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Volume 23 The Mysteries of God

by Ernest Angley

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh
away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it,
that it may bring forth more fruit (John 15:1,2). If you don't
bring forth fruit, if you don't have the life of Jesus flowing in you,
you are a dead branch to be taken away. Without the fruit of the
Spirit, you are spiritually dead. The blood of Jesus gives you life,
divine life. When you are born again, you are a partaker of His
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divine nature.

Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken

unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch Topics: Blood of Jesus
cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no
more can ye, except ye abide in me (John 15:3,4). People who are not in Jesus don't bear
fruit. Although they may belong to the Christian church, they are not profitable to the Lord, not
right with God, and they are not bearing the fruit of a Child of God. If you have none of the fruit of
the Spirit, you are not in the Lord. These verses are not talking about works, but about bearing
fruit, the fruit of the Spirit. Don't confuse the fruit of the Spirit with works. I am the vine, ye are
the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much
fruit: for without me ye can do nothing (John 15:5). You can do nothing—you are nothing
—without the Lord. If you don't have His blood in your soul, you don't have His love, peace, joy,
wisdom, understanding or faith. Only through the blood can you be in Christ Jesus and have His
characteristics.

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather
them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned (verse 6). Without Jesus abiding in
your heart, you face eternal torment in the fire of hell.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be
done unto you (verse 7). Many have not seen their prayers answered because they have not

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really been abiding in the Lord, they don't have the promises of God alive on the inside. The
promises of God must be alive in your heart, for His promises are absolute life through the
life-giving Spirit of God.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. As

the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love (John 15:8,9).
Only by continuing in the love of the Lord can you bear fruit for God. Human love will not bear the
fruit of the Holy Spirit. The life of Jesus through the Holy Spirit in one's life produces fruit.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my

Father's commandments, and abide in his love (John 15:10). The only way you can abide in
God's love is by keeping all His commandments. Keep what Jesus taught; live what He taught.
Through the blood, Jesus places those who are born again equal with Himself, sons and daughters
of God. He is showing the Children of God that their walk will be the same as His; it will be just
they and their heavenly Father.

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your
joy might be full (John 15:11). Notice, Jesus wants His joy to be full in His Children, yet many do
not have the joy of the Lord bubbling on the inside.

Let's look at the words "purge" and "pure." Purge means to cleanse of guilt and sin, to remove
impurities by cleaning, to become pure, clean or clear. Think of three more words: "Away, off,
out." To remove by cleaning means to clear away, to clear off or clear out. Study daily the meaning
of these three words, words when put into action will keep you purged, keep the hindrances
cleared off the road God wants you to travel. Is anything binding you? Clear it out, get rid of it.

To purge also means to remove individuals who are undesirable, not faithful to God. In this hour,
the Lord is purging His Church, purging the body of Christ in a great way, pushing people out of the
way who won't serve Him in holiness and righteousness. He is clearing away the dead branches,
those who are hindering His work. The Lord will not allow hindrances within the true Church in
this final hour. The body of Christ is going to be all that God would have it to be.

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that
beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit (John 15:2). While God is
purging out from His Church those who are not faithful to Him, He is also purging the faithful so
they can bear more fruit. He is cutting off from you that which is a hindrance. It's an operation.
All those spirits and disobediences that have caused you to stumble He is showing to you, making
you aware of what has to go, taking them out of the way. If you cry over the impurities, hold on to
them, He won't be able to remove them. The Lord can only purge from you that which you yield to
Him.

Have you ever seen a vineyard that has just been pruned? It looks as though nothing is left. But

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the pruners have cut away that which would hinder the prolific new growth. So it is with the Lord
in your life: The dead is cut off so that the vine can furnish life to produce the fruit.

How are you purged? Through the blood. The blood purges. If you don't have the blood of Jesus,
there is no purging. The blood purges you of the guilt, the sin, the disobedience and everything else
unlike God. Yield to the Spirit of God, yield to the Word and greatness of God so the Holy Spirit
can clear out what needs to go.

