The Spirit, the Water and the Blood
The Spirit, the Water and the Blood
By Richard St.James
Bible 1611.Com / Old Paths Baptist Mission © 2024
7.
The Word and the Blood
Here is another truth!
The Scripture, which is the word of God,
speaks to the importance of the blood.
The LORD passed over
Israel when HE saw the blood applied
to the lintel and to the posts of the door of
their homes. [In B.C. 1491] It literally
saved them from the plague of death.
Exodus 12:23:
“For the LORD will pass through to smite the
Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the
lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will
pass over the door, and will not suffer the
destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite
you.”
There was coming a day
in their future [in the fulfillment of prophecy]
when the pestilence, and the plague for sin
would be remedied by THE PASSOVER LAMB!
Israel [and the world]
for now would have to wait for the Messiah to
come.
And the Messiah did
come in 4 B.C.
Notice: The word of
God places the utmost importance
to the blood. [This word
blood appears 375 times in the Bible.]
Blood, blood is everywhere!
We shall list below some
of these instances of blood being everywhere:
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Romans 3:15 |
“Their feet
are swift to shed blood:” Comment: Our natural
bent to sin is painfully experienced on
a day-to-day basis by all of us.
We murder, we kill!
Men are cruel!
This points to the fact: The life of the
flesh is in the blood. |
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Romans 3:25 |
“Whom God hath set
forth to be a propitiation
through faith in his blood,
to declare his righteousness for the
remission of sins that are past, through the
forbearance of God;” Comment: It takes
the blood of Jesus Christ to be saved.
And not just any man’s blood, but
only the blood of the One
Who has never sinned. |
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Romans 5:9 |
“Much more then,
being now justified by his
blood, we shall be saved
from wrath through him.” Comment: When a man is
justified by the blood of
Jesus Christ he is saved from the
deserved wrath of God. |
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1
Corinthians 10:16 |
“The cup of blessing
which we bless, is it not the communion of
the blood of
Christ? The bread which we break, is it not
the communion of the body of Christ?” Comment: We [the
body of Christ, which is the church] need to
continually be put in remembrance of the
blood that was shed for us on Mount
Calvary. |
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1
Corinthians 11:25 |
“After the same
manner also he took the cup,
when he had supped, saying, This cup is the
new testament in my blood:
this do ye, as oft as ye drink it,
in remembrance of me.” Comment: Because our
memories with the passing of time grow so
dim, this ordinance is to be
maintained in the Bible-believing
New Testament churches in remembrance
of the shed blood of Jesus Christ. |
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1
Corinthians 11:27 |
“Wherefore whosoever
shall eat this bread, and drink this
cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty
of the body and blood
of the Lord.” Comment: Each believer
needs to be in self-examination, and in
contrite prayer concerning any
unconfessed sin to God. CONFESS! 1 John 1:8-9:
“If we say that we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in
us. If we confess our
sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us
our sins, and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.” |
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1
Corinthians 15:50 |
“Now this I say,
brethren, that flesh and blood
cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither
doth corruption inherit incorruption.” Comment: No man can go
to Heaven on the merit of his own
flesh and blood. It has been
contaminated with Adam’s sin.
