The Blood

&

The Name

Nkem Okemiri

The Blood & The Name

Copyright © 2009 by Nkem Okemiri

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Introduction

The blood of Jesus is an invincible wall of protection but many believers do not know when or how to use this shield. Understanding how to use ‘the blood’ skillfully puts the believer at a great advantage. Many times you hear believers ‘pleading’ and ‘sprinkling’ the blood of Jesus against Satan, demons, witches, wicked men or evil occurrences (even their mention) in the bid to shield themselves from evil. The sense is that if I ‘plead’, ‘sprinkle’ or ‘cover myself with’ the blood of Jesus, Satan will never come near me; and there are countless testifiers to the efficacy of the blood in blocking the devil. I am yet to find a passage of the Bible that says the blood can shield the believer from Satan’s attacks.

Many believers stand on Revelation 12: 11 ( 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 ) to ‘plead’, ‘sprinkle’ or ‘cover’ themselves with the blood of Jesus against satanic attacks. And when they plead, sprinkle or cover with the blood, everyone around echoes, “the b-l-o-o-d of Jesus.” I am going to say, in love, something that may shock you: I have taken time to pray and search through the scriptures and my find is that this pleading, sprinkling and covering ourselves with the blood of Jesus is not an accurate application of the blood or of scriptures. Do not get offended by this assertion or think that I am inflicting a fatal injury to your faith or belief in the blood. Just read on. I am only sharing with you what I have learnt from the word of God and I know it will be helpful to you also. We grow as we learn new things. Peter the Apostle had to learn something new the day he got to the house of Cornelius. When the Holy Spirit led him to the house of a gentile, Peter confessed, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean” ( Acts 10: 28 ). When he now heard the story of Cornelius’ encounter with God, he “ opened his mouth and said:”In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him” ( Acts 10: 34, 35 ). Our understanding of God and His word ought to grow every day.

Now, someone may say, “Any time I plead the blood, I get results.” That is fine and I praise God for His faithfulness – even when we are missing it; but I want to remind you that when Moses struck the rock instead of speaking to it as God commanded, he still got water for the people to drink. All that the people wanted was water; so, it did not matter to them if Moses struck the rock or spoke. Getting results do not always indicate we are doing the right thing. Idol worshippers get results! Drug addicts get results! Israelites born in the wilderness were not circumcised until they crossed the Jordan and came to Gilgal ; yet they defeated the Amalekites and their other enemies before Jordan. You need more than just getting results. I believe that if you receive and take to heart what I want to share with you, you will begin to see results PLUS ! The truth you are about to learn from the pages of this material will give you results you have never imagined.

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The Blood of Jesus Christ

It is my intention to share with you, in this material, the mystery, purpose and power of the blood. I believe that this will help you to take advantage of this one thing that works when everything else fails. The blood protects you from the greatest threat any man could face. However, let me remind you that the greatest threat men could face is not the attack of Satan but the judgment of God. Yes! If Satan comes against you, you can flee to God; but if God is coming against you, where will you run to? That is why He provided the blood. The only thing that can deliver a man from the anger and judgment of God is the blood. So, the blood of Jesus is the greatest and strongest shield available to men. Now, someone may say, “If the blood is my shield against the judgment of God, it should even do more in protecting me from Satan.” That is like saying, “If I can fly from Abuja to Lagos in 45 minutes, why can’t I take the same flight from my house to my office, jump traffic on the road, and get to work in a twinkling of an eye. That sounds great but the limitation is that airplanes are not designed to move that way. So, it is really a matter of what the blood is designed to accomplish rather than what we think we can do with it. It is an abuse of the blood to throw it at the devil! So, what am I supposed to use when the Satan or his agents come against me? I shall deal with the multipurpose armor of protection from satanic attacks later in this material. For now, let us keep our focus on the blood.

I found out from the Bible, that whenever blood from sacrifice is mentioned, it relates to atonement, sanctification, cleansing or purification from defilement or sin.

Hebrews 9: 22

And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

In the bible, ‘the blood’ was always applied to secure purity before God or peace with Him and it was never used in the battlefield to wage war against the enemy. It is of course true that when the blood is applied and God is pacified, the enemy gets the backlash; but the blood is never used towards the enemy. I shall briefly examine four strategic cases in the bible:

1 . THE PASSOVER NIGHT (Exodus 11-12): The children of Israel had to put blood on the two doorposts and lintel of their houses – not because Pharaoh was passing that way but because God was visiting Egypt with death. It was the Lord who said, “When I see the blood, I will pass over you.” It is the Lord who sees blood and passes over; not the devil. On that day, the blood on the lintels and doorposts stood as a token of covenant between God and the families of the children of Israel. The Egyptians did not understand what the blood on the doorposts and lintels meant. On that day, in Egypt, the blood was a secret code, which only the Lord and his people understood. Now, do you wonder why they needed to do that? If they did not apply that blood, God would have destroyed the firstborn of the Israelites as he did the Egyptians. Abraham had joined himself to Hagar, his slave girl from Egypt. You become one with whatever you join yourself to ( 1 Corinthians 6: 16, 17 ). Abraham made himself Egyptian when he took Hagar! Rebecca and Jacob had sinned against Esau. Joseph’s brothers had sinned against him by selling him into slavery in Egypt. The sin of connivance with Egyptians against one another compounded their trouble. The Israelites were as much sinners as the Egyptians! The purpose of the blood was to cover and absolve them of their sins. It was not just the tyranny of Pharaoh that held Israel in bondage. Their sins against one another and against God constituted a major stronghold for the enemy and only the shedding of blood could avail. The blood was not applied to save them from the hands of Pharaoh but from the judgment of God. However, when through the blood they pacified the just anger of God, He fought for them and delivered them from the hands of their oppressors. The blood of the lamb turned away God’s wrath against the Israelites but since the Egyptians did not have the blood speaking for them before God, the wrath of God came down on the entire first born of the Egyptians. All that the blood did was to save the families of the Israelites from the loss of their first born. It was not the blood that made God kill the Egyptians; it only made Him spare the Israelites. It was not the blood, but the death of Egyptians, that frightened Pharaoh to release Israel. A man will give everything he has for his life ( Job 2: 4 )! So, to stand on the Passover episode and teach that ‘the blood’ scares the enemy is untenable.