The word "pure" means to be purified, to be cleansed, to be free from defects. Some people don't
think anyone can be spotless or live a holy life like Jesus. You can through the blood. To be pure
means to be perfect, faultless, free from sin or guilt, blameless. Be diligent that ye may be
found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless (II Peter 3:14).

The blood of Jesus is never found in the soul of a sinner. But almost every devil possessed person
who comes to me claims to be saved, pretends to have the greatness of God, makes people think he
is a righteous Child of God when in reality he has nothing of God in him at all. He is deceived, for
without the blood of Jesus he doesn't have the Lord. People have tried to fool me when I could
look right into their souls and see the devil that bound them. Demon possessed people are not
pure; they are defiled. If a person wants to be helped, I can use the Word of God, the Spirit of God
to give spiritual sight. However, if the person chooses to remain spiritually blind, wants to be that
way, God's hands are tied. If people want to be delivered they can be, but if they won't accept the
Word of God, I have nothing for them. The devil is a great actor, and those who yield to him
become like him. Do you have the deliverance Jesus died for or not?

That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst
of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world
(Philippians 2:15). This is the time to shine out, to let nothing hinder you. Those who won't serve
God—don't let them bother you at all.

Instead of being blameless and harmless, some people are troublemakers. When pressed, they
assume great innocence. But the blood has voice; the blood cries out: Condemnation! Guilty!
They do not meet the qualifications of Romans 8:1: There is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Accept the blood and the Word of God; accept it all so that you will be blameless and harmless, a
son or daughter of God, pure, clean and holy. Was Jesus pure, clean and holy? The Bible says
Jesus did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth (I Peter 2:22).

In the blood you have everything needed to deliver you, everything needed to keep you holy. You

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received it when the blood came into your life to set you free. The blood purges the born again of
all sin, but you must keep that blood working to stay purged; it will not work in a soul that has sin.
If you sin willfully, the sacrifice of blood ceases to operate for you.

Without the Word of God, you couldn't have found the Lord. Without the Word there is no Gospel
message of deliverance for you. Without the Word of God in your heart, you don't have His purity.

The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord
is pure, enlightening the eyes (Psalm 19:8). The heart rejoices in the statutes of the Lord, but
when people don't have the joy of the Lord, so many times they seek the pleasures of the world.
The commandment of the Lord gives light, wisdom, knowledge. The eyes are not in darkness. The
light of God through the Word penetrates the darkest of the night, shows the Child of God that
which is right, that which is wrong. The light of God is in each real Child of God's eyes; it comes
through the blood. When the blood washed away all your sins, you were given that light. It began
shining forth through your eyes to let you see the way you take, to let you see the footprints of
Jesus, the paths that He walked.

If you have good spiritual sight, you also have good spiritual hearing. You're listening to what the
Spirit has to say. Check your life not once in a while but every day, every night you have left. Make
sure you are right with God, right with the Word, right with the precious blood of Jesus.

Nothing in the world can compare with the Word of God. Thy word is very pure: therefore
thy servant loveth it (Psalm 119:140). The Psalmist loved the Word of God because it was pure.
For the very same reason the devil hates the Word, despises the truth. God's truth is real, strong,
great and wonderful. How tragic that people can twist the Word until no truth is left—yet they call
it the truth. It isn't God's truth any longer.

Every word of God is pure (Proverbs 30:5). Every word of God is pure; there is no deceit in one
word of God. When you carry deceit, God separates from you. He has to move aside. But He will
let you know deceit is in you if you want to know, if you will open your ears to the Word. He will
warn you about it and if you refuse to look at the deceit on the inside, God will reject you.

The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified
seven times (Psalm 12:6). His Word is pure, and He will flow it in you through the blood that
flows in your soul. Without the blood, you won't keep the Word; you won't abide by it. The Word
is always in the blood of Jesus, divine blood in the divine nature of God. He is flowing His pure,
pure words to you, pure, pure instructions. You can accept them or reject them.