Rather, a man needs to
be cleansed [or covered] by
the blood of ONE WHO never sinned in
order to go to Heaven. |
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Galatians 1:16 |
“To reveal his Son
in me, that I might preach him among the
heathen; immediately I conferred not with
flesh and blood:” Comment: Flesh and
blood is a reference to the natural
man, i.e. the men of this world. |
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Ephesians 1:7 |
“In whom we have
redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of sins, according to the
riches of his grace;” It is absolutely
critical to understand this:
Without the blood of the Lamb of God being
shed for our sins, we could never be saved. |
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Ephesians 2:13 |
“But now in Christ
Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made
nigh by the blood
of Christ.” Comment: The blood
must be applied to the sinner in
order for a reconciliation to be made
between God and man. |
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Ephesians 6:12 |
“For we wrestle not
against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places.” Comment: Flesh and
blood is a reference to the natural
man, i.e. the men of this world. |
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Colossians 1:14 |
“In whom we have
redemption through his blood,
even the forgiveness of sins:” Comment: No one can be
saved without the blood of
Jesus Christ covering their sin. |
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Colossians 1:20 |
“And, having made
peace through the blood
of his cross, by him to reconcile all things
unto himself; by him, I say,
whether they be things in
earth, or things in heaven.” Comment: The
crux of the whole matter is clearly
stated here. Men are at war with God
from their birth, and all because
of Adam’s sin. Man is born from the
womb a rebel from God. Only if a man,
woman, or child comes by faith through
the blood of Jesus Christ [that was shed
on the Cross] will God be satisfied,
and thus, have peace with God. |
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Hebrews 2:14 |
“Forasmuch then as
the children are partakers of flesh and
blood, he also
himself likewise took part of the same; that
through death he might destroy him that had
the power of death, that is, the devil;” Comment: This
limitation imposed upon man [the flesh and
blood] necessitated Jesus Christ going the
same route by taking the form of a
servant. Philippians 2:7:
“But made himself of no reputation, and
took upon him the form of a
servant, and was made in the
likeness of men:” |
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Hebrews 9:7 |
“But into the second
went the high priest alone once
every year, not without blood,
which he offered for himself, and for
the errors of the people:” Comment: The blood
was not optional for the high priest in
making the atonement. |
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Hebrews 9:12 |
“Neither by the
blood of goats
and calves, but by his own
blood he entered in once
into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us.” Comment: The
efficacy of the blood of goats and
calves was only temporary and thus,
had to be repeated over and over again.
It is only by the
precious blood of God [God was come in
the flesh] that must be applied only
once and to permanently obtain [eternal]
salvation for us. |
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Hebrews 9:13 |
“For if the
blood of bulls and of
goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling
the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of
the flesh:” Comment: This was
only a temporary fix
to the purifying of only the flesh. The
whole creation
would have to wait for the Messiah to come
with the remedy. |
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Hebrews 9:14 |
“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?” Comment: The blood
of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin
all that will come to HIM. |
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Hebrews 9:18 |
“Whereupon neither
the first testament was
dedicated without blood.” Comment:
The Old Testament and the New
Testament are in total agreement
concerning the blood. |
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Hebrews 9:19 |
“For when Moses had
spoken every precept to all the people
according to the law, he took the
blood of calves and of
goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and
hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all
the people,” Comment: This
sprinkling of the blood in the
first testament foreshadowed what
would follow when the Son of God
would come to this earth to be the
propitiation for sin for all mankind.
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Hebrews 9:20 |
“Saying,
This is the blood
of the testament which God hath enjoined
unto you.” Comment:
The blood is directed toward
all that will come. |
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Hebrews 9:21 |
“Moreover he
sprinkled with blood
both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of
the ministry.” Comment: The
cleansing wave covers it all! |
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Hebrews 9:22 |
“And
almost all things are by the law purged with
blood; and
without shedding of blood
is no remission.” Comment:
The blood applied pardons the
guilty. |
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Hebrews 9:25 |
“Nor
yet that he should offer himself often, as
the high priest entereth into the holy place
every year with blood
of others;” Comment: Year by year
this would take place, till the Savior came
to this sin-cursed earth, and
offer for once. |
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Hebrews 10:4 |
“For it is
not possible that the blood
of bulls and of goats should take away
sins.” Comment: Until
something better comes, they must
continue. The better
came! Glory to God! |
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Hebrews 10:19 |
“Having therefore,
brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest
by the blood
of Jesus,” Comment:
It is by the blood of God’s
own Son that we can gain entry into the
presence of God by the grace of
God! |
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Hebrews 10:29 |
“Of
how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall
he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under
foot the Son of God, and hath counted the
blood of the
covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an
unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the
Spirit of grace?” Comment: I fear
at the thought! |
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Hebrews 11:28 |
“Through
faith he kept the passover, and the
sprinkling of blood,
lest he that destroyed the firstborn should
touch them.” Comment: The sprinkling
of the blood saved them from
the judgment of God. |
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Hebrews 12:4 |
“Ye have not yet
resisted unto blood,
striving against sin.” Comment:
This is so true for most of us living
today. [However, we must read
Foxe’s book of Martyrs to see those who
have resisted unto blood.] |
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Hebrews 12:24 |
“And
to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant,
and to the blood
of sprinkling, that speaketh better things
than that of Abel.” Comment: 2
Corinthians 9:15: “Thanks be
unto God for his unspeakable gift.” |
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Hebrews 13:11 |
“For
the bodies of those beasts, whose
blood is brought into
the sanctuary by the high priest for sin,
are burned without the camp.” Comment:
Now, consider this place outside
the camp. It is a very
lonely, and desolate place to be
outside the camp.
