Praise the Lord for the precious blood of Christ which gives us access to God! This blood is the blood of the covenant which enables us to partake of God and enjoy Him as our portion.
Through the blood of Christ, we are qualified to enjoy and partake of all the bequests of the new covenant. Hallelujah!
In the new covenant, God promises to be propitious to our unrighteousnesses and remember our sins no more; Christ came to be the unique sacrifice for our sins, He died a vicarious death on the cross, and by faith in Him we receive the cleansing of His blood.
Christ made propitiation for our sins once for all; He appeased God’s righteousness, He reconciled us to God by satisfying God’s righteous demands, and we are cleansed by the blood of Christ.
Hallelujah, Christ shed His blood once for all, and now all we have to do is confess our sins as the Lord shines on us, and His blood cleanses us from every sin!
We need to daily receive the instant application of the constant cleansing of the Lord’s precious blood again and again!
Whenever the Lord shines on us, enlightens our conscience, and exposes our sins, failures, and trespasses, we simply need to agree with His light, and the blood will cleanse us from every sin.
And when the Lord cleanses us from our sins, He forgives us, and He also forgets all our sins! Hallelujah!
This causes us to love Him and revere Him even more, for He receives us as we are, He shines on us, He exposes our sins, and He forgives us when we confess, He washes us, and He forgets the sins we have confessed! Praise the Lord!
Praise Him for the precious blood which He shed on the cross; this blood satisfies God, it is our access to God, and it overcomes all the accusations of the enemy (see Exo. 12:13; Eph. 2:13; 1 Pet. 1:18-19; Heb. 10:19-20, 22; 9:14; 1 John 1:7, 9; Rev. 12:10-11).
The Lord’s precious blood is also the blood of the eternal covenant (Matt. 26:28; Heb. 13:20), typified by the blood through which the high priest entered into the Holy of Holies in Leviticus 16.
When we apply the blood, the Lord passes over us; the blood is applied not only to cleanse us and wash us, but also for God to pass over us in His judgment.
The blood of Christ is seen by God and He is satisfied. The blood of Christ gives us access to God; through the blood we have boldness for entering the Holy of Holies, for the blood is our boldness! Praise the Lord!
We have no other merit or qualification for entering into God’s presence – there’s nothing in our behavior or our being that qualifies us, only the precious blood of Christ gives us access to God!
The blood of Christ overcomes all the accusations of the enemy; the enemy accuses us before God day and night, but the blood answers all the accusations, and it overcomes the enemy!
So we need to declare the word of our testimony, standing on the word of God and testifying that the blood of Christ has cleansed us, we believe in the power of the blood, and Satan is defeated! Jesus is Lord, and Satan the accuser has been defeated by Him!
The Blood of the Covenant Enables us to Enjoy God and be Infused with Him, even to be Brought into God Himself!
The precious blood of Christ is the blood of the covenant, through which He enacted the new covenant; the blood of the covenant enables us to enter into the practical Holy of Holies (Heb. 10:19-20).
Hallelujah, when we apply the blood of Christ, we have access to God, we can enter into our spirit (the practical Holy of Holies – see Eph. 2:2; 2 Tim. 4:22), and we can enjoy God and be infused with Him!
The practical Holy of Holies is not merely in the heavens but our spirit, which is connected to the heavens; Christ is the heavenly ladder set up in our spirit, and He joins heavens to the earth.
The ladder that Jacob saw in Gen. 28, which was mentioned in John 1:51, is Christ; He brings heaven to earth and joins earth to heaven.
Our spirit is God’s habitation, and because Christ is in our spirit, He joins us to the heavens. When we are in our spirit, God is dispensed into us, we are brought into God, and we are being made the same as He is in life and nature but not in the Godhead.
According to the revelation in the New Testament, we are not only brought into God’s presence by the blood of the covenant – but we are also brought into God Himself! Hallelujah!
The redeeming and cleansing blood of Christ brings us into God so that we may enjoy Him.
Many times we appreciate the blood of Christ as being the blood that cleanses us, but according to the Bible, this is the blood of the covenant, and this blood brings us into God Himself and into His presence!
