Daily Bread – September 7, 2024 (The Seventh Day – Genesis 2:1-3) Hebrews 9:12 – Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered once into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. The blood of Jesus presented to us by Jesus our great High Priest must produce certainty and confidence about our relationship with God, and authority over all things that would oppose us. Out of this certainty and confidence, an absolute authority will arise within us to crush every scorpion and serpent, and every power of sin and the demonic realm. In this authority, no power of darkness can harm us, and every demon is subject to us. Every mouth is stopped and every power of condemnation is silenced when the blood of Jesus Christ is applied. If we apply the blood of the Covenant properly, then we will apply it with faith and authority – knowing that nothing is more powerful than the sacrifice that Jesus made. Our confidence in the blood of Jesus causes us to know what God has promised is ours today – how the power of the blood Covenant cannot pass away. Through this, we refuse all intimidation and with the authority that the Spirit of the Lord commands, we speak and everything must obey. It was with this confidence and authority that Jesus entered into Heaven with His own blood to obtain an eternal redemption. It is with this same confidence and authority He has entrusted unto us the ability to minister in His place, as priests of our great High Priest, Christ Jesus. On the first Passover night, the blood of the passover lamb was applied to every house of God’s covenant people in Egypt. Death could not trespass against the blood and claim the lives of those who were under its protection, for wherever the blood is applied, there the power of redemption and the power of God’s life resides (Exodus 12:13). The blood is the sacrifice for sin that stops the plague and provides deliverance from every curse and claim of Satan (Numbers 16:46-48). The blood of Jesus, which all these sacrifices represented, was sprinkled upon all who have believed (1 Peter 1:2; Hebrews 9:19, 10:22, 12:24). Our great High Priest has applied His blood to our lives (Hebrews 2:17, 3:1, 4:14; Matthew 26:28). Now as His priests, we present His blood to all who would be saved (1 Peter 2:5, 9). We apply it as the cure for sin, for sickness, and for disease. In every way the blood of the Old Covenant was used, we apply the blood of Jesus just the same today. With the word of authority and a command in Jesus’ Name, the blood takes hold of all who will believe – and every demon power has to flee. Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
Daily Bread 9/7/2024