People will do everything to avoid you if
you are outside the camp. |
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Hebrews 13:12 |
“Wherefore Jesus
also, that he might sanctify the people with
his own blood,
suffered without the gate.” Comment: They took HIM
outside the city of Jerusalem to crucify HIM
on a hill. Jesus was an
outsider! |
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Hebrews 13:20 |
“Now
the God of peace, that brought again from
the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd
of the sheep, through the
blood of the everlasting
covenant,” Comment: The way to
getting saved is through the blood. |
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1
Peter 1:2 |
“Elect according to
the foreknowledge of God the Father, through
sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience
and sprinkling of the blood
of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace,
be multiplied.” Question: Have you come
through the blood?
Are you saved? |
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1
Peter 1:19 |
“But
with the precious blood
of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and
without spot:” Comment: So precious
is that blood!
Amen! |
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1
John 1:7 |
“But
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.” Comment: This blood
is the very basis for our fellowship
with God. |
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Revelation 1:5 |
“And
from Jesus Christ, who is the
faithful witness, and the first
begotten of the dead, and the prince of the
kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us,
and washed us from our sins in his own
blood,” Comment: What can
wash us from our sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus cleanses
us from our sin. |
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Revelation 5:9 |
“And they sung a
new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take
the book, and to open the seals thereof: for
thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God
by thy blood
out of every kindred, and tongue, and
people, and nation;” Comment: Redemption
is only found through the blood. |
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Revelation 6:10 |
“And they cried
with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord,
holy and true, dost thou not judge and
avenge our blood
on them that dwell on the earth?” Comment: The wicked
on this earth every day destroy the
righteous. Isaiah 59:7:
“Their feet run to evil, and they make haste
to shed innocent blood: their thoughts
are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and
destruction are in their
paths.” |
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Revelation 7:14 |
“And I
said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he
said to me, These are they which came out of
great tribulation, and have washed their
robes, and made them white in the
blood of the Lamb.” Comment: These that
came out of the great tribulation had
put their trust [their very lives] in Jesus
Christ’s blood, believing that this blood
washes their sins away in a cleansing
wave. The cleansing
stream I see, I see! I plunge, and,
oh, it cleanseth me!
Amen! |
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Revelation 8:7 |
“The first angel
sounded, and there followed hail and fire
mingled with blood,
and they were cast upon the earth: and the
third part of trees was burnt up, and all
green grass was burnt up.” Comment:
Remember what happened to the
Egyptians in the book of Exodus!
By what happens here in
the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ,
everyone in the world will know
that the LORD is God. |
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Revelation 8:8 |
“And
the second angel sounded, and as it were a
great mountain burning with fire was
cast into the sea: and the third part of the
sea became blood;” Comment:
See Exodus 7:18-21. |
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Revelation 11:6 |
“These
have power to shut heaven, that it rain not
in the days of their prophecy: and have
power over waters to turn them to
blood, and to smite
the earth with all plagues, as often as they
will.” Comment:
The waters
are turned into blood.
Blood, blood is everywhere. |
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Revelation 12:11 |
“And
they overcame him by the blood
of the Lamb, and by the word of their
testimony; and they loved not their lives
unto the death.” Comment:
The Tribulation saints overcome
the Devil by the blood. |
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Revelation 14:20 |
“And
the winepress was trodden without the city,
and blood came
out of the winepress, even unto the horse
bridles, by the space of a thousand
and six hundred furlongs.” Comment: This is the
blood of the unrighteous of the nations.
“Alleluia” Revelation 19:3:
“And again they said,
Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and
ever.” |
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Revelation 16:3 |
“And
the second angel poured out his vial upon
the sea; and it became as the
blood of a dead man:
and every living soul died in the sea.” Comment:
all those events are coming in the
very near future. Blood,
blood will be everywhere! |
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Revelation 16:4 |
“And
the third angel poured out his vial upon the
rivers and fountains of waters; and they
became blood.” Comment: “Alleluia” |
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Revelation 16:6 |
“For
they have shed the blood
of saints and prophets, and thou hast given
them blood to
drink; for they are worthy.” Comment: Justice
is now seen. They will
have to drink blood.
