Through the blood of Jesus, the Church came into existence, was given life, its being. The Church was born through the blood that flowed from the side of Jesus. Seeing the results of the Jesus blood test in the beginning of the Church is exciting.

The church which he [Jesus] hath purchased with his own blood (Acts 20:28). Jesus purchased with His blood the spiritual Church. The blood is vitally important. The Early Church passed the blood test in the beginning, and you who pass the blood test now at this end of the Church Age have power to overcome all demonic spirits and to be great blessings in this world outreach for souls. But if you haven’t come out with perfect results, you are not completely ready, saith the Lord.

Many do not have the Jesus blood in their souls, and they are not overcomers. Self, man’s opinions, water baptism, church membership, shaking the preacher’s hand will not bring salvation. Salvation comes only through the divine blood of Jesus, through His divine blood being administered by the Holy Ghost.

Through that divine blood you are able to live and love like Jesus, talk like Him, do His works, and believe like Him. There is nothing else in the world like divine blood.

Divine blood is the only cure for sin, the only power over death, hell and the grave.

Divine blood has the Resurrection power, the saving power of grace, healing power. With his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5)!

Peter was weak before he realized what the blood would do for him, but look at his strength after he began to use the divine blood; divine blood made him willing to give everything for the sake of Christ.

Many Christians today are not willing to sacrifice for the Lord because they do not have the divine blood working within their hearts. The divine blood must have complete freedom to work. The choice of whether or not the blood will work for you is yours. You will not be victorious, you will not make it to Heaven without divine blood.

Many teachers and preachers do not believe that Jesus was born of a virgin; this means they don’t believe His blood was divine. Unless they come to accept His divine blood, these people will never see Heaven. The devil has deceived them; take care that they do not affect or deceive you in any way.

In the sixth chapter of Acts, we read that Stephen was arrested. A young man, he was to be the first Christian martyr. Who would have thought that such a young man would be the first martyr for the sake of Christ? What an honor and privilege it was for Stephen! He passed the Jesus blood test with flying colors. To pass that blood test, he had to give himself completely to the Lord—to be redeemed, sealed with the blood of Jesus by the Holy Spirit and to be full of the Holy Ghost.

Many have come up lacking because they were taught that the baptism in the Holy Ghost is not necessary. Even some who claim to believe in the Holy Ghost say the baptism is optional. It is not. Jesus commanded His disciples to receive the Holy Ghost: And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence (Acts 1:4,5). The Lord will give the Holy Ghost to those who obey Him—the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him (Acts 5:32).

Stephen had divine blood flowing in his soul just as Jesus had when He was on earth. And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people (Acts 6:8). How was he able to do great wonders and miracles? Through the divine blood of Jesus. Physical blood cannot perform miracles and wonders.

People were so greatly affected by Stephen that they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake (Acts 6:10). They couldn’t resist the wisdom of the blood. Stephen had Jesus’ wisdom; the Jesus blood worked in, through and for him. The wisdom of God comes no other way than through the blood of Jesus. No one can have any of the things of God without the blood of Jesus in his soul. The people who heard Stephen couldn’t resist the wisdom of the blood.

People tried to stand against Stephen, but they couldn’t; and so they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council, And set up false witnesses (Acts 6:11-13). False witnesses came against the divine blood in Stephen just as they came against the divine blood of Jesus when He was here. Stephen was using the same blood, acting the same way as his Master.

The reason so many do not act, talk, love, believe like Jesus or do His works is that they don’t have the Jesus blood. The Bride will have the Jesus blood, saith the Lord.

Exactly what blasphemy did the false witnesses accuse Stephen of? How did he react? We have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel (Acts 6:14,15). Divine blood gave his face the appearance of an angel. Did Stephen fight his accusers? He wasn’t angry or mean. He responded just like Jesus, and he preached a marvelous sermon.

Comparing Stephen and Jesus is like comparing spiritual identical twins, like comparing Jesus and the Bride. Nothing will separate them. The Bride will be just like her Lord. She will talk like Him, pray, believe and deliver the greatness of Heaven to people just the way Jesus did. How beautiful, indeed, to see this blood, this divine blood working in human beings! Jesus became human, but the divine blood He brought working in Him made the difference.

