Why Come Pleading And Cowering To Cover Yourself With The Blood?
Why Come Pleading And Cowering To Cover Yourself With The Blood?
There are so many things we ask for in prayers, which yet have already been provided for us by God; and in his mind as delivered to us in scriptures, he wants us to see that these things are already ours and at our disposal by faith in Christ.
The condition of our mind in coming to God matters a great deal, for without faith it is impossible to please God, and he that must come to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. God in his word has revealed his mind to us, to recondition our own minds, and to enable us come to reason with him, to reason alike with him, and to see things the way he sees things, to view from his own perspective that we might be agreeable with him. Two cannot work together except they agree.
A mind of faith is a mind that agrees with the mind of God as revealed in the word of God. God cannot be pleased with our pleas and tears/cries for things he has already given us. It is despite to the spirit of grace and rejection of the voice of sprinkling which speaks better things, when we fail to open our hearts to receive the revelation of the things which God has already wrought and provided for us in Christ. Please see/read 1 Corinthians 2:12; Hebrews 11:4, 40; Hebrews 12:22-25 and Hebrews 10:28-31.
No father will be pleased by his children waking up in the morning to beg for food, when breakfast has already been served, and all they need to do is to come to the table and eat.
This is very similar to what we do to God.
For example the word of God reveals that Christ has washed(loosed) us from our sins in his own blood, and made us kings and priests unto God(Revelation 1:5-6). Now we didn't ask, pray or plead for this, this is what God did in his love for us, expressed toward us in Christ.
If after God has done this and revealed to us that this is what he has done for us, we still come to him pleading for this, pleading to be washed, pleading to be covered by the blood of his Son, then something is wrong with our perception, we are not yet seeing/viewing things from the mind of God. The mind of Christ(the consciousness of Christ and all he's done for us) is yet to be formed in us, and our language in prayer is not yet consistent with the language of scripture.
Hebrews 10:19-22 says "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh. And having an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."
We are to draw near in full assurance of faith, in complete assurance, conviction and awareness of the provision which God has already made for us to come to him. We must not come to him like Cain in the labour, toil, sweat and sacrifice of our own hands, thinking we would be accepted for our much sweat, labour, tears and pleas in prayer. Rather like Abel and much more than Abel who offered an excellent sacrifice, we're to come in the simplicity of faith and absolute trust in the precious blood of the lamb, which has already been sacrificed and shed for us; we need not shed tears and pleas to be washed by the blood or to have access to God by the blood.
We already have boldness and access to enter into the holiest by the blood and by the new and living way already consecrated for us, thus when we come in this awareness, the sprinkling of our hearts from an evil conscience and washing of our bodies as with pure water, becomes a spontaneous spiritual reality. This is where Hebrews 10:19-22 meets with 1 John 1:6-7 in a confluence of divine verities/truths, which border on the issue of coming to God in fellowship.
1 John 1:6-7 says "If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."
God wants us to walk in the light(the awareness and consciousness of what he has done for us in Christ) as he is in the light(same way he sees us in the light of what he has done for us and where he has placed us in Christ). Only when we walk in the light as he is in the light, can we have true fellowship with him and with one another. It's only when we are agreeable with him, that we can flow together with him in true fellowship; and in such a fellowship with him and with one another, cleansing is a spontaneous spiritual reality, the blood of his son Jesus cleanses us. We don't ask or plead to be cleansed, but the awareness and faith of the word of God(the awareness of what God has provided for us) cleanses us. In John 15:3 Jesus said to his disciples "Now you are clean through the word i have spoken to you". The disciples didn't ask to be cleansed neither did they know that they were cleansed, thus Jesus brings that awareness to them, telling them you are cleansed. Same way the word of God brings the awareness that we have been washed/loosed from our sins in the blood of Jesus; what we never asked or prayed for; and when we receive that awareness it spontaneously becomes our spiritual reality.
Little wonder an inspired song writer wrote thus:
"Just As I Am Without One Plea, But That Thy Blood Was Shed For Me, And That Thou Bidst Me Come To Thee, O Lamb Of God I Come"
This is the simplicity of faith in the blood, we don't come with any plea, we don't come pleading the blood, we rather come in the awareness, assurance and conviction of the efficacy of the shed blood, as our only ground of access and boldness before God. We come knowing that in his blood, he has washed and loosed/disentangled us from our sins. We come knowing that the blood has already been shed and sprinkled, and that the sprinkled blood speaks better things than that of Abel; thus we don't come seeking to activate the blood or to cover ourselves with the blood; the blood is ever active, ever living, ever speaking for us, in that Christ ever lives to make intercession for us.