They will die! |
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Revelation 17:6 |
“And I
saw the woman drunken with the
blood of the saints,
and with the blood
of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her,
I wondered with great admiration.” Comment:
This woman is the great whore [a
church] that sitteth upon many waters. |
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Revelation 18:24 |
“And
in her was found the blood
of prophets, and of saints, and of all that
were slain upon the earth.” Comment: This blood
of God’s people will be avenged
forthright. See for
this the next verse. |
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Revelation 19:2 |
“For
true and righteous are his
judgments: for he hath judged the great
whore, which did corrupt the earth with her
fornication, and hath avenged the
blood of his servants
at her hand.” Comment: This is a
fulfillment of the prophecy which is located
in the Scripture in the book of Deuteronomy,
chapter thirty-two, verses forty-one through
forty-three: “If I whet my
glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on
judgment; I will render vengeance to mine
enemies, and will reward them that hate me. I will make mine
arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall
devour flesh; and that with the
blood of the slain and of the captives, from
the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. Rejoice, O ye
nations, with his people: for
he will avenge the blood of his servants,
and will render vengeance to his
adversaries, and will be merciful unto his
land, and to his people.” |
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Revelation 19:13 |
“And
he was clothed with a vesture
dipped in blood:
and his name is called The Word of God.” Comment: This blood
is the blood that is squeezed out from
the winepress of the fierceness and wrath
of Almighty God. |
The Atonement by
the Blood is finished.
It was on the Cross of
Calvary, just as the clock approached the
ninth hour in the afternoon, that the momentous
moment had arrived on that fateful day in all of
history:
For it is recorded
for all of us to see in the Gospel of John, in
chapter nineteen, verse thirty:
“When Jesus therefore had
received the vinegar, he said, It is finished:
and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.”
[John 19:30]
The Day of Atonement came!
The atonement
accomplished the reconciliation between
God and man at the Cross of Calvary. The
propitiation for sin was made.
The propitiation for sin was satisfied.
Jesus Christ paid it all! The
wrath of God was now
appeased for sin.
Now, notice something of
interest in verse thirty-four:
“But one of the soldiers
with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came
there out blood and water.” [John 19:34]
This is a salient
verse in the Bible that proves that the
water and the blood were still
together inside the LORD Jesus Christ at his
death on the Cross.
The water and the blood are
both intimately related.
The water and the
blood are both in agreement!
The water and the
blood are both witnesses to us!
Jesus Christ came into
the world that HE created thirty-three and half
years earlier. He came both
by water and blood:
1 John 5:6:
“This is he that came by water and blood, even
Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and
blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness,
because the Spirit is truth.”
The Spirit is TRUTH!
The Spirit beareth witness
in earth! The
Spirit, the water and the blood
are all three witnesses to the following
truth: Jesus Christ was God
manifest in the flesh.
Now, here is the summation
of the mystery. This
summation is found in the Epistle of Paul the
Apostle to the Philippians in chapter two:
Verse six:
“Who, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God:
Verse seven: But made
himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form
of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Verse eight: And being found
in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became
obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”
[Philippians 2:6-8]
This DOCTRINE is called
the mystery of godliness:
1 Timothy 3:16:
“And without controversy great is the mystery of
godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified
in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the
Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into
glory.”
The Natural man versus the Spiritual man.
The natural
man is deader than a doornail to
spiritual things. He cannot
discern spiritual things! He
cannot figure them out! He is
helpless!
1
Corinthians 2:14: “But the natural man
receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for
they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know
them, because they are spiritually
discerned.”
But when a
man, woman or child [a natural man] is
born of the Spirit, he is changed.
He, or she, becomes like the wind.
John
3:8: “The wind bloweth where it listeth,
and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not
tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is
every one that is born of the Spirit.”
What
has happened here? And how did it happen?
Receive Jesus Christ!
This
is what happened. A person
[who is born of the Spirit] has received
the word of God. And because he
has received the word of God, he now
believes the word of God.