Wouldn’t you like to be a twin of Jesus, to look, talk, believe, work, preach like Him? We have become sons and daughters of God through the blood. You are not a son or daughter of God unless you have the blood, the divine blood in your soul. It is the only way you can be in the family of God.

Jesus said, Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify (Matthew 23:27,31,33,34).

Now let’s learn more about Stephen, this martyr, this spiritual identical twin of Jesus. He denounced his false accusers: Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God (Acts 7:51-55). Stephen, the identical twin, facing death just like Jesus, is willing to give his life for the cause of Christ, for the people hated Stephen just as they hated Jesus. Stephen said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul (verses 56-58). Saul came from a strict sect of Pharisees, Christ’s bitter enemies. They hated Jesus, hated to hear Him call them hypocrites. Jesus told people if their righteousness didn’t exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees that they would never see Heaven.

Saul, mean, ugly, a murderer of Christians, is present at the stoning of Stephen. He thought he could watch and be unaffected, but the picture of Stephen was one he would never be able to get away from. The identical twin of Jesus brought the Gospel message to the hard heart of Saul.

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep (Acts 7:59,60). At Calvary Jesus had said: Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34). Stephen, the twin, in a loud voice asked the Father to not hold his murderers responsible for their sin, and then he fell asleep. The Bible doesn’t say he died; he fell asleep in the Spirit of God.

And Saul was consenting unto his death (Acts 8:1). Every stone that fell was as if Saul threw it. Saul helped murder Stephen; it was a crime he could not get away from. I believe he woke up in a cold sweat at night again and again hearing Stephen say, “Lay not this sin to their charge. Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” That’s what the blood did. We don’t know a lot about Stephen, just that he was an ordinary boy made extraordinary through the blood of Christ.

And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles (Acts 8:1). The followers of Christ were scattered everywhere with the Gospel. They didn’t go depressed; they went telling the story of Christ. Persecuted, cast down but not forsaken, they had the joy of the Lord in their hearts. They knew the Lord was with them.

The Early Church believed the words Christ had told them: And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive (Matthew 21:22). They believed in prayer, and they received. The sick were healed, even the dead were raised back to life. The works done through the blood were amazing.

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned (Mark 16:16). You either believe or you are damned. To believe means to accept Jesus Christ. In water baptism people acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, the Messiah, Redeemer and coming King. It’s an outward expression of an inner change, but it does not bring salvation; only the blood of Jesus can do that.

Whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16). Believeth in what? In the divine shed blood of Jesus, believeth that He was born of the Virgin Mary. Eternal life with the Lord comes through the blood. If you don’t believe in the blood, if you don’t accept the blood, you have no life, no salvation.

All teachings that exclude the divine blood of Jesus are nothing but deceit of the devil. Everyone who does not accept Jesus will go to hell. Jesus is the only door into Heaven, the only means of salvation. Jesus said, I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved (John 10:9). Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber (John 10:1).

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him (John 3:18,36). You can’t believeth in the Son without believing in His divine blood; it’s impossible. There is no life outside the blood. From a spiritual and from a physical standpoint, the life is in the blood. The body must have blood, and the soul can’t live without spiritual blood, divine blood. Only spiritual death, eternal damnation, awaits the soul without the life that’s in the divine blood of Jesus. Nothing can wash away your sins and take you to Heaven but the divine blood of Jesus.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life (John 5:24). You can’t pass from death to life any other way but through the blood. Only the blood can erase death in you. All of us at one time or another were sinners—for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Death, condemnation, eternal damnation was upon us, but we were passed from death unto life when we received salvation. How did we pass from death unto life? Through the blood of Jesus. By recognizing the blood, by believing in the blood, believing that the blood would cleanse us and wash away all our sins we are saved. Through that shed blood all of our sins are washed away when we are born again.

And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst (John 6:35). The soul satisfied through the blood of Jesus will never hunger or thirst. Without the blood of Jesus there is no satisfaction for the soul. The soul came from God, and the soul belongs to God. Man sold it to the devil. Jesus came and bought it back, and He has given everyone an opportunity to accept His sacrifice. We have choice just as Adam and Eve had choice. Their souls belonged to God; they could stay with God or sell out to the devil, and they chose to sell out. When they did, they lost everything.

And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day (John 6:40). When you accept the divine blood in your soul, you have eternal life. You won’t have any more eternal life when you walk down the Avenue of Glory than you have right now if you have the blood of Jesus in your heart. Your body will die but not the soul.