Many have tried to change the Word of God. Isaiah wrote through the Spirit of God: Truth is
fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter (Isaiah 59:14). Truth is still being trampled
underfoot today. False doctrine is in epidemic form. People may say they agree with the Word of
God, but their lives do not measure up to it. God despises anything that comes against the truth:

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sin, arrogance, deceit and everything else unholy.

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure
are pleasant words (Proverbs 15:26).

Are you pure? Then you speak that which is pure. The holy speak that which is holy. Those who
are clean speak words that are clean. The righteous have righteous conversations. If you are not in
deceit, you speak the truth and live the truth. But when deceit is in you, you don't speak all the
truth. Having thoughts that are an abomination to the Lord, you excuse your deceit, damning your
own soul in the process.

Take note of what manner of person you are in your conversation. Whatever is in your heart comes
out in your voice. You can't hide it. You may be saying the right words, but the true spirit of you is
in your voice. Do you hurt others? Do they dread to see you coming? Do you wonder why people
shun you? They may have a good reason. Do you backbite and hurt people? If you are not pure,
your words are not pleasant.

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right
(Proverbs 20:11). God is letting you know that He even looks at children's works to see if they are
pure. Children are known by their actions; they can't cover up, can't hide from God. Parents, don't
cover up for them. Stand with the Word, with the Lord at all times.

The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right (Proverbs
21:8). No falsehoods, no lies mar your works if you are really right with the Lord. Right is right;
wrong is wrong: God will accept no compromise with His truth.

And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me:
I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter
into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the Lord (Ezekiel 20:38). This was the
purging of Israel as a nation. Those who rebel against God will be purged out today just as those
who turned away from God were purged out of Israel. The way God dealt with Israel is the same
way He is dealing with the Church today. We see God separating to the left and to the right all over
again. Daily the Lord is purging. If you are not connected with Jesus, the great I-Am will purge
you out completely. He will get rid of you.

Take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it [the altar], and on the four
corners of the settle [ledge], and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou
cleanse and purge it (Ezekiel 43:20). Under the Law everything had to be purged by the blood
of animals, everything. There was no purging without the blood, and without the blood of Jesus

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there is no purging of sins for you. But when the blood is working for you, the Lord will keep you
purged, keep you on the right road, and you will never go into darkness or travel the road of
disobedience. Walking hand in hand with Jesus, you have His shed blood working in you, the
divine nature of God. You are a son or daughter of God, a member of the family of God walking
with the Lord, purged by the blood of everything that would hinder you or God. God is looking out
for you as well as for Himself. You are to be a fit citizen for Heaven, ready to step right into
Heaven. Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate
themselves (Ezekiel 43:26). The purging of the altar with blood was a type and shadow of the
purging blood to come, the pure, divine blood of Jesus. To live for God, to be free of sin, to be holy
before Him is so important that Jesus shed His blood to make it possible. Do you believe those
who claim that people can't live holy? They can't without the blood. Without the blood you can't
even go to Heaven. But with the blood of Jesus applied to your heart, you can live holy.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch
not the unclean thing; and I will receive you (II Corinthians 6:17).

The Lord separates, purges the chaff from the wheat. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will
throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he
will burn with fire unquenchable (Luke 3:17). If He can't keep you purged, He will discard
you.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened.
For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us (I Corinthians 5:7). In other words, purge
out the old spirit so that you may be a new creature—a new lump in the eyes of God. Christ is our
passover from death to life; He's our life; His blood is the very reason we can exist today as new
creatures in Christ Jesus.

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). Be rid of the old so you can have the
new; you can't have both. The new creature wears the cloak of God's righteousness, but without
that cloak you are naked and undone in the eyes of God.

There is much false doctrine going forth today concerning many different things. Through the
Lord, Paul gave wonderful instructions to Timothy about some people who were preaching false
doctrine. Hymenaeus and Philetus: Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that
the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some. Nevertheless the
foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are
his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity (II
Timothy 2:17-19). Although all too often it is represented falsely, God's Word is pure; nothing is to
be added to it and nothing taken away. The Word will not accept anything impure, cannot be
contaminated in any way. The Word destroys that which is not pure, and it will destroy every

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human being who holds to even a little sin when the hour of judgment comes. The Lord knows the
ones who are His because they are sealed with the blood by the Holy Spirit.