What happened?
He
received Jesus Christ!
He can
now, discern spiritual things. He is
now in Christ Jesus.
John
1:12-13: “But as many as received him, to
them gave he power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on his name:
Which were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man, but of God.”
There now follows this
birth the development of a special
relationship between two: Jesus Christ, and
those who are born of the Spirit.
“Can two walk
together, except they be agreed?”
[Amos 3:3
There is now an
agreement, whereby God and man can
walk together in beautiful fellowship.
Fellowship
begins with salvation.
Now herein is
salvation: Salvation is by the divine
power of God that we through faith become
the partakers of the divine nature.
We became the partakers at the very moment
when we received Jesus Christ as our Lord and
Savior.
We will repeat verse
twelve again, in the Gospel of John, chapter one.
There is POWER IN THE BLOOD!
“But as many as
received him, to them gave he power to become the
Sons of God, even to them that believe on his name”
[John 1:12].
Notice:
Faith is KEY to salvation.
“For by grace are ye
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it
is the gift of God.” [Ephesians
2:8].
This faith is the
type of faith whereby we put all our trust in
Jesus Christ, the Son of God. When this
transaction occurs this person is SEALED
in Jesus Christ.
“In whom ye also
trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the
gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye
believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of
promise” [Ephesians 1:13].
The Sequence of Events is herein described:
At the moment we trusted
Jesus Christ “through faith unto salvation”
[1 Peter 1:5], God “sent forth the Spirit of His
Son into your hearts” [Galatians 4:6] to
dwell, and we “were sealed with that holy
Spirit of promise.”
This is called the new
birth - termed “born again” in the Gospel
of John, chapter three.
There is more!
This “divine power of
God” has made us “to drink into one Spirit.”
This occurred the very instant you got saved
by the “so great salvation” of Hebrews 2:3.
It is connected to the event that every
believer in Jesus Christ experiences in being
“baptized into one body” [1 Corinthians 12:13].
This body is the “spiritual house” of
First Peter 2:5.
Finally, God bears
witness with the blood, the blood
of Christ:
“But now in Christ
Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by
the blood of Christ.” [Ephesians
2:13]
Everything gets fixed
with the blood!
The Blood cleanses the habitations of men.
This is seen in the third
book of Moses called Leviticus. This is
the blood of bulls and goats, and even of
birds. It is even seen that it cleanses
houses! Take note:
Leviticus 14:52-53: “And
he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the
bird, and with the running water, and with the
living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the
hyssop, and with the scarlet: But he shall let go
the living bird out of the city into the open
fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it
shall be clean.”
Blood cleanses the flesh of men.
In the Old Testament
economy, the blood cleansed the flesh
of the people of Israel:
Leviticus 16:19: “And
he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his
finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it
from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.”
Hebrews 9:13:
“For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the
ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean,
sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:”
The Limitation:
But
there is a limitation found in the common
blood:
Hebrews 10:4:
“For it is not possible that the blood of
bulls and of goats should take away sins.”
We need
God’s blood!
The Power of the Son of God’s blood:
All of mankind, and indeed all
the whole world, would have to wait for the water
and the blood of the Lamb of God in a
cleansing wave to finally purify for all
of mankind’s sins, in taking away once, and for all,
the sins of all men.
Note: In similitude:
Even in the millennial reign of Jesus Christ,
the blood will be used to cleanse the
blood of the people of Israel by a
cleansing wave:
Joel 3:21: “For I will
cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed:
for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.”
This is a reference to
the temple in the millennial Kingdom
of Heaven, and to the observation of a continual
cleansing of the people throughout the
thousand-year Kingdom. [See for this Ezekiel
40-48.]
The Cleansing Wave
Now, we have a song to
sing. It is a song to sing within the
body of Christ, which is the church. It
is called: The Cleansing Wave, written by
Phoebe W. Palmer.
This song creates in the
believer of Jesus Christ a scene of a cleansing
crimson wave.
“Oh, now I see the
*crimson wave! [*cleansing]
The fountain deep and
wide;
Jesus, my Lord, mighty
to save,
Points to His wounded
side.
Refrain:
The cleansing stream I
see, I see!
I plunge, and, oh, it
cleanseth me!
