Most of you have undergone a blood test at some time in your life during a physical examination. Now I want to talk about the blood test for the spiritual you, the inner person, the real, eternal you. If the magnificent blood of Jesus is in complete control of your soul, your test results will be perfect. If not, however, the test will show that a dangerous condition exists.

At Gethsemane the blood was being tried, persecuted so greatly that the vessel of clay that contained it—Jesus who had taken on the form of flesh to become our elder brother—prayed, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt (Matthew 26:39). It was divine blood that brought Jesus through the agony of Calvary; divine blood triumphed. Through divine blood, Jesus stood the test. But as that blood was being given on Calvary for all, Peter failed the blood test.

Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee. But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest. And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth. And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man (Matthew 26:69-72). Now Peter was cursing; no longer did he sound like Jesus. People would wonder whether he had ever been a disciple. At one time he represented Jesus, but now he lost the holy Jesus conversation. Peter who had followed Jesus everywhere was disgruntled and full of arrogance.

Had he not taken offense at the way Jesus handled His arrest, Peter might never have denied Him. It doesn’t pay to resent Jesus and how He works. Because things didn’t go Peter’s way in the Garden, Peter sulked. Peter thought he had done the right thing by cutting off a man’s ear, and when Jesus stooped down, picked it up and healed the man, Peter was insulted and he turned away from Jesus.

Think of the great miracle in that terrible hour: Jesus healed the ear of one who had come to arrest Him. Such a miracle should have blessed Peter, should have told him that Jesus truly was the Son of God, that everything would be all right. When people don’t recognize and honor the hand of God as it is revealed to them, they are in trouble; they don’t really see the miracles of God, only what the devil or man is doing, and self-pity comes in. The ugly creature they have become in that hour is not apparent to them, for the devil has taken over their minds.

Peter didn’t look upon the greatness in the blood when his life was in jeopardy. And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech betrayeth thee. Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly (Matthew 26:73-75). Peter had all the strength he needed to stand the blood test, but he didn’t use it. If Jesus had ever needed His disciples to stand by Him it was then. They all fled. None of them really stood the blood test. When you run in fear, you fail the blood test, for you are not using the faith of God.

When Peter walked with Jesus before Calvary, he had seen the hand of Jesus go up and had heard Him command a raging storm: Peace, be still (Mark 4:39), and the storm ceased. He had seen the blind receive sight, the crippled walk; he had even seen the dead come to life through the power of Jesus. Peter knew what the hand of Jesus could do. But when he failed the Lord, he forgot the greatness of his Master, forgot His love, His power, faith and promises. Peter didn’t see the ugly person he had become.

Peter could have been at the tomb when the angel rolled away the stone; he could have seen Jesus walk out, but again he failed the blood test. All the disciples could have been there had they stood the blood test.

Only the believers, the faithful remember all the promises of God, recognize all His miracles, and see His hands moving at all times. The Bride will remember; the Bride will see. Nothing will stop her in this last hour, saith the Lord. She will be the hands, the eyes, the mouth of God in this her final hour. She will walk just like Him, talk just like Him and be just like Him. The miracles will be given just like they were when Christ was here on Earth—except today they will be on a greater scale, saith the Lord. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father (John 14:12).

The disciples looked on Jesus after the Resurrection, saw the very power of the Resurrection right before their eyes. He had physical form; He showed the scars in His hands and feet and told the disciples to handle Him, to be sure it really was Him and not a spirit. Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it, and did eat before them (Luke 24:39,42,43).

Thomas was told to place his hands in the wounds of his Lord. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing (John 20:27).

In John 21:9-13 we read that Jesus kindled a fire on the shores of Galilee, broiled some fish and fed the hungry disciples. And Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine (John 21:12). He proved His risen body was the body that had been buried, not a counterfeit. A physical resurrection had taken place. For forty days after His Resurrection Jesus was seen at different times, once by as many as five hundred.

The world and the powers of Lucifer looked weak to Peter after the Resurrection as he fellowshiped with Jesus, heard Jesus talking to him and the others. He saw the scars of the nail prints, the pierced side. Every word that came from the lips of Jesus was more precious than gold to the disciples now. Peter with that divine blood flowing once more in his soul knew it was all true.

