The Normal Christian Life

Part 2
The Blood of the Cross
• Galatians 2:20 (New King James Version)
• 20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no
longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and
the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
faith in the Son of God, who loved me and
gave Himself for me.
• Our DUAL problem:
– Sins
– Sin
– Romans ch.1-8= self-contained unit
– 1:1 to 5:11 First part- sins
– 5:12 to 8:39 Second part—sin
– Conscience
– Life
• When it comes to my sins my one cry is for
FORGIVENESS
• When it comes to my sin my cry is for
DELIVERANCE
• God’s DUAL remedy: THE BLOOD and the
CROSS
• The BLOOD deals with what I have done
• The CROSS with what I am
• The problem of our sins
• Ro.3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God,
• Ro.8:8 But God demonstrates His own love
toward us, in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having
now been justified by His blood, we shall be
saved from wrath through Him.
• Ro.3:24
being justified freely by His grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His

blood, through faith, to demonstrate His

righteousness, because in His forbearance
God had passed over the sins that were
previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at
the present time His righteousness, that He
might be just and the justifier of the one who
has faith in Jesus.
• Sin’s expression is disobedience to God
• Ro.5:19 For as by one man’s disobedience many
were made sinners, so also by one Man’s
obedience many will be made righteous.
• DISOBEDIENCE= separation from God + guilty
conscience+ satan’s ground of accusation
• What Jesus did about those 3 problems:
• 1. Separation- Godward: The blood is for God
– Shadow of lamb’s blood on doorpost in Egypt
– Shadow of the High Priest on the day of
Atonement
– 1 Pet.1:18 knowing that you were not redeemed with
corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your
aimless conduct received by tradition from your
fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as
of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
• God is satisfied with the blood—”When I see
the blood, I will….”
• 2.Separation-Manward: The blood answers
our guilty conscience:
– Heb.10:22 let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
from an evil conscience…
– Once I appreciate God’s valuation of the blood, I
can appreciate the blood’s power to answer my
guilty conscience
• The value of a clear conscience:
– 1. It is the only way you can love:Timothy 1:5

2.It will keep you from personal failure:Timothy 1:19

– 3. It gives us boldness before God:Hebrews 10:22

– 4.It is the basis of character and integrity:1 Peter 3:16

• “A heart of faith and a conscience clear of any
and every accusation are
interdependent.”(Nee-page 12)
• “We may be weak, but looking at our
weakness will never make us strong…”
• Our ground is not on how well we are doing
but solely on the blood for that is where our
boldness comes from
• “For the law, having a shadow of the good
things to come, and not the very image of the
things, can never with these same sacrifices,
which they offer continually year by year,
make those who approach perfect. For then
would they not have ceased to be offered? For
the worshipers, once purified, would have had
no more consciousness of sins.” Heb.10:1-2
• Now we are ready to face our accuser
• 3. Accusation:Satan-ward
– Satan’s present day ministry-Rev.12;10-11 10 Then I
heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation,
and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the
power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our
brethren, who accused them before our God day and
night, has been cast down. 11 And they overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their
testimony, and they did not love their lives to the
death.
• Hebrews 9 tells of the High Priestly ministry of
Christ in removing ALL ground of satan’s
accusation. HOW?
• In the blood, man is REMOVED from his
position of separation from God and JOINED
to Him therefore REMOVING satan’s
advantage and places us in a place where GOD
defends us!
• HOW?
• 1 Jn 1:5
This is the message which we have heard
from Him and declare to you, that God is light
and in Him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say
that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in
darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the

light, we have fellowship with one another,

and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses
us from all sin.
• If God forgives us from ALL sin upon what ground does
satan have to accuse us?
• Ro.8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is
for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare
His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall
He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who
shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who
justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who
died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the
right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
• Are you trusting the blood? If not you are
under accusation. If so ..”there is NOW NO
CONDEMNATION to them who are in Christ
Jesus….
• The BLOOD will NEVER lose its’ POWER!
– Godward
– Manward
– Satanward