Revelations

LOVBON 7/10/2010

The Cleansing

Dear reader last night a member of our church called to say his mother has cancer she has Lukemia. leu·ke·mi·a (l¡-kê¹mê-e) noun

Any of various acute or chronic neoplastic diseases of the bone marrow in which unrestrained proliferation of white blood cells occurs, usually accompanied by anemia, impaired blood clotting, and enlargement of the lymph nodes, liver, and spleen. — leu·ke¹mic adjective & noun#  This Leukemia is mainly produce in the blood cells. If the blood is cleansed the cancer will be cured. John 15:3 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. KJV This verse was spoken by Jesus. It is Jesus who gave this promise that by His word we would be clean or cleansed. So dear reader we need to know what word He is speaking of.

We know that the Bible is the word of God, but Jesus did not refer to the scriptures here like He has so many times before. He only referred to his own word. The word that will make us clean. Something must have been said to lead up to this verse. John 15:1-2 15:1  I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.  Here he is making a statement that requires us to think of spiritual creation. The main part of the plant that is growing from the roots is the vine Jesus Himself.  In this picture I would believe the root to be the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit.  Jesus was a human man, but as He grew up and received the Holy Spirit He became a supernatural man. The caretaker of this vine is the heavenly Father. As He watches the vine grow and begin to give off branches He also watches the branches. 

How many Christians think God is only interested in Christ? Wrong God is interested in the branches, because they are the ones that will or will not produce fruit. When we have given our lives to Christ we become branches of His vine. God is concerned with our growth and at times He must correct our direction and our incentives. We believe at times we are blossoming, but God says wait I want more of you and He takes off a snip. Ouch! So here Jesus is saying to be clean is to connected with Him.  Rom 11:16 16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. KJV Paul confirms the message of Jesus. We are holy connected to the vine which is from the root , and is the Holy Spirit. In other words as Jesus was a man filled of the Holy Spirit so are we and as He was a Holy supernatural man, so are we.

As we connect our thinking to this we understand the word Jesus was referring to in verse three. The braches are holy and clean because they are connected to the vine.  Luke 22:19 19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. KJV So now that we are connected to Christ, He wants us to go one step further. He wants us to be one with Him in the body also.Sin is the element that we have that makes us unclean. Therefore we must repent of our sins to become clean and saved. After we have done that we must regard our bodies as a temple that needs constant care and repair. There is no doubt that the human body is a weak structure. Jesus a supernatural man was beaten and broken. He was tortured and died on the cross. But even through He knew what His body was going to have to go through, He wanted to give us the strength that  we would need to face our trails.

The broken bread is the body of Jesus. He was broken so we would not have to go through the same punishment. He was a perfect man without sin, we are not perfect and we are full of sin. The only way He could restore us to the place our Father God wants us to be. Was to open the door of forgiveness and die for it. His body was broken in place of ours. The only way we can be clean in our bodies, is when we recognize the broken body of Christ for our body and  Luke 22:20  Jesus knew if He did not make a special time set aside for His followers to recall the bread, they would soon forget its signifitence.  20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, this cup is the New Testament in my blood, which is shed for you. KJV Dear reader blood is life. No mammals can give without it. As the blood flows in the cells, for the body to be strong and function correctly it  should be pure. The blood cells begin to receive impurities shortly after a baby is nurtured. As a child grows he takes in impurities from things around him and these can damage and blemish the blood. Only Jesus grew up with pure blood. Because of Him being, God in the flesh none of these impurities around Him could affect His blood.

Heb 9:15-17 15He had the same needs as man, but He did not have the same blood as man. Jesus was the unblemished Lamb of God. He was the purest sacrifice that ever died. Jesus took on our sins, He was sinless before that. When the Father saw His Son darkened with the sins of the world, Jesus knew it was now the end; He gave up His spirit and died. The blood that came from sores of Jesus is the blood He wants us to have also. Through His blood we can be unblemished. Through His blood we can be cleansed. When we claim the blood of Christ we are white as snow.The body of man afflicted with cancer or of any fetal disease is cleanse through the blood of Christ. No longer does man have to sacrifice firstborn unblemished lambs to compensate for their sins. Jesus compensated for all of man’s sin and sickness even to death. Jesus says the cup is a new testament in His blood. So what is the testament we have with Christ dear reader? And for this cause he is the mediator of the New Testament that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. KJV

For Jesus to give us His blood  He had to die. For us to receive His testament He had to die. Testaments are sometimes refused, taken to courts and fought over. That is when those that are inheriting something of great value have to fight for it. Jesus blood was given freely to all. But dear reader it was not received freely by all, in fact many have rejected his gift. Now you know dear reader why Jesus said it is by His word we are clean. It was His word that gave us the cleansing blood we are so in need of. Heb 13: 20 20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant. KJV So where in this verse dear reader does it say that cancer can win over the blood covenant? Where does it say that the blood can be afflicted with of Leukemia?

Where does Christ say that the cup is only for a few? The new testament of Christ is for all and is an everlasting covenant though His blood.. The cleansing blood of Christ is for all to be  healed.  Eph 1:3-7 3Dear readers who do you know that’s suffering from cancer, stop a minute and claim the cleansing blood of Christ over them saying Amen. I would like to end this with a blessing dear reader.  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; KJV

And all of God’s people said Amen Amen.