Anyone who has the divine blood flowing within never doubts any truth about Jesus. If the divine blood floods the heart, soul and mind, there is no room to doubt His greatness, His promises.

If you don’t stand the blood test daily, you will miss out. You won’t have the Jesus vision and you won’t be able to do all the Jesus work if you don’t stand the blood test, not once in a while, but every day you have left, saith the Lord.

Jesus greatly helped His disciples to stand the blood test in the days ahead when He no longer would be with them in a physical form. His appearances gave them sufficient assurance of the Resurrection as He completed His instructions to them on the vital principles of the Kingdom. He stayed to give them total confidence in their relationship to Him, and to send them forth with His last great commission: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost (Matthew 28:19).

After forty days, Jesus ascended into Heaven. The disciples watched Him out of sight as He rose into the clouds. They believed all He taught. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven (Acts 1:10,11). The same Jesus with the nail prints in His hands and the scar on His side, this same Jesus who had stayed forty days after the Resurrection will come again. Through the blood of Jesus, the disciples preached His return to Earth; it echoes and re-echoes down to us today, sounding louder than ever as the time of His coming approaches so near. The Spirit is saying, “He is coming soon! Get ready to take your flight. Stand the blood test every day.”

Make sure you go into every battle knowing you stand the blood test, knowing there will be no fear to defeat you, no powers of the devil. Be a winner just as Jesus was a winner. You may not look to the world like a winner, but with Jesus all the way, you will be a winner. If Heaven calls you a winner you are an eternal winner.

After Jesus ascended into Heaven, the disciples, obedient to His command, lingered in Jerusalem until they were endued with power from On High. Baptized in the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, they all spoke in tongues as the Spirit gave utterance. What meaneth this? the people wanted to know when they witnessed the power that had come upon the disciples at Pentecost (Acts 2:12). But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh (verses 14-17).

The Resurrection and Ascension were not fables, they were facts; and with great joy the disciples set out to spread the wonderful Gospel news. I can just hear Peter telling everyone: Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary! It’s all true. His heart pounding, he proclaims: Jesus brought divine blood, and here’s the evidence. Death couldn’t hold Him. He is the Son of God!

Before the Crucifixion, Peter had confessed that Jesus was the Son of God, but in the trying hour of great persecution he lost faith. After the Resurrection, however, Peter was a different man. Boldly he proclaimed that Jesus is the One whom Isaiah wrote about, the Wonderful, the Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. The powers in His blood are all we now need! In His name we will cast out devils! In His name, we’ll lay hands on the sick and they will recover. We will carry on His work! Peter confessed that although he had failed Jesus, he was now determined to never fail His divine blood again. He knew that the divine blood shed for him was flowing on the inside of his innermost being, in his soul. The divine blood is eternal; it will flow for all time and eternity. All the powers that Jesus brought were now for the disciples to use. They believed Jesus’ promise of the Holy Ghost. He had told them: I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever (John 14:16). The Comforter, the Holy Ghost, would set up housekeeping on the inside.

I’m sure the Lord had already instructed the disciples to spread the news of the Holy Ghost after they received Him. When the people gather, you tell them, Peter. No wonder Peter quoted the promise of the Holy Ghost: For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call (Acts 2:39). What a world of greatness and power they entered with that divine blood!

Weeping his way to victory, Peter found forgiveness in the blood, underwent a blood transfusion, took on real life through the blood of Jesus. Peter might have been the first person saved after Jesus gave the last drop of His blood on Calvary. No longer did Peter fear death; he had seen how Christ conquered it. Peter had spoken with the resurrected Christ, touched Him, eaten with Him.

Peter who once was so weak, who had failed Jesus after he had boasted he would never deny Him, is now ready to die for Him as he faces a multitude, the same people who had demanded Jesus be crucified. Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain (Acts 2:22,23).

Peter is telling the crowd that they killed Jesus. Look at his boldness now! He preached in great love for His Master: Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it (Acts 2:24). Peter went on, telling them what David had to say about Jesus. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call (verses 36-39). Peter held nothing back but preached the Word of God in all its truth and power.