2. BLOOD IN THE LEVITICAL RITUALS: The use of blood in the Old Testament levitical offerings was for purification, consecration and atonement:

Leviticus 8:14-16

And he brought the bull for the sin offering. Then Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin offering, and Moses killed it. Then he took the blood, and put some on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and purified the altar. And he poured the blood at the base of the altar, and consecrated it, to make atonement for it.

Leviticus 14:14-19

The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot…"Then the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Afterward he shall kill the burnt offering.

Leviticus 17:11-12

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.'

The children of Israel did not sprinkle blood in the battle field to fight their enemies at war or around their houses to scare evil spirits. Blood only prepared them to approach or encounter God rather than the devil.

3. THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST:

1 Peter 1: 18-20

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Hebrews 9: 11-15

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. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, 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? And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

It is clear from the word of God that Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through the shedding of His blood on the cross. But the nature of that redemptive operation is largely misunderstood by many believers today. When we read from the Bible that Jesus Christ shed His blood for us on the cross, we begin to think that His blood was either collected in basin or bowl and carried to the sanctuary or allowed to flow freely like water at Calvary. I have heard preachers telling people to “just look up and picture the blood flowing for you at Calvary”.

When the bible talks about ‘The blood of Jesus’, it is a pictorial way of using the animal sacrifices of the Old Testament to communicate the death of Christ on the cross. Animal sacrifices and the use of blood in the Old Testament pointed to the death of Jesus Christ on the cross for the sins of humanity.

But we must note that the blood of Jesus was not shed in the same way that they shed the blood of the sacrificial lambs. Blood in the O.T was a natural or physical thing pointing to something spiritual in the N.T. In the O.T, those animals die physically to shed their blood and atone for the sins of the people. Jesus died spiritually to ‘shed His blood’ . ‘The blood of Jesus’ is therefore metaphoric. Jesus was called ‘the Lamb of God’ (John 1: 29) and we know He was not a lamb in the literal sense. In the same way, ‘the blood of Jesus’ is not literal blood.

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The Two Deaths of Jesus Christ

Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned.

Adam’s fall had two major negative consequences: sin entered the world and all men were made sinners. Secondly, Adam’s sin made way for death and it spread to all men. When the Lord Jesus came, it was to solve the problems created by Adam’s fall – the problems of sin and death. He dealt with the two problems on the cross. There, He paid the penalty for sin, which hung over humanity, and also broke the power and tyranny of death. “Christ died for us” is a two-pointed arrow: He died for our sins and also died to destroy the one that had the power of death.

Jesus tasted two kinds of death on the cross to deal with the problems of sin and death. He first died spiritually to pay for our sins and then, He died physically to deal with death.

THE SPIRITUAL DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST

“The wages of sin is death” ( Romans 6: 23 ). The wages of sin is both spiritual death (separation from God, the Fountain of life) and physical death (the cessation of physical life). In Genesis chapter 2 , God told Adam that the day he eats from the forbidden tree, he would die. Now, did Adam and Eve die the day they ate from the forbidden tree? Yes! If you say No, it means God told them a lie because He said they would die. They died spiritually although they lived on physically several years after the fall. They were dead though living. The first assignment of Christ was, therefore, to release man from spiritual death. And He accomplished that on the cross while He was still alive physically. He died for our sins before he died physically – just as Adam died spiritually before tasting physical death. Think of this: Jesus was alive (physically) when He said “My God , My God , why have you forsaken me?” Notice that He did not say, “My Father , My Father , why have you forsaken me?” That was the first and only time He lost communion and fellowship with the Father. And the reason for that is clear: He was bearing the sins of men. “He who knew no sin was made sin for us….” ( 2 Corinthians 5: 21 ) “The just died for the unjust” ( 1 Peter 3: 18 ). In that painful and lonely moment of separation from the Father, He received the wages of sin. Then, as it were, Hell and Hades were poured on Him and He was baptized in the Lake of fire. Again, He was still alive when He said, “It is finished.” Then He had completed the payment for our sins. If it was for sin alone that He went to the cross, He could, as well, have come down from the cross when He said, “ It is finished.” But something was still at stake –death, which is the master of sin. Sin is the sting of death ( 1 Corinthians 15: 56 ). Jesus removed the sting and then went for the sting er . Death lost its power over men when Jesus Christ removed sin, the sting of death. That was why the opening of the graves accompanied the parting of the veil of the temple. The putting away of man’s sin on the cross has demobilized death; but unfortunately the forgiven man is yet to accept or come to terms with his freedom from the shackles of death.

