The Power Of Jesus' Blood

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?” Hebrews 9:14

There are so many needs in the world today: fear, sickness, hatred, un-forgiveness, division, and so much doubt. All of these things, and so many more dead works, are flourishing. The world needs the Truth that will set them free, John 8:32. They need to see our Father working through us, through us who have been purged by Christ. The world needs to see God’s active love working through us and we need God to be Who He is within us. So many of us desperately try to do what is right on our own. Yet, even with the best of intentions, we never succeed, Jeremiah 10:23. We will never succeed on our own, we can only enjoy victory when we acknowledge and realize that it is our Father Who always works through us, John 15:5! And A-men, our Father is willing and able to do far more through us than we can even dream of, Ephesians 3:20!

Right now much of the world is being assaulted with the hatred and bitterness of millions of hopeless individuals. These people are killing and destroying themselves, along with so many others. Anger and hatred are overflowing through them. Nations are spending billions upon billions of dollars and thousands of young men and woman are given their lives to try and end this. The news media is in a feeding frenzy of spreading fear. Daily the world's news outlets are bombarding us with hopelessness. The World is deeply divided on the answers and far too many believe that there is no answer. Yet there is an answer. There is an answer for today and the answer is our Father’s power within us. The answer is God doing His works through us; His work of love, His work of power, His work of reconciliation. Money will not solve the hatred and un-forgiveness of man, just look at how many billions of dollars have been spent already? Laws and politicians will also fail to unify us. 

Only love, the love that our Father has for Jesus, the love that now abides within us, will change the world. The very Love and Glory of God, which have made their home within us, will change the world. Through our unity with Christ, the world will believe!

I have made Your Name known to them and revealed Your character and Your very Self, and I will continue to make [You] known, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them [felt in their hearts] and that I [Myself] may be in them. John 17:26

I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and [definitely] recognize that You sent Me and that You have loved them [even] as You have loved Me. John 17:23

Galatians 5:17-18

17 For the desires of the flesh are opposed to the [Holy] Spirit, and the [desires of the] Spirit are opposed to the flesh (godless human nature); for these are antagonistic to each other [continually withstanding and in conflict with each other], so that you are not free but are prevented from doing what you desire to do.

For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike]. Romans 11:32

   

And Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me [essentially and perfectly morally] good? There is no one [essentially and perfectly morally] good—except God alone. Mark 10:18

The flesh of God, which is Jesus, told the people that He wasn’t good. What? Jesus tells us that the perfect flesh of God wasn’t good. He tells us that the perfect sacrifice wasn’t good. So if the best flesh that ever lived couldn’t make the grade, how could we ever be good? The glorious Truth is that we can’t! The Truth that sets us free is that we weren't created to. We were created to mess up and live under mercy, not laws and works. We live under Grace, which is all free and undeserved.  

18 But if you are guided (led) by the [Holy] Spirit, you are not subject to the Law.

  

So the question is how many people are led by the Holy Spirit? How many people are led by the will of God? 

For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him. Colossians 1:16

O Lord [pleads Jeremiah in the name of the people], I know that [the determination of] the way of a man is not in himself; it is not in man [even in a strong man or in a man at his best] to direct his [own] steps. Jeremiah 10:23

Man's steps are ordered by the Lord. How then can a man understand his way? Proverbs 20:24

John answered, A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing, he can take unto himself nothing] except as it has been granted to him from heaven. [A man must be content to receive the gift which is given him from heaven; there is no other source.] John 3:27

The Truth is that all of mankind is led by God, whether we know it or not, so all of us are under mercy and grace. We don’t have to accept or even be aware that our Father is in control, for Him to be in control. What type of Father would He be if His children had to first empower Him?

For in this city there actually met and plotted together against Your holy Child and Servant Jesus, Whom You consecrated by anointing, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and peoples of Israel, To carry out all that Your hand and Your will and purpose had predestined (predetermined) should occur. Acts 4:27-28

Even those who say that they don’t believe or hate God, are led by God, so they too are under mercy and set free from the curse of the Law. 

The Lord's Prayer And Free Will

Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:10

Have you ever prayed the Lord’s Prayer? There are an awful lot of us who have. What is so great about this prayer is: how can we mess it up? I mean Jesus told us exactly what to pray and one of the first things that He told us to pray is that our Father’s will be done. Jesus did not tell us to pray that we know our Father’s will or that we understand our Father’s will and then choose to act on it. Jesus just told us to pray that our Father’s will be done. We cannot ask amiss with this. Amen, it is impossible to ask amiss with this prayer and we all have prayed, “Father Your Will Be Done.”

[Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures.  James 4:3

We can’t fail to receive when making this request, because there is no way to use our Father’s will being done for our own sensual pleasures. Our Father’s will is never evil. It is impossible to be selfish with our Father’s will being done. So it is impossible for this prayer to not be answered 100% of the time. Jesus absolutely knew what He was doing when He told us how to pray.

