The blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin

1 John 1:7
Walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

In order for something dirty to be cleaned something clean has to get dirty. I wiped the rag against the glass. The glass became clean but the rag was dirty. In the washer the rag is cleaned the water gets dirty. The water flows through the pipes to a filter. The water is cleaned the filter is dirty.

In the body, blood transports fuel and oxygen to the cells after the fuel is burned it transports the exhaust (water and carbon-dioxide and other waste products) to the kidneys and the liver, the body's filters. The kidneys filter excess water and other waste products from the blood. The liver filters poisons from the blood such as alcohol.

In the Bible there are three purifying agents water, blood, and fire. Water and blood clean by transporting the dirt and sin; while fire burns it away.

2 Corinthians 5:21
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Some time during the trial of Jesus he became sin. This sin flowed through his veins and polluted the filters in his body.

Romans 6:22-23

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Exodus 29:12-14

12"You shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.

13"You shall take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and offer them up in smoke on the altar.

14"But the flesh of the bull and its hide and its refuse, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

Micah 7:19

He will tread our iniquities under foot Yes, You will cast all their sins Into the depths of the sea

Psalm 103: 12

As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Numbers 31: 23

Everything that can stand fire, you shall make go through fire, and it shall be clean.

Isaiah 43: 2

When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you.

When Jesus died His blood kidneys and liver carried the sin, sickness, and sorrows through the fires of hell. The flames could not touch Him because He was sinless but the flames burned the sin, sickness and sorrows away in the sea of God's forgetfulness the lake of fire.

John 20: 17

17Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father

Hebrews 9: 12-14

12and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh,

14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

After His resurrection He carried his blood, purified by fire, to the holy of holies in heaven and offered it on the alter.

This is how Jesus saved us from our sins, not merely the result of our sins but sin itself. We don't have to sin anymore.

Mustard Seed Faith

Matthew 17:20

Amplified Bible:

"Because of the littleness of your faith [that is, your lack of firmly relying trust]. For truly I say to you, if you have faith [that is living] like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you."

NASB:

"Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you."

I have heard many people talk about this verse saying that tiny faith the size of a mustard seed will move mountains. Was this really what Jesus was saying? Tiny faith could move a mountain but little faith couldn't cast out a demon? Was he referring to the size of the faith or the size of the seed with faith?

Little faith couldn't keep Peter walking on top of the water yet tiny faith can move a mountain?

The Amplified captures the real meaning of what Jesus said. "if you have faith [ that is living] like a grain of mustard seed."

Jesus did not compare the size of the seed to the size of faith He compared the size of the seed to the size of the disciples. If they would stop relying on themselves and only rely totally on God, they could move mountains.

Look at the mustard seed.

It is so tiny.

What does it have within itself?

Nothing?

An avocado seed is big. It can start growing without light or water and live without for a while.

All the mustard seed has is life and faith.

It has to depend on the wind from the Holy Spirit to carry it to where the water of the Word can root and ground it in Love so it can grow to receive the Light of Life in Jesus Christ.

Have the faith of a mustard seed, and like the two Gentiles that Jesus complemented saying, "you have Great Faith," your mountain will move.

Depend on the wind from the Holy Spirit to carry you to where the water of the Word can root and ground you in Love so you can grow to receive the Light of Life in Jesus Christ.

God Does Not Want to Use You He Loves You

God Does Not Want to Use You He Loves You

What? Ever since I was a little kid people told me that God wanted to use me. I hear it almost every time I go to church. God really used me. Or God wants to use you.

God does not want to use you He loves you. So is the church wrong?

I don't know about you but I don't like it when people use me. Employers use their employees. Workers use their employers. Husbands use their wives; wives use their husbands. We love our cars. We love our houses. We are supposed to love people and use things. But we use people and love things.

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. John 15: 13 & 14

"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8

So is it scriptural that God uses us?

Jesus used parables and words but He loved people.

For if these qualities (LOVE) are yours and are increasing, they render you neither USEless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1: 8

"But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,' then his master shall bring him to God, ... ; and he shall serve him permanently. Exodus 21: 5 - 6

Peter, Paul, James, Jude, John, and many others were called bond servants of Christ. Being a bond servant implies that we can be of use but only if we are responding with love because we are loved. But it gets better.

"we might receive the adoption as sons. Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God." Galatians 4: 5b - 7

So our Daddy "so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son," John 3: 16

"We love Him because He first loved us" 1 John 4:19

When respond to his love and allow His Love to flow through us we will do His work.

Respond to his love.