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water (John 7:38). Rivers of living waters come by the blood and through the power of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit dwelling on the inside of people flows rivers of life through them to others around them. No wonder the Bride will bring the multitudes home to Jesus! And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this (John 11:26)? Jesus asked.

Let’s look in on Saul again: He’s delivering Christians into prison, both men and women. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison (Acts 8:3). This is Saul who was to become the great apostle Paul. He took great pride in his opinions, in his position in the world. Bitterly he persecuted Christians. Paul said, I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women (Acts 22:4). But through the blood Paul became humble, patient, a forgiving child of God. The blood brought a miraculous change in him.

Paul acknowledged himself to be a debtor to all men. He had no prejudices. Once narrow, a bigot, now he has the mind of Jesus, a heart that loves everyone. With great, great love, he is generous. How did this spiritual transformation come about? Through the blood of Jesus. On the road to Damascus with the intentions of bringing Christians to Jerusalem to be punished, suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks (Acts 9:3-5). Jesus let Paul know that He died for him, He brought divine blood for him. Why are you kicking against the truth, Paul? Why won’t you accept it? Paul was introduced personally to the divine blood. In the moment Paul accepted the Virgin Birth he was transformed. The blinding light that came down from Heaven stopped Paul in his tracks.

I see that light again and again, brighter than all the television lights. I always rejoice to see the light of Calvary that comes on people just before I touch them, the light of divine blood. I see that light going into the person; I see it with my eyes closed or opened. It’s the divine light in the blood.

Led blind to Damascus, Paul stayed there three days and nights without eating or drinking. In a vision the Lord came to Ananias, told him to go to Paul, put his hand on him that he might receive his sight. Ananias did as the Lord instructed, and immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized (Acts 9:18).

After his conversion, Paul suffered much for the sake of Christ. No one but Jesus Christ suffered like Paul. The Lord told Ananias, He [Paul] is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake (Acts 9:15,16). God used Paul as a vessel of honor, and Paul came to know Christ through sufferings. Paul wrote, 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 the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:20). Paul knew much about Jesus through His sufferings as well as through the power of His Resurrection. It is easier to accept Jesus through the power of His Resurrection than to know Him through His sufferings. Are you willing to suffer for His name’s sake?

Although Paul didn’t dwell on his own sufferings, in II Corinthians 11:22-28 he wrote, Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

Paul gloried not in sickness and disease but in persecutions for the sake of Christ. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities (II Corinthians 11:29,30). Paul wasn’t speaking of being sick when he said he would glory in the things concerning his infirmities but of the fellowship of the sufferings of Jesus. Jesus knew no sickness when He was here; we have no record of His ever being sick. The divine blood does not promise us sicknesses or diseases. It promises health, health, health. With His blood stripes we are healed.

Think of the pain Paul endured and the time it took to recover from his beatings. He was stoned, left for dead—this probably was the time he was caught up into the third Heaven and saw things that were not lawful to tell. Whether or not he was in the body in that vision, he didn’t know. The governor of Damascus, Paul said, was desirous to apprehend me: And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands (II Corinthians 11:32,33). Did Paul give up? Was he discouraged? He was victorious over all through the blood of Jesus.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not (II Corinthians 11:31). Paul called on a real witness: God the Father. If others didn’t believe what he had to say, Paul knew that God did. Not counting his own life dear, Paul was concerned with only what he could do for Jesus. He lost sight of the world, of family, friends. His life was completely in the Lord, given to the blood. Paul said it was in ignorance that he had persecuted the Church; he had not known better. But when the truth of who Jesus really was became apparent to Paul, his honest heart accepted Jesus completely. That’s the reason he found grace. People who know better and still persecute the Church are in great danger of blaspheming against the Holy Ghost.

Not only the heathen, his own countrymen tried to kill Paul. But divine blood flowed; God used Paul. He would not die until the Lord said it was time. Paul lived to an old age, and just before he died on Nero’s chop block he wrote Timothy: For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day (II Timothy 4:6-8). Paul knew his work was finished; he had done the work of God.

Some people feel when things become difficult that God isn’t with them. The Bride won’t feel like that; Paul didn’t have that attitude. People who blame the Lord for the hard times, who murmur and complain, are a hindrance to the work of God. Jesus suffered, but He overcame. Misfortunes can either draw you closer to God or drive you into the arms of the enemy. Paul was willing to suffer all things for the sake of Christ, and the Bride today will be the same way.

