*Revelation 12:11
They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
Between 1939-1945, the world waged one of the biggest & most violent wars in history. Around 60 million people lost their lives. Along with the Nazi party he had established, Adolf Hitler made it his goal to take possession of the countries surrounding Germany & to entirely wipe out the Jewish people.
Hitler set up concentration camps where he detained the Jews. He closed their businesses & burned all their books in an attempt to erase the Jewish people from human memory. At that time, an opportunist businessman named Oskar Schindler bought a Jewish-owned enamel manufacturing plant. But when he discovered what the Nazis were doing to the Jews, he resolved to save as many as possible.
As Schindler was the owner of a factory, he was able to offer many Jews employment. When he saw how his employees lost their homes & their families lost their lives in the camps, he decided to do whatever he could to help them. He saved more than 1000 Jews from death., hiding many of them in his factory. Using his own resources & putting both his life & freedom at risk on multiple occasions, he purchased the freedom of many.
Because of his efforts, many escaped the cruel end that had been prepared for them. To some extent, this industrialist became like a secret weapon of redemption that helped countless Jews survive the war. Similarly, we as God's children have the greatest secret weapon of redemption, which helps us overcome in every situation: the blood of Jesus.
There is a veil that falls from the minds of believers when they understand the redemptive work of Jesus on the cross of Calvary. The work of the cross is a complete work.
The blood of Jesus is the most powerful weapon a Christian has to overcome the enemy & obtain victory in every area of their lives.
When the people of Israel were in slavery in Egypt, God sent Moses to set His people free with a mighty hand.
The Egyptians hardened their hearts & did not want to let the people of Israel go, so God sent 10 plagues against that nation. Before the last plague, the Lord gave specific instructions to His people.
The Lord told them that the father of every family was to sacrifice a lamb & collect its blood in a basin. Having done this, the father was to take some hyssop (a kind of shrubs that grows in those regions) & place it in the basin to soak it in the blood of the lamb.
The father then had to sprinkle that blood onto the sides & top of the door frames of the house.
If the father had taken hold of the basin but had not used the hyssop to apply the blood, the entire act would have been pointless.
He needed the hyssop - he could not use any other material, because this was the specific instruction God had given them.
The blood of this sacrifice is a prototype for the blood of Jesus.
The hyssop represents the confessions or declarations we make as Christians about all that the blood of Jesus has done for us.
Every believer needs to understand how powerful it is when we speak out those declarations.
When God designed the plan of salvation for mankind, He included redemption, forgiveness of sins, renewal, justification & sanctification for His children, so that the work of the cross could be a complete & perfect work.
*Ephesians: 1:7
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace.
Redeem - to ransom, liberate, free from bondage, captivity or punishment; to save by paying a ransom.
Because of sin, humanity was enslaved by Satan; our redemption required the payment of an incredibly high price.
It could never be paid for with money or good deeds; the only price that could pay for the redemption of humanity was the blood of Jesus.
No one can redeem another's person's life, or give to God the price for their rescue & eternal forgiveness.
*Psalm 49:7-8
No one can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for them— the ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough.
God saw that it was necessary for His own Son, who is holy & blameless, to pour out His life on the cross to rescue us. The death of Jesus was our death to sin.
The punishment that Jesus received was the punishment we deserved & simply by believing in Him, we are set free from all condemnation & guilt.
*Romans 8:1
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
When we understand the power there is in His blood & proclaim what is has done for us, with all our heart, our declaration is heard by both God & angels, but also by the devil & his demons.
When we confess what the blood of Jesus has done for us, it become evident to all that we have accepted His goodness to us & we now belong to the kingdom of heaven.
DECLARE: By the blood of Jesus, I have been redeemed from the power of the enemy. Satan has no power over my life because I have been brought into the kingdom of Jesus Christ.
REMEMBER:
THE BLOOD OF JESUS HAS REDEEMED US.
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