UNDER THE BLOOD!
Gen 4:1-12
1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Get ready for a time of deliverance, miracles, healing and breakthrough as we proclaim what the devil cannot stand to hear…
“There is power in the blood of Jesus Christ!”
We must never forget the power of His blood.
From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is clear about the shedding of blood and its purpose in our salvation.
In the garden, God slew an innocent animal to provide covering for Adam and Eve.
The firstborn of the flock became the acceptable sacrifice in the Old Testament.
Ultimately, in Scripture we see the bleeding lambs, replaced once and for all by the bleeding Lamb of God on the cross … His precious blood flowing from Calvary.
Make no mistake, the greatest gift God ever gave you was His Son who shed His blood … not your stuff, your place or your position in life.
The blood Jesus shed on the cross still has power today and is the key to every victory in your life.
Today there are many churches that have so modernized their message and have taken the power out of the Gospel because they don’t want to talk about the blood or the cross.
But as for me, I’m going to cling to the old rugged cross. I got saved in an old-fashioned, sanctified,
store-front, tambourine-beating, devil-rebuking church of the Living God and I’m proclaiming, “The blood,
the blood, the blood of Jesus to save, heal and deliver!”
You won’t find this preacher ever moving away from the blood.
When you start talking about the blood, demons get nervous, hell shakes and satan gets afraid.
On the first Good Friday, more than 2,000 years ago, all of hell broke into a party thinking, “We finally got Him. We put Jesus down for good.”
But it wasn’t over because the blood never lost its power. Jesus rose… and because He rose, you and I can too.
The enemy is still out to steal, kill and destroy you, your children, your dreams and destiny.
But, never forget the battle is the Lord’s. Take your burdens to the Lord and put them under the blood!
The blood of the Lamb prevails over cancer, afflictions and any trial you may be facing.
It may look dark in your life, like it did on that first Good Friday, but resurrection is coming to you.
We are going to plead the blood and that is why I want you to complete a special “Blood Prayer List”.
You may be in a family crisis… put it under the blood! You may fear losing your home or job… put it under the blood.
Can’t see your way out of a situation? Put it under the blood!
We can stand strong, because we are under the blood.
Make sure your “Blood Prayer List” represents your household and your concerns.
Don’t let the devil tell you it’s a waste of time. Remind him that the blood speaks to his destruction and your deliverance!
>>> God had respect unto Abel’s sacrifice-
>>> Instead of Cain rectifying his mistake he kills his brother.
*** You know the hardest thing in the world to accept? When you are offering a sacrifice and God says, “Not good enough!”
*** But what was Abel doing in the field? Abel is a tender of sheep.
*** Abel being killed in the field is a picture of Christ being killed in the earth.
*** No matter your struggle, no matter your strength, if you need aid, there is a weapon you can use!
*** When Jesus came from heaven to our turf, the demons celebrated because they thought they could finally destroy Jesus on the cross.
*** But if the demons had read the fourth chapter of Genesis they would have seen that when Cain slew Abel, even though the body died, the blood kept talking!
*** The same knife that Cain used to kill Abel foreshadows the knife of judgment that was raised against the innocent Jesus, Who died and shed His blood for our sins.
>>> I have heard thy bro’s blood crying out to me out of the ground.
>>> So if you already heard the blood of Abel crying out of the ground. Why would you ask me where is thy bro.?
>>> God already knows your wrong, he just gives you space to repent.
*** Can you hear blood? No. But if I had a stethoscope I could hear it moving.
>>> It is not that it’s not making a sound. It’s that I can’t hear it.
>>> If with my natural ear I can’t hear it moving, but with a stethoscope I can, with the ear of God I can hear it speaking!
>>> The blood speaks! I heard the blood of thy bro. crying to me from the ground.
*** The innocent blood of Abel, who is giving us a picture of Jesus, that 2nd son, Cain—Abel; Esau—Jakob, Manasseh—Ephraim, Zarah---Pharez,Adam—Jesus, the 2nd man Adam.
*** Rom 5:14-17
*** 1 Cor 15:21-22
1 Cor 15:45-48
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
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*** Jesus who was slain by His human bro’s slain for our sin, and the enemy thought that if he killed Jesus he would shut down the gospel but…
1 Cor 2:8
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
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*** Because as long as the blood is in we can’t hear it speak, but when they pierced Him in his side, and the blood came streaming down, God said, ‘That’s the sound I’ve been waiting to hear…”
>>> Look at Abel the man, he dies and his blood becomes his attorney. His blood pleads the case, presents the documents and says there’s been injustice.
>>> And God said I heard the blood, and I declare I will get justice.
Heb 11:4
4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
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>>> The blood still speaks!
Eph 2:13
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
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Col 1:20
20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
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Heb 9:12
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
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Heb 9:14
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
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Heb 10:4-23
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
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Heb 13:20
20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
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I Jn 1:7
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
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>>> We should have been destroyed, the blood pled your case and offered grace on your behalf, when your enemy seeks to destroy you it’s the blood that speaks for you, justice said you should have died a long time ago but, the blood got in between you and it!
>>> The blood got in between you and the car wreck, the disease, the jail sentence…
>>> Cain is a tiller of the ground, planting his seeds, reaping a harvest, working the ground.
>>> It means he spends his life working in the dirt, the stuff you are made of, your flesh is made of.
*** But when he kills his bro. God says “no more” shall the ground yield unto you it’s strength. You’ll never be able to work this ground like you used to.
*** But because the ground has received the blood, when you try it again it’s not going to work because the blood is against you!!
*** Satan plants some things in your flesh, ant it used to be that whatever he planted in your flesh manifested in your life and you were helpless to stop it, but if you are blood washed that means that the stuff that used to grow in you can’t grow anymore.
>>> You need to tell your weakness “it’s not going to work anymore!” Your flesh, the devil, etc.
>>> You might be surprised at the seeds that were planted early in your life to destroy you at this period in your life.
*** It had to be planted in you as a little boy to mess you up as a man…it would have worked had it not been for the…
*** If you don’t believe the blood has done a work in your life look at your classmates, some of your relatives, look at what the enemy did to them, that same devil was coming after you, but when you opened your mouth and received the blood….
*** They can talk about you all they want to, call you a church freak, say it don’t take all that jumping and shouting all they want to…….
>>> Plead the blood!!
*** Illustrate round up!! Grass, even when you pull it up by the roots it comes back why? The seeds!
>>> It kills not only what is but what will be.
>>> A lot of you have done a lot of work to pull up a lot of mess and you pulled it up by the roots, but ever so often it comes up again cause you haven’t got rid of the seed.
>>> Anyone can be a “Recovering Christian”—where they make a one time commitment and accept Christ, afterwards go on with their life as usual. They seem to spend the rest of their life recovering from that one night’s commitment.
*** NOTE Some of the information or statements have been derived from a sermon by T.D.Jakes.