It is important to understand that Jesus had paid, fully, the penalty for our sins before He died physically? How do I know? He was still alive when He said, “It is finished” ( John 19: 30 ). That means it was not through physical death that He paid for our sins. Physical death cannot avail when spiritual death is the penalty! Jesus died spiritually (‘shed his blood’) while alive physically to pay the penalty for our sins and no physical blood was involved in that sacrifice! It was at the time He was bearing the penalty for our sins that He cried out, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” ( Matthew 27: 46 ). That portion of His suffering on the cross was what the O.T sacrifices pointed to and it had very little or nothing to do with shedding physical blood.

When Jesus died physically on the cross (after He had died spiritually), it was no longer to pay for sin but to deal with the menace of physical death ( Hebrews 2: 14, 15 ), which He finally conquered when He rose from the dead and the grave. It is noteworthy that Jesus did not bleed to death. He had even died physically before His blood dropped to the ground. We know of course that blood must have flowed from his pierced hands and feet, the lashes He received or even from his head (because of the crown of thorns) but the bible never drew attention to those. We are only told about the blood that flowed from His pierced side after He had given up the ghost.

John 19: 31-34

Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with Him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

The idea of ‘the blood that flowed at Calvary’ is a product of the man’s imagination and sentimental reading of God’s word. Literal or physical blood is not the issue in the death of Jesus Christ. When we speak of Jesus shedding His blood, it is a picture language that connects His spiritual death on the cross to the Old Testament Levitical sacrifices. He is our Passover ( 1 Corinthians 5: 7 ). Moreover, Jesus shed His blood not to fight the devil; but to remove our sins and present us pure before God.

THE PHYSICAL DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST

It was necessary for Jesus to die physically to deal with the issue of the lordship of death over men. He died physically to bear the physical aspect of ‘the wages of sin’. His physical death brought an end to Adamic humanity. He took old humanity to the cross and it was devastated and crushed there. When He rose from the dead, He brought forth a new humanity that is not subject to death or the pull of dust. He destroyed the one that had the power of death (Hebrews 2: 14, 15) and also abolished death (2 Timothy 1: 10). In the place of death, He released life and immortality through the gospel.

Death has been abolished! The word ‘abolished’ ( katargeo in Greek) has its root in two Greek words: ‘ katar ’ (meaning ‘down’) and ‘ argos ’ (meaning ‘inactive’). It therefore means that Christ did not only put death down , He also made it inactive . The Amplified bible uses the word ‘annul’. That means ‘to make of no effect’. When a thing is abolished, its use or operation becomes illegal. That is what has happened to slave trade. It has been abolished. The operation of it, in any form, can be resisted or challenged as illegal. Again, when a thing is abolished, only ignorance or fear can keep it alive and running. Death has been abolished. The resurrection of Christ makes effective, the death and abolition of death. The abolition of death is not something that will happen when Jesus comes again. It is a present reality that should be appropriated and enforced!

But first, the eyes of men need to be enlightened ( Ephesians 1: 18 ). Jesus Christ prayed that those who believe in Him will be with Him where He is ( John 17: 24 ). He is not in the grave. No believer should go or be there. That is why the dead in Christ will come out of their graves when Jesus returns. Ignorance and fear are the strongholds of bondage to death. Since the death of Christ men have been held in bondage to death through ignorance and fear. You have been saved from death. You need to be delivered from its fear ( Hebrews 2: 15 )! The subject of the abolition of death is treated in detail in the author’s books: The Abolition of Death , The Life that Never Ends and Freedom from the Highways of Death .

4. THE VICTORY IN REVELATION 12: 11 : When the Bible says the saints overcame the devil by the blood of the Lamb, it does not mean that they were in a corner saying to the devil, “the b-l-o-o-d of Jesus, the b-l-o-o-d of Jesus, the b-l-o-o-d of Jesus.” No! This was what happened: The devil accused the saints daily before God. Of course he was telling God about their faults, failures, shortcoming and sins and the accusations were based on facts and not false. You remember how he withstood Joshua the high priest in Zechariah 3:1-5 because of his filthy garments. He thought God would get angry and judge those saints. If Satan knew the meaning and power of the blood, he would have not gone to accuse the saints before God. I want you to picture him in the courtroom of the universe. God is seated as the Judge. Satan is both the prosecutor and plaintiff. The saints are the accused and defendants. The Lord Jesus Christ appeared as Advocate for the saints. After the prosecutor has spoken, the Judge turned in the direction of the saints (who have confessed their sins). Then Jesus Christ their Advocate ( 1 John 2: 1, 2 ) stood and showed that the sins of the saints have already been cleansed by His blood ( Ephesians 1: 7; 1 John 1: 7 ).

That was how Satan lost the case. His submission lacked locus standi . The saints did not go about pleading, sprinkling and covering themselves with the blood of Jesus in order to defeat Satan. They did not even know that Satan was accusing them before God. They simply confessed their sins and appropriated the forgiveness of God in Christ Jesus. The Lord Jesus is the one who really pleads the blood before the Father on behalf of the saints. When you confess your sins, he presents His blood (his work on the cross) before the Father and the court of heaven. It is his intercession and advocacy that avails for us.

Hebrews 7: 25, 26

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

“The blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sins” ( 1 John 1: 7 ). The Bible does not say, “The blood of Jesus drives Satan or evil spirits away.” The Bible says they overcame the accuser (not the attacker) of the brethren with the blood of the Lamb. And we need the constant witness of the blood before God on our behalf because though we may see when the attacker is coming against us but we never know when he is accusing us. Job only saw things happening to him on earth but he did not know when the enemy was accusing him of insincerity before God. The accusation goes before the attack comes! When he comes like an attacker, ‘the blood’ is not what you need. The blood always relates to sin or defilement!

