The Sprinkling of the Blood

There is no deep inner Holiness in the believerÂ’s life but by the blood of Christ. Our absolute best righteousness produced by this flesh is altogether unclean. Keeping the laws of God will produce an unconverted Paul of a disobedient John Mark, but it will not produce a saint of God.

This does not nullify the laws or commandments of God but shows that the work of the heart is not within man’s ability. We cannot change one iota of our sinful nature by human effort alone. “What can wash away our sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.”

Saints of God that have been created in the image of Christ are fully the results of the power of the blood. Nothing else will create saints and make us a kingdom of priests. Apostle Peter, speaking by the Holy Ghost said, “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ” (I Peter 1:2a).

The word “sprinkling” in an Old Testament sense carries the meaning of purifying action over the believer’s life. The blood was sprinkled in the Old Testament by a priest, but in the New Testament it is the effect of the Holy Spirit’s activity in the inner life. We are not covered over with the blood. It is a supernatural work in our hearts that purifies us unto His likeness and the nature of Christ.

Because of the absence of preaching about the blood and a failure in our abandonment to this one and only approach to sanctification, our church world is full of unconverted people. Those that are saved do not understand that growth and maturity in ChristÂ’s nature is fully the work of His Word and His blood by the Spirit. Psychology and the New Age techniques fill the pulpits with humanistic ideas that are nothing inside the heart. Church people are stretching themselves with these helpless ideas of spiritual growth that sound high and mighty but are carnal and fleshly.

It is no wonder that the favorite doctrine is, “We sin more or less every day.” As long as flesh is the ruler and our teaching is humanism, there will be no victory over sin. The moral standard of today’s church is no better than the world’s lifestyles. Holiness or separation from sin is a hated idea. The more we reject Bible standards the more flesh is exalted. It is the natural result of the message of flesh in the pulpit.

Israel was in this exact state when Jesus appeared the first time. They never recognized Him because they viewed Him from false theology. The great teaching of the Old Testament had been humanized. There was no sense of the supernatural. The Pharisees taught a rigid life of keeping the law and the Sadducees taught against anything supernatural.

As we approach the end of all things bound by human limitation, the desperate need is to renew the truth of His blood. Every person that is not converted by the blood of Jesus Christ into a new creature has no possible chance of being raptured. The majority of the church world will be left when He comes. The Spirit describes those that will be taken out before all Hell breaks loose. “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ” (II Corinthians 5:17).