We next find Peter with John as they go to the temple to pray. This wonderful experience of receiving the Holy Ghost thrilled them through and through. They have great faith now, the faith of their Lord. They see a man over forty years old who had never walked. Asking alms of those who entered the temple, he received from Peter and John much more than he could have imagined. Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God (Acts 3:6-8). Instantly he was made whole. He didn’t have to spend time in physical therapy learning how to walk; he immediately leaped up and went into the temple, walking, leaping and praising God. This was a man who had never walked in his life!

And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering. And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all (Acts 3:11-16).

Peter is putting Jesus right on center stage. Live or die, Peter is with Jesus all the way. Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord (Acts 3:19). Peter went to jail for the miracle, but he had stood the blood test. All the disciples and followers of Jesus were in great jeopardy, but they didn’t care. They knew if they were killed, their souls would live forever with the Lord. Without a doubt, they knew that Jesus is the Son of God.

Although John and Peter were put in jail for the miracle given to the once crippled man, many people believed in Christ, the number being about five thousand. The next day, the rulers asked Peter and John by what power or name the man had been delivered. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:8-12).

Notice, Peter was filled with the Holy Ghost when he spoke so boldly to his captors. If you intend to pass the blood test daily, you must be filled with the Holy Ghost and stay full of Him. Peter made clear that salvation comes only through Jesus, that they could get to Heaven no other way but through His name. Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard (Acts 4:13,14,18-20). We must be like Peter and John in Acts. We cannot but speak of the greatness of the Lord that we have seen and heard.

So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done (Acts 4:21). In this last hour, the miracles once again will become so great that the honest-hearted will glorify God no matter what rulers or judges say against them. Multitudes will look at the miracles and know they come from Heaven.

Was the Early Church intimidated by Peter and John’s arrest? They just prayed for more power: And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness (Acts 4:29-31). The secret of the blood test is to speak the Word, not your opinions, but the Word. Speak the truth. You will have to be able to give forth truth, truth, truth to pass the blood test.

And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all (Acts 4:33). Had the apostles not stood the blood test, they would not have been able to be witnesses. Their testimony through the divine blood of the Resurrection was with great power.

We marvel at Peter in Acts 12; he was asleep, so at peace in his soul that when the angel came into the jail cell, he had to wake Peter up. People were determined to kill him, but the angel of the Lord delivered him from prison before they had that chance. Why? Because he stood the blood test. Had he not stood the blood test, the angel couldn’t have freed him.

Like Peter, you don’t have to be afraid; the angels of the Lord will be your helpers in this final hour as you stand the blood test. You are an heir of salvation that angels minister to. Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation (Hebrews 1:14)?

Peter and the other disciples and apostles now are just like Jesus, like the first Adam before the fall. They have come into a brand new world, taken out citizenship in Heaven. They are not of this world. Jesus had prayed: Father, they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth (John 17:16,17). Make them holy through my blood, Jesus was saying. They were made holy as Jesus was holy when He walked the shores of Galilee.

The blood restores the divine image in man, that image that had been lost through sin, the image that was in Adam and Eve when the Lord would come down in the cool of the day to walk and talk with them. Now Jesus walks with us every day and every night. He doesn’t leave us, for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee (Hebrews 13:5). Jesus told His followers: Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world (Matthew 28:20). What wonderful fellowship, what marvelous communion! I love it!

The blood supplies all the deepest needs of the human soul. Since man sinned against God and no longer had divinity on the inside of him, the human soul had never really been satisfied—that is, not until Calvary. The truth in the blood corrects all the errors of human thinking so the Bride can think like the first Adam and Eve. How beautiful their thinking was in the beginning! When you are redeemed through the blood, sanctified, living holy and filled with the Holy Ghost, you know how they felt. You have the same greatness of Heaven they once possessed, the same greatness of divinity. You are passing the blood test. You have been set free.

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36). If the Son sets you free, you are absolutely free, all sin gone. Loosed from the powers of the devil, you have the truth in the blood that wipes out the arrogant temper, the vindictive feelings and the misconceptions that cause confusion and strife. With confusion and strife in your mind, however, you are not passing the Jesus blood test. If you are spewing out strife on family and friends, you are failing the test. Get busy, invite the Holy Ghost into your heart and be done with strife. Stop the arrogance, the bad temper. If you don’t have self control, you don’t have the fruit of the Holy Spirit being produced in your life.

