ARE YOU WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB?
"If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin."
1 John 1:7
On July 24, 2008, Bro. Stephen experienced a horrendous and horrific nosebleed when he got to work and returned home covered in blood. Large amounts of blood was on his face, neck, hair, and absolutely saturated onto (and into) the beautiful canary-yellow dress shirt he had worn to work. The shirt pictured above is very similar to the one he had on.
We went to the emergency room at a local hospital where he would continue to bleed profusely even after his right nostril was packed in the effort to stop the bleeding. In all, he bled profusely well over a total of three hours. Had Jesus not gotten us to the emergency room, he would have bled to death!!! We thank Jesus for His love and mercy and compassion upon us. Oh, how we thank The LORD Jesus Christ ALONE for this!!! We are also thankful to Jesus for the doctor and nurses that were guided by His hand to help Bro. Stephen in his time of great need. Thank You, LORD Jesus!!!
When we returned home in the wee hours of the night, the beautiful yellow shirt was filled with dried blood. The blood had been on and in the fabric for over seven hours. Placing it in water to soak with laundry detergent overnight, it was well-realized that the shirt was ruined without a miracle from God Almighty. Several hours later, the washer water was a pool of blood-soaked water. After draining the water and refilling with fresh water and laundry detergent, the blood-soaked shirt was washed in the washing machine.
When the shirt was removed from the washing machine, it was free of all blood stain that had been upon it!!! NOT ONE TRACE OF THE BLOOD REMAINED!!! How thankful we were to The LORD Jesus for this!!!
Immediately, The LORD Jesus brought to mind the promise in His Word that says this to each and every one of us in our sinful condition:
Come now, and let us reason together, said the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 1:18
Beloved, we are all stained with sin. We cannot remove our sin-stain ourselves. It is absolutely impossible, Precious One. None of us have hope of forgiveness from sin with sin's stain removed without Jesus Christ. There is no sin too great that cannot be forgiven by The LORD Jesus Christ. When Jesus concludes all of us in sin, He does not distinguish one sin as greater than another. Jesus will forgive murder, homosexuality, stealing, adultery, fornication, wrath, strife, seditions, divorce, abortion, "mercy"-killing, drug addictions, witchcraft, satanism, etc., etc., etc. ........the list goes on and on and on of the sins that God will forgive us for through (and because of) His Son, The LORD and ONLY Savior Jesus Christ. The LORD God Almighty Jesus Christ is not a man that He should lie. What He says is exactly what He will do. There is only one sin that can never receive forgiveness, Beloved. Blasphemy against The Holy Ghost can never receive forgiveness. Jesus has made this clear to all of in His Word. One who blasphemes against The Holy Ghost likely never seeks God for forgiveness for he or she has turned from The LORD Jesus have foolishly reckoned The Holy Spirit of Almighty God and Jesus Christ to be of the devil and their condemned souls have no hope of forgiveness for all of eternity.
Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Matthew 12:31-32
There is another condition that will cancel out our hopes for forgiveness for sin even after we are eternally saved by The LORD Jesus Christ. This condition is unforgiveness. Jesus has plainly told His true born-again children this in His inerrant and infallible Word.
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matthew 6:14-15
God has so graciously and mercifully offered us forgiveness for sins through The LORD Jesus Christ. There is no stain of sin that God will not remove from us if we will but TRULY repent, believe in The LORD Jesus, cry out to Him for forgiveness and His eternal salvation. Beloved, we are ALL hell-bound sinners headed to the eternally-burning flames of hell for all of eternity until we are born-again in The LORD Jesus Christ. We will then desire to be baptized in water as we are commanded by The LORD Jesus Christ. We will then desire to serve Him in spirit and truth and faithfulness. We will then truly desire to turn away from our sins and turn away from those who seek to entice us into sin. We will then have a great hunger and thirst for The Word of God. We will then have tremendous desire to read and study our Bibles. We will then truly desire to be with other true Christian people and will desire to hear true men of God preach and teach us of God's Word. We will then do well to seek The LORD God Almighty Jesus Christ for the baptism of The Holy Ghost. We will then also seek to forgive others as we have been forgiven by our Father and Eternal Savior Jesus Christ. We will then also have a true and burning desire within us to share the everlasting and eternally-saving gospel of The LORD Jesus Christ to the unsaved and back-slidden in this evil, hell-bound world. We will then truly desire to love God with our heart, mind, and soul and we will seek to love other people as ourselves. We will then forsake seeking revenge upon others who have sinned against us.
How is it that all of these glorious changes take place in us as true born-again children of God, Beloved? It is GOD Who does this marvelous work in us by placing His Holy Spirit within us to help us and guide us and it is GOD Who places these new desires within our hearts. Salvation is ALL of God and it is HIS marvelous work. No man, no woman, nor child can ever take any credit for their eternal salvation in Jesus. It comes ONLY from God through The LORD Jesus Christ and it belongs ONLY to Him. Jesus paid for our eternal salvation with His precious sinless blood, Beloved. God's Own blood, Beloved!!!
Are you unsaved? Are you born-again but have walked back into the ungodly, unholy, blasphemous, and devil-serving world? Are you born-again and have committed a sin? Return to The LORD God Almighty Jesus Christ and cry out in true repentance for His forgiveness and He will graciously give it to you because of Jesus and His blood sacrifice for you on the old rugged cross of Calvary. He will wash you spotlessly white and clean in the blood of The Lamb.......Jesus Christ, God's sacrificial lamb. The world may not forgive or forget your sin but The Good LORD above will sure forgive you and cast your sins into the sea of forgetfulness and He will remember your sins no more. Sin's stain will be completely gone!!! This will happen ONLY because of JESUS and His spotless blood shed for us on the cross of Calvary and placed by Him upon the mercy seat in Heaven for you and for us for our eternal forgiveness and salvation!!! Your eternal forgiveness and salvation from God Almighty has been bought and paid for by The LORD Jesus Christ. To have it, however, we must truly repent of our sins and enter into this new covenant through The LORD and ONLY Savior Jesus Christ.
You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
Micah 7:19
I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 43:25
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Hebrews 10:17
True children of God have a promise in the glorious Book of Revelation. Read and study this prophecy, born-again child of God. You will see exactly how life ends for you here and begins in glory and wonder in Heaven. Thanks be to The LORD God Almighty Jesus Christ ALONE for His grace towards us.
And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
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.
Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Revelation 7:11-17
BE WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB TODAY!!!
DO NOT PUT IT OFF ANOTHER SECOND!!!
THERE IS NO CHANCE IN ETERNITY TO CHANGE YOUR DESTINY, BELOVED!!!
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