In Lev. 16:11-16 we see that the only one qualified to enter the Holy of Holies and come to the Ark with the expiation cove (which in Rom. 3:25 is called the propitiation cover) is the high priest.
Only Christ as the real High Priest could bring His redeeming blood from the outer court and into the Holy of Holies, opening a new and living way through His blood for us all to come into God Himself.
Through the blood of Christ, we are brought into the Holy of Holies to be infused by God.
When we confess our sins to God and enjoy the instant application of the blood of Christ, the ultimate purpose is that this blood is the blood of the covenant which brings us into God’s presence, into God Himself, so that we can enjoy God and be infused with God!
Thank You, Lord Jesus, for shedding Your blood for us on the cross. Your precious blood satisfies God and gives us access to God! Praise the Lord, the blood of Christ overcomes all the accusations of the enemy, and we overcome the enemy by the Lord’s blood! Hallelujah for the blood of the covenant which enables us to enter into the practical Holy of Holies, our mingled spirit, to enjoy God and be infused with Him! Amen, Lord, we come forward to You on Your redeeming and cleansing blood to be infused with God and to enjoy God!
The Blood of the Covenant is for God to be our Portion for our Enjoyment so that we may be Reconstituted with Him!
We can never exhaust the power and the rich implications of the precious blood of Christ which was shed on the cross for us.
The blood of the covenant is primarily for God to be our portion for our enjoyment (cf. Psa. 27:4; 73:16-17, 25; 1 Cor. 2:9; Heb. 10:19-20).
In Psa. 27:4 the psalmist asked one thing of the Lord, to dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of his life and to enquire in His presence.
Based on the blood of Christ, we can dwell in the presence of God in our mingled spirit and in the church all the days of our life!
God’s house is in Christ and in the church; whenever we turn to our spirit and are in the meetings of the church, we are in the house of God, and we behold God’s beauty, we inquire of God, we’re concealed from calamities and hidden from our pursuers, we’re raised up and have our heads lifted up, and we offer up sacrifices of shouts of joy and sing and psalm to God!
The blood of the covenant is for God to be our portion; as we apply the blood, we enter into our spirit and we behold the loveliness, attractiveness, and pleasantness of our God, and we are infused with the most beautiful One, Jesus Christ.
We may even pray, Lord, constrain me with Your love and infuse me with Yourself as love so that I can love You with Yourself as love, and so that I may love You to the uttermost!
When we do this, when we apply the blood and love the Lord, all the things that God has prepared for us, all things recorded in the New Testament as our will and covenant, all are ours!
How we thank the Lord that, even though we don’t see Him at present, we believe into Him and we love Him!
The fact that we love the Lord is a genuine miracle; when we love the Lord, our life is converted from vanity of vanities to Song of Songs.
The blood of Christ is the blood of the new covenant (Matt. 26:28; Luke 22:20) which ushers us as the people of God into the better things of the new covenant, in which God gives His people a new heart, a new spirit, His Spirit, the inner law of life, and the ability to know God (Jer. 31:33-34; Ezek. 36:26-27; Heb. 8:10-12).
Based on the blood of Christ – the blood of the covenant – God promises to give us a new heart, that is, to change our heart in its very nature. He doesn’t want us to promise to do this or that for Him – He promises to change our heart.
He also promises to give us a new spirit (Ezek. 36:26); this is to regenerate us and reconstitute us, putting Himself as the Spirit into us.
Based on the blood of the covenant, God promises to put His law in our inward parts and write it upon our hearts (Jer. 31:33; Heb. 8:10); this is to impart Himself as the law of life into us so that we may have the ability to inwardly know God in the way of life (Jer. 31:34).
Hallelujah, God Himself has come into us as the Spirit to impart His life and nature to us; His life and nature have become the inward law of life that regulates us and shapes us into the image of Christ.
The blood of the covenant is primarily for God to be our portion; He has ordained and predestinated us to enjoy Him, and this enjoyment of God has been covenanted to us!
Based on the blood of the covenant, God can now carry out all that He wants to do, mainly to give Himself to us for our enjoyment so that we may be inwardly reconstituted with God, know God, and become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead!
Based on the blood of Christ, God can cause us to walk in His statutes, that is, He can operate in us as the spontaneous power and automatic principle of the divine life to enable us to walk in His statutes and fulfill His purpose. Hallelujah!