The followers of Jesus knew in whom they believed. Paul, one of the greatest of His followers, wrote: For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day (II Timothy 1:12). Although Paul had never seen Jesus in the flesh, he lived in the presence of God, stayed away in the desert three years with the Lord. Paul had such reality and knowledge of Jesus that Peter said, Our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction (II Peter 3:15,16).

Your past has nothing to do with you when you go into the new world, but as long as you stay in the old world, the scars of the past can affect you, drag you down, keep you deformed and make you helpless. Paul conquered by forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:13,14). Paul had to forget, had to look to the Lord. His past included the murder and persecution of Christians. Through the blood of Jesus he was able to close the door on the past and step into the present; and in the present, he stood the blood test. You who failed the Lord in the past must follow Paul’s example. Will you let your past send you to hell? Excusing your failures in the Lord because you had an unfortunate childhood will not stand the blood test. Jesus came to wipe out everything that hinders you. Through the blood you have complete deliverance, through the blood you are a joint-heir with Jesus.

Let your mind go back to the moment you were born new in Christ, the second birth. Your first birth was a birth in sin, conceived in the iniquity of sin; but in that second birth you were born free. Why be a slave to the past when you are born free? Why think you can’t be free from sin? Through the blood, you can be free of it. But that which you use, you can’t be free from. If you indulge in sin, you are contaminated with it. You will not be cleared until you realize everything you need is in the blood and you let the blood cleanse you.

Since Jesus came, you are without excuse for continuing in sin. Calvary gave you a complete opportunity to live a victorious life, to gain Heaven and miss hell. Because of Calvary you can walk down the Avenue of Glory and live for all eternity in that wonderful place called Heaven. The blood and the truth will restore the human mind to the condition God intended it to have. If your mind is distorted because of the past, you must let the blood heal it. If you don’t, you will never enjoy the blessings of God, never be what God wants you to be. Your unhealed mind can drag you down until your soul is so affected that salvation becomes lost. Think who and what you are in Jesus Christ. Don’t dwell on who you once were, but dwell on the person Christ can make you into.

When a girl marries, she doesn’t keep thinking about her maiden name if she is really in love with her husband. She loves her new name. When you come to Jesus you forget about your old self and identify yourself with Jesus.

The blood of truth will restore the whole person, enable you to perform in a way acceptable to God. The blood gives reality in a personal God who knows, feels and wills man to have communion with Him. He is holy, loving, just, all-powerful, all-wise, and He cares for you His creation.

In your excitement over who you are in the Lord, forget who you used to be. Never go to sleep sad; let your last thoughts before drifting off be on who you are in the Lord. You’re in a new world; you don’t have to worry about the world you came out of—its sights and sounds are irritating to the music in your soul. Feast in the spiritual Canaan. The fruits of the Spirit produced on the inside are greater than the trying times you may have come out of. Salvation means that God has brought you out of a sinful life into a holy life—His life. No sin exists in the God-life. In regeneration, the blood puts new principles and spiritual life in men and women, giving them new feelings. Didn’t you have a new feeling when you came into the world of Christ? You had strength against evil. Suddenly you could overcome evil with good, with the good God who had come into your heart. New views of God you had. Christ and the Bible were fresh and wonderful to you. God made you a new creature in Christ Jesus.

It doesn’t matter who scarred the old creature; it doesn’t matter at all to the new creature stepping forth. What you went through doesn’t count. Can you imagine Jesus limping down the streets of Glory, complaining about all He went through on Earth? Of course not. He walked down that avenue with all the power, strength and glory that He had previously known with the Father. Man couldn’t give Him that glory; only God the Father could hand it to Him: Son, take back the glory now that is rightfully yours; you’ve won. Jesus won for you and me, for the whole human race. These new thoughts, these new views you have from God come because you are a brand new person. You don’t swear, don’t listen to foul talk. Shunning gossip, you are more alive in the Spirit than you ever were in the flesh.