When you sin, confess your sin and appropriate the forgiveness of God in Christ. The already shed blood would speak for you against judgment. The blood cleanses the offender and shields him from the wrath and judgment of God. Our constant pleading of the blood makes a mockery of the once-for-all efficacious blood of Christ. Even the children of Israel did not have to apply the blood on their doorposts every day . It was done once although they commemorate it yearly. They did not use ‘the blood’ to defeat Sihon , Og , Amalek or any of their Canaanite foes. But here are we covering ourselves with the blood every day when the Bible says we have already been washed with the blood of Jesus ( Revelation 1: 5 ). He that has been washed needs to wash only his feet ( John 13: 10 ). All we need now is the appropriation of the blood of Jesus Christ through repentance, confession and acceptance of forgiveness.

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The Purpose and Power of the Blood

1 Corinthians 5: 8 speaks of ‘Christ our Passover’ being sacrificed. That immediately takes our attention back to the book of Exodus, where the Passover was instituted. Before the night of Passover, Moses had unleashed nine terrible plagues against Pharaoh and all Egypt. But all of that could not break the stubbornness of the King of Egypt. That was when God pulled the last plague – the death of all firstborn of Egypt man or animal. He used ‘the blood’ of the Passover lamb to make distinction between Israel and Egypt in that night of slaughter. He commanded the children of Israel to slaughter, each family, a lamb, eat the flesh and smear ‘the blood’ on the lintel and door posts of their houses. Members of each family were to remain in their houses and not move out that night. On that night of salvation and death, God (not a messenger of Satan or an agent of Pharaoh) passed through Egypt and killed all the firstborn of the Egyptians – man or animal. He did not enter into, or kill in any house that had blood on its lintel and doorposts. That was how the Israelites were spared. If any family of the Egyptians had copied what Israel did, they would have been spared also. All that the Lord wanted to see was ‘the blood’. The blood communicated with Him. The language of the spirit realm is written in signs and symbols. Only the Lord knew the full meaning of the blood on that night of Passover. Israelites had an idea but the Egyptians knew nothing of it. They probably mocked the Israelites as they smeared blood on the lintel and the doorposts of their houses. The blood on the lintel and doorposts was a code and a sign language understood only by God and His covenant people.

THE MEANING OF ‘THE BLOOD’

“When I see the blood, I will pass over you” ( Exodus 12: 13 )

Why would God see the blood and pass over? The blood meant the following things to Him:

1. Death Had Already Occurred .

The life of any flesh is in the blood. So, wherever the blood was found, no one there is to die anymore because all had already died. Their blood (their life had been poured forth). The lamb died in the place of the firstborn of Israelites. It is appointed unto men to die once ( Hebrews 9: 27 ). The blood on the lintel and doorposts meant that all who were appointed to die in those houses had been released because they had died in the Passover lamb. If one died for all, then all were dead ( 2 Corinthians 5: 14 ). Although the Israelites were alive in their houses, the exchange had already taken place. As the lamb died for the Israelites so Christ died for the salvation of sinners who will put His blood on the lintel and doorposts of their lives by believing in Him. Do you know why God chose to kill only the firstborn? The first is representative of the rest! When the first man sinned, all men sinned ( Romans 3: 23; 5; 12 ). When Jesus Christ (the firstborn in the new creation) died, all who would be a part of the new creation, through faith in Him, died also. His death was their death! When the firstborn were killed in Egypt, all Egypt died. All the firstborn of Egypt died that the other Egyptians may live. We ought to know that the shedding of the blood of Jesus on our behalf means there is no more death for us. He gave His life for you! The blood of Jesus has taken care of death for the one who believes in Him. Jesus died that you may live. Why do you still want to die? You have passed from death to life ( John 5: 24 ) and there is no more condemnation for you ( Romans 8: 1 ). The first had died for the rest!

2. Life Has Been Exchanged for Life.

As money is the means of exchange for goods and services, blood is the way to exchange life for life. That is why Satan teaches his children to drink blood. They believe they will prolong their lives by drinking the blood (the life) of others. God forbade His people from eating animal blood because that would mean joining animal life to human life. He does not permit men to take the life of other men because that is wickedness. That is why God commands that the killer should be killed. Otherwise, men would want to kill others for rituals - to prolong their own lives.

Thank God we are not held responsible for the death of Jesus Christ but are rather made beneficiaries of His death. We did not kill Jesus to use His blood. He died for us so that His blood can stand for our lives. He laid down His life for us ( John 10: 17, 18; 15: 13 ). That is why we are not held responsible for His death. He even prayed that those who crucified Him be forgiven ( Luke 23: 34 ). Jesus shed His blood for us and even gave it to us as drink – not fruit drink but blood drink! We drink His blood and eat His flesh each time we come to the communion table. That is the only blood you can drink and not stand guilty (but rather declared righteous) before God.

John 6: 53-58

Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me , and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down from heaven — not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

The life of Jesus is in the blood of Jesus. The shedding of the blood of Jesus means your blood has been shed because He died for you. Drinking the blood of Jesus, through faith in His sacrificial work on the cross, and through the communion, gives you the life of Jesus. So, the life you have, now, as a believer is His life. Colossians 3: 4 speaks of ‘Christ, our life’. You are living by Him and also living His life.