Oh, praise the Lord,
it cleanseth me!
It cleanseth me, yes,
cleanseth me.
I see the new creation
rise,
I hear the speaking
blood;
It speaks, polluted
nature dies,
Sinks ’neath the
cleansing flood.
I rise to walk in
Heav’n’s own light,
Above the world and
sin,
With heart made pure
and garments white,
And Christ enthroned
within.
Amazing grace! ’tis
Heav’n below
To feel the blood
applied,
And Jesus, only Jesus
know,
My Jesus crucified.”
Now, before we to begin
to close here [our narrative], concerning the
Spirit, the water and the blood we need to
consider the story of a certain leprous
man living during the first advent of our LORD.
This leper came to the Son of God,
Jesus Christ. [For this is what we all need
to do!]
COME!
The Story of the Miraculous Cleaning!
This story is
found in the Gospel according to Mark,
chapter one. Now, please go there.
In obedience to
the command, of which command is found
in the book of Leviticus [chapter thirteen,
verse forty-five] we now hear a
leper crying:
Unclean, unclean!
Here we go!
Verse forty: “And there came
a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to
him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst
make me clean.”
This leper knows he
is in trouble!
Now, we have here one who
has the plague of leprosy. His body is
literally rotting away. He is
unclean. He is a person most unclean.
He is a leper. He is done for.
[Now, leprosy is a
picture of our sin. This plague
is the plague of sin.]
This leper needs help.
He needs to be made clean. He needs a
priest! Only, Jesus who came by the
water and the blood can clean him.
But what is needed is
faith, and this leper had this faith [in
Jesus] that Jesus could clean him.
Now, we will read the
next verse.
Verse forty-one: “And
Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his
hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will;
be thou clean.”
See! The
Lord Jesus is moved with compassion to
help the man with the plague of leprosy.
This man is made clean by the Savior.
Verse forty-two: “And
as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy
departed from him, and he was cleansed.”
Clean, clean, I am
clean!
A miracle has just happened!
Verse forty-three through
forty-five:
And he straitly charged him,
and forthwith sent him away;
And saith unto him, See thou
say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself
to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those
things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto
them.
But he went out, and began
to publish it much, and to blaze abroad
the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly
enter into the city, but was without in desert
places: and they came to him from every quarter.”
[Mark 1:40-45]
The Water and the Blood in the Garden
We need to come into the
garden with total fascination of the sight, of which
is down in the ground of Gethsemane, and hear
the witness of the water [the sweat],
and of the blood.
For this we need to go to
the Gospel according to Luke, chapter
twenty-two, verse thirty-nine through forty-four.
We read:
“And he came out, and went,
as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his
disciples also followed him.
And when he was at the
place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not
into temptation.
And he was withdrawn from
them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and
prayed,
Saying, Father, if thou be
willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not
my will, but thine, be done.
And there appeared an angel
unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
And being in an agony he
prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were
great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”
[Luke 22:39-44]
Now, what began in a
garden, ends in a garden.
It was in a garden where things
went so badly six thousand years ago.
It was in a garden where
the first man, Adam, disobeyed God.
It was in the Garden of Eden
that man first learned of what he had to endure
because of sin.
Genesis 3:19:
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till
thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou
taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt
thou return.”
Man had to work in
the sweat of his face.
In contrast, we another garden.
It was also, in a garden
where the last Adam, in his sweat worked
with as it were great drops of blood, a
work.
The last Adam set his face like
a flint to go onward to Calvary and obeyed
the FATHER.
We need to forever assent
to the witness of the Spirit, the
water, and the blood, that they were
all present in the garden with our LORD, and
Savior, Jesus Christ in HIS agony.
Conclusion:
1 John 5:6-9
“This is he
that came by water and blood, even
Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and
blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness,
because the Spirit is truth.
For there are three that
bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the
Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
And there are three that
bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water,
and the blood: and these three agree in one.
If we receive the witness of
men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the
witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
Here, we can put to
rest our narrative.
The Scripture
[which is the Authorized Version of 1611, or any of
its editions] even here yet in the 21st
century proves the Excellency of Jesus
Christ, as to all the things that are given to us in
the scriptures by these six witnesses.
