind a trial has begun. He sees the

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face of someone he disappointed. He hears words he wishes he had never spoken. The accuser says, "A true child of God would never have done that. You

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have no right to pray. You have no right to expect help. You have no right to stand upon the promises." If that believer attempts to defend himself with his performance, he will lose his peace.

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He may answer, "But I have done many good things since then." The accuser will simply produce another failure. He may say, "I have prayed for hours." The

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accuser will ask why he did not pray longer. He may say, "I have tried to be faithful." The accuser will point to the

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moment he was not. Your performance is not the evidence that silences accusation. The blood is. 1 John 2:1

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says, "If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." An advocate speaks for

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another. Jesus does not stand before the Father, pleading that your sin should be ignored. He stands as the righteous one whose sacrifice has already answered it.

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Verse two declares, "And he is the propitiation for our sins." Your advocate is himself the satisfaction.

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Romans 8:334 asks, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?" It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemnth?

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Then Paul gives the answer, "It is Christ that died, yay, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh

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intercession for us. Christ died, Christ arose, Christ is seated, Christ intercedes." Those are the four answers

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to accusation. When the accuser says the debt remains, point to Christ's death.

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When he says the sacrifice was insufficient, point to the resurrection.

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When he says the case is still undecided, point to Christ seated at the Father's right hand. When he says, "No

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one represents you before God," point to your living intercessor. This is not pretending that sin does not matter. If the Holy Spirit identifies a definite

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wrong, bring it immediately into the light. 1 John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to

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forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Make restitution where it is possible. Ask forgiveness from the person you injured.

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Turn from the conduct. Receive correction. But after you have agreed with God and received his cleansing, do not continue agreeing with the accuser.

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Repentance turns you toward the Father.

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Condemnation drives you away from him." The Holy Spirit points to Christ and leads you into restoration. The accuser

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points to self and tells you there is no restoration. Learn to recognize the difference. Conviction is definite. That

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action was wrong. Bring it into the light. Accusation is shapeless. There is something permanently wrong with you.

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Remain in the darkness. Conviction produces repentance and renewed fellowship. Accusation produces hopelessness and spiritual paralysis.

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Conviction honors the blood by bringing sin to the cleansing it provides.

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Accusation dishonors the blood by insisting that cleansing can never be enough. Zechariah saw a picture of this

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conflict when Joshua the high priest stood before the angel of the Lord and Satan stood at his right hand to resist him. Joshua's garments were filthy.

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He could not deny their condition. Yet the Lord rebuked the adversary and commanded, "Take away the filthy garments from him." Then he said to

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Joshua, "Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee." God did not tell Joshua to defeat the accuser by

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claiming that his garments had never been dirty. God removed the filthy garments and supplied a clean one. Grace did not deny the problem. Grace answered

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it. That is your position in Christ. You do not say, "I never sinned." You say, "Christ bore my sin." You do not say, "I

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have earned righteousness." You say God made Christ my righteousness. You do not say the accuser has no evidence of human

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weakness. You say his evidence cannot overturn the verdict established through the blood. Now let your testimony agree

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with heaven. Say I overcome by the blood of the lamb and by the word of my testimony. Jesus is my advocate. His

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blood speaks for me. God has justified me and no accusation can reverse his verdict. I reject condemnation, receive

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correction, and walk in the light with my father. Say it when feelings agree and say it when they do not. Say it when

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your mind is peaceful, and say it when memory is shouting. You are not attempting to make the blood speak. It is already speaking. You are bringing

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your voice into agreement with its testimony. This is the seventh function. The blood gives victory over accusation.