The Bible says to let everyone who nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity, yet some
believe that no one can live free from sin. This is not according to the Word of God. If you claim to
be of Christ, if you use that name at all, you are to depart from all iniquity, all sin.

Study the Old Testament scriptures about the cleansing, the washing of the blood, the sacrifices
that were necessary over and over in order for people to be accepted by God. Even the vessels used
by the priests had to be purified and cleansed, pure, pure vessels uncontaminated by anything,
signifying the importance of being pure before the Lord.

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood
and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour (II Timothy 2:20). In the
churches, some members are vessels of honor, some of dishonor. The Lord cannot use vessels of
dishonor.

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour,
sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work (II
Timothy 2:21). Because you have use of the blood that purges, there are some things you can purge
yourself from. You can purge yourself from despair, oppression and depression by using the
blood. You can purge yourself from any grudges and resentment with the love of God in the blood.
You can purge yourself through the same blood God purges with. There is no excuse for grudges,
for disobedience, for anything unlike Jesus because Jesus gave His blood and everything in it so
you could use it to overcome all. You have the sanctifying power in the blood. Jesus prayed,
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth (John 17:17).

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that
call on the Lord out of a pure heart (II Timothy 2:22). If you want an answer from God, if you
expect answers to prayers, call out to God from a pure heart. He recognizes the pure heart; His
eyes are upon His Children. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God (Matthew
5:8).

Purify your spiritual house, keep it clean. Do some housekeeping, purging the corners, the attic,
the basement. Clear away and clear off. My mother used to say, "It's time to clean up around
here." She would put all of us to work cleaning. We never had neighbors come in saying they
wanted to clean our house. We cleaned our own house.

Some people are always trying to spiritually clean up someone else and not themselves. Their idea
of cleaning up is to stack up. They don't clean up and clean out. They hold on to things against
another. Remembering the bad, they don't forgive, never taking into account what God knows
about them, how they have mistreated God. He said He would forgive you as you forgive others.

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I don't endorse people, but I forgive what they do against me anyway, and leave them in the hands
of God. No one can forgive sin except the Lord; however, I can forgive injustices against me and let
the Lord take care of the rest. I put people under the blood; I clear things away. Keep your life in
order with the Lord. Work on your own life and let others take care of theirs. How much do you
talk to the Lord? How much do you fast? Do you ever throw away resentment and bitterness or do
you just keep piling up? Do you get rid of things that take your attention away from God? The
Bible tells us to purge, to lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us,
and let us run with patience the race that is set before us (Hebrews 12:1). If you don't get
rid of the weights, you won't be running fast enough in the Lord to avoid the devil and the sin
which so easily besets. But without those weights you will go past the besetting sin so fast the devil
won't know what happened.

You think you are too strong to be trapped by the besetting sin? Eve thought she was too strong.
She thought she was strong enough to go to the forbidden tree day after day and not partake of the
fruit. She no doubt thought she would only look, that she had plenty of other fruit. The devil
talked to her in such a sweet voice: Eve, you don't know what you're missing. Just touch it a little
bit. You don't have to eat it. Remember, God said not to eat it. I don't want you to eat, oh no.
Bless your dear little heart, you're just missing something wonderful by not touching. I told you to
come every day to see it because it is so pleasant to the eyes. It will get prettier all the time.
Doesn't it look prettier today than it did yesterday?