God had to let thousands of the Israelites in Old Testament days die because they grumbled and complained. His judgments warn us to not murmur. If you don’t live in the blood of Jesus, you will murmur, feel sorry for yourself because your situation is not always ideal. Jesus did His best, and He suffered disappointments and persecutions. Paul did his best, and he, too, suffered much.

Jesus told us about sufferings: In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world (John 16:33). Jesus will be with you to overcome adversities. The enemy cannot destroy your soul as long as you keep it in the blood. The Lord has promised you eternal life; no one can take that life from you; only if you sin willfully is that eternal life with God destroyed. Paul had insight into this, a revelation of the blood. When it was his time to die, with great triumph he went forth. Men didn’t have to drag him to the block; he walked there in the power of divine blood.

Christians grumble when they do not have the revelation of the divine blood or of the sufferings of Jesus. Paul said, that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death (Philippians 3:10). Many people want to know Jesus in the power of His Resurrection but not in the fellowship of His sufferings. They don’t want to suffer the way He suffered in order to know what God’s love, peace and strength will do.

The Bride will be willing to know Jesus in every way. She will not back down or compromise. The Bride will deliver the whole message of the saving Christ. She will put her life on the line daily, saith the Lord. Paul is a good example of the Bride, what she will be in this her final hour.

Ministers are preaching false doctrine who claim that if you don’t have prosperity you are not a true child of God. Neither Jesus nor Paul was prosperous in the material world. Paul didn’t even have food to eat part of the time or water to drink, yet he remained consecrated, dedicated to the Lord. He knew being prospered in earth’s possessions was not a sign of godliness. Some of the most sinful people on earth are rich. Eternal life has nothing to do with the abundance of possessions; eternal life with the Lord comes only through the blood of Jesus.

The rich man that Jesus told about died and lifted up his eyes in hell. Lazarus, destitute and full of sores, had been at his gate. The rich man cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented (Luke 16:24,25). The rich man had everything on earth but only torment in the hereafter. Lazarus, the poor beggar on earth, had the riches of Glory for eternity.

Some people, looking at the material possessions of others, feel left out of God’s love because they struggle to make ends meet. If you listen to the devil’s discouragement, you will fail God. But if you listen to the divine blood talk—and it has a loud voice—you will never fail God, saith the Lord. Listen to the voice of divinity through the blood of Jesus.

Paul listened to divinity through the blood. He honored, respected Jesus. The Holy Spirit taught him everything about Jesus that the human mind could take in, and so will it be with the Bride, saith the Lord. She will know everything about Jesus that the human mind can take in; she will have the mind of Christ to help her understand.

Paul had the mind of Christ. He told others to let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5). It’s time for God’s people to know who they are and to know what prospering in the eyes of God really is. Know what it means for your soul to prosper; know what it means for God to use you any way He wants. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service (Romans 12:1). It’s reasonable to present yourself as a living sacrifice to God daily.

Be willing to suffer for His name’s sake. Wear the “blood muzzle” so that you can speak the words of Jesus. Have mercy, forgiveness and pity for your persecutors as Paul pitied Nero. He knew Nero would suffer in hell as the eternal ages rolled, that he was damned, that the Spirit of God would never deal with him. He had blasphemed against the Holy Ghost. When Paul went to the chop block, the Spirit of God did not strive at all with Nero. Nero was ready to laugh and mock, delighted to see such a man as Paul go to his death; it was a day of celebration for Nero. Not long after that, Nero lifted up his eyes in hell; he’s been there ever since. He will never, never be delivered from punishment. God’s damnation is his for all eternity.

Daily the care of all the churches burdened Paul. He had many churches to look out for and take care of. Remember the letters he wrote to the various churches, the burdens he carried. From prison Paul wrote to some of the churches he had established, telling them how they were grieving the Spirit of God with their sins and disobediences, how they were not living in the divine blood of Jesus, how they had failed.

Through the blood all the Pauline epistles will be beacons of Heaven’s light in living reality to you if you will allow them to be. Read them in the light of the divine blood of Jesus.