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God (John 3:3). You must be born again, receive regeneration through the blood. The voice of blood is against all evil; it gives power over every weakness, every sin, every unclean spirit, every devil and Lucifer himself. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness (Romans 6:18). Before you are a servant of righteousness, you must be free from sin. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness (verse 20). When you served sin you had no righteousness in you. Righteousness and sin do not mix—this is the voice of the blood. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life (verse 22). This is the blood speaking. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (verse 23). Through the divine blood of Jesus that was spilled on Calvary you have eternal life.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit (Romans 8:1). Those who stand the blood test walk after the Spirit, not after the flesh. You who are indulging, satisfying the lust of the flesh are not standing the blood test.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God (Romans 8:2,14). You must have divine blood in you—a blood bath—or you are not led by the Spirit, you don’t live in the Spirit and you are not a part of the Spirit. Divine blood must be flowing within you at all times, cleansing and continuing to flow. The blood stays alive in you as long as you commit no sin.

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things (Romans 8:31,32)? No matter what is coming against you, with the blood you will be an overcomer. Everything is furnished in the blood, everything you need to be made holy and to stay holy. It would be pointless to be made holy if you couldn’t stay that way.

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth (Romans 8:33). This is blood talk: God justifies. You don’t have to worry about what the devil is chattering in your ears or what people are saying. God is the one to justify. If you have that flow of divine blood on the inside, if you are a partaker of divinity, of the blood of Jesus, God will justify you, weigh you. His verdict is the only one that matters.

Neither the devil nor people have a right to condemn the children of God. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us (Romans 8:34). You have it made. Jesus is standing at the right hand of the Father, telling Him everything you need and having it sent down. Jesus paid for it; the Father knows He paid for it. Through the blood of Jesus the Father keeps His eyes on you. As long as you are under the blood, you don’t have to worry; God knows everything you are going through, every battle you are having. He knows every time you are being persecuted; He understands every burden of your heart, every affliction in your body. He feels every ache, every pain.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved (Romans 10:9). This is the voice of the holy blood of Jesus. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved (verses 10,13). The blood of Jesus is so powerful, so full of mercy, grace, love, so full of everything needed that whoever calls upon His name will be saved. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out (Romans 11:33)! The blood voice rejoices in the greatness of God.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:20). The blood-washed voice of Paul rings out down through the ages with the glorious Gospel of Christ. What a testimony we have for the Lord when we are washed in the blood! Paul tells us that he gloried only in the divine blood of Jesus. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world (Galatians 6:14). Through the blood of Jesus comes salvation; the blood-work does it. The blood-work gives everyone the opportunity to become new creations in Christ Jesus, makes it possible for all to live free from all sin. Paul was done with the world, crucified unto it.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature (Galatians 6:15). Circumcision of the flesh availeth nothing spiritually. Being a new creature in Christ Jesus is what counts. Since the blood of Jesus was shed, all can be made new all over who will receive salvation and live in that new and living way.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ (Ephesians 1:3). A man who had been washed in the blood wrote those words. You are blessed through Jesus Christ with all spiritual blessings. According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love (verse 4). God chose His people to be holy. God willed it to be when He made the first man and woman. He didn’t intend mankind to be any other way but holy. Before the foundation of the plan of redemption was actually given, before the foundation of the Christian world, before Jesus made His appearance on Earth, God decided to make it possible for us to be without blame through the divine blood. We have the Gospel foundation.

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will (Ephesians 1:5). The Lord predestined some things. He predestined that everyone who would come to Him through Jesus Christ would be His own son or daughter, would be holy. To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace (verses 6,7). You are either redeemed or not redeemed. If all your sins are not gone, you are not redeemed. If you are still committing sins, you are not redeemed. By sinning, you lose the benefits of grace. If you die in that condition, you will go to hell. In grace is no room for sin, no provision for it; as long as you live in grace you will not sin. Only holiness is in grace, only sanctification and justification. All the holiness, all the righteousness, all the purity of God and of Heaven are in grace. When the Lord sent grace, He provided Heaven’s best. When you have grace, you have Jesus Christ.

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) (Ephesians 2:4,5). When you were dead in sins, the Lord quickened you, and through Christ by grace you were saved, delivered from all your sins. Those who say no one can live without sinning are putting forth false doctrine, looking for a side door into Glory. It won’t work. Only one door leads to Glory, the door Christ Jesus.