The more you look at sin, the more enticing it will be if you want it, so pleasant to the eyes. The
devil talked Eve into touching the fruit. Now, you didn't die, did you? You're all right. Come back
tomorrow and touch it again. It's hard to tell how many times Eve went back and touched the fruit
before the devil said, You've touched it so much you might just as well go ahead and take a bite. I
see your fingerprints all over it. Don't you know God sees them, too? So really, this is your apple,
Eve. You've claimed it. You might as well eat it—but don't eat it all. It might kill you for sure;
just take a bite. The Lord said you would die in the day that you eat, but He meant the whole
thing. Just one bite won't hurt. Some people think it takes a lot of sin before it counts, but one
little sin will keep you out of Heaven. Even a little sin is death.

Eve took the bite. She crossed the line into sin. Death shot through her like an arrow, going into
every part of her, into the body, into the soul, into the spirit. Think of the change that came over
Eve as she stood there suddenly separated from that miraculous fellowship with God! That's what
sin will do. If only people would realize how sin has destroyed others, see the contrast between
lives before sin and lives deep in sin scarred with its terrible results! No longer fresh, beautiful, and
holy, those in sin become hard, degraded, selfish, contaminated, wretched and undone without
God.

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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 (Hebrews 9:14)? As the Lord reaches out for you, the Holy Spirit comes with the
purging power of the blood to cleanse you, to deliver you from all sin. Even your conscience is
purged of dead works so you can freely serve the living God. Anyone who comes to the Lord is
cleansed in conscience, soul and spirit; that one is made completely free from sin, a new creation in
Christ Jesus. How marvelous to know the power in the blood! Everything you need is in the blood.

If you can't serve love to those you come in contact with, to the loved ones in your home on a daily
basis, then you need to draw from the blood. How do you draw from the blood? By yielding to the
Holy Spirit and letting the Holy Spirit shed abroad the love of God in your heart. As you yield to
the Holy Spirit, He brings that which is in your soul into your mind. Daily let the Holy Spirit flow
the greatness that He placed in your soul into your mind so that your mind will be in harmony with
His Spirit, in agreement in that moment He wants to fulfill a promise for you. However, only when
the blood is in your soul can the Lord flow His greatness into your mind daily as you yield to that
flow.

Peace is in the blood; if you are not a keeper of His peace, then you will not have peace. Some
people keep anything but the peace. Always stirring up strife, causing a commotion and trouble,
they grieve the Lord with hurtful words. The love bridle is not part of their temperament. Yet they
are going to Heaven—so they think. What a terrible awakening ahead for them if they do not
change!

When you are saved, you don't walk around in a fog; you know where you are going. The power in
the blood of Jesus, the power to purge out any hindrances and to keep them out is yours. How
wonderful to have the purging, cleansing blood to flow daily! That blood is operating for you all the
time when you are born again; there is no end to it. It's yours. It operates in every pure heart
where the pure Word of God has found a nesting place. Having a purged conscience means you are
serving God with all your heart. If you are not serving God with all your heart, not being obedient
to God in all things, your conscience is not purged. Guilt, condemnation is there. You may blame
your guilt feelings on the devil, say he is worrying you; but you know you have done wrong. You
have wronged someone and won't make it right. To pretend you have made it right will not work;
you would be deceiving your own heart. God uncovers people like that with His true Word, with
His discerning power.

By mercy and truth iniquity is purged (Proverbs 16:6). Mercy and truth are in the blood. If
you don't show mercy, the mercy in the blood isn't going to work for you until you repent of your
sins before God. You need the mercy of God. In His mercy is help daily, in the Lord's tender,
loving mercy that brings tender care, help and greatness.

The pure Word of God is truth. Jesus said, And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall

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make you free (John 8:32). Know the truth and be free. Before you can know the truth about
yourself, you must know God's truth daily. Many do not know themselves. I've heard people talk
about themselves and what they were saying wasn't true at all. It's time to clear out all the
misconceptions, all the selfishness, all the despair and get down to God's truth. Take the hope and
strength in the blood to clear out weakness. You can get the help you need; it's there for you.

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 (Hebrews
10:22). In full assurance of faith draw near to the Lord. Are you full of the assurance of faith or full
of doubt? To have full assurance of faith, your heart must be true to God. Full assurance of faith is
found in the blood. The Holy Ghost flows that full assurance to you daily if you are living in a
justified state—saved, in other words. You are secure in God's faith. If you are not in a justified
state, misgivings and doubts are a part of you.