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The enemy may file his charge, but he cannot produce a sacrifice greater than Christ's. He may quote your past, but he

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cannot remove Jesus from the right hand of God. He may appeal to your emotions, but he cannot overturn the judgment of

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the father. Now, the whole covenant picture stands before us. Remission removed the charge. Cleansing removed the defilement. Justification supplied

Chapter 11: Completeness in Christ

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the verdict. Redemption changed your dominion. Cancellation removed the hostile record. Access opened the father's presence. Victory through the

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blood silenced the accuser. Seven functions. one sacrifice, one finished work, one blood that still speaks. Do

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not permit these seven functions to become seven isolated doctrines stored in separate rooms of your mind. They are

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one redemption. They flow from one sacrifice, one covenant, one victorious Lord. When Jesus offered his blood, he

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did not purchase remission and leave cleansing undecided. He did not provide justification while postponing redemption. He did not cancel the

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hostile record and then leave the door to the Father locked. The work was complete. Hebrews 10:14 declares, "For

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by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified." One offering, not a succession of unfinished attempts. Not Christ doing one part

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while you struggle to complete the remainder. One offering established the foundation of your entire standing before God. When Jesus cried, "It is

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finished." Remission was there. Your sin was carried away. Cleansing was there.

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Your conscience could be purified from dead works. Justification was there. God could declare righteous the person who believed in Jesus. Redemption was there.

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The captive could be delivered from the authority of darkness. Cancellation was there. The hostile record could be nailed to the cross. Access was there.

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The veil could be torn and humanity brought near. Victory was there. The accuser could be answered by the blood of the lamb. Everything was present in

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the finished work. Suppose a man receives a key ring containing seven keys, each opening a different door in the same house. He uses one key to enter

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the front room, but assumes the others are merely decorations. He lives for years in that single room, unaware that the same gift has given him access to

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the kitchen, the library, the bedrooms, the storehouse, and the place of fellowship. He is truly inside the house, but he is living within a

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fraction of what was given to him. Many believers have entered through the door of forgiveness and stopped there. They thank God that they will go to heaven

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someday, but they do not know that the blood has given them a cleansed conscience today. They do not know that justification gives them peace with God

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today. They do not know that redemption has changed their spiritual citizenship today. They do not know that the hostile record has been cancelled today. They do

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not know that access to the father belongs to them today. They do not know that the blood answers accusation today.

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The inheritance is complete, but their knowledge is partial. Colossians 2:10 says, "And ye are complete in him, which

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is the head of all principality and power. You are not complete in your feelings. You are not complete in your religious accomplishments. You are

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complete in him. Your experience may still be developing. Your mind may still require renewal. And your conduct must continue growing into agreement with the

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word. But the covenant foundation beneath you is Christ himself. This is where faith must become intelligent.

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Faith is not excitement without knowledge. Faith is not repeating phrases in the hope that volume will move God. Faith comes by hearing the

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word, rests upon what God has said, and acts as though God's testimony is true. You may whisper and still possess faith.

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You may tremble and still possess faith.

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The woman who touched the hem of Jesus's garment was afraid, but she acted upon what she believed. The father in Mark 9

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cried, "Lord, I believe. Help thou mine unbelief." And he still brought his need to Christ. Faith is not the absence of

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every conflicting emotion. Faith is the decision to give God's word final authority while emotions are still learning to agree. Therefore, the

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effectiveness of the blood does not depend upon your ability to produce a certain feeling. On the day you feel victorious, the blood speaks. On the day

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you feel weak, the blood speaks. When prayer seems alive, the blood speaks.

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When the room feels silent, the blood speaks. Its authority rests upon the value of Christ, not the intensity of your mood. The blood also does not

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become more powerful because you repeat the phrase I plead the blood many times.

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Those words can express genuine faith, but they are not a charm. The power is not in a formula. The power is in the

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person who gave his life, the covenant his death established, and the resurrection that declared his victory.

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Your confession matters because confession means agreement. Romans 10:10 says, "With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth

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confession is made unto salvation." God establishes the fact. The word reveals the fact. The heart believes the fact.

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The mouth confesses the fact. Then conduct begins to conform to the fact.

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You do not confess remission in order to persuade God to remove your sin. You confess because he removed it in Christ.

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You do not confess cleansing to manufacture purity. You confess because the blood cleanses. You do not confess justification to win a favorably

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verdict. You confess because God has justified you. You do not confess redemption to purchase freedom. You confess because Christ paid the price.

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You do not confess cancellation because the cross needs your assistance. You confess because the hostile record was nailed there. You do not confess access

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to force the father's door open. You confess because the veil has been torn.