I was thrilled some years ago to visit Corinth, to actually see the synagogue where Paul preached. It is said that the house next door to the synagogue is the same one he stayed in while he was there. Paul, writing to the church at Corinth said, For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified (I Corinthians 2:2). He was determined to not know anything among them but the divine blood of Jesus, the divine blood from Heaven. The divine blood is the only way you can know Jesus.

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God (I Corinthians 2:4,5). What kind of power is Paul referring to? Blood power. His speech was in demonstration of the Holy Spirit working through the blood, the divine blood in his life.

Jesus received the Holy Ghost when He was baptized in Jordan. John saw the Holy Ghost descending on Him in the form of a dove. The Holy Ghost operated that divine blood through Jesus who was a man as well as the divine Son of God. The disciples were shown that the Holy Ghost would operate the divine blood through them as well. Paul studied all of this, and he came into perfection of the divine revelation of the Lord that other apostles never received. Study the Pauline epistles and find how the greatness of the blood works.

The wisdom of God was ordained before the world of salvation and redemption. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory (I Corinthians 2:7,8). Not everyone will understand these writings; they are spoken in a mystery to the carnal mind. The world does not understand the spiritual things of God, will not accept Jesus as the Son of God, the divine Redeemer. They fail to comprehend the divine power in the blood or accept the words of the prophets who foresaw that Jesus would come, the Messiah born of a virgin. Although the Bible is a mystery to many people, it is not intended to be so. Ministers and teachers alike have failed God down through the years, not teaching the true Word, not fasting, praying and getting their messages from God. They have depended on one another for opinions, relied on the opinions of man, of self and not of God. Not until they fast, pray and live in the Word of God will they understand the Bible and have something of value to give the people.

As long as you are part of the world, you don’t recognize the things that are yours through God. Because you don’t accept them, they are not given to you. They were placed within your reach only through divine blood. You can only reach the things of God through divine blood.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual (I Corinthians 2:12,13). You can’t have the spirit of the world and be a true born-again Christian. Most Christians today are worldly, acting like the world, talking like the world and indistinguishable from the world. No blood-bought salvation is in their hearts.

What discourages you? Examine it; find how much of the divine blood is working in you; discover whether or not you are standing the blood test in the eyes of the Lord. You had better be able to pass the blood test, saith the Lord. You must pass it in this last hour.

Through Jesus Christ the things of God are freely given, through divine blood; but many fail to receive because they do not recognize the divine blood, the channel through which the blessings of God come. You can have healing for soul, mind and body through that divine blood. It’s divine blood that bridges the gulf between man and God. It’s divine blood, the Jesus blood, that connects you with Heaven; there is no connection between you and Heaven without the divine blood. Your soul is not connected with Heaven any other way than through the divine blood of the Son of God.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ (I Corinthians 2:16). We have the mind of Christ; we are not searching for it. Others have had the mind of Christ; Paul was a great teacher, leading his followers into the mind of Christ. People need instructors. Many would have the mind of Christ today, separated from the world, had they had the right instructors.

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men (I Corinthians 4:9). The apostles, almost all of them, died for the sake of Christ. God set forth the apostles in a special way that they might know Jesus in His sufferings as well as in the power of His Resurrection, that they could instruct others, lead people in the paths of righteousness just like Jesus. The Early Church talked like Jesus; they had the same love, power and greatness; they delivered the whole truth of the blood. Jesus said, 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).

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised (I Corinthians 4:10). Paul is telling how the world looked upon the apostles. The world despised them because they were so much like Jesus, and the world hated Jesus the way Paul had hated Jesus at one time. But the apostles were willing to take the ridicule of the world, to be fools for Christ’s sake in order to spread the Gospel. They were the leaders, the teachers of the Christian movement, strong. Listen to what the Spirit is saying, not the world.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace (I Corinthians 4:11). Doesn’t this sound like their Jesus, like the way He suffered? Did Paul know Him in His sufferings? Yes he did. That’s the reason he could tell us so much about Jesus. Paul was the foremost of all witnesses to the power of Jesus, to the greatness of Jesus, to the whole Jesus. He showed us how to live the Jesus life. I love to think of the steps Paul made, steps that were like those of Jesus. The truths he taught were the truths of Jesus. Although Paul never saw Jesus in the flesh, you can depend on his testimony.