3. Sins Had Been Atoned For.

Nine plagues that went before could not release the slaves because they were held by their sins against God and one another. What justification had God to punish Egyptians when His people were equally offenders? As Jacob dealt wisely with Esau, so the Egyptians dealt wisely with the house of Jacob. When Joseph’s brothers sold him they confessed he was part of their flesh and bones ( Genesis 37: 25-28 ). You will end up in slavery if you sell your flesh and bones into slavery. They handed themselves over to the Egyptians on the day they sold Joseph. While in Egypt they betrayed one another. Egyptians got them to spy one another. Egyptians paid them to kill one another. Egyptians made Israelites task masters over other Israelites. Their sins needed to be atoned for. Many times we get busy fighting the devil when the real problem is with us – our habits, attitudes, and thought patterns. The church is busy praying against the world while at the same time busy betraying one another before the world. We are our own problems! The problem Israel had was not just with Egypt. Egypt was only a part of the story. The root of their bondage was in their offense against one another. The blood dealt with the root of their bondage. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins ( Hebrews 9: 22 ). The blood of Jesus has taken care of your sins!

4. The Ransom Has Been Paid.

Ransom is what you pay to buy back a slave. The children of Israel were justly slaves to the Egyptians. Egypt paid to have them. When Portiphar bought and paid for Joseph, he was also, indirectly buying and paying for Joseph’s brothers. He who kills another shall be killed. In the same way, he who sells another into slavery shall become a slave also. Africa is paying for her sins against her children. We sold our people as slaves to the west. Today, with all our might and wealth, we are slaves to the western world – even in our land! The west bought us when we accepted money for our children, brothers and sisters. Since Egypt paid to have Israel as slaves, it would be unjust to demand that they be released without ransom. How were they ransomed? They paid with their blood! They served their masters unto death. They died when the Passover lamb died. When the Passover lamb died, Egypt lost all her slaves. Death brings all contracts to an end ( Romans 7: 1-4 ). So, when Israelites came out of their houses the morning following the night of Passover, those were new, resurrected people. Those were not slaves and had never been slaves. That was why Pharaoh could not keep the post-Passover Israelites. Egypt had no right over those ones. All the Israelites that Pharaoh had as slaves before the night of Passover had died and no longer existed. They all died in the Lamb. Praise God for the blood of the Lamb! The blood of the Lamb is for the redemption, restoration and transformation of Africa! If we can lay hold of the blood of Jesus Christ, both we and our land will be transformed.

2 Corinthians 5: 17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

They were a purchased people. He purchased them out of Egypt with the blood of the lamb ( Acts 20: 28 ) . Whatever it cost Egypt to have Israel as slaves, God bought them back with the currency of the blood. The currency of the blood is death! That is God’s master stroke of wisdom against Satan. When a slave dies, his bondage ends. When the Passover lamb died, Pharaoh’s slaves died. That was how God ended your bondage to Satan. He joined you to Jesus in His death. So, on the day that Jesus died, the ‘you’ of the old creation died ceased to exist. When Jesus rose from the dead, He came up with a new-creation-you that Satan cannot claim. He still wants to possess you but you need to tell him you do not know Him because you are a new creation and can’t the one he used to own as slave. So many things happened in that moment when you gave your life to Jesus Christ. In that moment, both death and resurrection took place; you were joined to the death of Christ and therefore ceased to exist. You were also raised from the dead (joined to the resurrection of Jesus Christ) and so became an entirely new person. This is not like the rising of Lazarus from the dead. The Lazarus that died was the same that rose from the dead. It was you in Adam that died with Jesus; but it is you in Christ that rose from the dead. The difference between the old you and the new you is as wide as the difference between Adam and Jesus Christ! You are no longer an Adam-man; you are now a Christ-man.

Since God provided the lamb, they were now His people – not just by creation or election but also by purchase. They would now serve Him all their lives.

2 Corinthians 5: 15

And He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

The blood was the receipt and evidence of purchase! When Joseph was sold, all that his brothers showed their father to prove that Joseph was dead was his garment dipped in blood. When God redeemed Israel from bondage, all He left for the Egyptians was the blood smeared on the lintel and the doorposts of the houses where the Israelites had lived. Each time Jacob saw Joseph’s clothes dipped in blood, he was reminded, “Joseph is gone!” God did the same to Egypt: each time they saw the blood on the lintel and doorposts, they knew “Israel is gone!” When Jesus died on the cross, all He left behind was the cross on which He was crucified and the empty tomb. The cross of Jesus Christ and the empty tomb are reminders to Satan and the world that you are gone and gone forever. Praise God!

1 Peter 1: 18, 19

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

5. Covenant Is In Effect.

The blood on the lintel and on the doorposts was the blood of God’s covenant with Israel. Blood is for the sealing of covenants.

Hebrews 9: 16-22

For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives. Therefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.” Then likewise he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry. And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

On the night of the Passover, when God saw blood on the lintel and doorposts of the houses of Israelites, He was reminded that those were the dwelling places of His covenant people. He had made a covenant with their fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. If he killed anyone in the houses that had blood on the lintel and doorposts, He would be breaking His covenant with the Patriarchs and would cease to be God because God cannot lie.

Numbers 23: 19

“God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Psalms 89: 34

My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.

When He saw the blood, He might have thought, “I am their God and they are my people. I can only do them good and not evil” That blood of the covenant sanctified the people of Israel in the land of Egypt. It is the blood of the covenant. It is the blood of the new covenant. It is the blood of the everlasting covenant ( Hebrews 13: 20 )! A covenant sealed with blood is irrevocable and irreversible.