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You do not testify against accusation in order to make Jesus your advocate. You testify because he already stands at the

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father's right hand. This is covenant agreement. It is not humanity trying to make God faithful. It is humanity

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discovering that God has been faithful and arranging its thoughts, words, and actions around that revelation. Let these seven truths form one picture

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within you. No charge, no stain, no condemnation, no former ownership, no hostile record, no closed door, and no

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unanswered accusation. Not because you became your own savior, but because Jesus completed his work. Now the question becomes practical. How does a

Chapter 12: Practical covenant life

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believer carry this knowledge into Monday morning? How does covenant truth govern the moment when fear arrives?

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When the body reports pain, when money is scarce, when memory accuses, or when prayer seems unanswered? Revelation must

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become a daily posture. We must now move from merely knowing what the blood accomplished to living in conscious agreement with it. from begging for an

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unfinished work to standing upon an accomplished redemption. Covenant confidence does not mean commanding God as though he were your servant. It does

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not mean treating prayer as a legal trick by which you force heaven to obey your wishes. God is the author of the covenant. He established its terms,

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supplied its sacrifice, and raised the guarantor from the dead. Faith does not place God beneath your authority. Faith

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places you beneath the authority of his word. 1 John 5:14 says, "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if

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we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us." Confidence begins with his will, and his will is revealed in

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his word. Faith does not invent a promise and demand that God honor it.

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Faith discovers what God has spoken and says, "Let it be unto me according to thy word." There is a vast difference between begging, born of uncertainty,

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and asking, born of fellowship. Jesus said in Matthew 7:7, "Ask and it shall be given you." Asking is not unbelief.

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Jesus taught us to ask, but begging speaks as though the father must be persuaded to become good. Covenant prayer asks with the assurance that he

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that spared not his own son will not abandon the child who comes through Christ. The beggar says, "God, if you

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could somehow make a way, faith says,"Father, you have made the way in Christ. Show me how to walk in it." The

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beggar says,"Lord, perhaps you will receive me." Faith says, "I come by the blood of Jesus." The beggar says, "I do

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not know whether the enemy still owns me." Faith says, "The Father has delivered me from the authority of darkness." This is not arrogance, it is

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agreement. Suppose a mother receives a troubling report about her child. Fear immediately begins constructing a

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future. It shows her pictures of disaster. It places words in her mouth. Everything is going to fall apart.

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Nothing will ever change. Our family has always suffered this way. If she does not recognize the voice, she may turn fears predictions into her daily

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confession. Covenant agreement does not require her to deny the report. She can acknowledge the facts, seek wise

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counsel, obtain proper care, and take every responsible step available to her.

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But she refuses to enthrone the report above the word. She says, "This circumstance is real, but it is not

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Lord. Jesus is Lord. Fear will not govern my mind, and despair will not write the ending of this story."

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Philippians 4:6 7 says, "In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made

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known unto God." Then it promises that the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and

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minds through Christ Jesus. Prayer presents the need. Thanksgiving recognizes the faithfulness of the father. Peace guards the mind while the believer takes the next obedient step.

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When your body reports pain, do not pretend there is no pain. Sense knowledge accurately reports what the senses detect. But sense knowledge is

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not the only source of knowledge. The word reveals Christ's redemptive work and the father's compassionate nature.

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Bring the body before God. Pray. Receive appropriate care. Rest when rest is needed. Then refuse to let fear

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interpret every symptom as a final sentence. 1 Peter 2:24 says of Jesus, "Who his own self bear our sins in his

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own body on the tree and declares, "By whose stripes ye were healed, let that word become the anchor of hope." Do not

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turn it into condemnation against a suffering person. Do not accuse someone of faithlessness because healing is not yet visible. Stand with compassion, wisdom, patience, and confidence in God.

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Faith does not beat the wounded. Faith carries them toward Christ. When financial pressure comes, covenant agreement does not deny the figures on

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the page. It does not call wastefulness, faith, or ignore an honest debt. It looks at the account, asks God for

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wisdom, makes a responsible plan, works diligently, and refuses the identity of abandonment. Philippians 4:19 says, "My

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God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus." The believer answers lack with trust,

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then places his hands upon the work God gives him to do. When accusation comes, do not answer it with a list of personal achievements. Answer it with the blood.