It’s God who hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:6). The blood took us out of the slums of sin, cleaned us up, gave us the fragrance of Jesus Christ and made us able to sit in heavenly places with Jesus.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8,9). You can’t become saved through your own efforts; salvation is a gift of God. Works won’t wash away your sins, only the blood can do that. Works should simply be a demonstration of your love.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:10). How could you walk in good works when sin is in your soul? The blood will not stay in a soul that holds to even one tiny sin. Without the blood is no remission of sin; without the blood you couldn’t be made new. But when your soul is covered with the blood, you are a new creature, His workmanship, created, born again in Christ Jesus through the blood. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17).

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ (Ephesians 2:13). Do you wonder where the Lord is? Through the blood of Christ He is nigh. He is with you. He promised to never leave you or forsake you. Live in His promises. Live in His Word. You have been made nigh through the blood. As long as the blood is in your soul, as long as you do not contaminate yourself with sin, the blood will always be there. It’s eternal blood. You have an eternal right to it as long as you stay sin free.

Sin separates you from God. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear (Isaiah 59:2). If sin separated Adam and Eve from God, sin will separate you from God today. Even a tiny bit of sin separates you from God. One speck of sin creates a tremendous gulf between man and God. The Lord is coming after a Church without spot, blemish, wrinkle or any such thing. When the blood of Jesus makes you holy, you get rid of the spots, blemishes and wrinkles. The fire of the Holy Spirit takes out the wrinkles.

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God (Ephesians 2:19). Why act like a foreigner, a stranger to God when you are a fellow citizen with the saints, a member of the household of God? However, you could never be a member of the household of God and commit sin. Sin will put you out of God’s fellowship the way it put out the first Adam and Eve. A flaming sword prevented Adam and Eve from returning to the Garden.

The only way you can get into Jesus is through the blood. Trying to get in any other way brings down the judgment of God. Anyone who tries any other way, Jesus said, is the same as a thief and a robber (John 10:1). Many have taken shortcuts to what they thought was Heaven, but they failed to enter in.

Adam and Eve attempted to cover their sin with fig leaves. It didn’t work. Fig leaf religion is not acceptable to God. People have been hiding behind their own special brand of fig leaves ever since. Nothing will hide you from God’s judgment but the blood of Jesus; He died to provide sinners with a way of escape from their sin nature. God hates sin, but He loves the sinner and seeks to bring all sinners to the knowledge and acceptance of the truth. No sin is allowed in Heaven. No sin will be in any members of the bridal company, no deceit.

Do you try to deceive? Ananias and his wife failed the blood test in the Early Church. Separately they told just one lie, and separately they were killed on the spot. That immediate judgment demonstrates how God feels about sin. God was determined to keep the Church pure. All liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death (Revelation 21:8). Even a tiny white lie will send you to hell if you don’t repent. It’s deceit. No deceit can get into Heaven. Deceit in Lucifer caused him to be cast out of Heaven along with part of the angels. To qualify to enter the gates of Glory, everyone will have to stand the blood test. No matter how good you look to others, God knows the heart, and He will accept no sin.

The hour may come when hypocrites among God’s people will be killed on the spot. Peter didn’t ask God to spare Ananias and his wife when they lied in the Early Church; he let God kill them and then he called for men to drag them out. It was quite a while before another hypocrite showed up in the Church.

For hundreds of years, God has not had much control of the Church of Jesus Christ. But the Bride in this hour is going to the ends of the earth with the Gospel, and she will bring back King Jesus. Holy men and women have put God back in the driver’s seat. God is in charge in this final hour, and judgment will fall.

The Early Church stood the blood test; they were in one mind, one accord or else they were not part of the Church. All that was in the blood was in them, too. If you have the blood of Jesus flowing in you uncontaminated in any way, you have all the benefits of the blood. The pure Word makes you strong, renews your youth.

Are you in one mind, one accord with God’s Word and God’s people? You will never be in one mind, one accord with God’s true people until you are in one mind, one accord with God’s precious truth. Troublemakers, gossipers, liars, are not in accord with God’s Spirit, with God’s true people, with the spirit of the Bride of Christ.

In this hour, great joy is available in the Lord. You can accept that joy or accept the devil’s depression. Reach up and pull Heaven down on yourself and others. The Bride will have the mind of Jesus that uses the strength of the joy of the Lord.