THIS CUP…THE NEW COVENANT…MY BLOOD

In the spirit realm, things and their representations are the same; shadow and substance are the same. That was why the brazen serpent saved those who looked at it ( Numbers 21: 8, 9 ). That was the reason Peter’s shadow healed the sick ( Acts 5: 14, 15 ). That was why handkerchiefs taken from the body of Paul could heal those he could have personally gone to touch and minister to ( Acts 19; 11, 12 ). That was why the offerings, sacrifices and feasts worked for the Jews in the Old Testament. That is why faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen ( Hebrews 11: 1 ). That is why the one who looks lustfully at the opposite sex with his eyes is already guilty of fornication or adultery. ( Matthew 5: 27, 28 ). The Lord Jesus instituted the communion table for the church as a mystery.

Matthew 26: 27, 28

Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Mark 14: 23, 24

Then He took the cup, and when He had given thanks He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. And He said to them, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.

Luke 22: 20

Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.

John 6: 53-56

Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.

1 Corinthians 11: 23-26

For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me .” For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.

When we are at the communion table, we are not just dealing with shadows; we are dealing with reality and substance. The Lord Jesus is present at the communion table. The Lord Jesus meant that when we receive the bread and wine of the communion in love and by faith, it is like eating His literal flesh and drinking His literal blood and drawing life from them. At the communion table, we relive the experience of Christ on the cross and also take our stand for all that the cross means.

Eating His flesh and drinking His blood means we are showing forth ( katangelloo - to announce, to declare, to promulgate, to make known; to proclaim publicly, to publish) the Lord’s death; and we are to do it TILL ( achris - even to; until, to the time that) He comes. Beyond just doing it pending the time He will choose to come, the communion is actually an invitation ‘pressurizing’ Him to come. It is like what is written in Isaiah 62: 6-7 : “I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the LORD, do not keep silent, and give Him no rest till He establishes and till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”

In the passage above, keeping not silent and giving Him no rest will make Him to grant their request concerning Jerusalem. In the same way, the communion is a signal to the Lord that his people have rejected death and are awaiting translation from mortal life to immortal life. It is something we do to get His attention; because in proclaiming His death, we are also proclaiming our life and immunity from death.

Nelson Mandela refused release from prison till the policy of Apartheid was dismantled from South Africa. His decision to remain in prison pressurized the government of South Africa to change the policy of apartheid. Strike actions are used to pressurize people in authorities to change certain policies in favor of those who are embarking on strike. The communion table is something the church observes to remind the Lord that we are prepared to live until He comes. The communion is a persistent call to the Lord to come and transform our lowly bodies and save them from death and dying.

Philippians 3: 20-21

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.

REMEMBERING JESUS

Every time we receive the bread and wine, we should be saying, ‘Come, Lord Jesus’. When two people who are in love with each other are going to be away from each other, they exchange photographs for remembrance. The purpose of the photographs is not to replace the actual persons but to keep a visible representation of the one you love until there is a reunion. The more they look at the pictures the more they desire the reunion. The communion experience is like looking at the photograph of Jesus and desiring that He returns. The communion table is about the coming of the Lord. “…till He comes” .

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The Name of the LORD

The second armor of the believer that we are going to consider in this material is the name of the Lord. The name of the Lord can be used for both offense and defense against the enemy. It is a weapon of attack and a shield of protection. Most believers use the blood when they should use the name and use the name when they should use the blood. Whereas the name arms you against the attacks of the enemy, the blood shields from the wrath of God. When you face the enemy, and you are threatened by satanic attacks, use the name. Just stand in the name of Jesus Christ and resist the enemy and put him to flight. When you are in danger of judgment from God, your city of refuge is the blood. The armor of ‘the name of the Lord’ is always used in relation to salvation.

1. The name of the Lord is a strong tower of safety for the righteous.

Proverbs 18: 10

The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

It is very clear from the scripture quoted above that it is the righteous who takes refuge in the name of the Lord. The name protects and preserves the righteous from the evil one. He runs to the name when the enemy comes after him. Every believer is under the cover of the name of Jesus Christ. This gives the believer diplomatic immunity as an ambassador of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the reason the Lord Jesus prayed to the Father to “keep through your name those whom you gave me” (John 17: 11). He also reminded the Father in John 17: 12 that “while I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name.” The word ‘keep’ ( Tereo in Greek), means to ‘watch with preservation in mind.’ In verse 12, the Lord Jesus used the word ‘kept’ ( phulasso in Greek) meaning ‘to keep or preserve from danger or harm, to guard or watch’. It was through the name of the Lord that the Lord Jesus kept (watched, guarded and preserved) his disciples from danger or harm. The name kept them from drowning at the sea. The name kept Peter from sinking and drowning when he attempted walking on water. The name of the Lord kept them from sickness, diseases or pre-mature death.

2. “In the name of the Lord”, is your strength for attack against the enemy.

As David faced Goliath in battle, he said, “…You come to me with a sword, with a spear and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts” ( 1 Samuel 17: 45 ). David did not make mention of his staff, sling or stone. He knew there was no power in those things to kill Goliath. It was not really David or his stone that killed Goliath. It was the name behind David and his stone. The name of the Lord is stronger than all physical and material weapons of war. When you stand in that name, no weapon that is formed against you will prosper ( Isaiah 54: 17 ). The name of the Lord was the secret of David’s victory against Goliath. It was not anything else he had or did not have. When David told Goliath, “I come to you in the name of the Lord”, he meant that Goliath was facing the Lord (not David) in battle. He went in the name of the Lord, because the battle was the Lord’s battle. When a believer understands the mystery of operating in the name of the Lord, he becomes invincible. Whatever you do in the name of the Lord, will prosper. No one fails who goes in the name of the Lord.

When the Apostle Paul faced a spirit of divination at Philippi, he said, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out of her that very hour” (Acts 16: 18). Through the name of Jesus Christ Paul overcame that spirit of divination and saved the slave girl.

