The Blood Price

UV 690/10,000 The Blood Price But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53 v 5 This is a very powerful uni-verse. It holds the secret of eternal salvation. It is the key to lasting peace in our lives. It is the guarantee of our forgiveness, our justification and our sanctification. It is also the promise of health and healing. Jesus is the perfect sacrifice that cleanses every one who believes in an absolute sense. We become the righteousness of God. The sacrifice being absolute and perfect satisfied the standard of holiness of God that had declared all mankind sinful. Hitherto, our sins had tormented us but since Jesus was tormented for our sins, we are freed from the chastisement or the payment we have to make. Our peace or reconciliation with God has been purchased by the blood of Jesus on the cross. Our Father-child relationship is fully restored and it replaces the more formal and impersonal Creator-creature relationship of before. Our sins may be crimson or even a darker shade of scarlet, meaning more deadly sins, yet we are washed whiter than snow. Both sin and salvation,sickness, health and healing, success and failure, blessings and curses have a deeper spiritual manifestation before it gets manifested at the physical plane. The Father ensured that nothing about the suffering and death of His Son Jesus was in vain: not His life, not His Word, not His wounds, not His stripes,not his body, Not His blood, not His death and resurrection, not His spirit. In a vision, Jesus reminded us of the fountain of blood from His five wounds: the fountain from His feet, the fountain from His knees, the fountain from His chest and back for His chest and back were ploughed with the flogging He received before the crucifixion, the fountain from His hands and finally, the fountain from His face and head. By virtue of His substitutionary death, we receive freedom from spiritual death and obtain eternal life. In addition, we can obtain healing and sanctification daily by prayerfully washing ourselves in the blood from these five wounds on His body. It will reinforce our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. It will induce the healing that we need on a daily basis. We need not wait till we fall sick to claim our healing. Scripture declares that “ with His stripes, we are healed”. It is a confirmation of healing, that we are already healed and not just a promise of healing. It will also protect us from internal temptation and external aggression or attacks of different kinds. With His death and resurrection, Jesus crushed the head of the enemy, satan as it was prophesied in the book of Genesis. Satan had bruised His heel but an injury on the heel is not fatal or causing permanent damage while the blow to the head of the enemy restored victory to mankind. Hence, this uni-verse is also key to a victorious life. As we claim the blessings embedded in this verse, it will release freedom, salvation, forgiveness, peace, grace, victories, success, healing and health into every aspect of our lives. A question may be asked, why is there so much emphasis on “blood” in our faith? I learnt it from experience- as I lay wounded and pierced by many steel shrapnel in Sriperumbudur, I could sense the life draining out of my body. Our blood literally supplies life to the various parts. It is aptly called “ lifeblood”. As I cried out “Jesus, Jesus” He restored life and set the healing process in motion. Weeks later as I lay in a hospital and crying out of excruciating pain from the shrapnel embedded in my feet, He spoke the words, “ By my stripes, you are healed.” I was slowly relieved of the pain and could limp back to normalcy. Prateep V Philip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8rWZyoV-2g Listen to this Blessong and karaoke it as a personal prayer.