Sunday, October 7, 2012

The cleansing blood of Jesus [1st John 1:7]

Hello everybody. The goal of these teachings is bring understanding to the Body of Christ. I've seen an influx of Christians who do not know how to properly use the Word of God in their everyday life. Most sermons are focused on things that sound good, preach good, but really doesn't empower the people to live a successful live and effect society. Many live defeated lives outside of the church building. Inside the church building, all is well. They think, "if I can shout and dance enough, then the problem will go away"! To their dismay, the problem is still waiting on them when service is over. So from here on out as I teach these truths, take off your denominational eyeglasses, and look at the Word for what it really is. Look with me at 1John 1:7, " BUT" if we walk in the light as He is in the light then we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus His son "CLEANSETH" us from all sin. The verses before that refers to someone walking in darkness while they say that they are actually walking in the light. This is deception. Darkness refers to ignorance. Light refers to knowledge. This is not talking about human knowledge. It refers to revelation knowledge, that comes right out of the Holy Ghost. This is the same knowldege that The Lord used to make the worlds, and everything in it. In psalms 119:130, it says " the entrance of thy word giveth "LIGHT". This type of light is God knowledge to direct your way in life. lets go back to our foundation scripture: There are two main reasons for the shed blood of Jesus Christ; to remit our sins[ Hebrews 9:22] and to cleanse our conscienceness. When Jesus was being pursecuted by the romans soldiers, they beat him on his back, They didn't whip him on his face, they whipped him on his back. With His back turned, He couldn't see when the whipping was coming, until it hit him. These Whips had bone at the ends of it so that when it strikes you, it pull the flesh off of the person. These created stripes on his back. Today we are the "BODY OF CHRIST", but our back is turned to what is going in the world. So tragedy doesn't strike the Church until it's too late! Also it was the political leaders that put Jesus on the cross, not the religious leaders. So if you'll notice that it is always politics that "DIVIDE THE BODY OF CHRIST"! We need knowledge about the blood in the context of this scripture[1john 1:7] Jesus died for the sins of the whole world{ John 3:16]. This particular scripture is not talking to the world, but a member of the church.[remember this, when the new testament books are written by Paul to the church, the first verse of the first chapter will always read like this: grace and peace be unto from God the Father and Ther Lord Jesus Christ}. 1,2,3John doesn't start with this salutation so it is written to an individual. This word[" cleanseth"] is a constant process of continual cleansing. It is not just a one time deal. The prerequisite to this cleansing is that you have fellowship one with another. At the point that you become offended at a person,or strife, hate, or any these kinds of things that causes you to look at a person based on what they did wrong to you; At that point, the blood stops cleansing. Faith is ignited by love, and without faith it is impossible to please God[ Hebrews 11:6] It takes faith to believe anything in the scriptures. When all of the works of the flesh show up, especailly offence, it works by doubt. You can't have faith and offence at the same time. One cancels out another. When I see a fellow christian am supposed to see and treat them as if they were Jesus Christ himself, after all they are "HIS BODY". Even if they have trespassed against me or treat me wrong. I cannot, under any circumstances treat them based on how they treated me. The constant cleansing of the blood of Jesus Christ is designed to wash away all evidence of offence from your conscience, when you put your trust in it. When you don't put your trust in it, then all the offence, bitterness,resentment,hatred, remains in your mind. Then, when you see them coming[ those who offended you] then all of that ugly come up to the surface, and all you can think about them is something carnal, or mean. You might even go as far as thinking of a way to get them back for the way they treated you. All of these thoughts comes from a mindset that has not allowed the blood of Jesus to cleanse all of that away. How does it work? Faith comese by hearing and hearing by the word of God[romans 10:17] Faith has a sound to it! It is the sound of the word coming out of your mouth. Start confessing everyday: "The Blood of Jesus is cleansing me right now from every unclean,evil thought, so that I can manifest the mind of Christ". You keep doing that and God will deal with you and the person that offended you, and both of you can benefit fron the continual cleansing blood of Jesus Christ.