Do not let the enemy intimidate you because you have the name that every knee bows to (Philippians 2: 11). How do I know you have the name? You are a son of God (John 1: 12). His name is upon you. You are a branch in the Vine (John 15: 5). The name of the vine is upon its branches. You are a member of the body of Christ (Ephesians 5: 30). You share His name. You do not have a separate spiritual identity or existence. You are an ambassador of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 20). You are here in His name.

The name of the Lord will help you destroy the enemy or his works. Read what the Psalmist said in Psalms 118: 10-12: All nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me; but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. They surrounded me like bees; they were quenched like a fire of thorns; for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

What are the troubles surrounding you? The name of the Lord will grant you deliverance and victory. The Psalmist did not say, “In the name of the Lord, I will escape.” He said, “In the name of the Lord, I will destroy them.” There are times when the Lord makes a way of escape. There are other times when He empowers you to destroy the enemy. The power you have against the enemy is the name of the Lord. Every believer has been empowered with that name. Learn to stand on it and the enemy will shift ground.

3. The name of the Lord brings salvation: “There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” ( Acts 14: 12 ). “For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved” ( Romans 10: 13 ). Calling on the name of the Lord saves the one who calls from the power of the enemy.

The name of the Lord is ‘the helmet of salvation’ in Ephesians 6: 17 , which we are to take up in spiritual warfare. The righteous is safe when he runs to the name. More than that, whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. The name of the Lord is for safety and deliverance when you are faced with danger.

GO IN HIS NAME!

To the majority of believers, “In Jesus name” is only a necessary appendage to prayers to ensure their passage through the “gates of heaven”. But there is more to the name than that. Operating in the name of Jesus means we are operating under Christ’s delegated authority. We are standing in His office and place. We are working for Him and He is working through us. His name gives us protection and covering while we give expression to His person and purpose.

You are His Ambassador ( 2 Corinthians 5: 20 ) ! As a believer, you are functioning on earth in the name, and on behalf of the Lord Jesus Christ. You are here to represent him. You are holding brief for him. The Mistake we often make is to think that believers are earthly people who are struggling to go to heaven. The truth rather is that we are citizens of heaven serving our Lord on earth. That makes a world of difference. We are not here to make heaven but to fulfill His purpose and glorify Him on earth.

Heaven is our home country. We are pilgrim-ambassadors bringing heaven to the people of the world. We are here in his name. We have his personal letterhead and seal to endorse and make official, whatever we do here on earth in his name and place.

IN my Name…Cast Out Devils (Mark 16:17)

Demons bow to the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ; and for the purpose of continuing his work on earth, the Lord has given us His personal letterhead and seal. When we place that seal on anything, both heaven and hell know where we are coming from and stand to respond. It is not the shouting, pushing, touching or questioning that casts out demons, but the authority that is vested in the name we use with confidence. Power belongs to the name. Opposing forces bow to the name of Jesus Christ; not to your name but to His name. So, if you go in His name they will bow to you because there is no difference between you and the Lord when you go in His name.

Faith IN the Name

The name works, not because of you but in spite of you. The name does not depend on you to succeed. Rather your success depends on your faith in the name. The lame man at the gate called Beautiful was made whole when Peter said, In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk” ( Acts 3: 6 ). This incident caused great stir and amazement but Peter wondered why. It was not “rise up and walk” that made the man whole but the name behind the one that gave the command.

Acts 3:12

So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?

Acts 4: 10-12

O let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth… by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.” This is the stone…

Many people have said “rise up and walk” and nothing happened. Perhaps, they spoke ‘with’ the name of Jesus rather than ‘in’ His name. There is a great difference between operating in the name of Jesus and operating with the name of Jesus. At Ephesus, Paul cast out evil spirits in the name of Jesus Christ. The seven sons of Sceva tried to cast out demons “in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches’. The result they got was very negative because they had no authorization from Jesus to do what they did ( Acts 19: 11-16 ). They were only operating ‘ with ’ the name of Jesus and not ‘ in ’ His name. There are many unauthorized people (unauthorized because of loss of fellowship with the Lord or because of a lack of His endorsement for what they are doing) who are doing so many things “in the name of the Lord”.

Matthew 7: 22-23

Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me , you who practice lawlessness!’

You will not be one of such people! As you go in the name of the Lord, the same name will make a way for you where they say there is no way; and in the same name, you will also make a way for others. “Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord”.

Acts 3:12

So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?

Acts 4: 10-12

O let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth… by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.” This is the stone…

The name is the stone that killed Goliath. The name is the stone that crushed the image, which Nebuchadnezzar saw in Daniel chapter 2. The name is the stone that will crush every work of Satan in your life or around you.

Anoint… IN the Name of the Lord

Whenever you anoint the sick in the name of the Lord according to James 5: 14-16 , the Lord will raise him up. ‘The secret’ is doing it in the name of the Lord. Anything done in the name of the Lord cannot fail because He takes responsibility for its success! Many people are just pouring oil on people’s heads and calling the name of the Lord over them. The oil, like David’s stone, is only powerful when it is administered in the name, and on behalf, of Jesus Christ. Power does not reside in the oil but in the name behind the one carrying the oil.

Ask IN my Name

Anything we do in the name of the Lord must receive attention either from heaven or from the kingdom of darkness. In John 14: 13, 14 , Jesus means that whatever order you give to the kingdom of darkness in his name (as His representative and with His letterhead and seal) will be obeyed. Whatever you demand from the kingdom of darkness will be done as long as you are dealing officially and formally as an ambassador of Christ using his letterhead and seal. The source of the power and authority of the believer is operating in the name.