*Please see/read Hebrews 7:23-27; 9:11-14, 24-26.
There are so many things we ask for in prayers, which yet have already been provided for us by God; and in his mind as delivered to us in scriptures, he wants us to see that these things are already ours and at our disposal by faith in Christ.
The condition of our mind in coming to God matters a great deal, for without faith it is impossible to please God, and he that must come to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. God in his word has revealed his mind to us, to recondition our own minds, and to enable us come to reason with him, to reason alike with him, and to see things the way he sees things, to view from his own perspective that we might be agreeable with him. Two cannot work together except they agree.
A mind of faith is a mind that agrees with the mind of God as revealed in the word of God. God cannot be pleased with our pleas and tears/cries for things he has already given us. It is despite to the spirit of grace and rejection of the voice of sprinkling which speaks better things, when we fail to open our hearts to receive the revelation of the things which God has already wrought and provided for us in Christ. Please see/read 1 Corinthians 2:12; Hebrews 11:4, 40; Hebrews 12:22-25 and Hebrews 10:28-31.
No father will be pleased by his children waking up in the morning to beg for food, when breakfast has already been served, and all they need to do is to come to the table and eat.
This is very similar to what we do to God.
For example the word of God reveals that Christ has washed(loosed) us from our sins in his own blood, and made us kings and priests unto God(Revelation 1:5-6). Now we didn't ask, pray or plead for this, this is what God did in his love for us, expressed toward us in Christ.
If after God has done this and revealed to us that this is what he has done for us, we still come to him pleading for this, pleading to be washed, pleading to be covered by the blood of his Son, then something is wrong with our perception, we are not yet seeing/viewing things from the mind of God. The mind of Christ(the consciousness of Christ and all he's done for us) is yet to be formed in us, and our language in prayer is not yet consistent with the language of scripture.
Hebrews 10:19-22 says "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh. And having an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."
We are to draw near in full assurance of faith, in complete assurance, conviction and awareness of the provision which God has already made for us to come to him. We must not come to him like Cain in the labour, toil, sweat and sacrifice of our own hands, thinking we would be accepted for our much sweat, labour, tears and pleas in prayer. Rather like Abel and much more than Abel who offered an excellent sacrifice, we're to come in the simplicity of faith and absolute trust in the precious blood of the lamb, which has already been sacrificed and shed for us; we need not shed tears and pleas to be washed by the blood or to have access to God by the blood.
We already have boldness and access to enter into the holiest by the blood and by the new and living way already consecrated for us, thus when we come in this awareness, the sprinkling of our hearts from an evil conscience and washing of our bodies as with pure water, becomes a spontaneous spiritual reality. This is where Hebrews 10:19-22 meets with 1 John 1:6-7 in a confluence of divine verities/truths, which border on the issue of coming to God in fellowship.
1 John 1:6-7 says "If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."
God wants us to walk in the light(the awareness and consciousness of what he has done for us in Christ) as he is in the light(same way he sees us in the light of what he has done for us and where he has placed us in Christ). Only when we walk in the light as he is in the light, can we have true fellowship with him and with one another. It's only when we are agreeable with him, that we can flow together with him in true fellowship; and in such a fellowship with him and with one another, cleansing is a spontaneous spiritual reality, the blood of his son Jesus cleanses us. We don't ask or plead to be cleansed, but the awareness and faith of the word of God(the awareness of what God has provided for us) cleanses us. In John 15:3 Jesus said to his disciples "Now you are clean through the word i have spoken to you". The disciples didn't ask to be cleansed neither did they know that they were cleansed, thus Jesus brings that awareness to them, telling them you are cleansed. Same way the word of God brings the awareness that we have been washed/loosed from our sins in the blood of Jesus; what we never asked or prayed for; and when we receive that awareness it spontaneously becomes our spiritual reality.
Little wonder an inspired song writer wrote thus:
"Just As I Am Without One Plea, But That Thy Blood Was Shed For Me, And That Thou Bidst Me Come To Thee, O Lamb Of God I Come"
This is the simplicity of faith in the blood, we don't come with any plea, we don't come pleading the blood, we rather come in the awareness, assurance and conviction of the efficacy of the shed blood, as our only ground of access and boldness before God. We come knowing that in his blood, he has washed and loosed/disentangled us from our sins. We come knowing that the blood has already been shed and sprinkled, and that the sprinkled blood speaks better things than that of Abel; thus we don't come seeking to activate the blood or to cover ourselves with the blood; the blood is ever active, ever living, ever speaking for us, in that Christ ever lives to make intercession for us.
*Please see/read Hebrews 7:23-27; 9:11-14, 24-26.
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