Authority of the Blood

The Authority of the Believer, Forgiveness & the Blood
3/9/06
The authority of the believer has been questioned in the court of heavens by the accuser. He, satan, hates Man to walk in the authority Christ purchased for Man. The evidence of Man’s authority is in the shed Blood of Jesus. Therefore satan has devised teachings which cause Man to handle his own sins over and over again, as if the Blood had no power. Man’s understanding of forgiveness becomes threadbare through this process. His preparation of God’s gospel becomes like tattered shoes that cannot take him down the road when God calls him. But the truth is that, just as God has the power to put a man’s sins under the Blood, so Man has this same power of forgiveness (John 20:23). Didn’t the Pharisees challenge Jesus in their hearts, wondering why He forgave sins (Lk5:21-24)? So satan still challenges God’s people about their forgiveness of sins.

Is the Blood of Jesus weak? Why do some utter prayers of continual repentance for their past sins? Will Jesus come and find faith, that His Blood is strong enough to cover sins? Will He find any who forgive their brother’s sins and believe them forgiven and under the Blood?

Man does not see that satan hates Jesus’ authority and the authority of the believer. If Man saw into the heavens, he would know that the minute he offered an acceptable sacrifice upon the altar of forgiveness and repentance, satan would challenge his sincerity. So like Cain, he seeks to slay the holy who offer the sacrifice of righteousness. Holiness is what God’s people are when they have separated themselves from their heart of flesh and become circumcised in the Spirit, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God.
A man of faith will repent and press on. He will overcome satan’s accusations by the Blood of the Lamb (Rev 12:11). With every accusation he hears, the man of faith will offer up this answer; “It is under the Blood”. And this is the confidence then of those who stand fast in faith and believe; their petitions will be heard (1 John 5:13-15). In this is a great victory; his prayers will even cause time and life to be granted to his brethren when he prays for their sins to be forgiven (1 Jn 5:16). Though the enemy meant Jesus’ death for defeat, God meant it for good, and empowered a whole body of people to stand in His place on the earth until He comes again. The evidence is in the Blood