In this final hour the Bride of Christ will have full assurance of faith. The devil has worried God's
people too long, making them think they might not be saved when they are. Others who are out in
sin he has deceived into thinking they are saved. People who are not right with God have evil
abiding in their consciences, leeches are attached. It's time to be purged. If you are really saved
you can be purged of all your misgivings so you can walk in the full assurance of God. He is yours
and you are His, washed with the pure water of the Word of God, sprinkled by the blood from an
evil conscience. The Holy Ghost uses the blood to sprinkle an evil conscience, to cleanse it from all
evil.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless
and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world (James
1:27). Unspotted: You can't have a spot of the world on you, can't fellowship with it. If you
fellowship with the world, the Bible declares that the love of God is not in you.

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the
things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually
make the comers thereunto perfect (Hebrews 10:1). It's the blood of Jesus and the love of
God that make us perfect, not animal sacrifices. Jesus came with the greatest message ever
preached, the Sermon on the Mount, in which He said, Be ye therefore perfect, even as your
Father which is in heaven is perfect (Matthew 5:48).

Had the sacrifices under the Law brought man into perfection would they not have ceased to
be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more
conscience of sins (Hebrews 10:2). The Old Testament sacrifices didn't stop with one offering;
the sacrifices went on and on, over and over again. The blood of animals wouldn't keep people
purged of sin. Today, however, we don't have to keep having the same things purged from us. We
are purged once and we can stay purged through the blood of Jesus as long as we commit no willful

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sin.

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year (Hebrews
10:3). A remembrance every year called the Day of Atonement enabled the Old Testament
Israelites to remember and be purged of their sins all over again. But when you are purged by the
blood of Jesus, your sins are cast into the sea of forgetfulness through the blood and you are free.
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins
(Hebrews 10:4). The Old Testament atonement was not permanent.

Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou
wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for
sin thou hast had no pleasure (Hebrews 10:5,6). The Lord did not rejoice in the blood sacrifice
of animals. He knew it wasn't sufficient, that it couldn't make a new creation out of a person who
needed to be made brand-new in order to be the way God intended man to be. The Lord was
displeased with the sacrifices of animals, but what joy He has through the blood of the Son of God
when a soul is made a partaker of His divine nature! All Heaven rejoices for each sinner made a
new creation through the blood, the divine blood of Heaven. Such great power is in the blood!

Then said I [this is Jesus speaking], Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of
me,) to do thy will, O God. 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; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh
away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all (Hebrews 10:7-10). Once and
for all Christ died to bring salvation to a lost and dying world. Through the blood you are made
holy, you stay holy, talk holy, live holy, act holy, think holy. You are holy just like Jesus Himself.
It's marvelous! He took on the flesh of a human being, the same flesh we have; and He gave you
that which worked within Him, His divine blood. The divine blood makes the difference in any
life. If you have that divine blood, you have divinity working on the inside of you, the righteousness
and the holiness of God.

You will not live holy until you have God's righteousness within. Outward righteousness alone is
not sufficient. Some people would like you to think they are righteous; they have purged the
outside, but the cup inside is still dirty. The Pharisees of Jesus' time, for example, put up a holy
front, but on the inside they were unclean.

And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same
sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one
sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth
expecting till his enemies be made his footstool (Hebrews 10:11-13). Jesus did away with
the need for the priesthood when He became our High Priest. The priests had ministered day and

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night, sacrificing one animal after another, sacrifices that could not do away with sins. What a
stench went up before God! It was not pleasant. Now came the man Jesus, our Lord, Master and
Savior to be our High Priest, offering Himself, one sacrifice that saves all from their sins for time
and eternity, all who will yield to Him. Jesus is all we need, all we will ever need, Jesus Christ the
Son of God. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, 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; And their sins and
iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no
more offering for sin (Hebrews 10:14-18). Where do you find a loophole that will justify sin?
There is none. Thank God for the blood!