What is in the blood? Let’s review some of its wonderful qualities. Love, Heaven’s eternal love is in the divine blood of Jesus. Eternal peace, joy and compassion are in the blood of Jesus. Did the Early Church have those things? Yes, they did.

The eternal light of God is in the blood. No darkness was in the Early Church in the beginning. What light and joy was theirs! No matter how much they were persecuted they rejoiced. They had the overcoming power that is in the blood. Hope, eternal hope in God, not man or the government, was theirs. Courage, God’s courage, eternal courage is in the blood. Strength daily from On High enabled the Early Church to carry on just like Jesus had. They experienced victories great and mighty. The Early Church passed the blood test.

Power to cast out devils is in the blood of Jesus, power to heal the sick, and the Early Church used that power. Disobedience was conquered; obedience flowed daily through the Early Church disciples. Did they have the song in the night? Yes, they did. The night never was so dark that it silenced the Jesus song from Heaven. Did they have the new and living way? Yes, they didn’t talk or act the way they once did. Peter never went back to his old way of life. He stood the blood test.

The Early Church had power, wonder-working power flowing through them. Mercy, they showed great mercy and told of the mercy of Jesus. The reality of eternal life was so vivid to the Early Church that they had no fear of death. Stephen was put to death, the first martyr, and as he was dying he asked God to forgive his murderers. If you have what the Early Church had, you are standing the blood test.

Truth, nothing false, is in the blood. Tell the truth or don’t speak. If you have the blood, you have God’s eternal truth. The blood cleanses from all sins. If you have not been cleansed or have not stayed cleansed from your sins, you do not have the blood. If you are not delivered, if the powers of the devil still bind you, you are not passing the blood test.

Salvation, freedom and liberty are all in the blood, all offered us through Jesus Christ the Son of God. We must have it all. The Bride will have it all in this final hour, saith the Lord.

Justification—were the Early Church members justified all the time in the eyes of God? They were. Those who kept the blood, the divine blood flowing, were justified. Did they have sanctification? Were they pure, clean, holy and undefiled? Yes, yes. Were they without spot, wrinkle and blemish? Yes they were. What power was in the Church in the beginning! Three thousand came to God in one day; at another time, one miracle brought in five thousand. The blood name, Jesus, and the authority in that name—did the Early Church have it? Oh yes they did. Do we have that authority today? Yes; many are standing the blood test. It’s an honor to be able to take the blood test.

The purification in man’s spirit through the blood is wonderful. The blood makes men and women, once unclean, undone for such a long time, pure and clean and bubbling with the life of God, with pure eternal water.

In that blood flows life, life, life. No other life is like the life in the blood. In every kind of way, the world is seeking peace, happiness. Drinking, trying to intoxicate their senses, trying to find a bit of happiness, they become disillusioned when their little pleasures never last; the world is failing the blood test. The joy of the Lord fills His own with laughter, strength and peace. He has made us to laugh.

The devil wants you to be God’s heartbreak, God’s frown; but Jesus came to make you sparkle, to make you a bright light to shine like the stars forever and ever in His Kingdom. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever (Daniel 12:3). You who win souls will shine forever in the Kingdom of the Lord. You will have no more eternal life in Heaven than you have now. The Lord will not have to add a bit more light to you when you get to Heaven; you will have it already through the blood.

In the blood you have understanding. You are not full of questions; you have many answers and are getting more daily. Adam had all the answers. He wasn’t forever questioning God. He had the intelligence to name all the animals; he didn’t ask God what to call them. The Lord wants to educate you in His Spirit, not in man’s spirit. Through the Holy Spirit you can lift the answers out of the Holy Word of God and hide them in your heart. The Lord put confidence in Adam and He puts confidence in you today when you are blood-washed. He has confidence in you if you are holy; but if one speck of sin is in your heart, God has no confidence in you, for He has no confidence in sin. If He had confidence in one speck of sin, He would have confidence in the devil.

The blood has reconciliation power in it; it reconciles you to God. When you are reconciled to God, you are not a part of the devil, his kingdom or his spirit.

Through the blood, the Early Church had the knowledge and wisdom of God. Peter and John were marvels to people who knew they were unlearned men. Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus (Acts 4:13). Festus said of Paul: Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. But he [Paul] said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness (Acts 26:24,25). Festus couldn’t say Paul was ignorant, so he blamed Paul’s education. You can’t win with the world, but you can win with Jesus.