And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ (I Corinthians 10:3,4). Paul here is speaking of the Israelites in the wilderness. He is saying that Jesus was there and they drank of Him, the Rock Jesus. Jesus, remember, was with the Father before the creation of the earth; before He came to earth, His Spirit was moving, working for God’s chosen people. They had that light, that strength to go directly into Canaan in eleven days, but they failed to use it; and they wandered in the wilderness forty years. With many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness (verse 5).

Although the Israelites drank of the Rock and were offered all the strength they needed to stay true to God, they still failed. Jesus was there wrapped in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. They had the Spirit of Jesus with them in the wilderness but they wouldn’t accept Him. They preferred idol gods. Loving the ways of the heathen, they turned their backs to the ways of the Lord.

Many today have been wandering in the wilderness for forty, fifty years and are nowhere with God at all. They are still in the world going around in circles. They haven’t been witnesses to the blood of Jesus; they haven’t been good stewards or good servants. They don’t like His ways. His ways are divine; His blood is divine. How marvelous to know that we have been made partakers of that divine nature!

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it (I Corinthians 10:13). For years when I thought I couldn’t take any more, I would look around for a way of escape, and if there were none, I would settle down in this scripture saying, Lord, I can take some more; I just thought I couldn’t. He would give me strength. Paul went through much suffering, but he knew he was able to bear it as long as the Lord did not provide a way of escape.

Do you become miffed at God because He doesn’t do everything your way or deliver you immediately? Do you think you are being mistreated? You will not know Jesus unless you know Him through suffering—not sicknesses and diseases but trials and persecutions. You are protected through the blood. Through the blood the Lord will make a way of escape. If you don’t take the blood way, you won’t escape. Without the blood you have no power over the devil, no victory. Whether or not you trample devils underfoot depends on how you use the blood.

The flesh has a loud voice. It will be louder than the blood voice if you allow it. Which channel will you tune into? If the blood is in your soul, keep tuned to it.

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ (I Corinthians 10:16)? Know the significance of taking holy communion. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep (I Corinthians 11:28-30). Some died before their time because they had not discerned the Lord’s body. Many take holy sacrament and don’t know what it means. They are not in a condition to take it.

For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread (I Corinthians 10:17). You are partakers of the bread of Jesus, part of His body, bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh through divine blood. You can’t be a child of God any other way but through divine blood.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour (I Thessalonians 4:3,4). Sanctification means to be holy; holiness is the will of God. You can’t be sanctified and remain unholy. You can’t be sanctified through the blood, cleansed through the blood and still have sin in your life. The vessel is your soul, your body, the whole you. Through the blood of Jesus you know how to possess your soul and body, through sanctification. It’s the only way to possess your vessel in the right way. God frowns on any other way; damnation will be the result of all unholiness.

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness (I Thessalonians 4:7). Paul is telling the people that some are unclean, but God didn’t call them to uncleanness. God calls to holiness. The unholy hate holiness. When I was a boy, holiness people were persecuted. I was persecuted in school because my people believed in holy living through the blood of Jesus and attended a holiness church.

For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him (I Thessalonians 5:9,10). You can only obtain salvation through the blood. Whether we live on this earth or die, we live together with Him. Paul was trying to get the people to yield to the blood so that they could live with the Lord on this earth and in the life hereafter.

See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men (I Thessalonians 5:15). Paul was teaching against serving evil. Some who go by the name of Christian serve evil, mistreat others and claim they are going to Heaven. They’ll never make it unless they get right with God.

Serve love; don’t serve hatred or criticism. If you get to Heaven it will be because you have God’s love and used it on others. When you have the blood of Jesus, you talk kind words to people, tender, loving words; you talk what is in your heart. You can be very destructive, mean, hateful, stubborn, arrogant and still think you are on your way to Heaven. You would be deceived. How awful to land in hell after the devil has deceived you into thinking you were on your way to Heaven! You were a spokesman for that which was wrong. Your words weren’t kind, didn’t bring peace. You think you are going to Heaven, but if you are hateful, verbally abusive to others, you are not using the voice of the blood but of deceit. Many will wake up in hell because of this very thing, saith the Lord. Jesus said, Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven (Matthew 7:21).

