May 27
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb
(Revelation 12:11).
There are so many of the Lord's people today over
whom Satan is lording it; lording it along the line of accusation, bringing
them under a sense of condemnation and judgment, robbing them of their peace,
of their assurance, rest, hope; and you will find these people are
everlastingly talking about their own short-comings, their sinfulness; they are
forever circling round themselves, all that they are that they would not be,
all that they are not that they would be. Their deliverance from Satan is that
they should have a fresh apprehension of the absolute satisfaction of the
Father in His Son on their behalf, and that they find their standing before the
Father in acceptance. That is the way of deliverance, the way of the
Adversary's casting out. This is the way of overcoming him as the Accuser. Yes,
the ground of the Blood is sufficient for this full-orbed, many-sided,
all-round victory. "They overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb,"
and the first and supreme factor in the virtue of that Blood in all these
directions, is its untainted sinlessness, the nature of the Lord Jesus. There
has never been another who was such.
Oh, I am so glad that it was God that came in
Christ, GOD that came in Christ. Can you charge God with sin? Can you lay sin
to God's charge, to God's account? It was God in Christ, the absolutely and
altogether holy One in whom there was no sin, who came in incarnation; and in
virtue of that Divine nature in its perfection Satan in his authority is
defeated - on that ground. Blessed be God! We receive by faith the virtue of
that precious Blood; that is, the perfection of the Lord Jesus can be put to
our account. That is grace - the wonder of the Gospel. If we were to begin to
analyze ourselves and take stock of ourselves, that would be a terrible
business, a wretched business, and it would be endless - think of it, beloved,
with all that we know of ourselves, all that God knows about us - "The
heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I
the Lord search the heart. I try the reins...." Though all that be a fact,
you and I can stand now in the presence of God as sinlessly perfect, not in
ourselves, but in Christ, as having absolute sinless perfection put to our
account by God.
By T. Austin-Sparks from: "Because of the Blood of
the Lamb"
I am grateful to whoever who put this photo on Facebook.
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