All the grace you will ever need is in the blood. Protection…the Early Church had it. The world couldn’t kill them until God was ready for them to die. They were testimonies for God in life or in death. Did they have security? Yes, they did. They felt secure, not in possessions but in the Lord. Having full assurance of where they were going, they were not in and out with the Lord or full of doubts and fear.

What kind of mind do you have? If you were to put your mind beside the mind of Christ, how would it compare?

In the blood is the power of His Resurrection. The Early Church went everywhere telling the news that Jesus was alive. They were human beings just like we are, and they passed the blood test. You can pass it, too. Paul, once meaner than most, was made into a wonderful vessel for the Lord. If he conquered, we can, too. Power is in the blood of Jesus to trample all devils underfoot. Get your mind off what the devil may do tomorrow and dwell on what the Lord will do. Pass the blood test; know you have the power that is in the blood of the Lamb and you will be trampling devils underfoot. You don’t have to take a vacation with them. Why worry about something you can trample under? Settle down in Canaan, not in the devil’s territory. You have power in the blood.

The Early Church had power in the blood in the beginning, but they lost it through the seventeen works of the flesh listed in Galatians five: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. If you are doing any of those works, you are not standing the Jesus blood test. In that same chapter, study the nine fruits of the Spirit and see if they are being produced in your life: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance. What kind of person are you? Do you pass the blood test? Do you have that good life that will live forever with the Lord?

If you have failed the blood test, you still have the opportunity to pass it. Be everything Jesus wants you to be. The journey is short, treacherous, and you will need all the help you can get from God. Let the blood come in and be applied, and the Holy Spirit will seal your soul with the blood so the devil can’t get in unless you open the door and let him in. He doesn’t have enough power to break the blood seal. All his demons put together could attack one born-again soul and still not be able to break that seal of blood. The person must be the one to break the seal; no one else can.

If you feel you may not be passing the blood test in every way, let me pray the sinners’ prayer with you: Oh, God, save my soul! Forgive me for all my sins. I’m so sorry that I sinned against you, but I have come home and I’m going to serve you, Lord, the rest of my life. I believe the blood of Jesus, the divine blood flows over my soul and washes away all of my sins, all of my disobediences, all of my arrogance, all of it. I believe that Jesus is ready to come into my heart now. Come on in Jesus! Come on in!

If you meant that prayer, He has come; He is yours. Walk with Him. He will never leave you or forsake you.

I have given you many characteristics in the blood, but there are many more. When you have the blood, you have the whole Jesus. After you receive salvation, go on to seek the baptism in the Holy Ghost. Let the Holy Ghost fill you to the brim; in the blood is the promise of the infilling of the Spirit.

I am not your healer; I am the Lord’s believer. Cancer victim, you who are paralyzed, sick, afflicted, there is no disease or affliction too hard for the Lord to heal. With His stripes you are healed. With the blood stripes healing comes; it’s promised in God’s Word. Lord, here they are. The need is so great, and I told them you are the healer. In your blood is the miracle, the healing for them or their little ones. In the name of Jesus, in the all-powerful name of Jesus I come, and with the blood stripes of your Son, the sick will be healed. From your supernatural gift of miracles and gifts of healing, it comes in the name of your Son Jesus: Heal! Heal! in the holy, all-mighty name of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of the living God.

The healing power is flowing, flowing, and remember, with His blood stripes you have healing. Let that power work. It can get you well just the way it got me well. I had gone to the edge of the grave, but the power in the blood renewed my strength and destroyed the afflictions and diseases in my body. He made me whole. He loves you today just the way He loved me that night He came to me and healed me. The name is Jesus, and He cares.

Plan to walk with Him, to be that vessel of honor that He can pour into the greatness of Heaven to be served to the lost. Belong to God each moment, each hour you have left. Gird up your loins in the righteousness, holiness and truth of God. Put on the whole armor of God, and when you have done all to stand, then stand, stand the blood test, being made nigh to the Lord through the blood of Jesus. God is serious, giving marvelous revelations on the blood. If you don’t go with God now, there is not much hope for you at all. This is your hour of visitation. With great joy, be determined that you, too, will pass the Jesus blood test.