The topic, of course, is about our Father’s Grace being given to human beings. There are seven ways that Christ shed blood in the crucifixion event shows his grace. We will use these seven ways as parables to teach you about Our Father’s Grace. As every person comes to the Age of Choosing, each one must decide to repent and confess sin and become a Born-Again Christian for each one to continue to receive the Favor and Blessings of Our Father’s Grace. OK, let’s review what happened to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden after they disobeyed Our Father and ate the forbidden fruit?’ Our Father cast them out of the Garden of Eden because they were then unclean or sinful. Their sin separated them from Our Father. What effect did the sinning of Adam and Eve have upon their descendants?” When they sinned, Satan placed a quality of sin or selfishness in their inner spirits. Through Adam’s seed, this sin was passed onto his children and in like manner to all human beings since then. As humans, we are innocent of this inherited sin until the Age of Choosing; then, we each become responsible for it.
The basic purpose of Our Father’s Grace is to save each human being from his or her sin that separates each one from Our Father. In Our Father’s Grace, blood is shed to save each human from their sin.
Hebrews 9:16-28 (King James Version)
16 For where a testament or will is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Verse 22 –“Our Father provides the forgiveness of sin as a Favor or Benefit of His Grace through the shedding of blood.”
Verses 16-21 – “In the times of the Old Testament, Our Father used the shed blood of animals for the forgiveness of sin.
Verse 23-28 – “Starting with the times of the New Testament and continuing through this New Testament Age, Our Father is using the Blood of Christ shed on the Cross to forgive sin. This is why it is important to understand how Christ shed His Blood for the forgiveness of sin.
Neither angels nor humans will ever totally understand why Our Father gives His Grace through the shedding of blood as we are all created beings, thus less in understanding than Our Father. All we need to know is that Our Father chose to share the Blessings and Favor of His Grace through shedding blood. Believing this is the first step of faith for each Born Again Believer. Let’s look at one of the seven ways Christ Our Lord shed His Blood on the Cross of Calvary.
For us humans, the real purpose of Our Father’s Grace is to get us to Heaven and to enable us to be happy until we get to Heaven. Since the time of Adam and Eve, sin has separated us humans from our Father. One of the purposes of our Father’s grace is to save us from sin so that we can go to Heaven. There are two truths to note about this. “First of all, there are some humans who do not believe that sin and evil exist. They will not experience Our Father’s Grace saving them from sin.
Secondly, the source of Grace that Saves from Sin is Our Father. The saving from sin is totally the work of Our Father. This is the parable meaning of the shedding of the Blood of Christ through the nails in the hands of Christ. With His hands, He was shedding the Blood through which we can be saved from sin. The works or good works of any human being cannot save anyone from sin. Angels do the good work of following the commands of Our Father and other good works as they minister to humans. They do not do these good works to receive the grace of our Father, but they do so because they are receiving the grace of our Father. Why are you doing the good works you do? You should be doing the good works of keeping Our Father’s commandments and other good works because you want to help others receive Our Father’s Grace and to receive the full Benefits and Blessings of Our Father’s Grace in your own life.”
John 5:19-21 (King James Version)
19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
Performing miracles was only part of Christ Your Lord's works while living on Earth. He did greater works than performing miracles.
John 3:16 (King James Version)
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
The greatest work that Christ did while on Earth was shedding His Blood on the Cross. He did this so that human beings could receive Our Father’s Grace, including being saved from your sins.
John 19:30 (King James Version)
30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
This verse tells us that when Christ had completed the work of shedding his blood by His own choice and effort, He left His physical body.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (King James Version)
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Again, one of the results of Our Father’s Grace is for human beings to be saved from their sin. This is not based on human worth and effort but upon the quality of Our Father. Salvation from sin is a gift from Our Father to be received, not earned, bought, or achieved through human effort.
When Christ Your Lord shed His Blood on the Cross, he shed all of His physical blood. When a soldier pierced the side of Christ Your Lord while on the Cross, water and blood rushed out. This was after Christ Your Lord had left His physical body, so His physical body was dead, His | physical heart no longer pumping, so this was a miracle of Our Father removing all the physical blood from His body. When Christ Your Lord applied His Blood to the Mercy Seat in Heaven, it was not His physical blood, not blood in His transformed physical body, but it was His Spirit Blood. (See Hebrews 9:12.) Thus, it was and is the Spirit Blood of Christ Your Lord that provides for the forgiveness of your sin so that you can be saved from your sin and fellowship with Our Father.
When you confessed and repented of your sin and became a Born Again Christian and Christ baptized you in Holy Spirit, you received this Spirit Blood being within Holy Spirit. This is the same Spirit Blood within Christ on the Cross that He applied to the Mercy Seat in Heaven.
Every time the fruit of the vine is consecrated for the Holy Communion Service, Christ Our Lord attaches His Spirit Blood to the fruit of the vine. Then, when we drink the fruit of the vine in the Holy Communion Service, we are again receiving the Spirit Blood of Christ Our Lord. Remember, we taught how to anoint our home with the blood of the vine by touching the consecrated fruit of the vine to the doorposts of our house and pouring it on the ground around our house. This created a Bloodline around our house. Satan and demons would pass by such a bloodline. In the same way, you can sprinkle your inner being with the Spirit Blood of Christ, and not only will Christ provide forgiveness for your sin, but Satan and demons will pass over you because of the presence of the Spirit Blood of Christ. This also means that Christ Your Lord bringing the Judgment of Our Father will pass over a Born-Again Christian in this life and in the eternal life.”