Our Father showed me this awesome Truth a couple of days ago, after I was attacked for being used to tell someone that they had complete freedom because our Father’s Will is in control of our lives. The person who attacked me is a very religious person. He goes to church all of the time, but he believes that he must first allow or choose for our Father to act in our lives. Could you imagine if my kids had to first allow or choose for me to act in their lives? That is just crazy and if that is crazy for me, it sure is crazy for our Father!

O Lord [pleads Jeremiah in the name of the people], I know that [the determination of] the way of a man is not in himself; it is not in man [even in a strong man or in a man at his best] to direct his [own] steps. Jeremiah 10:23

I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing. John 15:5

Think about Heaven. Do you believe that in Heaven that there is a bunch of free will’s going on? Do the angels have a free will? Do the 24 Elders have a free will? Do the 4 beings that surround the Throne have a free will? Does Jesus have a free will? Is Jesus’ Will something different then our Father’s? Does Jesus have to decide each and every moment to choose to act on our Father’s Will, or is He just One with it? He is One with our Father’s Will, because He is our Father and we are now one with Jesus. We are now Jesus’ flesh and His bones, Ephesians 5:30. We now have the mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2:16. We have been crucified with Christ, and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who live, it is Christ in us Who lives, Galatians 2:20. Our Father has the free will and His will is being done in us, just as it is being done in Heaven! 

Ephesians 1:9-10

9 Making known to us the mystery (secret) of His will (of His plan, of His purpose). [And it is this:] In accordance with His good pleasure (His merciful intention) which He had previously purposed and set forth in Him,

Don’t you just love that, our Father’s good pleasure, or in other words, our Father’s Free Will. Our Father’s will is what is working in this world. Far too many talk of human free will as the power and that is not the power that drives this world. All things exist by our Father, for our Father, and through our Father, Colossians 1:16.   

Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever]. [That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot. So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him. Romans 8:6-8

Our Father describes here in Romans 8 what human free will accomplishes: destruction. The Truth is that even our righteousness is as filthy rags. There is nothing that we can do on our own that accomplishes anything but destruction. But amen, human will isn’s running things, our Father’s Will is.  

O Lord [pleads Jeremiah in the name of the people], I know that [the determination of] the way of a man is not in himself; it is not in man [even in a strong man or in a man at his best] to direct his [own] steps. Jeremiah 10:23

10 [He planned] for the maturity of the times and the climax of the ages to unify all things and head them up and consummate them in Christ, [both] things in heaven and things on the earth.

So what is our Father’s will? It is at the climax of the ages, or at Judgment Day, to unify all things in Christ. Our Father’s will isn’t just to unify some things, or only those things that have said yes to Him, but all things. At the climax of the ages our Father will gather everyone, from everywhere, both good and bad, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

And those servants went out on the crossroads and got together as many as they found, both bad and good, so [the room in which] the wedding feast [was held] was filled with guests. Matthew 22:10 

Eternity will be filled with our guest’s. We are the Bride of Christ. We are not guests at our own wedding. Jesus’ Wedding will be filled with guests and all things will be made new, Revelation 21:5. Eternity will be filled with millions of people who do not deserve to be there. But it is our Father’s Will that all men be saved and through Christ our Father will get what He wants!

Ephesians 1:4-6

⁴ Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.

⁵ For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]—

⁶ [So that we might be] to the praise and the commendation of His glorious grace (favor and mercy), which He so freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

An awful lot of people shy away from predestination and for the life of me I don’t know why? The same people will tell you that our Father knows the beginning and the end. They will also tell you that He is the Potter and that He is the Head. So why is there all of this shyness with predestination? Our Father controls everything, Colossians 1:16. He knows everything and He has a purpose and a plan for everything, so of course He had to predestine everything. But to help people along with this glorious and absolutely freeing Truth, here are some other scriptures.

 For we are God's [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live]. Ephesians 2:10

Declaring the end and the result from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure and purpose, Isaiah 46:10

For in this city there actually met and plotted together against Your holy Child and Servant Jesus, Whom You consecrated by anointing, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and peoples of Israel, To carry out all that Your hand and Your will and purpose had predestined (predetermined) should occur. Acts 4:27-28

But when He, Who had chosen and set me apart [even] before I was born and had called me by His grace (His undeserved favor and blessing), saw fit and was pleased. To reveal (unveil, disclose) His Son within me so that I might proclaim Him among the Gentiles (the non-Jewish world) as the glad tidings (Gospel), immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood [did not consult or counsel with any frail human being or communicate with anyone]. Galatians 1:15-16

Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them. Psalm 139:16

O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. Jeremiah 10:23

For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren. And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being]. Romans 8:29-30