Are you purged? Are you clean through the blood that stained the old rugged cross? All the power
you need is in the blood. It's all there. The Lord will not accept excuses. If you make it to Heaven,
you will have to give the grace in the blood of Jesus all the honor for getting you there. It won't be
through your works: 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). Works will
not cleanse you. You find no cleansing power in works, only in the blood of Jesus. The purging is
through the blood.

Jesus said, If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it
shall be done unto you (John 15:7). If His words, His promises abide in you, if His promises
live on the inside of you, you can ask what you will.

It's time to clear away everything you can, clear off, clear out, for the blood of Jesus is here to do
anything you need done. Yield to the Holy Spirit, saying, "Holy Spirit, take over; use the blood.
This particular thing I can't clear out, but you can. This I can't take care of, but you can. I rest my
case in the blood of the Lamb."

When you rest your case in the blood, you can be happy, free, drinking at the fountain of living
water because of the blood of Jesus. If you have Jesus, He is living inside you. Why shouldn't you
be happy, full of joy, bubbling when you have been delivered, purged and know the life of Jesus is
dwelling on the inside of you? You have the power you need, the power to trample devils
underfoot; you never need to fear man nor the devil. Believers in the name of Jesus shall cast
out devils! You don't have to walk around the devil; you can walk right through him, trample him
under. Don't excuse yourself to the devil; make no apologies. You are blood washed, blood bought
and on your way to Heaven.

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In this final hour, the Bride of Christ is like a mighty army with banners; the earth will tremble
under her feet as she goes forth to bring in the harvest in this last and final hour. She is fair as the
moon, clear as the sun—the Bride who will be caught away, the Bride coming up out of the
wilderness. She is the Bride! Look at her beauty, look at her power! Look how gracious she is!

We live in the hour of deliverance, the hour of greatness, the hour of love, of salvation and victory.
We are on our way carrying the Gospel to the whole world. We have the blood of Jesus, the power
that stained the old rugged cross; we have the victory of Heaven in our spirits and hearts. We will
not be denied. It's victory through the blood of Jesus, and we're free. Thank God for the blood!

If you are not free, turn everything over to the Lord. Sinner, Backslider, you need the blood.
Without the blood is no forgiveness of sin. Without the blood of Jesus you have no chance of
Heaven. Without the blood the Lord will never forgive you. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth,
and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6).

If you don't have Jesus in your heart, pray the sinners' prayer with me now: Oh God, I'm so sorry
that I have sinned against you! I confess all of my sins. I confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of
God. He died for me; I will live for Him. I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins.
Come on into my heart Jesus! Come on in!

If you meant that prayer, He has come.

You who are sick and afflicted, accept God's wonderful words of faith through Isaiah the prophet:
With his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). I'm God's believer; I'm not a healer; God is the
healer, and healing is His will for you. Let me pray with you now, and let the power of God flow
into your body or into your loved one. If you will believe and be obedient to God, that power will
stay to get you or your loved one well. It's just that simple. Jesus made it simple for us. Lord, I
bring them to you. I bring them by the tens, the hundreds, the thousands. Lay a healing hand on
them just now. From your supernatural gift of miracles, from your gifts of healing it comes in the
name of your Son Jesus through the power of the Holy Ghost. Heal! in the mighty name of the
Lord. Heal! in the holy name of Jesus.

The healing power is flowing, flowing. Let that power linger within. You can do it by living in the
Word, by yielding to the Holy Spirit, by accepting the promises of God. Get well.

You who were saved today, start reading your Bible; fasting will help you. Pray, knowing that God
hears you. The Lord is wonderful in all His ways. No power can defeat you when you are purged
by the blood of Jesus and you use His blood. Jesus paid a great price to deliver His divine purging
blood to humanity, and He rejoices when it is used. Yield to His Holy Spirit so He can use all the

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greatness in the blood for you. Trust in His blood, His divine blood; use all that is in the blood, and
victory daily will be yours through the blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ the Son of the living God.

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