Dear Lord Jesus, one thing we desire and ask of You, that we may dwell in our spirit and in the church to behold the beauty of God, be infused with all that God is, and enjoy God as our portion! Hallelujah, based on the blood of Christ – the blood of the covenant – God is now our portion for our enjoyment! Amen, Lord, we come forward to You to enjoy You, behold Your loveliness, and partake of all that You are and have accomplished! Thank You Lord, the blood of the new covenant ushers us into the better things of the new covenant so that God would give us a new heart, a new spirit, His Spirit, the inner law of life, and the ability of life to know God! Amen, Lord, we apply the blood and we come to enjoy God as our portion based on the new covenant!
Ultimately, the Blood of the Eternal Covenant Enables us to Serve God and Leads us into the Full Enjoyment of God as our Portion both Now and for Eternity!
The blood of Christ is an eternal blood, for He is eternal, and the blood He shed has an eternal efficacy; this blood is the blood of an eternal covenant (Heb. 13:20).
The blood of the new covenant – the eternal covenant – enables us as God’s people to serve Him (9:14) and leads us into the full enjoyment of God as our portion both now and for eternity (Rev. 7:14, 17; 22:1-2, 14, 17).
Based on the blood of Christ, the blood of the covenant, we can serve God and we are led into the full enjoyment of Christ as the tree of life and the water of life both in this age and for eternity.
The Lord’s covenant is eternal; the new covenant is eternally effective because of the eternal efficacy of Christ’s blood with which it was enacted.
Hallelujah, blessed are those who wash their robes to have the right to the tree of life and enter by the gates into the city (Rev. 2:14)!
Every day we need to come to the Lord and allow Him to shine in us; this light both exposes our sins (and we confess, apply the blood, are forgiven, and are cleansed) and it is the light of life, supplying us with life!
The divine light kills the negative things in our being, it convicts us, it exposes our situation, and leads us to repentance and confession; when we confess our sins, the Lord freshly forgives and cleanses us from our sins, and we can enjoy God as our portion!
Amen, what a blessing it is to have the blood of Christ applied to us in a fresh, instant way, and to enter into the enjoyment of what God is.
Many times, however, we don’t exercise our right – we have the right to the tree of life, for we have been cleansed in the precious blood of the Lamb, and we have the right to enter by the gates into the city of New Jerusalem!
Christ Himself is the gates; we enter by Him and through Him into the city. This city is nothing but a great, universal, corporate God-man – man in God and God in man, God united, mingled, and incorporated with man.
And we can enter into this city and become part of this city by the washing of the blood so that we can enjoy the tree of life! Amen, it is by Christ that we can enter into the ultimate union, mingling, and incorporation of God and man!
Praise the Lord for the blood of the new covenant, the eternal covenant, which enables us to serve God and leads us into the full enjoyment of God as our portion both now and for eternity! Thank You Lord for the eternal covenant You made with us; thank You for the eternal efficacy of Your precious blood. We wash our robes and we come forward to You, Lord, to eat of the tree of life and enter by the gates into the city! Hallelujah, we have the right to the tree of life, and Christ has become our way into God, our way for us to be united, mingled, and incorporated with God to be the holy city, New Jerusalem!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by Ed Marks for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Exodus, pp. 924-933 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization Study of Jeremiah and Lamentations, week 12, Experiencing and Enjoying the Contents of the New Covenant according to Our Spiritual Experience for the Accomplishment of God’s Economy.
- Hymns on this topic:
– A better covenant, / And better promises; / A better law of life / And sacrifice this is. / Redemption’s work, done long ago, / A better blood has made it so. (Hymns #1187)
– Now, in heav’n Thy sprinkled blood / Speaks for us of better things; / Under its defending pow’r / We are kept from Satan’s stings. / By Thine overcoming blood, / We defeat the enemy; / Over our accuser thus, / We will have the victory. (Hymns #224)
– We are washing all our robes the tree of life to eat; / “O Lord, Amen, Hallelujah!”—Jesus is so sweet! / We our spirits exercise, and thus experience Christ. / What a Christ have we! (Hymns #1151)
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