The Purpose Of His Blood (Part 2)

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THE PURPOSE

BLOOD

OF HIS

PART TWO

Pastor Nkechi Ene (Mrs.) In our previous article we saw that after

Notice Isaiah 53:5 says, “The chastisement for

means when you declare that by the stripes

Jesus resurrected from the dead, He went to

our peace was upon Him.” That word

of Jesus, you were made whole. You were

heaven with His blood so that the purpose of

‘chastisement’ means discipline, correction,

broken because you were apart but once you

shedding His blood will be fulAilled. His blood

and rebuke. Colossians 1:21 say that we were

got back under the blood and were reunited

was to achieve certain things for us. The Airst

alienated and enemies in our mind by wicked

with the Shepherd, He mended you and made

thing we saw was that the blood obtained our

works. To be alienated means to be estranged,

you whole.

puriAication. In this article, we will examine

to be a non-participant, to be cut-off from

other things His blood did for us.

fellowship or intimacy.

Our Peace

Imagine a shepherd who has plenty of sheep.

body, in your life and around you. If any

4 Surely He has borne our griefs and

He is moving his sheep one way, and he

circumstance is trying to tell you otherwise,

carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him

expects them to move that way but then one

remind that circumstance that Jesus went to

stricken, smitten by God, and afAlicted.

strays off the way and another goes the other

heaven carrying His blood which purchased

way. Those ones that have strayed off are no

your peace and reconciled you to God;

longer in fellowship, or together with the rest

bringing every stray piece of you together.

of the pack, they are alienated and estranged.

So, whatever happens to them the shepherd

Human blood performs a function called

has no control over it.

coagulation. Under normal circumstances,

So, you can boldly declare that you’ve got nothing missing and nothing broken in your

5 B u t H e w a s w o u n d e d f o r o u r transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we

when you cut yourself, your physical blood is

have turned, every one, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity

We were like that! Everyone had gone his

designed to bring everything back together

of us all.

own way. In our minds and by wicked works

by forming a tight mesh over the wound. By

we had alienated ourselves from God. We

the next day, a scab or something dark brown

were not thinking like God, we were not

covers the wound, which after a while peels

You were alienated before but now you are

talking like God, we were so different but

off and your skin is made whole again. That is

near. Your mind is no longer far away. What

Jesus came to reconcile us to the Father. He

what the blood of Jesus Christ wants to do for

brought you close to God was the blood of

came to make peace where there was enmity

everyone who will come under it.

Jesus. His blood brought your reconciliation

by bringing us near to God by His blood.

Isaiah 53:4-6

together with God. Christ was chastened,

Ephesians 2:6 tells us that we are seated

disciplined and rebuked for us. He was not

There were wounds and bruises we got from

together with Christ in the heavenly places,

the one who went astray, yet He carried it for

being alienated but because of the blood, we

so there is no demon, sickness or disease that

us so that we could come back to where we

were healed. That is why peace (Shalom)

can come to you. That is what the blood

belong, and the good thing about being close

means nothing missing, nothing broken. So,

achieved for you when it was carried into the

is that you are in fellowship with God

there is no wound, no pain and no proof that

holy place.

Almighty.

you were ever alienated. That is what it

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Hebrews 2:11 says “For both He who

there is a problem with you at the work

hope to achieve something beyond eternal.

s a n c t i ? i e s a n d th o s e wh o a re b e i n g

place. Same applies when opening an account

Jesus offered His blood once, the sacriAice He

sancti?ied are all of one, for which reason He is

in a bank or applying for a loan.

made was eternal and He is sitting down. He

not ashamed to call them brethren…” in

is sitting down because He has reached the

essence you think and do things alike with

It stands as a surety that if your account goes

eternal timeline and there is no time beyond

Christ.

red and you owe, there will be someone to

eternal. He did it once so there’d be no need

stand for you. You cannot talk of entering a

to do it again.

Amos 3:3 wonders that can two walk

covenant without talking of blood. When

together unless they are agreed or except

Jesus offered His blood, you entered a

The Bible tells us that it is the high priest that

they be at peace? It means the ability to agree

covenant that stands in your defence. This

performs the blood sacriAice. The regular

with God has become a reality in your life

covenant is a better covenant than that of

priests could only enter the outer court but

because of the blood. The things you do are

bulls and goats done in the Old Testament. It

not the holy of holies, and even the High

really what Jesus would have done. So, it

is better because it is an everlasting “once for

Priest entered the holy of holies once every

implies that when you are at peace, you are in

all” covenant.

year. He is the one with the function of

agreement with Him; having the same mind and willing to do things the same way.

offering the blood. Christ has been made our Now the thing with a human guarantor is that

high priest.

they may decide to travel or relocate, maybe Peace is not just an emotional feeling. When

quarrel with the one they are standing for, or

Jesus did not do the washing of sin once a

you are at peace with God, you will do things

even be locked up in prison. So, what good

year throughout eternity. He did it once and

He expects you to do. You will follow the

would they be to the company as a

anybody who wants to make use of it only

principles of His Word and take decisions

guarantor? Simply put their guarantee was

needs to believe and put his or her name on

that would sometimes hurt your Alesh. That is

not eternal, it was subject to change and

it. Pleading the blood shows that you don’t

what keeps you protected. Thus anything that

certain conditions. However, the good thing

believe or understand the Ainality in the

wants to get at you would have to go through

about your guarantor, Jesus, is that He is alive

sacriAice of Jesus. The blood is just a signature

Jesus Airst.

forever and the sacriAice He made will remain

on the blank cheque you received at

intact, it is eternal. He is never going to

salvation. You are not the one to sign the

change His mind about guaranteeing you.

cheque, just the one to Aill in the amount you

Our Perpetual Guarantee 10 By that will we have been sanctiAied

desire. The name of Jesus is the access to

through the offering of the body of Jesus

When poverty tries to come against

Christ once for all.

you, you have got a covenant of

11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacriAices, which can never take away sins.

12 But this Man, after He had offered one

what the Blood of Jesus has purchased for you.

wealth that is standing for you because His sacriAice

As the Church of Jesus

was made once and for

Christ, our active day-to-

all. His covenant is never

day business is with the

sacriAice for sins forever, sat down at the

going to turn its back on

name of Jesus (John 14:14;

right hand of God,

you. His covenant of

Colossians 3:17). Each time

13 From that time waiting till His

healing and health stands

enemies are made His footstool.

as a witness and guarantee

14 For by one offering He has perfected

for you. When sickness tries to

forever those who are being sanctiAied.

plague your body, the covenant says “I am

access to what the blood has purchased for

standing in the defence of this person.”

you, and stepping into the fullness of why

Hebrews 10:10-14

In order to understand what a perpetual guarantee is, you need to know who a guarantor is. When applying for a job, one requirement is to produce a letter from a guarantor. What the prospective employer is saying in essence is that they want someone they can hold responsible in your absence if

you Aill in your desire in the name of Jesus on your presigned cheque, you are gaining

Christ shed His blood. That is the way to truly The beautiful thing about Jesus offering His

enjoy this Easter Season. You must

blood was that He did it and sat down. He sat

understand the purpose of shedding His

down because He was so conAident that the

blood. You must understand that the blood of

work was done; He Ainished it. When people

Jesus was shed for your puriAication, for your

come pleading the blood of Jesus and

peace and as a perpetual eternal guarantee

throwing the blood around, it seems they

for you.

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