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When temptation comes, do not say, "This is simply who I am," answer it with redemption. When shame says, "Remain

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outside," answer it with access. When the past presents its old record, answer it with the cross. There is a practical

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sequence you can follow whenever pressure challenges covenant truth.

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First, identify the accusation. Ask, "What is this circumstance attempting to make me believe about God, about

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Christ's work, or about who I am in him?" Fear may say, "God has abandoned you." Shame may say you are still

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condemned. Lack may say the Father will not provide wisdom. Pain may say there is no reason to hope. Bring the hidden

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sentence into the light. Second, locate the covenant promise that answers it.

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Jesus answered temptation by saying, "It is written," he did not search his emotions for authority. He stood upon the word. If condemnation attacks, go to

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Romans 8:1. If fear attacks, go to 2 Timothy 1:7. God hath not given us the

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spirit of fear. If uncertainty attacks, go to James 15. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God. If isolation

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attacks, go to Hebrews 13:5, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." Third, speak agreement with the promise.

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2 Corinthians 4:13 says, "We having the same spirit of faith according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have

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I spoken." Speak because you believe, not because you imagine sound waves, possess independent power. Your mouth gives expression to the government of

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your heart. Say, "Fear is present, but it will not govern me. God is with me. I have access to his wisdom, and I will

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obey what he shows me." Fourth, act consistently with the word. James 21:17 says, "Faith, if it hath not works, is

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dead, being alone. If you believe God gives wisdom, take the step wisdom requires." If you believe you have been cleansed, stop returning to the conduct

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that defiled your conscience. If you believe you are redeemed, resist the habit that claims to own you. If you believe you have access, pray instead of

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retreating into isolation. Fifth, remain thankful while circumstances are changing. Thanksgiving is not pretending

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the answer is visible. It is honoring the character of God before sight has caught up with faith. Abraham was strong

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in faith, giving glory to God. He did not deny the condition of his body.

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Romans 4 says he considered the natural facts without allowing those facts to make him stagger at the promise. He became fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform.

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That is the posture of covenant faith.

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Eyes open to the circumstance, heart anchored in the promise, mouth agreeing with God, hands prepared to obey, and

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thanksgiving, guarding the interval between prayer and manifestation. Do this daily before the accusations of the

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world begin speaking. Let the word speak. Before fear writes its forecast, read the covenant record. Before you

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describe yourself by your weakness, declare what the blood has accomplished, you are not trying to make redemption true through repetition. You are

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renewing your mind until your thoughts, speech, and conduct agree with what is already true in Christ. Now, we will

Chapter 13: The believer's confession

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gather all seven functions into one confession. Do not hurry through it.

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These are not empty sentences. Let each declaration rest upon the scripture we have opened. Let your mouth agree with

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remission, cleansing, justification, redemption, cancellation, access, and victory. The blood has spoken. Now give

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the word of your testimony. Now I want you to speak these truths aloud, not because the volume of your voice gives power to the blood, but because

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confession brings your heart and mouth into agreement with God. Romans 10:10 says, "With the heart man believeth unto

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righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Let the word govern your testimony." Say this, "By the blood of Jesus, my sins

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have been remitted." Jesus said, "This is my blood of the new testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins. I believe his blood was

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sufficient. The charge against me has been dismissed. My sin was not hidden, excused, or postponed. Christ bore it.

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judgment answered it, and God has removed it. As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed my

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transgressions from me. I will not carry what Jesus carried for me. I will not rebuild an account God has closed. In

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Christ, I have remission. Pause and let that truth enter your consciousness. You are not begging God to send away the sin

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Christ already bore. You are thanking him because the charge has been removed.

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Now say, "By the blood of Jesus, I have been cleansed." The word declares, "The blood of Jesus Christ, his son,

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cleanseth us from all sin." My confidence is not in a spotless human history. My confidence is in the spotless lamb. His blood purges my

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conscience from dead works so that I may serve the living God. I refuse the identity of the defiled and rejected. I walk in the light. I receive cleansing.