When the blood of Jesus is in your heart, you love to serve peace, kindness. Your spirit is gentle, tender. Do you speak with the tongue of love? Do you tell people what you think or what God thinks? The gift of discerning is in my life; through that gift I can tell whether the blood of Jesus abides in your heart; I can tell if your talk is blood talk or not. I don’t always reveal to the person what I know. God doesn’t ask me to disclose it if He knows the person will not accept it, but He will keep trying to deal with the person, giving me messages to help open his eyes. When people don’t want to see, however, they will not see. The Lord described some people as having eyes to see and seeing not, ears to hear and hearing not.

Abstain from all appearance of evil (I Thessalonians 5:22). Shun anything that looks like evil; stay away from it or you will never see Heaven. God is very strict about His Heaven. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (verse 23). The whole you must be preserved blameless before God. You can’t lose your temper against others, try to get even, hold resentment and still be holy. If you are doing those things, you are going against the blood and everything in it. Jesus is coming after those who are blameless, those without spot, wrinkle, blemish or any such thing.

That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ (II Thessalonians 1:12). The name of Jesus will not be glorified in you without the divine blood of Jesus but according to the grace in the blood of Jesus. But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth (II Thessalonians 2:13). Paul is writing to the men and women who were blameless; he is proud of them. And to those who had not been measuring up to the truth, Paul gave straight talk, telling them where they stood.

Questions and Answers

The Bible starts with seven days and ends with six thousand years. Is one day in Heaven equal to a thousand earth days?

No. When II Peter 3:8 says that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day it is saying that earth time doesn’t matter with God; eternity is what He is preparing us for. God does not have a watch; He moves according to His own timing. Don’t look to your time but to God’s timetable. A thousand years being as one day with God shows His patience.

I know when we get to Heaven we will be married to Christ, but why couldn’t we also be given in marriage to our earth mates?

Jesus said that in Heaven they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven (Mark 12:25). We don’t know what God has in store on a higher plane, a greater realm than marriage, but I’m sure He has something there higher and greater. I know in Heaven I want to be with Angel for all eternity, but God planned marriage for earth, not Heaven.

What is the full purpose of the Holy Ghost? Will He have the same meaning in Heaven?

He won’t have the same purpose in Heaven; He won’t have to live and dwell on the inside of people as the Spirit of Truth. Those in Heaven will be living in truth. The purpose of the Holy Ghost down here is to guide, teach, serve from the blood all things needed to those yielded to Him, to baptize people in His Spirit. Although the Holy Ghost won’t have the same purpose in Heaven as He has to us here on earth, He will still be the third person in the Godhead.

Why is the human mind so prone to slip from the grace of God during the walk here on earth?

Because the mind gives over to the flesh. That’s the reason we need to take on the mind of Christ. We can have the mind of Christ through the blood, the divine blood that would never give over to the flesh. The blood is against all the seventeen works of the flesh that are listed in Galatians 5. If the human mind is not anointed, not blessed, not using the truth, the devil will have a playground, working to break down your resistance to him. If you are not careful he will leech your mind, putting it in such a state that God and the Holy Spirit can’t get through to you to work with your soul. You can keep failing, disobeying God until the leeches drop into the soul and the devil takes over completely, and your salvation is lost.

Why was it all right for Rahab to lie about hiding Joshua’s spies?

Don’t you think a harlot would lie? God never said lies were all right or that Rahab was a saint. She came into the grace of God by believing the spies were servants of Jehovah God and that God would give Jericho into the hands of His people. She had faith. I had faith in God when I was still a sinner. Sinners can have faith; they just have not given their hearts to God. Rahab became special for God. The lie came before she was converted. The Bible is a truth book. It tells the truth about Rahab, about Mary Magdalene who once had seven devils in her before she found salvation. If people sinned, the Bible tells it. God doesn’t whitewash anyone.

Would a Christian today be able to lie about hiding another Christian from wrongful persecution or even death?

The Bible says that all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death (Revelation 21:8). Stephen didn’t lie to save his life. Jesus didn’t lie to save His life. When Peter lied, saying he did not know Jesus, he backslid.

How do you know when all the deceit is out of you?

When you don’t use any of it. If you try to fool people, if you are doing something undercover, if you lie a little you have deceit. Are you pure, clean, holy before God? Is your tongue too long? Do you gossip? Do you tell people hurtful things that others have said about them? Don’t be a messenger of the devil. If you have no deceit, you talk good things that will bless, edify others. You damn your own soul when you pass gossip.

In this final hour we will have angel help. I know it means we must have angel faith. How does one acquire angel faith?

