November 4, 2016
Plead the Blood of Jesus Christ
Revelation 12:7-12
The Bible says that the Devil is accusing us “before our God
day and night.” Also, “Woe to the
inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you,
having great wrath, because he
knoweth that he hath but a short time.” (Bold
is mine.)
And if we are honest with ourselves, we cannot even say that
he is the “False” Accuser of the Brethren, because the reminders he recalls to
us are not false. Our sin is real. Our guilt is real. And the wrong we did to ourselves or others
is real.
But the victory in CHRIST is real, as well...in spite of ourselves!
In Heaven, “they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and
by the word of their testimony.” We are
guilty and weak and completely incapable of defeating the old dragon, the Devil. But so much the more, it is Christ’s
victory! Praise Him! We can find victory in Him when we rely on
His shed blood as the payment for our sin and our personal knowledge of Him,
his goodness, grace, and mercy to us in times past.
For our part, we MUST continually be “Casting down
imaginations and EVERY high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of
God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” (II
Cor. 10:5 – Capitals are mine.) It is folly
and a sin to let our sin be exalted (by the Accuser) to heights greater than
Christ’s payment for sin & forgiveness of our sin.
God knows the end from the beginning, and He has already won
the war!!! And praise God that one day we
will hear for ourselves in Heaven, “Now is come salvation, and strength, and
the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ; for the accuser of our
brethren is cast down.”
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