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I draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith. I am not hiding from my father in Christ. I am clean. Perhaps

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memory is answering you. Perhaps it is showing you what you did and where you failed. Do not argue with memory upon

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the ground of your conduct. Answer it with Christ. The memory may be accurate concerning your past, but it has no

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authority to rewrite God's declaration concerning your present standing. Now say, "By the blood of Jesus, I have been

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justified." Romans 5:9 says that I am justified by his blood. God has rendered his verdict. My righteousness is not my

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achievement. It is his gift. Christ was made sin for me that I might be made the righteousness of God in him. Therefore,

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I have peace with God through my Lord Jesus Christ. I do not approach the throne as a criminal hoping the judge will overlook me. I come as a child

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whose standing rests upon Jesus. It is God who justifies me. No accusation can reverse his verdict. Let righteousness consciousness replace sin consciousness.

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You are not boasting in yourself. You are boasting in Christ. You are not saying you have never failed. You are saying his obedience is greater than

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your failure. Now say, by the precious blood of Christ, I have been redeemed. I was not purchased with silver or gold,

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but with the blood of the lamb, without blemish and without spot. The Father has delivered me from the authority of darkness and translated me into the

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kingdom of his beloved son. Fear is not my master. Sin is not my master. My past is not my master. Jesus Christ is Lord.

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My spirit belongs to him. My mind is being renewed by his word. My body was bought with a price and I will glorify

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God in it. My family and my future are placed beneath the lordship of Christ. I am redeemed. Do not negotiate with the old master. Submit yourself to God.

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Resist the devil. Stand in the liberty with which Christ has made you free. The prison door is open. Walk out in

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obedience. Now say, "Through the cross of Christ, the hostile record has been cancelled. God has forgiven me all

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trespasses, blotted out the handwriting that was against me, taken it out of the way, and nailed it to the cross." The

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adversary cannot collect a debt Jesus paid. Old agreements with fear, shame, bitterness, and defeat will not govern

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me. Destructive patterns in my history do not possess the right to determine my identity. If any man is in Christ, he is

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a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new.

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I accept responsibility for my choices, but I refuse condemnation. The cross is God's final answer to the record that

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stood against me. Bring your family before the Father in your heart. Do not condemn those who came before you. Do not speak fear over those who come after

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you. Say, "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Let the new covenant, not the repetition of old

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pain, become the testimony you hand to the next generation." Now say, "By the blood of Jesus, I have access to the

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Father. I who was far off have been made near by the blood of Christ. The veil is torn, the way is open. Through Jesus, I

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have access by one spirit unto the Father. I come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to

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help in time of need. I do not come because my performance is perfect. I come because Christ's sacrifice is

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perfect. I am not an intruder. I am not an abandoned orphan. I am a covenant child welcomed in the beloved. Bring

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your needs before him now. Bring your body. Bring your household. Bring your work, your decisions, and the burden you

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have carried in silence. Do not stand in the hallway when the Father has called you near. Ask for wisdom. Receive mercy.

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Find grace. Finally, say, "I overcome by the blood of the lamb, and by the word of my testimony." The blood of Jesus

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speaks a better word than my sin, my fear, my weakness, or the accusation of the enemy. Jesus Christ died. He rose

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again. He is seated at the right hand of the father. and he makes intercession for me. He is my advocate. When

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conviction comes, I will repent and walk in the light. When condemnation comes, I will answer it with the blood. God has

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justified me. Christ represents me. The accuser cannot overturn the father's verdict. Now gather the whole confession

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into one declaration. My sins are remitted. My conscience is cleansed. I am justified. I am redeemed. The hostile

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record is canceled. I have access to my father. I overcome accusation by the blood of the lamb and the word of my

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testimony. This is not based upon how strong I feel. It is based upon what Jesus finished. This is not confidence

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in my record. It is confidence in his blood. Hold that confession when the body reports pain. Seek wisdom. Receive

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proper care and refuse to let fear become Lord. Hold it when financial pressure speaks. Work faithfully. Act

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responsibly and trust the father as your source. Hold it when your family faces conflict. Walk in love, forgive, speak

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truth, and refuse to repeat the old history. Hold it when the enemy reminds you of yesterday. Point him to the cross and declare what God says about you

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today. The blood has remitted. The blood has cleansed. The blood has justified.

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The blood has redeemed. The cross has canceled the hostile record. The blood has opened the way. The blood speaks

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against every accusation. Now rest in what it says. The covenant does not depend upon your ability to feel strong

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every hour. Its strength rests upon the eternal sufficiency of Jesus Christ.

