Revelation 12:10-11says: Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.(NKJV)
There is a method behind temptation. satan lures
God’s people to sin and then go before God to accuse them. Temptation is
usually followed by accusation and then results in spiritual intimidation and
defeat and finally becomes a capture by satan. At the first stage bad things
begins to happen. What starts as a battle in their mind starts manifesting as a
battle in live.
The source of temptation is satanic powers led
by satan himself. It was satan that tempted Eve in the garden, it was him that
tempted Christ as well. The purpose of temptation is to make you disobey God. satan
uses temptation to severe the relationship you have with God. When you sin you
lose fellowship with God and not relationship. Sin severe fellowship with God.
When your wife sin against you as a husband and at the same time she is asking
you to renew the promise you made to her, you will not likely do that
immediately. Living in sin blocks fellowship, until the problem is solved. In
marriage for instance when that fellowship is broken what is the woman supposed
to do? Ask for forgiveness. The penalty for sin is death. Jesus has died for
you, what you need to do is to acknowledge that you’ve sinned and that is
settled.
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.(NKJV)
1 John 1:6 says: If we say that we have
fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the
truth.(NKJV)
You cannot be living in sin and be maintaining
fellowship with God at the same time. Adam and Eve sinned and their fellowship
with God was broken.
1 John 1:7 says: But if we walk in the light as
He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus
Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.(NKJV)
The blood cleanses you from sin. When you are
with God, you enjoy constant fellowship and the blood of Jesus takes care of
you cleansing all forms of iniquities.
When you sin and you know it, you must confess
it and be free. You confess your sin before God and that makes you whole. If
you don’t, you will not enjoy fellowship with God anymore.
Hebrews 10:21-22 says: and having a High Priest
over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of
faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies
washed with pure water.(NKJV)
The evil conscious here is unbelief, guilt and condemnation.
You must confess your sins and plead the blood for cleansing so that you may be
whole again and be free.
Hebrews 9:9 says: It was symbolic for the
present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make
him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience--(NKJV)
Hebrews 9:11 says: But Christ came as High
Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle
not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.(NKJV)
Jesus did not offer for us the blood of animals
but His own blood.
Hebrews 9:14 says: how much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God,
cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?(NKJV)
This purifies the outward man and removes
judgment.
The Old Testament provided atonement but the New
Testament provided more than atonement, it provided REMISSION. Atonement is
covering of sin so that judgment will not come on you; it is possible for it to
be opened again.
Leviticus 17:11 says: For the life of the flesh
is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement
for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.'(NKJV)
Remission erases records so that nothing will be
there anymore. The blood of Jesus removes and remits sins. It is true that atonement
worked because the people of the Old Testament were able to escape by it, the
blood kept David until he finished his reign. Atonement is better than nothing.
But we have something better than atonement, which is the blood of Jesus.
Isaiah 43:25 says: "I, even I, am He who blots out your
transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins.(NKJV)
With the help of atonement when God looks at you
He does not see your condition but your position in Christ. He sees you through
the eyes of the Lamb. He can’t see what you’ve done.
Hebrews 10:5-6 says: Therefore, when He came
into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a
body You have prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You
had no pleasure.(NKJV)
Atonement does not produce a perfect result. You
walk around carrying your conscience. The blood of Jesus gives you boldness
before the father and also before the accuser of the brethren (satan).
Hebrews 10:21-22 says: and having a High Priest over the house of God, let
us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.(NKJV)
This is an assurance that comes from the blood. The
blood sacrifice is the basis for unshakable faith.
Hebrews 10:23 says: Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without
wavering, for He who promised is faithful.(NKJV)
You speak a word of faith and stand your ground
because you know that he will do it. God is not a man that He will lie.
Hebrews 4:15 says: For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize
with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without
sin.(NKJV)
Repentance by the blood gets you cleansed. Guilt
makes people run away from God. The blood of Jesus makes it possible for people
to keep having fellowship and friendship with God.
Hebrews 4:16 says: Let us therefore come boldly
to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time
of need.(NKJV)
Mercy deals with punishment that we deserve by
taking the punishment away while grace makes it possible for us to receive
favour that we don’t deserve. We obtain mercy and grace through the blood. Mercy
takes punishment away from us while grace gives us the unmerited favour. Love
has mercy and grace together.
Our condition may not be perfect but our
position is perfect. He was made poor that we may be rich. We apply the blood
by faith; faith is the law of appropriation.
The law of appropriation in the New Testament is
the transfer of what is available in your position (spiritual realm) into your
physical condition. You are sick but healed by His stripes, poor but you are
rich, weak but strong. If you have to suffer in life that means the sacrifice
that Christ made for you on the cross has been made counterfeit. The Lord is
merciful and gracious, this is His nature. You can’t have faith on ignorance;
you have to start enforcing what Christ did for you in reality. What is said in
the scripture does not automatically happen, it has to be enforced. You need to
fight the good fight of faith, command the enemy to take his hand off your
inheritance. Your inheritance is translated from the spiritual to the physical
by faith. Faith is found in your heart and in your mouth.
Romans 10:8 says: But what does it say?
"The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the
word of faith which we preach):(NKJV)
You must speak the word and act on it.
2 Peter 1:3 says: as His divine power has given
to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of
Him who called us by glory and virtue,(NKJV)
1 Peter 1:3-5 says: Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us
again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away,
reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for
salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.(NKJV)
The first thing in gaining your inheritance is
to know and understand it. God has written a book to let you know what your
inheritance is because noting is yours until you know it. You cannot take
possession without knowledge.
Romans 10:9 says: that if you confess with your
mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the
dead, you will be saved.(NKJV)
If you release your faith into motion, it
attracts things. Get the knowledge of your provision first, secondly believe in
the provisions of the knowledge, then speak the words into your reality and
finally act on it accordingly. The
favour of God can give you what you don’t deserve. God will give you what you
are looking for base on your capacity. Until your faith is actioned it is
auctioned. Work as if everything depends on work and pray as if everything
depends on prayer. Then your faith and prayer will meet at a junction. Faith
has to be spoken for it to create manifestation.
James 2:22 says: Do you see that faith was working together with his
works, and by works faith was made perfect?(NKJV)