But in John 16: 23 , Jesus is concerned about the requisitions we make from heaven. He means that whatever you request from heaven in the mane of Jesus (as ambassador on duty) will be given to you. There is difference between “praying in the name of Jesus” and adding “in Jesus’ name” to prayers. If you are just attaching “in Jesus’ name” to your prayers, that is praying with the name of Jesus. Many do it but get no results; but praying in the name of Jesus means taking your place as an ambassador or representative of Christ. Praying in the name of Jesus means speaking as the voice of Jesus – you are standing and speaking for Him. You are speaking His interests and concerns to the Father. That means you know who you are in Christ. It is like communicating heaven with the letterhead and seal of Jesus Christ. Whoever signs it, does so, on behalf of Christ. It is not who you are in the flesh that counts but who He is. Are you in Christ’s business? Are you His ambassador? If you are His ambassador, then, “whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus” ( Colossians 3:17). The name is not just what you run to when there is trouble or challenge. That name is upon you 24/7! As long as you are a child of God, you are in His business also. So, you cannot be separated from the name of Jesus because there are no official hours in the work of the Lord. Every minute is office time! Beware that you do not use the Master’s time to do the work of the enemy.

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The Blood and the Name

It is true that the Lord considers our hearts more than He does our mouths, it is not accurate to shout “blood of Jesus” when evil comes your way – unless it is coming as a result of sin in your life – in which case you want the judgment to pass over you because of the blood. When you shout, ‘The blood of Jesus’, and Satan withdraws from you, it is just because he heard the name, ‘Jesus’. It is better to shout, ‘Jesus’ when the evil one strikes suddenly to hurt you. In that way, you are not just calling on the Lord to come to your rescue; you are presenting your company ID and telling the enemy that he is meeting or encountering Jesus Christ Himself because you are an ambassador of Christ – covered and protected by His name. That immediately tells the enemy he is going beyond his limits and therefore treading on a dangerous ground. Satan knows Jesus very well ( Mark 1: 24; 5: 6, 7; Acts 19: 15 ). Mark 1: 24, a demon told Jesus, “I know who you are - the Holy One of God!" When you use that name as a cover, you imply that you are immune from anything that has no power to hurt Jesus Christ. That name can and will shield you from sickness, diseases, accidents or any other strokes of the enemy. Calling the name of the Lord saves from trouble. On the other hand, Satan has no respect for the blood of Jesus because he does not know what it means; but he trembles at the mention of The Name (especially if the one calling the name has spiritual understanding) because he understands that the name of the Lord means the presence of the Lord.

When you go against the enemy in the name of the Lord (meaning that you are one with the Lord), he knows he is facing the Lord and has no protection against what you have. All he does is to withdraw from you because he knows he will be destroyed if he does not flee. Satan cannot resist the name of the Lord because he cannot resist the Lord – the owner of the name. On the other hand, when as an offender you stand before the Lord by the blood of the Lamb, He cannot condemn or destroy you because that would mean compromising His integrity. God knows He had received the blood of Jesus on your behalf and so He can no longer demand your blood. Jesus did not present His blood to Satan on your behalf so Satan does not know what you mean when you ‘sprinkle the blood of Jesus’ against him. The only One who knows the meaning of ‘the blood’ is the One who received the sacrifice of Jesus as your substitute. The only time the use of the blood demobilizes the enemy is when he uses your sin as a stronghold for attacking you. In that time, if you use the blood, the Lord whom you offended, will remember His covenant and stand to show you mercy because He knows the meaning of the blood. So, when the Lord rises to show you mercy on account of the blood of the covenant, the evil one loses the ground of his attack against you.

Just as it is wrong to face Satan with the blood of Jesus, it is equally wrong to stand before God as an offender in the name of Jesus. Although the Bible tells us to do all things, in word or deed, in the name of the Lord ( Colossians 3: 17 ), there are certain things you cannot do in the name of Jesus Christ. You cannot commit sin in His name. In the same way, you cannot confess or repent of sin in His name because He is not an offender. There is no sin in Him! If there is no sin in Him, how can you repent of sin in His name? When you stand in His name, His righteousness becomes your righteousness. When you stand in His name, you are like one who has no sin. So, you cannot stand in His name and be talking about sin at the same time. You are only permitted to stand in His name for things that are compatible with His name. It is not the name of the Lord that cleanses us from all sin but the blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God ( 1 John 1: 7 ).

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE BLOOD AND THE NAME

The blood connects us to mercy but the name connects us to grace. According to Hebrews 4: 16 , until we receive mercy we cannot have access to grace. If and whenever you sin, you should confess (acknowledge) the sin to the Lord and receive His forgiveness and cleansing through the blood. It is the blood that grants us boldness to stand in the name and get results. It is my prayer that you will always take advantage of the blood that was shed for you and not allow the Accuser of the brethren, guilt and the spirit of condemnation to have sway in your heart and rubbish your confidence in the Lord. Every sin confessed is forgiven and every sin forgiven is forgotten. It is the blood of Jesus (not your sorrows or the mouths of men) that cleanses you from all sin. When the blood has done its work, rise up and go on in the name of the Lord. The blood of the covenant and the name of the Lord make you unstoppable. Go in peace and be victorious!

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Blood of Jesus Christ

Chapter 3 The Two Deaths of Jesus Christ

Chapter 4 The Purpose and Power of the Blood

Chapter 5 The Name of the Lord

Chapter 6 The Blood and the Name