There are three heavenly witnesses, and there are
three earthly witnesses, which they
completely, and fully agree together.
Conclusion: There are Six Witnesses.
1.
The Father
is a Witness.
The first
heavenly witness is: The Father
who sent His Son.
2.
The Son is a Witness.
The second
heavenly witness is: The Word HIMSELF
which became flesh.
3.
The Holy Ghost is a Witness.
The third
heavenly witness is: The Holy Ghost.
4.
Spirit is a Witness.
The first
earthly witness is the Spirit, (which witness
brings about in men the acknowledging of God the
Father in Christ by faith through the
testimony of the Holy Ghost.)
Jesus Christ foretold of
this coming of an earthly witness of the
Spirit while HE yet was on this earth in HIS
first coming: [This is according to the Gospel of
John].
This earthly witness was
to have two distinct ministries.
The first ministration of the
Spirit was to be a Comforter to the believer in
Jesus Christ, and the second of ministration of the
Spirit was to reprove the world of sin, and of
righteousness, and of judgment.
John 16:7-8: “Nevertheless I
tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I
go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will
not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him
unto you.
And when he is come, he will
reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and
of judgment:”
5.
The Water is a Witness.
The second
earthly witness is the water, (that is a
witness to our sanctification).
6.
The Blood is a Witness.
The third
earthly witness is the blood, (that is a
witness to our justification).
Justification by Faith:
The Christian’s
quickening [or regeneration] comes by
justification by faith. Note: This is an
event, or a birth!
“Therefore being justified
by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ:” [Romans 5:1].
Sanctification:
Please understand,
sanctification is both an event, and a
process.
John 19:34:
“But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his
side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.”
The water and
blood, which came out of his side, declares that
our sins have been washed by him, and that
Jesus Christ has performed the
sanctification of the believer.
Therefore, we cannot
never separate
the water from the blood, or separate our
sanctification from our justification,
which is our imputed righteousness.
The Sea Change
The Comforter ministers a
sea change in the New Testament.
John 15:26:
“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send
unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of
truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall
testify of me:”
Now, when the
Comforter came, the Spirit of God
made a change in ministration of the Spirit,
and caused a literal sea change as to
what happens to a believer in Jesus Christ [when
he saved through faith in the blood of
Jesus Christ]:
1.
We are quickened by the
Spirit. [Ephesians 2:1]
2.
We are born of the Spirit.
[John 3:5-8]
3.
We are sealed by the Spirit.
[Ephesians 1:13]
4.
We are circumcised by the
Spirit. [Colossians 2:11]
5.
We are indwelt by the Spirit.
[1 Corinthians 3:16]
6.
We are baptized by the
Spirit into the body of Christ. [1 Corinthians
12:13]
Yea! The Spirit
beareth witness, that we are the sons of
God.
Romans
8:16: “The Spirit itself beareth witness
with our spirit, that we are the children of God:”
Amen!
1 John 5:8:
“And there are three that bear witness in
earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and
these three agree in one.
So, there we have it!
There are three witnesses
to the plague of death that is visiting all
the inhabitants, the people of this earth.
And these same three witnesses are
still here working in this earth today [in the 21st
century]: The Spirit, the water, and
the blood.
These same three witnesses
are performing the mission of offering
mercy, and grace, and forgiveness of sin
to the inhabitants of this sin-cursed world.
“And when he
is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of
righteousness, and of judgment:” [John
16:8].
Our Present Lot.
The dirt and filth of sin
is everywhere. It is all around
us for all of us to see.
Sin is killing us, and Death and Hell are
eagerly anticipating us. We are
all seen so miserably unclean. Woe
unto us!
The Remedy for Sin:
Now, for the remedy,
[for our salvation] is still available today to
anyone who will hear, through the words
of the priest,
which PRIEST is able to make us ever so clean
by the blood of the pure Lamb of God,
Jesus Christ. COME to Jesus!
If you come to Jesus Christ,
and put your trust in HIM, what will happen to
you? You will become a new
creature.
“Therefore if
any man be in Christ, he is
a new creature: old things are passed away; behold,
all things are become new.
And all things are
of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus
Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of
reconciliation;” [2 Corinthians
5:17-18]
Wow, What a Saviour!
Tis this, Jesus Christ!
Come!
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