You acquire it through the blood. Angels have the same faith as humans available to them. God doesn’t stockpile assorted kinds of faith; He has one faith—His. Angels use it, God uses it, the Son of God uses it, the Holy Spirit uses it and we can use it. Angels are divine creations of God with divine faith, and we are new creatures, partakers of divine nature. We must have God’s faith in the blood of Jesus.

Did You Stand the Test?

Do you have the results of the blood? Did you stand the test? The truth sobers honest-hearted people. You will be judged according to what you say; even your idle words will be judged. Stay connected with the blood. The blood will give you the right things to say. The spirit of the Bride wants to know if she is falling short. Do you want to know if you are wrong? Know the truth and the truth will make you free. Each night ask the Lord to look over your day. Have you pleased Him?

Let the blood work on the inside of you; have love for everyone. Don’t allow grudges to live in your heart; forgive. Put people in the hands of God and go on with God. You can’t afford to carry the garbage of resentment and bitterness because someone has mistreated you. The blood says garbage will not mix with what is in the born-again soul. Empty yourself of all that is not of God.

If you have a mean spirit part of the time, if you talk mean to those around you, you are not a blessing. Jesus makes you a blessing when you yield to Him. Do you treat people right? God knows if you do. You will have to give an account for all your actions one day.

Are you really free? If not, let me pray the sinners’ prayer with you: Oh, God, I am lost! I am so sorry that I sinned against you, but I’ve come home. I’m going to serve you, Lord, the rest of my life. I believe that Jesus died for me. I will live for Him. I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins, all of them! Come on into my heart Jesus! Come on in.

If you meant that prayer, He has come.

You who need healing, get ready for the Lord to move for you now: Lord, I bring the sick and afflicted, the cancer victims, the diabetics, the heart patients, those who are afflicted with other diseases. In the name of Jesus, heal! heal! The healing power is flowing, flowing. Get well. Write and tell me what you received today from the Lord. God’s blessings be yours.

Thus saith the Lord: I will give the great revelation of divine blood, a revelation that will live with the Bride till her Lord comes, a revelation that will give power and victory, victories that she has not had in the past. I will do great and mighty wonders. I’m going to shake the world through the obedience of the Bride. The Bride must know my blood, saith the Lord, must know the greatness of my blood, and must know that it is the same blood that she has that I used, that I brought to earth. It is not another blood; it’s the same blood. It will work the same way. It will perform the same miracles, and it will do great and mighty wonders just like it did when I was here on earth. Through my blood I will make myself real to the Bride. She will feel the closeness and the fellowship daily that she has not felt in the past. She will have greater vision of what I am doing, what I am going to do and of all of my greatness being poured out. Through my blood she will be anointed to pray and believe like she has never been able to pray and believe in the past. She will be able to yield to my truth like she has never been able to yield to all of my truth. She will be able to deliver those that are in bondage, set the captives free just like I set them free when I was here on earth. She will delight in the life—my life—that’s in my divine blood. She will use the life of her Lord because she will use the blood. Yield completely to my truth. Yield completely to my truth and you will be able to use my life to give you life and give others life, saith the Lord.

The Lord is offering you much. Accept all. Thank God for His life. Think upon the blood, dwell on the divine blood of Jesus, on the many, many things that are in the blood. They are life, deliverance for you. In the blood you will find the cure for all things needed, all the greatness of Heaven. The Virgin Birth meant everything to a lost world. Through the blood, the Virgin Birth will become a greater reality to you than ever before. It will not seem like a far removed happening 2000 years ago; it will be living reality of life within you, saith the Lord. Seek the Lord with your whole heart; let nothing disturb you. Set your time as the woman did with the issue of blood and decide that the Lord will deliver you. Take good health, strength from the Lord, the health of Jesus. Get ready for God to help you.

As the life of the Early Church came into existence with all the greatness and power of God through the result of the blood test, let that Jesus blood test bring your soul to life in all the greatness and power of God also. It’s the precious blood of Jesus that will make you an overcomer in this last and final hour. Take the blood test daily and let the Lord become all living reality to you, soul, mind and heart. Don’t ever think that it is impossible for you to pass the Jesus blood test—the Early Church disciples did, and you can too. The blood has not lost its power. Use the Jesus blood—all things are possible through the blood of Jesus.