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There will be mornings when you awaken and do not feel victorious. The first voice you hear may be the voice of yesterday's failure. Your body may feel

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weak. Your circumstances may appear unchanged. The answer you prayed for may not yet be visible. In that hour,

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remember this. The covenant does not rest upon the strength of your feelings. It rests upon the faithfulness of God.

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Second Timothy 2:13 says, "If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful. He cannot deny himself." Your emotions may rise

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and fall, but Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. The blood does not lose its authority when

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you feel discouraged. The advocate does not abandon his place when your confidence trembles. The father does not sew the veil together because you had a

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difficult day. Do not measure the completeness of redemption by the condition of the morning. Measure the morning by the completeness of

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redemption. A young believer may understand only one of these truths today. He may still be learning how to bring his thoughts into agreement with

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the word. The father does not reject him because his knowledge is incomplete. A child belongs to the family before he understands all the privileges of

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sunship. But as he grows, he learns what his father has given him, and he begins to live with the confidence of belonging. That is your invitation. Grow

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in the knowledge of what the blood has accomplished. Take one function each day and meditate upon it. On the first day, say, "My sins have been remitted." On

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the second, say, "My conscience has been cleansed." On the third, say, "God has justified me." On the fourth, say,

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"Christ has redeemed me." On the fifth say, "The hostile record was nailed to the cross." On the sixth, say, "I have

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access to my father." On the seventh, say, "I overcome accusation by the blood of the lamb." Do not repeat those words

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hurriedly. Open the scriptures. Read them until the word becomes greater in your consciousness than the voice of guilt. Joshua 1:8 says, "Thou shalt

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meditate therein day and night." Meditation is the process by which revelation moves from the page into the inward man until the heart begins to

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answer circumstances with God's own testimony. The blood has not given you permission to become careless. It has given you freedom to become obedient

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without fear. Titus 2:12 says that the grace of God teaches us to deny ungodliness and live soberly,

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righteously, and godly. Grace does not make holiness unnecessary. Grace makes holiness possible without condemnation.

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You do not obey in order to become a child. You obey because the life of the father is within you. When you fall, do

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not run from the light. Run to it. When you are corrected, do not mistake correction for rejection. When you face a battle, do not interpret the battle as evidence that redemption has failed.

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Stand. Ephesians 6:13 says, "Having done all, to stand." Standing is not passivity. It is the refusal to

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surrender covenant ground while you continue praying, obeying, learning, and acting wisely. You are not a beggar

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attempting to move an unwilling God. You are a child coming to a willing father through the blood of a perfect son. You are not condemned. You are justified.

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You are not abandoned. You have been brought near. You are not owned by darkness. You have been redeemed. You are not defenseless before accusation.

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You have an advocate with the father.

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The blood speaks for your identity. It says you are in Christ. The blood speaks over your family. It says an old history

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does not possess greater authority than the new covenant. The blood speaks in your weakness. It says grace is available at the throne. The blood

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speaks in spiritual conflict. It says Christ has triumphed over principalities and powers. Yet your final confidence

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must never rest in the perfection of your confession. There may be moments when you do not know what to say. There may be nights when your prayer is no

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more than the name of Jesus. Romans 8:26 says, "The spirit also helpeth our infirmities. Your security is not

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founded upon your ability to speak without error. It is founded upon Christ's ability to save completely."

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Hebrews 7:25 declares, "He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. He lives.

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He intercedes. He holds the covenant.

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Your salvation is not resting upon a dead memory, but upon a living high priest. So rest not the rest of indifference, but the rest of faith.

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Work from rest. Pray from access. Resist the enemy from redemption. Confess the word from justification. Walk in the

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light from cleansing. Face your past from remission. Answer accusation with the blood. One sacrifice. One covenant.

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one eternal redemption. The charge has been removed. The conscience has been cleansed. The verdict has been rendered.

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The captive has been redeemed. The hostile record has been cancelled. The door has been opened. The accuser has been answered. The blood speaks a better

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word. Believe that word. Agree with that word. Live from that word. And when every other voice becomes silent, the

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blood of Jesus Christ will still be speaking before the throne of God.